Ford has also recently appeared in the 2010 music video " For He's a Jolly Good Felon " by Welsh rockers Lostprophets.

The game also featured menu music and a cameo appearance from Welsh rockers, Super Furry Animals, which could only be activated after entering a cheat code.

* 2010 – Stuart Cable, Welsh singer and drummer ( Stereophonics ) ( b. 1970 )

* 1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh singer and musician ( Stereophonics )

Hearing of Lord's death, Richard Jones of Welsh band Stereophonics, commented, " Deep Purple in Rock was the 1st album I bought.

In 2001, Kelly Jones, the lead singer of the Welsh band Stereophonics, referred to Thom Yorke as a " miserable twat ", a comment he later retracted.

In the 1990s, the Welsh pop scene flourished, with the emergence of Manic Street Preachers and the Stereophonics, who although not singing in Welsh, brought a sense of Welshness through iconography, lyrics and interviews.

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.

The concert featured a range of music styles, with long standing veterans such as Eric Clapton, Jools Holland, Lulu, classical performers in Aled Jones, Charlotte Church and Katherine Jenkins and Welsh rock groups such as Feeder, the Manic Street Preachers and, representing The Stereophonics Kelly Jones contributing.

Kelly Jones ( born 3 June 1974 ) is a Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist and the lead singer of the band Stereophonics.

* Richard Jones ( Stereophonics ) ( born 1974 ), Welsh bass guitarist

Every Monday, the show ran down the Welsh Top 40 singles, since Welsh acts such as Stereophonics, Funeral for a Friend and Feeder usually do far better in their home country chart, as opposed to the UK equivalent.

" Dakota " ( released in the US as " Dakota ( You Made Me Feel Like The One )") is a song by the Welsh band Stereophonics.

Live at Cardiff Castle is a DVD released by Welsh Rock trio, Stereophonics.

Live at Morfa Stadium is a 1999 DVD released by Welsh Rock trio, Stereophonics.

Call Us What You Want, But Don't Call Us In The Morning is a DVD released by Welsh rock trio Stereophonics.

Ealdred was granted the administration in order that the area might have someone with experience with the Welsh in charge.

There were many chapels in the area, most of which from the non-conformist era of Welsh religion ; few of these are still used, and many have been converted or demolished.

In Welsh, the shortened form Y Fenni may have come into use for a very short period after about the 15th century, although pronounced similarly in English or Welsh the English spelling Abergavenny is in general use.

A number of other European languages have cognate words that were borrowed from the Germanic languages during the Middle Ages, including brog in Irish, bwr or bwrc, meaning " wall, rampart " in Welsh, bourg in French, burg in Catalan ( in Catalonia there is a town named Burg ), borgo in Italian, and burgo in Spanish ( hence the place-name Burgos ).

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 ).

According to Mike Dash, a Welsh historian, few scientists doubt there are thousands of unknown animals, particularly invertebrates, awaiting discovery ; however, cryptozoologists are largely uninterested in researching and cataloging newly-discovered species of ants or beetles, instead focusing their efforts towards " more elusive " creatures that have often defied decades of work aimed at confirming their existence.

Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals have a song on the 1997 album " Radiator " called " Chupacabras ".

Dylan Marlais Thomas ( 27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953 ) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems, " Do not go gentle into that good night ", " And death shall have no dominion ", the " play for voices ", Under Milk Wood, and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

Critics have explored the connection between the creation of Thomas ' mythological pasts into his works such as " The Orchards ", which Ann Elizabeth Mayer believes reflects the Welsh myths of the Mabinogion.

It is unclear if the name was borrowed from the Welsh ( if so, it must have been an early loan, for phonological reasons ), or represents an early, pan-Brittonic traditional name for Arthur's sword.

Classical Latin Arcturus would also have become Art ( h ) ur when borrowed into Welsh, and its brightness and position in the sky led people to regard it as the " guardian of the bear " ( which is the meaning of the name in Ancient Greek ) and the " leader " of the other stars in Boötes.

However he shocked the Assembly members and Welsh public when he called for the legalization of heroin: " I have never had heroin but since I moved to London from North Wales in ' 67 I have mixed with junkies on a casual and almost daily basis ," he said.

She is said to have been the daughter of a Welsh steel worker of Irish descent, William O ' Callaghan, who had been superintendent on the Indian State railways.

There have also been attempts by modern writers to link the Morrígan with the Welsh literary figure Morgan le Fay from Arthurian romance, in whose name ' mor ' may derive from a Welsh word for ' sea ', but the names are derived from different cultures and branches of the Celtic linguistic tree.

Typically, an English, Welsh or Scottish regiment would have two militia battalions ( the 3rd and 4th ) and Irish regiments three ( numbered 3rd-5th ).

She appears to have spent three years in the Welsh Marches, making regular visits to her father's court, before returning permanently to the home counties around London in mid-1528.

He dismissed the idea of a Welsh identity, saying that " between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century Wales had practically no history at all, and even before that it was the history of rural brigands who have been ennobled by being called princes ".

Although most historians have dismissed the terms of the Indenture as being highly ambitious and fanciful, R. R. Davies noted that certain internal features underscore the rootedness of Glyndŵr's political philosophy in Welsh mythology: in it, the three men invoke prophecy, and the boundaries of Wales are defined according to Merlinic literature.

The immediate effect seems to have been that joint Welsh and Franco-Breton forces attacked and laid siege to Kidwelly Castle.

In some cases those adhering to Catholicism faced capital punishment, and a number of English and Welsh Catholics executed in the 16th and 17th centuries have been canonised by the Catholic Church as Christian martyrs ( see Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation ).

He is commonly known as The Lord Rhys, in Welsh Yr Arglwydd Rhys, but this title may not have been used in his lifetime.

* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.

Jarman's version, played by Welsh guitarist Tich Gwilym is one of the most famous modern versions of the song.

Burton showed a talent for English and Welsh literature at grammar school, and demonstrated an excellent memory, though his consuming interest was sports – rugby ( in fact famous Welsh centre Bleddyn Williams said in his autobiography that Burton could have gone far as a player ), cricket, and table tennis He later said, " I would rather have played for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at the Old Vic.

The earliest Welsh genealogies give Maximus the role of founding father for several royal dynasties, including those of Powys and Gwent, a role he also played for the rulers of medieval Galloway in Scotland, home to the Roman-era Novantae whose territory was also made independent of Roman rule by Maximus.

The castle was an important border fortification along the Welsh Marches, and played a significant role in local, regional and national conflicts such as the Owain Glyndŵr rebellion, the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil War.

His New York stage debut in 1931 immediately led to film offers and Laughton's first Hollywood film was The Old Dark House ( 1932 ) with Boris Karloff, in which he played a bluff Yorkshire businessman marooned during a storm with other travelers in a creepy remote Welsh manor.

Davis played Miss Moffat, an English teacher who saves a young Welsh miner ( John Dall ) from a life in the coal pits, by offering him education.

* Charles Wilson Jones ( footballer ) ( 1914 – 1986 ), Welsh international football centre forward who played for Wrexham and Birmingham

The fact that the search for the body is connected to Henry II and Edward I, both kings who fought major Welsh wars, has had scholars suggest that propaganda may have played a part as well.

This adaptation was narrated by Dame Judi Dench, with Michael Maloney as Ged, and used a wide range of actors with different regional and social accents to emphasize the origins of the Earthsea characters ( for instance, Estarriol and others from the East Reach were played by actors with Southern Welsh accents ).

In 1991, Orion Pictures produced a Jonathan Demme-directed adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs, in which Lecter was played by Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins.

The Knight is then played by a real one-legged man, a local by the name of Richard Burton, a blacksmith who lived near the film shoot ( not to be confused with Richard Burton, the Welsh actor of the same name ), because, according to the DVD commentary, Cleese could not balance well on one leg.

Welsh played with Weezer from the time that they regrouped in 2000 until August 2001, when he suffered a mental breakdown.

On July 29, 2011, Welsh played guitar on the song " Undone " with Weezer and Flaming Lips at a show in New York.

Rachel Roberts ( 20 September 192726 November 1980 ) was a Welsh actress noted for her fervour and passion ; Roberts is best remembered for her forthright screen performances in two key films of the 1960s, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life, in both of which she played the older mistress of the central male character.

The blockbuster soap opera also stars familiar actresses, Calista Flockhart and Rachel Griffiths, in the roles of Nora's adult daughters, Kitty and Sarah, respectively ; Welsh actor Matthew Rhys played Nora's son Kevin and Dave Annable her youngest son, Justin.

David Watkins MBE ( born 5 March 1942 in Blaina, Wales ) is a Welsh former dual-code rugby international, having played both rugby union and rugby league football for both codes ' national teams between 1967 and 1983.

A younger brother, Bert, was a centre who played three times for Wales including in the same Welsh team as Gould that won the Triple Crown for the first time in 1893.

The establishment of royal control at Chester made possible King Edward I's conquest of north Wales, and Chester played a vital part as a supply base during the Welsh Wars ( 1275 – 84 ), so the separate organisation of a county palatine was preserved.

He played the character of former soldier Dave in episodes set in the Welsh countryside.

* Thomas Jones ( footballer born 1884 ) ( Thomas Daniel Jones, 1884 – 1958 ), Welsh international football inside left who played for Nottingham Forest in the 1900s

), Welsh international footballer who played for Tranmere Rovers, Sheffield Wednesday, Manchester United and Watford

* T. G. Jones ( Thomas George Jones, 1917 – 2004 ), Welsh international football defender who played with Everton either side of World War II

Davies played Mog in the classic Welsh film Grand Slam ( 1978 ) and played the sailor Taffy in the first of the BBC-series The Onedin Line ( 1971 ).