Ail Symudiad will keep you posted about their future gigs.
Gigs so far this year:
Ail Symudiad will be playing at the Duke of Clarence on Friday, March 11.
Ail Symudiad New CD ‘Rifiera Gymreig’
Short Explanations of the songs
Rifiera Gymreig (Welsh Riviera). This song is about Cardigan and the area naming e.g. River Teifi, Poppit, Cardigan Arms and Piggy Lane!
Grwfi Grwfi. Travelling back in time to the 60s - walking down Carnaby Street, the Motown sound and CND.
Bywyd heb Farbeciw (Life Without a Barbecue). Somebody moving to Australia, great at first, then getting tired of the life and moving back to these islands.
Scuttlers. Britain’s first ‘youth cult’, based in Manchester from around 1870-1890. They had their own ‘uniform’, and there was a great deal of fighting between gangs from areas such as Ancoats and Angel Meadow.
Ras y Broga Melyn (The Race of the Yellow Frog). Forests being cut down in the Amazon, affecting nature and the environment from birds to the smallest frogs – the race is on to save them.
Ynys Prydferthwch (Beautiful Island). A song with a similar theme to the previous one. Hundreds of years ago Easter Island (Rapa Nui) was a fruitful island but large stone Moai were built by using all the trees from the island, that eventually led to famine for the islanders. By now people are back living on ‘Beautiful Island’.
Anrhegion Annapurna. (Presents from Annapurna). Annapurna is the Hindu goddess of food, and in many temples in India thousands of people are given food – a valuable gift from Annapurna.
Y Da a’r Cyfiawn Rai. (The Good and the Righteous Ones). Simply a song praising the people who voluntarily help the less fortunate. Also doctors and nurses etc.
Trev a’i Dacsi i’r Sêr. (Trev and his Taxi to the Stars). A song about a friend of the band who’s a taxi driver in London and his experiences of having the occasional star in his cab; it also mentions his love of Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Tu ôl y Drysau Aur. (Behind the Golden Doors). Words of this song are by Jackie Hayden from Ireland, who writes for Hot Press, translated by Richard Jones, and it’s about a very rich man who lives in a castle, but is frightened to venture out into the real world.
Ail Symudiad ar launching their new CD/album in Clwb Canol Dre, Caernarfon on Friday, December 3. Geraint Lovgreen and Band plus Vanta will be there also. The evening is organised by Dilwyn Llwyd.