Cymdeithas yr Iaith proudly announce that they are orgaising a Loyal Tribute Gig to Prince William, his family and all the British Ruling Classes during the Royal National Eisteddfod week at Wrexham this year. The Loyal Tribute will be a mixture of Stand-up Comedy, Political Satire and a Punk-Rock Revival. It will be held at the Central Station Venue in Wrexham on Monday evening 1st August as part of the week-long series of gigs acclaiming the arrival of the Revolutionary Train. Tickets for this unique Tribute Gig of Comedy and Punk-Rock are on sale at £8 each online at cymdeithas.org/steddfodStand-up Comedians Huw Marshall, Dilwyn Morgan and Elidir Jones will start the gig with cutting political satire and great comedy. Then the theatrical Punk character Dr Hywel Ffiaidd (Disgusting Hywel) will be revived after over 25 years in his coffin by the local actor-singer Dyfed Tomos from Rhosllanerchrugog. This will be Hywel Ffiaidd's first gig in 25 years and the frustration will show. It will be his first time back in his home area since the birth of the character in 1977 when the Eisteddfod was last in Wrexham. That was the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee and the Musical Tribute "Croeso i'r Roial" (Welcome for the Royals) featuring Hywel Ffiaidd and his punk girlfriend Blodwen Chwd (Blodwen the Vomit).Five years later, Hywel ffiaidd composed a special tribute song for Prince Charles on the occasion of his wedding. This year he will fittingly be singing a new tribute song for Charles' son Prince William on the occasion of his own wedding. By a sweet co-incidence, Dyfed's own children and friends (who proudly call themselves "Plant Ffiaidd" - the Disgusting Children) will be playing the gig with Hywel Ffiaidd. Dyfed Tomos explains"Plant Ffiaidd will open this set with their own style of contemporary music. Then they will be joined on stage by myself as Hywel Ffiaidd and by Mad Ed and Dafydd Pierce - two members of the opriginal Hywel Ffiaidd band who travelled back from the Californian Rock scene in the late 70s to be part of the exciting developments in Wales. The set will be a mixture of our old political songs such as "Gwneud Dim" (Doing Nothing) and new songs which are meant as a fitting tribute to beloved characters from the ruling classes such as Thatcher, Blair, William and Kate."On behalf of Cymdeithas's Local Organising Committee, Nia Lloyd added:"It's great that Dr Hywel Ffiaidd will be back as the Eisteddfod itself is back in Wrexham, and we are thrilled that the disgusting new generation can pay a fitting tribute to a new prince. We are sure that it will be a fitting tribute to Prince William in his wedding year, and also to his Gran on her Golden Jubilee next year, in the same way that we celebrated her Silver Jubilee the last time the Eisteddfod was in Wrexham. I cant help hoping that the Eisteddfod will return again to Wrexham during the Queen's 100th Jubilee and that there will be Disgusting Grand-children around to pay tribute. Dyfed will be playing a couple of cabaret gigs atthe Eisteddfod this year, but in this his first gig for 25 years we shall be letting him loose in a no-holds-barred tribute to William, his family and all the Ruling Classes. The Revolutionary Train will certainly be woirking up a head of steam at the Central Station that night."Dr Hywel Ffiaidd (singer-actor Dyfed Tomos from Rhosllanerchrugog) played gigs throughout Wales for 5 years since the birth of the theatrical-punk character at the 1977 Wrexham National Eisteddfod. In 1978, transmission of the Welsh-language pop-music TV Show "Twndish" had to be interrupted because of complaints about Hywel Ffiaidd's language.The gig on Monday 1st August is part of the week-long "Revolutionary Train" gigs which Cymdeithaa are holding at North Wales' leading music venue, the Central Station Wrexham, during the Eisteddfod week. Tickets for this unique Tribute Gig of Comedy and Punk-Rock are on sale at £8 each online at cymdeithas.org/steddfod and at Yales Cafe-bar Wrexham, Awen Meinrion Bala, Elfair Rhuthun and from Cymdeithas yr Iaith offices.(Cassette cover image from babylonwales.blogspot.com )