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Guest Column – Steve Rastin – TEN DAYS WHEN THE EARTH STOOD STILL

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If you’re a music lover, you’ll recognise the symptoms I’m about to describe. You can be anywhere doing anything but music will be playing in the background via one source or another when suddenly, completely without warning, an unfamiliar song will hit you between the eyes (and ears) and for its duration you will be unaware of anything else going on around you. In the fullness of time it may or may not come to take on a fundamental meaning for you but in that first, awe inspiring moment it will have truly made the earth stand still. I’ve selected ten songs from my formative years to illustrate my point – read on (or better still, listen in) and enjoy.More

GUEST BLOG – Steve Rastin – Empire Song

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“Back To Square One”
This piece could have been written about any number of bands from North Wales over the years but for our purposes here I’m going to focus on The Pastimes.

Right now I think that they are the most exciting band in the region for any number of different reasons, all of which are pre-requisites for success in an industry that has always stacked the odds against wet-behind-the-ears hopefuls whatever the era.

The Pastimes write songs that combine grit and melody in the kind of equal measures that should make commercial acceptance an inevitability, their live performances are transcendent, they have a work ethic that is second to none, they are organised and they are focused.More

BLOG NEIL CRUD – TudnoT FM

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My radio show kickstarts, or reboots again tonight… I’m both nervous and excited at the prospect. 

Since the demise of TudnoFM my show has attempted broadcasts with Facebook, Mixcloud and YouTube with varying success / failure. Much to the extent that I only managed three shows thus far this year… More

5 ALIVE – Steve Rastin – The Five Albums That Keep Me Alive

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Steve Rastin is the long suffering promoter from Rhyl who refuses to acknowledge the war is over and he just keeps fighting on… From putting on Wednesday night gigs at Bar Blu for five years from 2004, he currently promotes shows at the same venue – now called The Front Room.
Steve also wrote a weekly music column for the Rhyl Journal and produced a fanzine called Collide-A-Scope and a review website called Shanty Town.

Name:  Steve Rastin

Best known for:  Persistence…!

Current location: Rhyl

Where I’d like to be right now: Anywhere but Rhyl

My music collection has a lot of… Eclecticism

Don’t judge me for… Tax evasion

Five albums that keep me alive and why:
Cut – The Slits (42 years old and still nothing sounds quite like it).
The Clash – The Clash (quite literally life changing and a constant reminder to never let go of my roots).
Closer – Joy Division (sonic perfection and lyrics that chime with my darkest moments).
Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires – Scientist (the maddest, baddest dub collection ever).
Entertainment – Gang Of Four (even more influential both sonically and lyrically today than it was at its time of release).

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