Do the band still refuse to play on St Davids Day?
“That came out of the political climate at the time, when the Tories were in power,” said Gruff. “They wanted to bring in Trafalgar Day in October, to celebrate beating the French in the war. There was a campaign to make St David’s Day a national holiday in Wales. If every worker in Wales had it written into their contracts that they had St David’s Day off, it would become an unofficial national holiday.” In reality, however, it rarely happened. As Daf explained, “We never take St David’s Day off. We can’t afford it. We end up playing in Harwich or somewhere.
