Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Some Welsh Punk...


Released back in '87 on the Recordiau Anhrefn label, "Mindless Slaughter" was a compilation album for Artists For Animals. Basically a bunch of like minded artists who were trying to highlight the cruelty inflicted upon animals that were used in testing for commercial, educational or scientific research purposes. The album contained tracks from the likes of Conflict, The Three Johns, Chumbawamba and Peel faves, Yr Anhrefn. As I used to man the anti vivisection stall in Glasgow, as an impressionable teen, I duly purchased a copy of said album on glorious vinyl when it came out and still have it to this day.

Initially Yr Anhrefn only sang in their native Welsh tongue and, although they recorded three Peel sessions and appeared on The Tube, they were largely ignored by the music press and public alike. Unsurprisingly, I cannot speak any Welsh but I have have always enjoyed listening to their Peel sessions (and trying to work out what they are singing about) and feel the time might just be right for a Welsh punk revival....

Cornel

7 comments:

  1. Or paths probably crossed at that stall Scott. Stiff used to frequent the stall when we went into the town, with me lurking in the background, being a meat eater I always felt a bit of a hypocrit round the antivivisectionists.

    Listened to quite a bit of Conflict, Chumbawamba and lesser known anarchist punks such as Hagar The Womb and The Mob back then.

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  2. Think I was just going through that phase of being veggie for a few weeks and thinking I could change the world with my naive views. Most of the time I would just hang out at the stall and sometimes hand out leaflets, so probably were there at the same time some weeks. Hagar The womb, now there is a blast from the past. Don't listen to much of that stuff nowadays but did have a listen to Flux's "Tube Disaster" the other day and it still sounded really good.

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  3. I've got a rather good JD Twitch re-edit of Tube Disasters, with an edit of The Mob's Witch Hunt, War by Zounds and Honey Bane's Guilty. I may have to post either Tube Disasters or The Mob.

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  4. Look forward to it Drew. Maybe we'll help kick start an anarcho-punk revival. On second thoughts, let's hope not.

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  5. Hagar the Womb feature on an early Peel Tape!!!

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  6. Let the Hagar revival start George...

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  7. I had an anti vivisectionist. She was cruel and heartless and made us eat bulls' eyes and balls.

    And bums.

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