Titch Gwilym- Phil & Titch

Welsh guitar legend Tich Gwilym playing with long time music partner Phil Miniaud at The Royal Oak ,Cardiff for a local TV station.Slide & Shadows type numbers, Good Stuff...This footage was set up for TV and is not representative of a good night out at 'The Oak'. Titch sadly gone & last we heard of Phil was from Florida about 20 years ago.Let the Good Times Roll

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[Bigalbailey]

Great to see but the audience look very different from the students and biker crowd I remember. The bass player was Dewi Watkins I believe, Geraint Watkins the piano guy that played with Dave Edmunds-Van Morrison etc and the Balham alligators. I remember him singing "Goodnight Irene" and Phil and Titch playing "What's a Sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this" and "Things we said today" and Sabre dance.

[dogheadio]

@Bigalbailey 

[OnkelOtto7]

Amazing to see a video of Phil & Tich. Just amazing. In those days I was a distance runner, and would do a 20 mile run Sunday morning, then have 5 pints of SA watching them (with the double bassist) lunchtime! Who needed other drugs! Lost count of the number of times I saw them in the Oak, and earlier, in the Marchioness of Bute folk club.

[dogheadio]

@OnkelOtto7 thanks for your comments, I think the double bass player was Geraint Watkins' brother who played for a philarmonic ochestra when he wasn't playing 'The Oak' with Phil & Tich

[norrisnuvo]

This is so good to watch. I worked with Phil n Titch at The Vale Activity Centre in 84/85 when they were organising monthly gigs at Barry Island.

[dogheadio]

Glad you enjoyed it,Norrisnuvo, Me & my brother have vaguely known Titch since the 60's when our band,Losing Side Down, supported Kimla Taz at the Paget Rooms, My Brother first met Phil at the Vale Activity Centre (Old Police Station,Barry) when my brother(let's call him Rickoid,as everyone has a cybername) was doing Photographic workshops there...Many Phil led adventures followed...have more stuff (audio only) Dogheadio

[OnkelOtto7]

The double bass player was Tom Edwards - there a video of him with Phil & Tich on YT, called fever.wmv, uploaded by TheTomEdwards. Some great stuff on his channel too.

[OnkelOtto7]

Phil Mignaud now lives near San Francisco, and is frontman for a band called the Rhythm Doctors. They've got their own website and sound pretty good (just add dot com to the name) - though I still prefer Phil & Tich! I sent Phil a link to this video, and he was very moved. The elderly couple sitting near P & T were his late parents.

[twotellys12]

My dad set a gig up down the see wall back in the day and these guys played there. and me dad was one of the many bikers who drank in that pub.

[dogheadio]

@hackercdf Good times,I was ther quite often myself,but a bit older I suspect, also I'm sure you'll remember 'Snatch it back' Playing there as well...now I'd love some video of them,but i've only got Audio...You've got a cool Uncle...Dogheadio

[hackercdf]

i remember going to see these guys every sunday afternoon in the royal oak with my uncle i was only about 9 or 10 at the time and kitty was the landlady and they used to play tunes like "blue moon of kentucky" and "Goodnight Irene" being sung along by the whole pub ! what an atmosphere it used to be !!!

[OnkelOtto7]

@dogheadio

bass player was with the Hennesseys I think. Phil Mignaud played with the Rhythm Doctors in San Francisco - google Phil Mignaud

[OnkelOtto7]

I can't remeber the name of the bass player, but I think he played with the Hennesseys.

Phil Mignaud played with the Rhythm Doctors in San Fransisco - photos and info if you google Phil Mignaud