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-Forty years ago...

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-..on the 18th of May, 1976...

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-..I came here,

-to Bingley Hall in Stafford...

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-..to see the best rock 'n' roll band

-in the world - The Rolling Stones.

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-I came here to be entertained...

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-..and my life

-was never the same afterwards.

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-It was a Tuesday.

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-Ellis John

-borrowed a minibus from Bob Mason...

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-..and drove up from Dolgellau...

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-..and picked

-the rest of us up near Caernarfon.

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-I'm trying to work out

-where everything was.

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-I think the stage was here.

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-It's a lot bigger...

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-..than I remember.

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-We arrived quite early,

-so we could more or less choose...

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-..where we wanted to sit.

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-We decided to sit in the gallery

-so we could look down on the stage.

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-We set up camp about three quarters

-of the way down over there...

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-..because

-that's where the bar was situated.

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-I remember

-this voice coming over the PA.

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-"Ladies and gentlemen,

-put your hands together...

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-"..for the greatest rock'n'roll band

-in the world, The Rolling Stones.

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-"The Rolling Stones!"

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-Next came the guitar riff.

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-Straight into Honky Tonk Women.

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-The place went crazy.

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-# It's the honky tonk women

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-# Gimme, gimme, gimme

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-# The honky tonk blues #

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-I was quite immature musically.

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-Before coming here,

-I'd never seen anything like it.

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-I'd seen local bands

-do cover versions of chart hits...

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-..at Llallyfni War Memorial Hall.

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-I went to Bangor Normal and watched

-a few bands at the students' union.

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-In a way,

-this was a real eye opener for me.

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-What struck me...

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-..was how flamboyant he was.

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-His clothes were incredible.

-He influenced the era's fashion.

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-We didn't dress like this

-to go to the market in Llangefni...

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-..but we did wear flared trousers!

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-After that night, I didn't

-want to be a teacher any more.

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-It changed the course

-of my professional life.

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-I'd been training

-to become a teacher...

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-..but then decided

-to do something else with my life.

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-We lived in Dragon Goch.

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-That was the name

-of our house in Penmynydd.

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-The house belonged

-to the Ty Fry Estate, Pentraeth...

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-..where I worked as a farmhand.

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-It was a crazy house.

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-It was bohemian.

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-Music was always blasting

-out of the house day and night.

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-This momentous night

-was in May 1976...

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-..at the beginning

-of a glorious summer.

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-It was sunny and warm.

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-The Eisteddfod was in Cardigan.

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-It was one of

-the best eisteddfodau ever held.

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-One day, we ventured

-to the eisteddfod maes...

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-..and as you can see,

-we look completely lost.

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-We didn't know

-what to do or where to turn.

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-We were at our happiest...

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-..at Cardigan rugby club,

-which you can see in the background.

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-Some groups had been playing there

-the night before...

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-..and had left their gear.

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-During the afternoon,

-someone said, "Let's go and jam."

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-Ithel Jones and Phil Jones

-were there with me.

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-They got up and played, so I just

-jumped up and made up lyrics.

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-I translated songs...

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-..like Cross Road Blues by

-Robert Johnson and stuff like that.

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-People came in from the bar

-and started to listen.

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-We thought,

-oh, OK, we'll do another.

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-Ithel sent a postcard saying,

-how about starting a band?

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-I was asked to be the vocalist.

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-We needed songs,

-so we started writing.

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-We translated songs

-or took ideas from other songs.

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-Draenog Marw

-was one of the songs we translated.

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-It was an adaptation

-of Dead Skunk by Laudon Wainwright.

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-# Take a whiff on me,

-that ain't no rose

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-# Roll up your window

-and hold your nose

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-# You don't have to look

-and you don't have to see

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-# 'Cause you can feel it

-in your olfactory

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-# You got your dead skunk

-in the middle of the road #

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-# Dead hedgehog on the road

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-# Dead hedgehog on the road

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-# And it's stinking to high heaven #

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-The following summer in 1977...

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-..a group of hippies settled in

-Bethesda and organized a festival.

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-They booked us

-to play in the afternoon...

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-..with Meic Stevens.

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-At the end of the night, we all went

-back to Dragon Goch for a party.

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-There was a knock at the door, I

-opened it and it was Meic Stevens.

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-He'd been hiding

-in the back of our van.

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-I think he was with us for 10 days.

-We couldn't get rid of him.

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-We became good friends, fair play.

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-He put my name forward for a part...

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-..in the Dic Penderyn rock opera

-he'd written...

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-..with Rhydwen Williams.

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-That's when I got my Equity card.

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-It's thanks to Meic

-that I started acting.

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-This was the night...

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-..that made me consider

-making a career...

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-..from rock'n'roll.

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-It was an Eureka moment.

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-I went from being

-a face in the crowd...

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-..to suddenly realizing this is what

-these guys did all day, every day...

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-..and I wanted a piece of it.

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-I received my Equity card in 1979...

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-..so it became a ticket

-to another profession.

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-I was invited to be a presenter...

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-..on a magazine programme

-called Ser.

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-I found out pretty soon...

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-..I wasn't comfortable presenting...

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-..though I enjoyed

-the physical side of it.

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-At the same time,

-the Bara Caws theatre company...

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-..had been going

-for about two years.

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-Everyone was talking about

-this new, radical, political...

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-..and trailblazing company.

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-In 1981 I acted in my first play...

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-..entitled Oes 'Ma Bobl.

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-While I was working

-with Bara Caws...

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-..I lived in Regent Street

-for 18 months to two years.

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-It was nice coming back to

-Upper Bangor after studying here.

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-After living in Cardiff

-for a while...

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-..I saw Upper Bangor

-in a very different light.

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-The fact that Bara Caws was radical

-and different was an attraction.

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-It was a pioneering

-and political company...

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-..led by Iola Gregory, Valmai Jones,

-Dyfan Roberts and Mei Jones.

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-I was in and out

-for three or four years...

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-..doing individual plays...

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-..before being offered

-full-time work.

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-A few of us researched,

-wrote and performed.

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-I acted in many interesting plays.

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-It was a learning curve for me.

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-I learned about writing,

-what made a good play...

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-..what audiences wanted...

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-..and finding the right balance for

-getting the play's message across.

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-The work was rewarding.

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-That passion is still there.

-The flame still burns inside me.

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-It's important to put on plays...

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-..for people in their communities

-about subjects which concern them.

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-It was a special place...

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-..and it was

-a very happy time in my life.

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-It also inspired the song,

-Mardi Gras Ym Mangor Uchaf.

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-# Dire Straits on Holyhead Road

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-# And Led Zep... #

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-By 1982, S4C was launched.

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-The Tir Glas company

-was looking for new artists.

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-Huw Jones asked me

-if I'd perform as a solo artist.

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-The first song I ever wrote...

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-..I had a melody in my head...

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-..and the lyrics came easily

-one Saturday morning...

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-..while I went to fetch

-something for breakfast.

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-It came to me very organically.

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-# Everything for every occasion

-on sale in every shop

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-# Shopkeepers... #

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-It's easy

-to romanticize about these places...

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-..because Upper Bangor

-has always been a charming place.

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-It's gone downhill these days.

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-Ed Povey's murals have gone,

-the colourful shops have gone.

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-Despite its appearance,

-it's a busy place...

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-..buzzing with creativity.

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-It's provided a lot of fun

-for people over the years.

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-People are fonder of Upper Bangor

-than they are about the city itself.

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-# Nugget, Meri, Meris

-and Common Jacks of the world #

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-Nugget was Cefin.

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-That came from Valmai telling him

-he was so intrinsically Welsh...

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-..he had a gold nugget inside him...

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-..which gleamed every time

-there was any talk of cerdd dant...

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-..or something Welsh-orientated.

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-Meri Meri was Valmai Jones,

-who was more influenced...

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-..by English culture

-than Welsh culture.

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-I was the Common Jack, of course.

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-It was our form of shorthand...

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-..for pigeonholing people.

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-# Jabbering in Welsh

-at Y Glob almost every night

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-# Menai Vaults and the Belle Vue,

-Bangor aye and who knows?

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-# Nugget, Meri Meris

-and the world's Common Jacks

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-# Speaking Esperanto,

-that's the only language there is

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-# It's Mardi Gras in Upper Bangor

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-# Calypso on everyone's lips #

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-You don't realize it at the time...

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-..but in the early 1980s...

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-..I didn't know what was going to

-happen for the rest of that decade.

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-In 1983 I became a father.

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-In 1988 Sobin was formed.

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-Crysbas was dead on its feet.

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-My acting career

-had taken over by then.

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-Those wild, crazy days...

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-..spent in places like this

-came to an end, to some degree!

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-# The singer

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-# The singer all alone #

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-DUBLIN

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-We've crossed the water to Dublin.

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-I've come to the National Stadium...

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-..the only building in the world

-exclusively designed for boxing.

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-I came here

-on the fourth of June, 1988...

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-..to see

-a very special man from Canada...

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-..called Leonard Cohen.

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-# He's here in front of me now

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-# He's composing poetry

-where once was boxing

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-# A city celebrating a millennium

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-# And the Jew singing a welcome #

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-There's not much to say

-about the building itself.

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-Dublin was celebrating

-1,000 years since its founding.

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-He came on and said...

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-.."Thanks for the welcome,

-it's good to be here in Dublin.

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-"It's good to be performing

-in one of the original buildings."

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-# Remembering his no-nonsense words

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-# Janis and the poet from Montreal #

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-We were sitting

-down at the bottom...

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-..in the centre of the square.

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-There was a scruffy hippy

-right at the end.

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-In between every song, without fail,

-he shouted...

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-.."Hey, Lenny! Lady Midnight!

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-"Lenny, why don't you sing...?"

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-In between every song.

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-After half an hour...

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-..Leonard had had enough of him

-and he turned on him and said...

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-"Listen, I've forgotten that song

-and I advise you to do the same."

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-# He says what he's got to say

-without smiling

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-# "Lady Midnight" the hippy insists

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-# "Oh, no, I've forgotten it"

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-# "Do the same, you idiot

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-# "Because I remember you well

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-# "At the Chelsea Hotel" #

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-He's a very complex man.

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-I know

-he's been battling depression.

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-Many people

-think his songs are depressing...

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-..but I can see

-a lot of humour in them.

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-# I remember you well

-in the Chelsea Hotel

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-# You were famous,

-your heart was a legend

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-# You told me again

-you preferred handsome men

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-# But for me

-you would make an exception #

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-He's very different from people

-like Mick Jagger and others.

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-Jagger'd argue that you have to

-sustain the audience's attention...

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-..with some kind of movement

-or whatever...

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-..but he believed

-the total opposite.

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-He preferred to present his lyrics

-in the best way he could...

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-..and let the audience

-absorb the sentiment...

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-..process them

-and interpret them as they wish.

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-You take elements of both things

-when you're with a full band.

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-You're aware that you need

-to move and give a performance.

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-With the quiet acoustic stuff

-that I sing...

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-..it's enough to sit on a stool

-and sing the lyrics...

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-..of Emyr Huws Jones

-or Alun Sbardun Hughes...

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-..and let people enjoy it and think

-about the lyrics in a different way.

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-I've seen him

-many times after that...

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-..but because

-he's become so popular...

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-..the venues are much bigger.

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-That night,

-in this intimate setting...

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-..I feel as though

-I met Leonard Cohen...

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-..and he was talking directly to me

-and none of the 2,000 who were here.

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-I have to say,

-I love coming to Dublin.

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-I've been coming

-since the end of the 1970s...

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-..for various reasons.

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-Living in North Wales, it's easier

-to come to Dublin to see a show...

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-..than travel all the way to London.

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-As the years went by and

-I started to work for Bara Caws...

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-..we came here

-to perform numerous plays...

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-..that were held nearby

-in the New Theatre.

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-I've come here to sing

-over the years too...

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-..especially during

-rugby internationals.

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-But whilst filming Midffild,

-we'd come here for wrap parties...

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-..after the shoot was over.

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-We'd often go to O'Donoghue's

-and the Baggot Inn.

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-If you come to Dublin,

-there's one thing you must have.

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-A pint or two of Guinness.

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-You've gone up in the world.

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-It's the only bar in the world where

-the barman stands on the counter.

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-We came here on Midffild trips

-for almost three years.

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-We went to Galway the following year

-but it was a big mistake.

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-We should've stuck to Dublin.

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-It got messy in Galway.

-Even messier than Dublin!

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-# Through the world's violence

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-# Its length and breadth

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-# When I was young #

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-Fun afternoons

-rather than fun nights.

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-It started quietly

-with everyone chatting...

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-..and then the Irish

-would start singing...

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-..and we'd start singing

-at the other end.

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-# Before I return to Wales,

-my friend #

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-By now, it's fair to say I've

-established myself as an actor.

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-People regard me as an actor,

-not just as a singer who acts.

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-Obviously Midffild

-was one of S4C's great successes.

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-It helped me acquire other roles.

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-Move, you yob.

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-You move, pillock.

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-That's enough. Pack it in. I'm sick

-of you two. Bryncoch's sick of you.

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-He started it.

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-He started it.

-

-Turn that off! It's like High Noon!

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-I had dozens of work offers

-after that.

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-Usually, I'd look to do

-a series like Midffild...

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-..a film with Sion Humphreys...

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-..and two tours with Bara Caws.

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-My diary was full during that time.

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-I'd done Gaucho with Endaf Emlyn...

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-..Yma I Aros,

-a film written by Meic Povey...

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-..with songs composed by Ems

-about a country music duo.

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-I also appeared

-in the Minafon and Jabas series.

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-Talcen Caled was another success.

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-It was a gritty series

-based in Porthmadog.

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-People still ask me if I'm going

-to reprise the role of Les!

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-The time has come

-to bid farewell to Dublin.

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-I've enjoyed being back here...

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-..reliving some of the good times

-I've had here, as others have had.

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-To be honest,

-visiting all three places...

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-of what I enjoy doing...

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-..and what's so great about my job,

-which is entertaining people.

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-to people's lives.

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-It something I'll continue to do.

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