Griff-Lynch
Griff Lynch
19th October, 4:15pm
Pop, Dance Pop

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(from The 5 W's Of)

Griff Lynch is founding member, guitarist and frontman of Welsh-language psych pop band Yr Ods (‘The Odds’). Recently Griff has been working on solo material and releases his new single Don’t Count On Me on 10 February via Welsh independent label I KA CHING.

“Most of what I know about songwriting, I’ve learned through my band Yr Ods” says Griff. “We formed in college and carried on from there. We’ve sung nearly exclusively through the medium of Welsh, as it’s our first language, and I can express my self better lyrically. We gained a solid following within Wales, but through BBC Radio 1 and 6 music coverage, along with playing such festivals as Glastonbury, we got exposure UK wide. We whirled through the cliches, on a minority language scale, released 2 highly acclaimed albums, a bunch of EPs, toured Europe, had a ‘Berlin Phase’, before climaxing with a performance of our back catalogue with a 40 piece orchestra, to a huge crowd at the National Eisteddfod last summer. This is my first attempt at ‘doing the solo thing’…”


Griff Lynch yw un o sylfaenwyr, gitarydd a blaenwr y band seic pop Cymraeg Yr Ods (‘The Odds’). Yn ddiweddar mae Griff wedi bod yn gweithio ar ddeunydd unigol ac yn rhyddhau ei sengl newydd Don’t Count On Me ar 10 Chwefror trwy label annibynnol Cymraeg I KA CHING.

“Y rhan fwyaf o’r hyn dwi’n ei wybod am gyfansoddi caneuon, dwi wedi dysgu trwy fy mand Yr Ods” meddai Griff. “Fe wnaethon ni ffurfio yn y coleg a chario ymlaen o'r fan honno. Rydyn ni wedi canu bron yn gyfan gwbl trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, gan mai hi yw ein hiaith gyntaf, a gallaf fynegi fy hunan yn well yn delynegol. Cawsom ddilyniant cadarn yng Nghymru, ond trwy ddarllediadau cerddoriaeth BBC Radio 1 a 6, ynghyd â chwarae gwyliau fel Glastonbury, cawsom sylw ledled y DU. Buom yn chwyrlïo drwy’r ystrydebau, ar raddfa iaith leiafrifol, rhyddhau 2 albwm uchel eu clod, criw o EPs, teithio Ewrop, cael ‘Cyfnod Berlin’, cyn cyrraedd uchafbwynt gyda pherfformiad o’n hôl-gatalog gyda cherddorfa 40 darn, i a tyrfa enfawr yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr haf diwethaf. Dyma fy ymgais gyntaf i ‘wneud y peth unigol’…”

Venue

11 Womanby Street, Cardiff, CF10 1BR
Griff-Lynch
Griff Lynch
19th October, 4:15pm
Electropop

Tickets:

Information

(from The 5 W's Of)

Griff Lynch is founding member, guitarist and frontman of Welsh-language psych pop band Yr Ods (‘The Odds’). Recently Griff has been working on solo material and releases his new single Don’t Count On Me on 10 February via Welsh independent label I KA CHING.

“Most of what I know about songwriting, I’ve learned through my band Yr Ods” says Griff. “We formed in college and carried on from there. We’ve sung nearly exclusively through the medium of Welsh, as it’s our first language, and I can express my self better lyrically. We gained a solid following within Wales, but through BBC Radio 1 and 6 music coverage, along with playing such festivals as Glastonbury, we got exposure UK wide. We whirled through the cliches, on a minority language scale, released 2 highly acclaimed albums, a bunch of EPs, toured Europe, had a ‘Berlin Phase’, before climaxing with a performance of our back catalogue with a 40 piece orchestra, to a huge crowd at the National Eisteddfod last summer. This is my first attempt at ‘doing the solo thing’…”


Griff Lynch yw un o sylfaenwyr, gitarydd a blaenwr y band seic pop Cymraeg Yr Ods (‘The Odds’). Yn ddiweddar mae Griff wedi bod yn gweithio ar ddeunydd unigol ac yn rhyddhau ei sengl newydd Don’t Count On Me ar 10 Chwefror trwy label annibynnol Cymraeg I KA CHING.

“Y rhan fwyaf o’r hyn dwi’n ei wybod am gyfansoddi caneuon, dwi wedi dysgu trwy fy mand Yr Ods” meddai Griff. “Fe wnaethon ni ffurfio yn y coleg a chario ymlaen o'r fan honno. Rydyn ni wedi canu bron yn gyfan gwbl trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, gan mai hi yw ein hiaith gyntaf, a gallaf fynegi fy hunan yn well yn delynegol. Cawsom ddilyniant cadarn yng Nghymru, ond trwy ddarllediadau cerddoriaeth BBC Radio 1 a 6, ynghyd â chwarae gwyliau fel Glastonbury, cawsom sylw ledled y DU. Buom yn chwyrlïo drwy’r ystrydebau, ar raddfa iaith leiafrifol, rhyddhau 2 albwm uchel eu clod, criw o EPs, teithio Ewrop, cael ‘Cyfnod Berlin’, cyn cyrraedd uchafbwynt gyda pherfformiad o’n hôl-gatalog gyda cherddorfa 40 darn, i a tyrfa enfawr yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr haf diwethaf. Dyma fy ymgais gyntaf i ‘wneud y peth unigol’…”

Venue

11 Womanby Street, Cardiff, CF10 1BR

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