Swansea’s very own cult pop queen Helen Love injects grin inducing fun, wit and rock n roll irreverence into everything she does! No more was that more apparent than her bid to sit on the Welsh Music Prize judging panel earlier this year, a panel she claimed lacked female voices. Producing a series of reasons why she was the woman for the job on twitter that included convincing ones like ‘I once saw Mary Hopkin in Neath market!’ and ‘I have a garden Gnome that is taller than Kelly Jones’….
Where Dylan Thomas Talks To Me is an is Helen and her bands affectionate tribute to Dylan Thomas whose 100 year birthday, has been celebrated everywhere on the BBC of late, but nowhere has the great Welsh bard been remembered with as much vim, humour and fondness amidst a darn good time, as it is here. Helen said of the song to the South wales post this week: “I suppose it was just reading Under Milk Wood in school,” says Helen of her first experience of the wordsmiths’ words. “I found it amazing that this genius was from Swansea – one of us. “When we were in America, we kept Bob Dylan waiting – thanks to Joey Ramone – in this rather posh New York studio. We took great delight in telling him we came from Swansea – Dylan’s hometown. I don’t think he believed us, mind!”
It may be bookended by a sample of a Dylan Thomas reading, but this rollicking Casio pop ditty brimming with toe tapping melodies and punctuating with shouts, is laced with lyrics about ‘partying hard like Richard Burton” growing up in Swansea bay, trysts along the poets trail, Nigel Jenkins and quite typically, for a Helen Love record the Ramones!It’s all packaged in a head spinning punk rocking disco stomping lasting a few minutes, that has us declaring TRACK OF THE DAY! GOOD LORD! TRACK OF THE DAY!!
