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Elidir Jones
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Awdur ffantasi ac arswyd | Horror and fantasy author • Sgriptiwr | Scriptwriter • Isdeitlydd | Subtitler
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How do you humiliate a fascist? Caerphilly.

Bore da iawn, Gymru.
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
Sefyllfa gwerthu llyfrau plant yng Nghymru yn 'argyfyngus'.

Ella ddylsa rywun oni bai am yr awduron eu hunain drio eu hyrwyddo nhw 'ta? Just a thought.

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Fun fact: fi wnaeth isdeitlo hwn. Dyna'r day job bellach. Joio.
And finally, one of our favourite songs from the early years, re-recorded as a last hurrah.

We still have half a concept album written, as well as a desperate need to be loved, so a comeback isn't out of the question some day. But for now, see you on the moon.

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Craen ar y Lleuad
YouTube video by Plant Duw
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Still time for a couple of final singles. Heddiw is something of an oddity - a bit more electronic-y than we're used to, but still grand. It also features cornet player Sean on lead vocals in the chorus for the first time. He waited this long to show off those pipes.

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Heddiw
YouTube video by Plant Duw - Topic
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Our final album, Tangnefedd, is my personal favourite. I unconditionally love 90% of it. Too many highlights to mention, but why not start with the Queens Of The Stone Age-y / vaguely Britpop-ish Hanner Call? That outro, man.

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Hanner Call
YouTube video by Plant Duw
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The band generally considers the Lliwiau EP to be our best work, pound for pound. C.O.B. (Cofio O'r Blaen) may be my favourite PD song ever, but Eliffantod yr Anialwch is also worth a shout - even if only for the video, filmed when we inexplicably toured in the Netherlands.

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Eliffantod yr Anialwch
YouTube video by Conor Martin
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Next up, obviously, was a Christmas-themed double A side. Nadolig Llawen is a lovely mellow time, but Pwy Sy'n Dwad Dros Y Bryn, a cover of a Welsh children's Christmas carol, went down a storm. I think this is the most punk we've ever sounded.

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Plant Duw - Pwy Sy'n Dwad Dros y Bryn?
YouTube video by Plant Duw
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Our second album Distewch, Llawenhewch didn't make much of an impact, with the lead single openly derided by a prominent Radio Wales DJ. But we had our fun, and that's all that matters. I still marvel at our 26-year-old brass balls when I listen to this 13-minute epic.

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Nos da
YouTube video by Plant Duw - Topic
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Probably our second-biggest smash hit, triple platinum banger, Yn y Bore was a cover of a song by comedic / musical geniuses Ryan and Ronnie, and played ad nauseum on BBC Radio Cymru, despite only being featured on an obscure radio session.

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Plant Duw - Yn y Bore
YouTube video by Ffarout
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Lots to like about our first album, Y Capel Hyfryd, but this is my personal favourite. By far our best performance on much-missed S4C alternative music show Bandit, featuring a pre-megastardom Cate Le Bon on vocals.

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Plant Duw - Byw Ar Gwmwl
YouTube video by YDysgwrAraf
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Today marks 20 years since my band Plant Duw's first gig. We toured for 14 years - mainly in a tiny Volkswagen Lupo - and had a blast. What better time to look back at some career highlights?

Starting with our 'big hit'. That solo is 18 years old now. Old enough to drink.

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Plant Duw "Nerth Dy Draed"
YouTube video by Daf Palfrey
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I live in Ponty too. I currently have a few lovely water features inside my house. You could have white water rafted through my garden in January 2021. We're allowed to be angry at Labour's lack of action on this. We all know that if this was happening in London, the money would be found to fix it.
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Statement re flooding in South Wales Central ⬇️
But if Labour's complacent attitude on this doesn't change, Pontypridd is going to keep getting hit by this, over and over again. The Labour members of RCT council voted unanimously against an inquiry into flooding. Are we not allowed to challenge that?
Gwnewch eich siopa Dolig o siop lyfra fach orau Cymru, plis. Maen nhw angen eich cefnogaeth yn fwy nag erioed.
⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.

If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.

👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
Storyville Books Bookshop UK
Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.
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In 1996, aged 11. Read my dad's old copy of LOTR after heading some school friends gush about it. Dad's old bookmark was still in there to mark where he'd given up (soon after Glorfindel arrives).
Ie, edrych yn grêt.
Prin wedi ysgrifennu flwyddyn yma yng nghanol gwallgofrwydd dod yn dad newydd, ond mae 'na stori gen i yn y gyfrol swmpus, hyfryd yma, wedi ei olygu gan Lowri Haf Cooke.

Fi yn sbwylio'r mŵd clyd Nadoligaidd efo stori ysbryd cwbl erchyll, natch.

Yn y siopau mewn ychydig dros wythnos.
Ddim yn gwneud lot ar Bluesky, ond yn Gymraeg fydda i'n postio, os o gwbl!
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Seen him seven times. All marvellous.