Welsh bands

[G-MAN2004]

Is it me or do we not hear much of Welsh bands these days, specifically the well known ones?

Three bands I love (Feeder, Manics and Stereophonics) used to be everywhere back in the day; they were always talked about, always played on the radio, etc. Now no one ever speaks about them, despite them all releasing new albums in the past few years and doing a few festivals. Manics even played on the X-Factor the other night in NZ... is that how bad it's become?

Same can sort of be said for Lostprophets. The only thing that brought them back into the spotlight was the singer's arrest! Great stuff.

Best three bands ever to come out of Wales and no one wants to hear of them anymore. Shame.

 

[G-MAN2004]

I don't ever remember Feeder being particularly big

I can seriously only recall one of their songs, the CD playerplayerplayerplayer one.

Big for Wales, anyway.

They're the band that should have been massive, but somehow just didn't ever make it (or hang on to it).

erm ...did you even listen to the last manics album OP ?

Yes.

Didn't realise Feeder were welsh, and I'm welsh.

They had success with the album the cd player song was on (echo park) but thats the only album they had any major success with I think.

The album after Echo Park did good, but their most successful was Pushing the Senses. Or The Singles, if that counts.

Feeder are awesome live.

Damn right!

I kind of liked Feeder before the whole Buck Rogers / Comfort in Sound era thing. They had a video with puppets and stuff which I almost latched onto as a teenager. 'Forgot' they were 'welsh' too.


e:- Actually I think the video was 'Yesterday went too soon'. And now it's bloody awful, beyond dated.

Yeah I'd love to see another album similar to YWTS or Polythene. Do love the rest of their stuff though.

Remember Two Colours?

 

[G-MAN2004]

Really?

Bigger than every other Welsh band that I can think of? In fact every other Welsh band I can think of were bigger than Feeder.

I really do think they only kept going because you bought everything they ever released, CD's that they walked past you were buying at one time.

They were still big and up there though.

If they scrapped their own label, signed to something bigger that would make them available in the US again and released an album similar to Polythene/Echo Park (and actually bother to promote it), I reckon they'd enjoy massive popularity. I don't think they care about anything anymore though other than keeping their original loyal fans happy, which is great, but I do wish they were more well known like they used to be. You may think they weren't to begin with, but they were.

Their old label is mostly to blame though...