Albert Tatlock

And sometime soon they'll start shaving

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np8qbeygLZQ

So, a quiet Sunday morning suddenly hit by a depth charge - randomly came across The Strypes on BBC Radio 6 Cerys Matthews show ... These boys have really got it. Nothing 'new', but good music played with this much energy never gets old. For those of us just born when this stuff might have been in its heyday, rhythm and blues is back, and this time in colour :-) (though they do tend to bevgoing for the retro black and white vids) What will they be like in a few years time?... No idea but I think I'll be taking a ride on their train. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plBtjQekyN4 EDIT - check

More w/o any JT references here. http://stereogum.com/1255121/lows-alan-sparhawk-on-the-invisible-way-the-bands-20th-anniversary-and-the-general-weirdness-of-getting-older/interview/

Had heard the first 10 mins or so before somehow/somewhere, but now it's on to the good stuff ... Spending a nice lunchtime in banter corner, though not warming particularly to the host. Seems a bit too much of a "If I swear it's enough to make it funny" type of comedian.

Indeed. With many of the great Welsh stars of my 70s childhood, and the melodious tones of Cliff Morgan (himself a former Welsh outside half) commentating. With (then amateur until 1995) rugby being such a part of the close-knit Welsh way of life, these guys were people everyone saw about town etc. and contributed to the closeness that the Welsh feel to their team and national sport that only the New Zealanders come close to matching. Only in those two countries is it the sport fo the working class.

They need a sax player :-) The continual acoustic hook reminds me of One Sunday Morning Steve Forbert - Make It All So Real

Ronnie Lane - The Poacher

Prefab Sprout - Faron Young http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FVEUwDAfzU

Dave Davies - Death of a Clown

Faces - That's All You Need

Crowded House - Catherine Wheels.

For obvious reasons Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x_xshO9CJc

Ha! And if a single individual is interested I'd be surprised, but you can then watch the whole match here ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXBIXqvNfwA

40 years ago tomorrow actually . Still brings me to tears with the genius and emotion of it all, but thats all part of the deeply poetic nature of being Welsh ...

This one is a challenge - I'd love to see it but I don't think they're up for anything so riotous now. Fighting talk, but I'm A Wheel looks positively pedestrian compared to this. Go on JT - I'll even throw in a packet of throat lozenges for free to help out afterwards ... Jim Jones Review -Frog Princess

Some nice raw guitar for Nels, pulsating bass for John, some screaming for JT. Hardly obscure, but everyone must do a Beatles cover sometime surely ... Close second would be Paperback Writer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57jdgNKwdRs

Elvis Costello - Tokyo Storm Warning (though there's a humongous amount of lyrics to learn so that counts against it ever happening). Sound quality of this is not so good, and you could easily see how Wilco would make a much better job of the arrangement.

Bbop taught me a little trick with a bit of plastic tubing that keeps him at the top of his game, though sometimes i do feel guilty about ruining an innocent lady bystander's handbag.

I'm sorry to hear that - you seem particularly afflicted. Maybe this will help you and fellow sufferers on this thread.

Ta - to the website-meister and to WilcoMe

Ta. The Feb 2013 article 'discussing the new album' should be interesting too.