* 1948 – Terry Williams, Welsh rock drummer ( Love Sculpture, Man and Dire Straits )

Similar words include crag ( from the Welsh word craig, meaning " rock ") and avon ( from the Welsh word afon, meaning " river ").

** Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh rock drummer ( Super Furry Animals )

* February 1 – Lyricist / guitarist Richey Edwards of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers goes missing from a hotel in Bayswater, London on the eve of a planned tour of the United States.

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* Y Bandana, a Welsh alternative rock band.

Welsh rock band Mclusky recorded the song " 1956 and All That " for their third album The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire.

* Bran ( Welsh rock group ), a Welsh prog rock group

* Robin Hawkins, lead singer and bassist of Welsh rock band ' The Automatic '.

Thornhill ( Welsh Draenen Pen-y-Graig draen thorn +-en one + pen top + ' y ' the + craig rock to ' graig ') is a northern suburb in the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales, south of Caerphilly.

In 1974 Cippolina guested with Quicksilver-idolizing Welsh progressive rock group Man, playing with them at their 1974 Winterland concerts and guesting with them on a subsequent UK tour, which resulted in the 1975 live album Maximum Darkness.

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Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band that was formed in 1986 in Blackwood, Gwent and consists of James Dean Bradfield ( lead vocals and lead guitar ), Nicky Wire ( bass guitar and lyrics ) and Sean Moore ( drums and percussion ).

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Category: Welsh rock music groups

John Davies Cale, OBE ( born 9 March 1942 ) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground.

In 1991, Lamacq was unwittingly involved in one of the most infamous events in British rock music of recent times during a post-gig interview at the Norwich Arts Centre with Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers for the NME.

The suite which includes a Scottish pipe band, Irish and Welsh harpists, Galician gaitas, Irish uilleann pipes, the bombardes of Brittany, two vocal soloists and a narrator is set against a background of a classical orchestra and a large choir.

Mabon ap Modron is a prominent figure from Welsh literature and mythology, the son of Modron and a member of Arthur's war band.

The band consisted of Cerys Matthews on vocals, Mark Roberts on guitar, Paul Jones on bass ( both now members of Y Ffyrc, and former members of Sherbet Antlers and Y Cyrff ), Owen Powell ( who is a judge on ' Wawffactor ' – akin to a Welsh X Factor ) on guitar, and Aled Richards ( who now drums for Amy Wadge ) on drums.

Paper Scissors Stone was the fourth and final album by Welsh band Catatonia.

Others who acknowledge Norman's influence on their career or music include American drummer Hilly Michaels, who recorded with Norman and Randy Stonehill in 1970 ; Grammy Award-winning recording artist and rapper TobyMac, who described Norman as " socially relevant, spiritually significant and passionate about challenging his generation to new heights of love ", considered Norman his " greatest lyrical influence "; Mark Salomon, the lead singer of Christian metal band Stavesacre and thrash metal band The Crucified, who reveals that it was Norman's concert performance that connected him to Christian music ; and Welsh singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph.

Welsh band Mclusky references the title of the movie in their 2003 song, " Undress for Success ".

It rises two storeys high and has an internal balcony that, through an unbroken band of windows, gives views to Cardiff docks, one source of Bute's wealth, the Bristol Channel, and the Welsh hills and valleys.

* Welsh punk band Four Letter Word, formed in 1991, named themselves after the phrase.

Bunford's first band was the Welsh language school band, Edrych am Jiwlia which was formed in Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Cardiff.

Though lacking the pessimistic lyrical content of their contemporaries, Welsh heavy metal band Budgie would also produce heavy songs which were amongst the loudest of their day, stylistically influencing various doom metal acts.

Roddy Radiation fronted and worked with several bands including The Tearjerkers ( a band that he had begun in the last months of The Specials ), The Bonediggers, The Raiders and Three Men & Black which included of Jean-Jacques Burnel ( The Stranglers ), Jake Burns ( Stiff Little Fingers ), Pauline Black ( The Selecter ), Bruce Foxton ( The Jam ), Dave Wakeling ( The Beat, General Public ) and Nick Welsh ( Skaville UK ).

John Cale, Welsh musician and founder of American rock band The Velvet Underground, recorded a song " Hedda Gabler " in 1976, included originally on the 1977 EP Animal Justice ( now a bonus track on the CD of the album Sabotage ).

* Calimero is the name and subject of a Welsh language song by the band Super Furry Animals

Class War's skull logo was copied from the logo of the Welsh punk band the Soldier Dolls.

In late 2001 / 2002, Welsh returned to the Boston music scene by temporarily joining Nate Albert's ( guitarist for The Mighty Mighty Bosstones ) band, The Kickovers.

Several contemporary bands have Welsh language songs, such as Ceredwen, which fuses traditional instruments with trip-hop beats, the Super Furry Animals, Fernhill, and so on ( see the Music of Wales article for more Welsh and Welsh-language bands ).

* 1976 – Cian Ciaran, Welsh keyboard player ( Super Furry Animals )

* 1969 – Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer ( Super Furry Animals )

* 1967 – Huw Bunford, Welsh guitarist and songwriter ( Super Furry Animals )

Ieuan has released a record with his side project, The Peth (" The Thing ", in Welsh ), which includes the actor and friend of Super Furry Animals, Rhys Ifans, on vocals.

He was also a one-time drummer for fellow Welsh group Catatonia from 1993-1996, before joining Super Furry Animals.

After a handful of low key cassette releases, the label relocated to Cardiff and became a more serious concern, providing a launch-pad for several popular Welsh artists, including Llwybr Llaethog, Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

Nomads narrowly missed out on the cut off for the Super 12 League, and began the 2010 – 11 league in the Cymru Alliance, which they subsequently won following a successful season including a Golden Boot award for striker Gary O ' Toole, however the team was denied promotion to the Welsh Premier League after failing to gain a domestic license.

The FAW's decision to restructure the Welsh Premier-introducing the ' Super 12 ' for the season 2010 / 11-meant that Porthmadog, along with 6 others, were relegated to the Cymru Alliance League.

Such acts included the Manic Street Preachers, Catatonia, Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci ; the latter two bands being notable for many of their songs ' lyrics being in Welsh.

The same period saw Catatonia, Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygnotic Mynci, bilingual bands that were successful enough to bring the Welsh language to an English speaking audience.

Following on from an underground post-punk movement in the 1980s, led by bands like Datblygu and Fflaps, the 1990s saw a considerable flowering of Welsh rock groups ( in both Welsh and English languages ) such as Catatonia, Manic Street Preachers, Feeder, Stereophonics, Super Furry Animals, The Pooh Sticks, 60ft Dolls and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

* Super Furry Animals, Welsh rock band

Datblygu have been cited as a major influence on the generation of Welsh bands that followed, including Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and Super Furry Animals ( who covered Datblygu's " Y Teimlad " on their Mwng album ).

Four years later, Shevchenko was on the Dynamo Kyiv under-14 team for the Ian Rush Cup ( now the Welsh Super Cup ); he finished as the tournament's top scorer and was awarded a pair of Rush's boots as a prize by the then-Liverpool player.

On 25 September 2010 the GLC hosted a celebrity golf challenge in Newport featuring Howard Marks, Dirty Sanchez, Super Furry Animals, The Automatic and many other Welsh stars.

He has also collaborated with Welsh group Super Furry Animals on their album Fuzzy Logic and on their singles The Man Don't Give a Fuck and Ice Hockey Hair.

These regions came into being in 2003 when the WRU elected to reduce the current top tier of Welsh professional rugby union from nine clubs into five regions modelled on the successful Irish provinces and the Super Rugby franchises in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Gareth Thomas ( born 25 July 1974 ), known as Alfie, is a retired Welsh professional rugby footballer who played rugby league for the Crusaders RL in the Super League.

Pete Fowler ( born 1969 in Cardiff ) is a Welsh artist best known for his artwork for the Welsh band Super Furry Animals and his Monsterism toys and goods.