Welsh Rebel Outpost @ Nant Gwrtheyrn 11/11/12
So the bass came out of retirement, the excuse was that this was my 50th Birthday Party but the actual birthday had long gone (July 1st). One way or another I’d been far too busy to sort anything out for July and it was in fact an old school friend who suggested that I should do something to celebrate / mark my 50th.
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Rock Against The Rich Tour 1988.
Anhrefn were busy during this period, we had released our first album ‘Defaid, Skateboards a Wellies” on the Worker’s Playtime and were generally out and about doing gigs around the UK. We had also already started to tour Europe from early 1988 and the NME was the weekly read in the tour van. We’d check out NME for any reviews or whatever and on this particular day a tour by Joe Strummer had just been announced under the banner of Rock Against The Rich.
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“Are you feeling peckish?” asks Rhys Mwyn. “I could just do with something to eat…”
Galeri, Caernarfon, is a wonderful building, a complex of performance art, cinema and office space for go-ahead companies; fortunately for Rhys there’s a café and bar just downstairs. We detour to a table, order drinks and Rhys decides upon a huge plateful of grilled tortilla chips littered with cheese and peppers.Whilst munching these he delivers Mwyn philosophy.
“I want everything to be almost bespoke. I mean, variety is the essence but what we do should be cool…”
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Anhrefn release Clutter From The Gutter feat the vocals of Margi Clarke.
Released on Crai Recs and in Germany on Incognito
Pic from Punks on Postcards
Pretty decent song, spoiled by Margi Clarke’s pronunciation “Clwter from the gwter”. Best track is Croeso i Gymru, which is a slab of pure Anhrefn punk rock, sadly followed by one of those pointless dance remixes of the title track that most bands shoved on the end of their singles in the mid-90s
