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OUT OF CHAOS COMES BLISS- #DYLANDAY launch with music at Waterstones LDN 15th May FREE Also BBC 6+2+4 #PrixItalia2022 #PrixEuropa2022 info @harmonicartists .com

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Joined April 2009
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Cerys Matthews
19 days
Just nudging this here today, a great book and gift for @taylorswiftfans world wide (and everyone who loves great word play) - #dylanthomas poetry from his earliest creations to his last - a fresh new collection for 2024 . I hope you fall in love too. @taylorswift13 @PushkinPress
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Bloody hell, just realized I owe 3 million in tax. Doh. 🥸
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1 year
The interesting thing about humans, is that we have different talents. Mine isn’t maths . Yours might not be music, @RishiSunak . But I won’t make it compulsory for you. A thriving economy benefits from all our variable talents, not just the one you know. Think big.
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THIS: Suggesting that we all go and clap on our doorsteps when the first of the PPE fraudsters is jailed ( fra- @Tim_Burgess )
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7 years
How in the hell does the death of 1200 people in Indian floods warrant just 1 min of news,whilst we get 10 mins on Texas floods? @BBCNews
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1 year
Today am 54. More wrinkles fo sure but, damn , I'm loving the wisdom that comes with them.
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4 years
Aged 20 just after starting Catatonia
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3 years
I am so sorry to hear that @DawnHFoster has died. Life is so fragile , so fleeting. While we have it , why not try to make steps towards a fairer , better world . RIP Dawn, what a role model. You were magnificent #DawnFoster
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3 years
Out of interest , who would love this idea?to link up ancient woodlands in Wales and enable a kind of (eco friendly) pilgrim walk from north to south AND east to west with mapped historic sites on the way re ancient myths, poems/poets, and wildlife eg kites etc..RT? @SeneddWales
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3 years
The insulation company lied about the flammability of their product- even cheated the fire tests- why isn’t this Headline news ? 72 dead- families , children .. #Grenfell #inquiry
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4 years
Tomorrow is Black Out Tuesday: No tweeting, no music - nothing APART FROM a day of contemplation <Think. Act . CHANGE . #BlackLivesMatter #Equality #BlackOutTuesday #2020 Progress starts somewhere. It starts with you.
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3 years
Close to 800000 listeners per show and per week! Again the most listened to show on @BBC6Music - thank you as ever for being part of this- it means the world xx
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3 years
Had my jab today. I swear my phone signal’s got stronger 🤣
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3 years
Just want to send utter respect to you if you've been coping all this time in lockdown living on your own. My round when things allow. It'll be messy.
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7 years
I keep thinking of Aberfan #GrenfellFire the dangers were known. And no one listened. Profit first. This is 2017. London.
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4 years
Humans are so fucking stupid.
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2 years
@BBCSteveR Is this Marina Ovsyannikova, editor of Channel One. ? Detained, delivered to the Ostankino police department. #marina
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5 years
I saw Everest with my bare eyes for the first time the morning I turned 50. It was everything, and more.
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1 year
Taking that it’s time to retire Delilah, when do we stop watching murder stories on TV for entertainment?
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
Creeping onwards towards 700,000 listening in each Sunday to my show with the world's bounty of music, literature and other miscellanea , so a massive THANK YOU / DIOLCH MAS DRAW @BBC6Music 11-2pm
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3 years
Wishing we had locked down properly first time round.
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4 years
I'm going to the pub. its my round. what you having?
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3 years
Why does the term ‘Team GB’ make me itch so?
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1 year
Difference between morals and politics . Are we allowed morals?
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3 years
Cmoooooooooooooooooon
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1 year
Maybe. 3.7
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Cerys Matthews
2 years
Merry Christmas to you all, Nadolig Llawen i chi gyd #2021 whatever you’re doing xxx
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
Pub anyone? Go for it like it's 1998.
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Cerys Matthews
1 year
Nadolig Llawen . Hope you find some peace or moments of hope today, whatever you're doing.
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Cerys Matthews
2 years
4 weeks and still no alcohol. Shocked tbh, but glad.
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1 year
This is looking out towards Stumble Head+ the Irish Sea,a place I go to escape and think. Do you have a place you go? it could be a view from a window, piece of music, a pathway.. #escape + #thinking + #sayings + #philosophy are our themes for Sunday's show...join me at 10 @bbc6music
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Cerys Matthews
2 years
Sending love and congratulations to all graduates today- and thank you to @cardiffuni alumni and team for an exceptional tribute to learning #weaponsofmassinstruction
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Cerys Matthews
3 years
OY @Wikipedia MY NAME IS Cerys Matthews NEVER ANYTHING ELSE, MARRIED OR NOT. PLEASE DRAG YOUR A.I ARSES IN TO THE 21C . I DO NOT CHANGE MY NAME FOR ANY MAN NOR MACHINE. #everdaysexism
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3 years
Why is he leaving the front way carrying a box?
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
The rule was /is clear- if you think you’re infected stay home. That’s it.
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4 years
@VisitBritain You confuse Britain with England
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
@yungblud Hi Tom. Belated but massive hugs coming your way , love Cerys xx
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Cerys Matthews
7 years
Can bars and restaurants please stop giving plastic straws out? #planetearth
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
3 years this Sunday #GrenfellTower I’m sure if Westminster had burnt, we’d have nailed the culprits by now .
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
Death comes to us all, but by God it's still so hard to make sense of. Bucky Baxter, you were one of a kind. Thanks for turning my life around,for Cockahoop, the fires, the wayward philosophies,for sticking out(if you want to be a mountain..),for being there.I'll never forget RIP
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
Morning🙃. Right then blodyns , BBC pass in hand , I’m heading back to the studio again to be with you at 11am . I can’t blydi wait- any shouts outs- poems or favorite facts you want to share - hit me here:
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Cerys Matthews
2 years
I’m an owner of a football club
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Cerys Matthews
5 years
#hiking #everestbasecamp #rockingit my sons, 9 and 13 . I’d be in a caravan in West Wales their age. 🌎👈🏼
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3 years
‘Of all the mammals on Earth, 60% are livestock, 36% are humans and only 4% are wild’ @guardian If each of us just ate meat one day a week- how different the future of the planet would look. #smallsacrifice #greenplanet . why not try?
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3 years
You can’t eat a flag .
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Cerys Matthews
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@KayBurley @MattHancock I’ll just park this here. No laughing matter: the UK now has the highest coronavirus death rate as a proportion of population of any country in the world.
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Cerys Matthews
3 years
This pretty much sums it up. ( thanks @PushyRi0t for posting)
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Thank you for keeping me company each Sunday. I’d be a sad old cod without you.
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Oh god, it’s like the boyfriend who just doesn’t get the message that it’s over..
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
@realDonaldTrump Then arrest the police officers who murdered him.
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Cerys Matthews
3 years
Wouldn’t it be great to know that in this life -you get that one chance at driving through change, something which would impact thousands , AND leave a lasting and great legacy? @RobertJenrick #cladding #Grenfell this is your chance to do just that.
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
I might not be able to talk tomorrow #justsaying
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Cerys Matthews
6 years
Who will be the first to offer loose dry goods aisle? (and Palm oil free shopping area?) @sainsburys ? @waitrose ? @IcelandFoods ? @Tesco ? or will @AldiUK or @LidlUK do it? Seems t'would be the best PR move ever for the leading supermarket who does it first.
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
@afuahirsch Here it is, @NickFerrariLBC What backward, ignorant thinking you showed here! Resign. It's time for YOU to leave #racism #calloutracism
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4 years
I want there to be no home schooling tomorrow and Jacinda to be in charge of this country. I’ve put a tooth under my pillow.
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
"It is with the heaviest of hearts to announce that Frederick Nathaniel 'Toots' Hibbert passed away peacefully tonight, surrounded by his family at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica," his family said. RIP Toots. You rocked this world - thank you .
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4 years
For a sweet cup of water(/beer) and sense.. or a virtual hug from some one who never forgot his roots and always believed in civil rights: here's @RealSirTomJones Happy birthday, Mr!
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4 years
Al Green - A Change is Gonna Come
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Cerys Matthews
3 years
this. @theAliceRoberts CANT WAIT
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2 years
14th day without a drop of grog. Going to do some painting tonight. Its a revelation. #smallthings
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4 years
iTS CHrsSSSTMAAAAAaaASssssssssssssssssssssss
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Hello
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4 years
Please consider eating less, or no meat.(and defo. try to use small farm producers) It’s a win, win for the planet and your descendants . It’s cheaper to live, you feel much better , And you remove your investment in the cruel+dangerous mass producing meat systems. #covid #Green
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3 years
Every day is earth day
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2 years
I am going for a run tomorrow. I am.
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
@BBCBristol Investigate how much we can get for the scrap bronze? 👍😂
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Cerys Matthews
6 years
For the record: I don’t ‘ban’ anyone’s music. Thanks @DailyMailUK for completely missing the point in order to seek cheap headlines . Plus ca change.
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Cerys Matthews
3 years
Is it gin time?
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Cerys Matthews
2 months
I'm going to miss you so very much, my friend in music, in thinking, in dreaming. love you very much. RiP #VincePower
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Cerys Matthews
3 years
me working: person at computer in bed. me at play : person at computer in bed. With wine. #2021
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3 years
Mam got vaccinated yesterday . #diolch #thankyou #scientists and #nhs #healthworkers . I’m willing on energy through this slog , and dreaming of an eventual new dawning .
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
Removing the more controversial statues isn't lying about our history , but rather embracing a more civil, context rich, fair and intelligent future. @BorisJohnson
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3 years
This country ‘s gone mad.
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Cerys Matthews
2 years
Ey up. Is it over yet? Love yous loads and loads by the by. Here’s to planet love and adventures #2022
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3 years
Tomorrow we'll be filming a new kind of statue . That of a positive role model whose achievements are beyond doubt +born from their own hard work I'm here in Cardiff to film the unveiling of the first ever statue of a Welsh female ( non mythological). Onwards. #bettycampbell
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Just heard the news. What a one in a million man. Glad to have hung out , glad to have been in the throng finding energy and escape in your wonderful world of music and words. RIP Wilko, and thank you for everything
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7 years
@realDonaldTrump Lack of regulations just killed over 79 people in UK #Grenfell
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3 years
if you have to eat meat think of it as treat. its easier than you think to eat less
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Cerys Matthews
3 years
Join me tomorrow at *11am-ive got Japanese funk,Louis Armstrong archive,a whole basket of new releases and other pan world gems. You better join me as it’s my 167th birthday and I’d miss you if you didn’t come. #nasty cocktails free @bbc6music 11-2pm
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Cerys Matthews
7 years
Did they install sprinklers in the Shard? etc Are they in the Parliament refurb? the Buckingham Palace refurb?etc etc #Panorama #Grenfell
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Cerys Matthews
6 years
Totally support @LutonTown dream of a stadium in the heart of #luton seeing how Cardiff bloomed and continues to thrive with its city centre stadium. For more information REGENERATION Vs STAGNATION #COYH
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Cerys Matthews
2 years
Well , well.
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Cerys Matthews
3 years
I am not a robot. If I was, I’d certainly not be an american one. So stop fricking asking me to tick about #crosswalks and friking #firehydrants I am #Welsh #Cymraeg #londonish and defo #European , rant rant rant. #frickin globalization = Americanization
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
What to say to a 16 yr old when government advisors get away with breaking the laws they set, and over the Atlantic, police officers kill on video and its called a ‘heart attack’.What world is this? #JusticeForGeorgeFlyod what best to do as positive forces for change?
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@Nigel_Farage Quiet there in the corner -full of nonsense . Go make sourdough.
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3 years
Fancy a walk? 100 seconds. See what you think. #UKNationalParksIn100Seconds
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4 years
Paris Paris Paris climate agreement holy shit im on the verge of tears #Election2020results
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Cerys Matthews
3 years
Nothing wrong about being woke.
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1 year
Thanks for joining me each week. Means the world x
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
Thanks so much @maryannehobbs +team, for stepping in at such short half dancing to the show , half crying,+now on quarantine for 14 days as of this am,with son +family. He is okay thus far, but feverish,so Didn’t want to risk anything #StayHomeSaveLives
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17 year old in tears now:(rise of fascism+climate change). How fucked is this world? Why aren't normal, intelligent people ceasing to eating mass produced meats/chicken+ fish? its not that big of a deal but changes so much re environmental impact.+ vote for progress not opposite?
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Cerys Matthews
4 years
This is a D chord . Grab that guitar, tune it up ( loads of great apps/youtube posts for that) and find this shape. It’s just a triangle shape pressing across 3 strings. Play it a while. Tomorrow I’ll be back for another #guitarlesson
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#Catatonia news , first for oh some 22 years? @CherryRedGroup -releasing a 5CD boxset in Aug:' Make Hay Not War' 1996-2001 : 4 studio albums, bonus tracks, b-sides, alternative mixes , demos and previously unreleased songs 😳 oo err :) Pre-order it here:
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5 years
The magic of Snowdonia .
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Cerys Matthews
3 years
Thinking a lot about nuance. About different perspectives. About how dangerous it is to assume. About how democracy is so weakened by manipulation of information and language. Sometimes I despair.
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2 years
When those in the very seat of power and lawmaking breech or break the laws of the land it makes a full mockery of the very institution they are voted in to represent,and all those associated. You’d expect it of Putin/autocrats but here+democracy?? @BorisJohnson you must resign.
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2 years
I did it. Am playing Abba on @BBC6Music
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