(‘taken from Pete Telfers galleries on Culture Colony‘)

I was telling Geraint Jarman, from the television production company Criw Byw, that I’d applied for an Arts Council grant to follow Yr Anhrefn on their tour of Czechoslovakia. However, the grant had not come through and Anhrefn had already left the country, so it was another good idea that wasn’t going to happen. But, Geraint said that it was a very important development in Welsh language music and that there should be a record. He gave me some cash and a small Video 8 camera (the height of technology at the time) and off I went to Prague. I had phoned Nest, Rhys Mwyn of Yr Anhrefn’s wife, and she had given me a list of towns that Anhrefn were performing in. They had already played Prague and were a few days into the tour. I thought I’d catch them up in Brno, a large industrial town in the middle of Czechoslovakia. As Anhrefn were a band from the ‘West’ I thought that there would be a bit of a buzz in the towns they were performing in and I’d see posters telling me where concerts were taking place. I planned to meet them there.
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