WE’RE good at pop music in Wales and St Fagan’s: National History Museum has asked six guest curators to help celebrate with Pop Peth from August 1.
With the museum’s own collections at their disposal alongside their own collections and creations each of the six is invited to record their own take on the pop thing.
It’s all part of the museum’s Music ’09 season – look out for free downloads of the sounds produced by Welsh bands in response to St Fagan’s collections – and will run until January 2010.
The guests curators, in no particular order, are: Gari Melville, if the Welsh music scene needed pillars then Gari – with his Archif Roc A Phop Gymraeg – would be one of them. Comparative youngsters Lowri Johnston and Leusa Fflur edit fanzine Dim Ffwdanu and contribute to BBC Radio Cymru. Cardiff’s Spillers Records proudly celebrates its status as the world’s oldest disc dealers so the store’s Ashli Todd has a wealth of material on which to draw. John Griffiths and Kevs Ford of dance and electronica legends Llwybr Llaethog complete the set, remixers and collaborators extraordinaire (but not in the bad way) they’ve got a distinguished eight album 24 year history behind them, and the sadly late and very great John Peel made a damn good stab at pronouncing their name.
