Nows and Forevers

My Welsh family loved Tom Jones, of course. But I came of age digging a newer generation of music from the homeland, The Alarm and Super Furry Animals and a few Welsh-language bands. The Alarm, from Rhyl in NOrth Wales, rocked it hard in the ‘80s thanks to frontman Mike Peters, who died at age 66 this week.

Peters cared a great deal about being Welsh, and I would say that’s an almost universal national trait.

This is vintage Alarm, circa 1982.