Diolch i Carl Morris, felly, am hala copi o’r PDF ata i. Rhowch glec ar y llun isod i’w darllen. Mae PDFs pob rhifyn o Plan B – sydd erbyn hyn wedi peidio â bod, yn anffodus – ar gael o’u gwefan, fel torrent.

Erthygl Plan B

A photo in the booklet for Wyau/Pyst/Libertino, the essential collection of Datblygu albums, shows a temporary stage housed on a huge truck, someweher in Wales, covered by a tarpaulin and occupied by Datblygu themselves. You have to look twice to notice anyone apart from vocalist David R Edwards, who’s standing on the lip and barking at six children sitting on the grass wearing anoraks. It’s an image so dreary and purgatorial, you imagine that despite being a black and white picture, it was taken using colour film. Intentionally or otherwise, it conveys the notion of a prophet unrecognised in his own land, which is at least a half-truth…

I don’t know how much I’m missing out on by not being a Welsh speaker, but even accounting for whatever nuances are lost post-Anglicisation, DRE still beats down almost all late 20th Century lyrical challengers. The Dylans, Cohens and Mark E Smiths take their rightful place in the comparison fodder…

Delweddau

Clicio ar y lluniau i’w weld yn llawn. Byddai’n braf ‘sai rhywun â’r amser i deipio’r rhain i fyny…

Hysbyseb Libertino yn yr un rhifyn:

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