Saturday night saw Wales honour its finest musical talents at the annual Pop Factory Awards. The event recognises the key players in the Welsh music industry, and the results read like this.
Best Live Act: Stereophonics
Best Live Event: Wakestock
Best Pop Act: Liberty X
Best Welsh Language Act: The Poppies
Best Music Export: Jem
Best New Act: The Automatic
Community Music Award: Sonig
Contribution To Music Industry: Dai Davies
Best Performer On The Guest List: Bullet For My Valentine
Rock 'n' Roll Excess: Goldie Lookin' Chain
Best Welsh Band: Lostprophets
Best Album: Feeder
Outstanding Contribution To Music: Tom Jones
Raz, pictured with one of the winning Bullet For My Valentine boys, was unavailable for comment at the time of me writing this. Which was 12.54, since you asked, six minutes before I step out to lunch. But what to have? Y'see, I fancy something hot, but can't really afford pub grub. Decisions, decisions...
The event will be screened on ITV on December 7th.
and a great band
like Melys is completely unknown...
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its times like these that I feel proud to live in Wales....... I think that they've exhausted the list of welsh popular music there.... I'm sure that was last years list too... (he he he)
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I'd just like to thank all my fans?
but
have the lostprophets even done anything this year?!?!
they've
just generally been the best
Liberty X
are Welsh?! Where's H?
Are they Welsh...
...or are they Walsh?
(a question that has plagued the mind of every thinker of our time)
They are well Walsh
Yup.
PS
May I suggest chips.
the poppies
I like them. they're from aberystwyth.
But they aren't 'welsh language' they're bilingual. And they once got booed off at a cymdeithas yr iaith gig for apologising before singing songs in welsh. which was a bit thick.
In fact I think for some of their songs they have two sets of lyrics for - one in english one in welsh.
So...
Raz is asian...I thought he was just cool.
LOL
no i'm the one on the RIGHT
shuddap
you RaZizt.
mastodon
were so good last night
SO good
they made me do a little smell
Errrrr.....
Stereophonics, best live act, Stereophonics, best live act........
nope, doesn't compute.
What about The Crimea? I love that band, or do they not count as Welsh??
Yo Raz...
YOu doing a review for that gig?
How were High On Fire and Bloodsimple?
yep reckon
you'll see
hah
GLC
yeah but did you see Eggsie from GLC on The Weakest Link? he totally kicked arse. and he voted off Tony Wilson. and he was pipped at the post by... Fish.
Yes
and I was eating my dinner at the time
hmmm
what i dont understand is, why welsh 'indie' acts weren't mentioned. I mean they DO exist... (but in flustred post walking in cold state I can't think of any) Lets "Blue Sky" that... (lol)
pep le pew
people in planes (theyre welsh aren't they?)
red pony
inner city pirate (formally my red cell)
arghhhh my memory fails me.
SFA Anyone?
Erm wheres the furries on this list. Surely the best band to ever come from wales. Piss all over the stereophonics live and on album.
I believe the Internet parlance is...
+1
What happened to...
...Big Leaves?
They
disbanded.. They tried to make it Big in England and failed. Half of them are now in a band called The Sibrydion.
Oh, and it's all about Mike Stevens.
the automatic
are shit
Wales
really does have a crap music scene, these days.
If only we could go back to the good old fun-Feeder and good-Stereophonics days!