Adolygiad sioe Peter Hammill – wedi’i sgwennu gan ffan, mae’n debyg, ond yn ymddangos ar wefan “social housing”.
I still find it strange that Hammill is still largely a prophet without honour in his own country. Apart from a brief flurry of media coverage about the VDGG reunion last year Hammill is largely ignored by both press and radio. For me there are many parallels between Hammill the more feted Richard Thompson. Both are masterful songwriters with long careers, and although both are highly prolific the standard of quality control remains astonishingly high. They are also unmistakably English. Thompson is a far better instrumentalist but I suspect that part of the reason he is better known than Hammill is that the media can safely put him in the pigeonhole marked “folk”. They really don’t know how to categorise Hammill so they just don’t bother.
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O’r gorau, mi wna i lyncu’r abwyd. Fel aelod o gartref sydd a tua ugain o CDs Richard Thompson, pa ddeunydd fyddet ti’n ei argymell i ‘narbwyllo i o athrylith Peter Hammill?
(wyt ti’n meddwl mynd i weld Loudon Wainwright III fis Ebrill gyda llaw?)
Mae cwpl o MP3au fan hyn, ond byddai’n werth clywed stwff Van der Graaf hefyd, os dwyt ti ddim.
Welais i Loudon yng Nghaerdydd y llynedd (neu 2004? mynd yn hen ychan) ac oedd e’n wych. Don’t suppose bydd e’n dod i Aberystwyth na dim byd?
Hei Rhys, os ti moyn mwy o MP3s, rho wybod a wna i anfon detholiad.