I had to give up thinking about the name of a band today and resort to Google, eventually I found it on a link from Wikipedia after searching for Welsh bands, anyway I couldn’t remember the name of Catatonia, I was trying to explain to the cadet about bands from Wales, we happen to be in Cardiff, I thought he would know a few, but he had never heard of Manic Street Preachers or Super Furry Animals or Stereophonics, I couldn’t believe it, he knew who Tom Jones was after I was forced to break out in song and give a few bars of “it’s not unusual” poor bastard got terribly red in the face much to the amusement of the AB who was doubled up with laughter. We decided that he would have to be educated so I have the task of making a compilation of Welsh, Irish and other parts of Western Europe that have contributed remotely to the world of music, contemporary or otherwise.
“If you tolerate this, then your children will be next” Manic Street Preachers
I couldn’t be too hard on him after all he is an engineer cadet doing deck practice and it is his first trip, and he is only 17, but he does ask questions nonstop I realise now that after years of believing fervently that I knew it all I do not have the answer to everything, this guy had Job pulling his hair out.
later folks.
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