Reviews
A superb way of tripping to the heart of Welsh music.
- Cerys Matthews, Catatonia & BBC Radio 6 Music presenter
All too often, Welsh music's power, magic and depth is reduced to a few familiar names. By shining its focus on so many genres, styles and individuals, Huw's book is a blazing, brilliant corrective – a proper lightning bolt, showing everyone what Wales is really made of.
- Jude Rogers, music journalist
Ultimately, this is a book written with passion, skill, dedication and a deep love of Welsh music in all its strange and beautiful variations.
- Nicky Wire, Manic Street Preachers
Huw has really dug in here, cracking open the wide and wonderful world of Welsh popular music. His research and knowledge is impeccable, coming up with a fun and informative read for everyone to enjoy.
- Sir Tom Jones
[Stephens has] pulled together a fine set of songs in this collection... It is a vanishingly small audience who would not have their knowledge of Welsh music in some way expanded by this broad-reaching, diligently researched and entertainingly presented work.
- Hugh Russell, Buzz magazine
A breezy, fun and insightful tour through a hundred key releases... His hundred records are consistently fascinating, rife with classics and impressively jump through history, casting back right to the depths of the 20th century and into the 21st... For Welsh music fans, it's a simply essential read.
- clashmusic.com
Nobody is better-placed than Huw Stephens to attempt a definitive overview of the musical history of Wales. Stephens has been... one of Welsh music's foremost advocates, for a quarter of a century... Most of the biggest hitters - Shirley'n'Tom, Shaky'n'Bonnie, Scritti, Alarm, Manics, Furries - are represented, but the book is strongest when highlighting the records you don't already know... A highly enjoyable warren of rabbit holes.
- Simon Price, Record Collector magazine
