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Welsh Bands

Welsh Bands

It's not all Manic Street glamour, Catatonia drawls, and Shaking Stevens St. Vitus Frenzies in Wales, you know.  Most bands struggle, with little reward, for that one single opportunity to be heard.  Some, like unwanted Christmas pets, spend their lives wandering up and down the motorway hard shoulder cursing their broken-down rental van.  Some bands are reputed to have never found their way back, trapped forever on some kind of tarmac Moebius Strip.   Remember Budgie?  I rest my case!

100,000 BodyBags have released several singles and a CD album (See Discography).   They produce a surprisingly varied sound, comprising of power-punk, rock, and slight touches of reggae.  Click on the link for more.

100,000 BodyBags

Orange Free State have no official releases, apart from Sam's parole.  Masters of Power-pop.  Often referred to, (by themselves) as the 'Welsh' Manics, they bear more of a resemblence to the Buzzcocks, Pixies, and R.E.M.  Again click on the link.

Orange Free State

Tales from Manic Street.  You can read here of the little-known exploits of the 'Patron Saints of Wails'

Tales from The Manic Street

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Last modified on 01 April 1999