Between 2000 - 2010 there was an underground music scene in South Wales that was unique and meant the world to those involved, but to the outside world, it didn't exist. Later the bands and artists who emerged from that scene would find acclaim and success, but before all that, they were young,...
For two hundred years Tredegar, at the Sirhowy Valley's head, would produce iron and coal that became renowned for quality wherever these products were sold.
In less than a generation, the South Wales coal-mining world has all but vanished and there are few who can now recall coal-black colliers walking home from their pits, or long lines of men following hearses bearing those their industry had killed.
