The Outside-Half Factory and The Pontypool Front Row were written by which Welsh performer?
"legendary 'Pontypool Front Row' in the 1970s, of Bobby Windsor, Charlie Faulkner and Graham Price was immortalised in song by Max Boyce. The club's contribution to Wales was seen again in 1983, when Pontypool's ""forward factory"" produced five of the Welsh pack in the Five Nations Championship. Other rugby union clubs based in or near the town are Pontypool United RFC, Garndiffaith RFC, Talywain RFC and Blaenavon RFC. Pontypool's rugby league club are called the Torfaen Tigers and play in the Rugby League Conference Welsh Premier. Pontypool is twinned with the following towns: All four towns are twinned with each"
"Green Gartside Green Gartside (born Paul Julian Strohmeyer, 22 June 1955) is a Welsh songwriter, singer and musician. He's the frontman of the band Scritti Politti. Gartside has also worked with Miles Davis, Chaka Khan, Eurythmics, Elvis Costello, Shabba Ranks, Mos Def, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kylie Minogue, Robyn Hitchcock, Manic Street Preachers, and Tracey Thorn. Gartside was born in Cardiff, Wales, to a ""Cup-a-soup salesman dad and a hairdresser/secretary/whatever mum"". His childhood was not always happy, with the family having to move every 12 months or so because of his father's job. He ended up ""living all over, from Bridgend to"
"at the Pavilion Theatre in Peacehaven. When a West End producer bought it he drastically altered it, leaving only the music unchanged, and renamed it ""Primrose Times"". This version went unstaged after the latter was arrested and convicted for fraud. Powell committed suicide during World War II in 1942, aged 63. Wearing the uniform of the Peacehaven Home Guard, he shot himself in the heart while on guard duty, using his own rifle. Felix Powell Felix Lloyd Powell (23 May 1878 – 10 February 1942) was a Welsh British Army Staff Sergeant most famous for writing the music for marching"
"for the last 23 years and was involved in the club scene there. Occasionally being a DJ but mainly involved backstage. In 2010 he took up acting and attended the renowned PASS ""Performing Arts Studio Scotland"" and has pursued this profession ever since. Phil Rainford Phil Rainford is a former singer and music producer, who formed part of the Manchester music scene, in late 1970s and early 1980s. He was the original singer of post-punk band The Durutti Column who were signed to Factory Records, having joined the band in early 1978. He was sacked in July of that year,"
"objector when conscription was imposed in 1916. George Henry Powell George Henry Powell (27 April 1880 – 3 December 1951) was a Welsh songwriter who, under the pseudonym George Asaf, wrote the lyrics of the marching song ""Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag"" in 1915. The music was written by his brother Felix Powell, and the song was entered into a World War I competition for ""best morale-building song"". It won first prize and was noted as ""perhaps the most optimistic song ever written"". Although Felix Powell was an enthusiastic Staff Sergeant in the British Army, George Powell"
"took place in several UK cities. He has also returned to touring with Scritti Politti. In 2015 Gartside was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Goldsmiths, University of London. He is now a regular stand-in presenter on BBC 6 Music. Green Gartside Green Gartside (born Paul Julian Strohmeyer, 22 June 1955) is a Welsh songwriter, singer and musician. He's the frontman of the band Scritti Politti. Gartside has also worked with Miles Davis, Chaka Khan, Eurythmics, Elvis Costello, Shabba Ranks, Mos Def, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kylie Minogue, Robyn Hitchcock, Manic Street Preachers, and Tracey Thorn. Gartside was born in Cardiff, Wales, to"
"Felix Powell Felix Lloyd Powell (23 May 1878 – 10 February 1942) was a Welsh British Army Staff Sergeant most famous for writing the music for marching song ""Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile"", in 1915, during World War I. The words were written by his brother George Henry Powell (under the pseudonym George Asaf), and the song was entered into a competition for ""best morale-building song"". It won first prize and was noted as ""perhaps the most optimistic song ever written"". Powell later wrote a musical play, ""Rubicund Castle"", which was staged"
"Oen"" in 1984. He founded his own record label, Diwedd Y Gwt, in 1992. He has released several albums on this label. Geraint Griffiths Geraint Griffiths (born 1949) is a Welsh singer-songwriter and actor. He works mainly in the Welsh language. Born in Pontrhydyfen, Griffiths attended Pontrhydyfen Primary school and then moved across to Ysgol Gymraeg Pontrhydyfen when it opened. In 1960 he attended Glan Afan Grammar Technical School in Port Talbot (later Glan Afan Comprehensive School). In 1966 he left to study nursing at The Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital, Rhydlafar, and later at West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen,"
"Owen Powell (Catatonia / Duffy), the track was selected as the soundtrack to the Visit Wales 2015 National TV & Online Campaign. Crawford performed at the Euro 16 Welsh team homecoming gig at Cardiff City Football Stadium alongside the Manic Street Preachers. Kizzy Crawford Kizzy Meriel Crawford (born 1996), known as Kizzy, is a Bajan-Welsh singer songwriter from Merthyr Tydfil, who sings in both English and Welsh, using traditional and modern sources; In one of her first press interviews she explained ""I have a fantastic cultural heritage to be proud of - Welsh, English and Barbadian; and this is reflected"
"George Henry Powell George Henry Powell (27 April 1880 – 3 December 1951) was a Welsh songwriter who, under the pseudonym George Asaf, wrote the lyrics of the marching song ""Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag"" in 1915. The music was written by his brother Felix Powell, and the song was entered into a World War I competition for ""best morale-building song"". It won first prize and was noted as ""perhaps the most optimistic song ever written"". Although Felix Powell was an enthusiastic Staff Sergeant in the British Army, George Powell was a pacifist, and became a conscientious"
"in session a number of times on the Alan Thompson Evening Show and 6 Music. Nick Ward (musician) Nick Ward is a Welsh singer-songwriter from Porthcawl, South Wales. He has released five studio albums on UK label AudioFile Records, ""Outside Looking In"" (2009), ""Pink Bay"" (2010), ""Cadenza"" (2012), ""World In Reverse"" (2014) and ""Phonus Balonus"" (2017). Ward has his roots in new wave and cites his main influences as The Beatles, Elvis Costello and Ray Davies. Since signing to UK label AudioFile Records in May 2009 he has supported some big name artists, including The Alarm, Toyah Willcox, Simon Townshend"
"Daniel Lloyd (actor and musician) Daniel Owain Lloyd (born 26 July 1982, Rhosllannerchrugog, Wales) is a bilingual Welsh actor and singer-songwriter. He is the frontman for the Welsh language band Daniel Lloyd a Mr Pinc, who reformed in 2017 after a 6-year break, as well as a solo artist and established actor. His acting credits include four rock and roll pantomimes at Clwyd Theatr Cymru as well Mickey in ""Tipyn o Stad"" and Dafydd Meirion in ""A470"" for ITV Wales. Lloyd's music career has seen him release two albums, ""Goleuadau Llundain"" (2005) with Mr Pinc, which reached number 4 in"
"James Dean Bradfield James Dean Bradfield (born 21 February 1969) is a Welsh singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. He is known for being the lead guitarist and lead vocalist for the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. Born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Bradfield attended the local Oakdale Comprehensive School where he suffered years of cruelty and bullying (he claims he was ""a Woody Allen-esque little nerd"") for his name (nicknamed Crossfire), lazy eye, musical bent and small size. James formed a close relationship with three friends: his cousin Sean Moore, who lived with James and his family throughout their childhood"
"Karl Wallinger Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger (born 19 October 1957, Prestatyn, Wales) is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for leading the band World Party and for his mid-1980s stint in The Waterboys. He also wrote and originally released the song ""She's the One"", which was later covered by Robbie Williams and became a hit single. Wallinger is a multi-instrumentalist, enabling him to demo and record the bulk of World Party material as a one-man band. He plays the guitar left-handed. Wallinger was born and spent his early childhood in Prestatyn, Wales, but was"
"Wes Paul Wester Paul Gerrard (Wes Paul) (born 28 March 1943) is an English guitarist and singer. Wes Paul grew up in Lodge Lane, Liverpool. Between 13 November 2005 and 2 September 2007 he was the stage manager and compère of Sounds of the Sixties Cavern Showcase which ran every Sunday at The Cavern Club, Liverpool. The organisation was started by Kingsize Taylor, his wife Marga and Wes Paul, who took on the extra roles of booking the bands and managing the website. Every week five bands, or more, appeared performing music primarily from the 1950s and 1960s. These acts"
"John Evans (writer) John Evans (born 1960) is a Welsh writer, filmmaker, and environmental activist. He started his career as frontman for the punk band The Tax Exiles. The Tax Exiles were regulars at The Roxy Club, and other punk venues, in 1976–1978. In the early 1980s he embarked on a solo career, and was signed to the Situation 2/4AD record label, recording a single, ""Sister Soul"", under the name John Marlon. Since the 1990s he has worked as a full-time writer and filmmaker, and is part of the New Wave of Welsh writing. His books include ""Industria"", ""G.B.H."", ""The"
"at Covent Garden, in 1984. Gwynne Howell Gwynne Howell (born 13 June 1938) is a Welsh operatic bass, known particularly for his performances of Verdi and Wagner roles. Born in Gorseinon, Wales, he studied at the RMCM, where he sang Leporello in concert, and Hunding, Fasolt, and Pogner in staged performances. He joined the Sadler's Wells Theatre in 1968, and the Royal Opera House in 1970. He was also a regular guest at the English National Opera and the Welsh National Opera. His roles have included most of the major bass roles of the Verdi and Wagner repertories, such as:"
"is probably Wales' most prominent living literary figure. He participated in a week-long intensive writing masterclass with Arnold Wesker at Hay on Wye Literature Festival in 1997. Jones participated in the 1998 Dysfluency Tour. In April 1999, he staged a Kosovo benefit at Blackwood Miner's Institute involving Max Boyce, James Dean Bradfield and other artists. Later that year he read from and discussed sections of his play ""Everything Must Go"" at Marxism '99. 1999 also saw Ioan Gruffydd, Matthew Rhys and other Welsh celebrities performing his poem ""The Guerrilla Tapestry"" at the opening of the Welsh Assembly 'Voices Of A"
"Sion Russell Jones Siôn Russell Jones is a Welsh singer and songwriter from Cardiff. Jones was born in Cardiff, Wales. He started playing the guitar at the age of 7 and studied music at the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales). In October 2010, Jones released his debut album ""And Suddenly"" via Still Small Voice Music, which was recorded during his final year at The Atrium School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Cardiff. Jones's music has been used in the background on the British soap operas ""Coronation Street"" and ""EastEnders"". He's also had songs featured in the"
"Nicky Wire Nicholas Allen Jones (born 20 January 1969), known as Nicky Wire, is the lyricist, bassist and occasional vocalist with the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. Previous to the band, Wire studied politics at university; this would later influence his lyrical work. He was co-writer of the band's lyrics (alongside Richey James Edwards) from 1989 to 1995, and has been the band's primary lyricist from 1995 to the present. In addition to his work with the Manic Street Preachers, Wire released a solo album, ""I Killed the Zeitgeist"", in 2006. Born Nicholas Allen Jones in Tredegar, Monmouthshire,"
"Paul Draper (musician) Paul Edward Draper (born 26 September 1970 in Liverpool) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer, formerly the frontman of the rock band Mansun. Draper grew up on Garmoyle Road in Wavertree, Liverpool before moving with his family to Connah's Quay, Deeside, which Draper described as ""the absolute nothing of Great Britain"", adding ""Deeside is just the bit where the Welsh people really aren't Welsh because they were infiltrated by the English in the Fifties and Sixties. It's where everyone from Liverpool ended up. Basically, just after the war, Liverpool had 800,000 people; now it's got"
"the centenary of his death at the local Danville Festival by a memorial concert of Parry's works. Joseph Parry Joseph Parry (21 May 1841 – 17 February 1903) was a Welsh composer and musician. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, he is best known as the composer of ""Myfanwy"" and the hymn tune ""Aberystwyth"", which the African song ""Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika"" is said to be based on. Parry was also the first Welshman to compose an opera; his composition, ""Blodwen"", was the first opera in the Welsh language. Born into a large family, Parry left school to work in the local"
"Cecil Sharp Three roads are named after Butterworth: George Butterworth George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC (12 July 18855 August 1916) was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll ""The Banks of Green Willow"" and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from ""A Shropshire Lad"". Butterworth was born in Paddington, London. Soon after his birth, his family moved to York so that his father Sir Alexander Kaye Butterworth could take up an appointment as general manager of the North Eastern Railway, which was based there. Their home was at Riseholme, a house on Driffield Terrace,"
"eventually resumed touring in 2006. He is still writing, singing, playing and touring but rather modestly describes his renewed talent as ""overcompensating, so it's either the best I've ever played or I'll completely balls it up"". BBC Radio 4Xtra – Loose Ends with Clive Anderson – 15 October 2012. Source of information – Karl Wallinger himself Karl Wallinger Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger (born 19 October 1957, Prestatyn, Wales) is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for leading the band World Party and for his mid-1980s stint in The Waterboys. He also wrote and originally"
"The work features a series of chordal clusters, repeated descending modal scales and a playful tune, creating a humorous dialogue between the brass ensemble and the fairground organ. A list of Puw's major compositions. Guto Puw Guto Pryderi Puw (born 1971) is a Welsh composer, university lecturer and conductor. He is considered to be one of the most promising Welsh composers of his generation and a key figure in current Welsh music. Puw's music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and been featured on television programmes for the BBC and S4C. He has twice been awarded the Composer's Medal"
"Credits Personnel Geraint Watkins Geraint Meurig Vaughan Watkins (born 5 February 1951) is a Welsh rock and roll pianist and accordionist backing artistes such as; Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Paul McCartney, Roy St. John, Shakin' Stevens and most recently Status Quo. He has also returned to a solo career, issued a number of albums under his own name, the latest being ""Moustique"". Watkins was born in Abertridwr, near Caerphilly, Wales. After time in the early 1970s at Portsmouth Art College, he returned to Cardiff and played with Red Beans And Rice and Juice on the Loose."
"two more Wales international footballers, Ollie Burton (born 1941) and Paul Parry (born 1980). In the field of entertainment, locally born figures have included Grant Nicholas (born 1967) of the band Feeder, who grew up in the neighbouring village of Pwllmeyric, and film and television actor Owain Yeoman (born 1978), star of ""The Mentalist"". The writer J. K. Rowling (born 1965), author of the Harry Potter books, lived in the adjoining village of Tutshill from the age of 9, and attended secondary school at Wyedean School. Chepstow Chepstow () is a town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, adjoining the border"
"Joseph Parry Joseph Parry (21 May 1841 – 17 February 1903) was a Welsh composer and musician. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, he is best known as the composer of ""Myfanwy"" and the hymn tune ""Aberystwyth"", which the African song ""Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika"" is said to be based on. Parry was also the first Welshman to compose an opera; his composition, ""Blodwen"", was the first opera in the Welsh language. Born into a large family, Parry left school to work in the local coal mines when he was nine years of age. He then went to work at the Cyfarthfa"
"(2002). Tony Mansfield Tony Mansfield (born 19 January 1955) is an English songwriter, musician and record producer. Mansfield was born in Wimbledon, and became best known as the main songwriter/producer for New Musik, a synthpop band that performed from 1979 to 1982. Following their debut hit single ""Straight Lines"" in 1979, the band had three further UK Top 40 hits in 1980 (""This World of Water"", ""Sanctuary"" and Living By Numbers""), and released three albums: ""From A To B"" (1980), ""Anywhere"" (1981) and ""Warp"" (1982). The group also released a compilation album for the United States in 1981 known as"
"Welsh comedy ""Stella"". In 2011, Jones signed a publishing deal with BDi music, and during the summer of 2011, he performed at several UK festivals including The Acoustic Festival of Britain, Festival of the Celts, and the Greenman Festival. In March 2012, Jones performed at the SXSW musical festival in Austin, Texas. Jones has since continued recording and performing; in April 2017 he announced a short hiatus from music. Sion Russell Jones Siôn Russell Jones is a Welsh singer and songwriter from Cardiff. Jones was born in Cardiff, Wales. He started playing the guitar at the age of 7 and"
"The Topography of Chance curated by Stewart Lee, ""Sound Arts Network"" (2006) Lucy Over Lancashire 12"", ""SueMi"" (2007) Lucy Over Lancashire (CD re-issue), ""Owd Scrat"" (2014) Lucy Over Lancashire (Remastered 2017), ""Owd Scrat"" (2017) Futile Exorcise, ""Owd Scrat"" (2017) 02 - Flux Collectable CD2 [CD Rom], ""Flux magazine"" (2001) The Drift: Fool Me, ""New Media Scotland"" (2009) Wire Tapper 44, ""The"" ""Wire Magazine"" (2017) Paul Rooney (solo artist) Paul Rooney (born 1967 in Liverpool) is an English musician-artist who works with music and words, primarily via records and video works. Paul Rooney studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating"
"Carwyn Ellis Carwyn Meurig Ellis (born 9 August 1973) is a Welsh singer-songwriter, composer, record producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist. He is known as the frontman of British alternative band Colorama, as a member of The Pretenders and as a long-time collaborator with Edwyn Collins. In 2014, they worked together on the soundtrack to the film ""The Possibilities Are Endless"" which won the Mojo 'Film Of The Year' Award. Ellis has also recorded electronic music as Zarelli, releasing an album, ""Soft Rains"" in 2015 which featuring the voice of Leonard Nimoy narrating the Ray Bradbury short story ""There Will Come Soft"
"Geraint Watkins Geraint Meurig Vaughan Watkins (born 5 February 1951) is a Welsh rock and roll pianist and accordionist backing artistes such as; Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Paul McCartney, Roy St. John, Shakin' Stevens and most recently Status Quo. He has also returned to a solo career, issued a number of albums under his own name, the latest being ""Moustique"". Watkins was born in Abertridwr, near Caerphilly, Wales. After time in the early 1970s at Portsmouth Art College, he returned to Cardiff and played with Red Beans And Rice and Juice on the Loose. The band,"