I'm currently stood in the Beaufort Ballroom in Ebbw Vale, looking at the very mirrorball. It's still there, and not very big. Every Thursday my daughter has her dance class there...
@@aster_nova I actually live around the corner, quite literally in that it's only about 100 yards or so from my front door, from the site of the old Top Hat club, where he apparently first signed his first professional contract. About 100 yards in the other direction is the (now closed) Blaentillery club where Oliver Reed once visited in the late 60's, and no doubt drank the bar dry...
I worked in Ebbw in the seventies and it was still a decent enough little town then with the steelworks still open ( though it didn’t half pong of rotten eggs). But I have to say that notwithstanding Rhod’s jibing, the people there were the loveliest, warmest types of Valleys Welsh. Even met Henry Cooper there once when he was opening a store. Diamond geezer.
Beautiful road over the hill from Ebbw Vale to Llangynidr, looking towards Llangorse lake, the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains- my dogs would always get excited when we turned onto it.
My fathers family was from Letchworth Rd & Alexandra St , Ebbw Vale, totally changed from the 1950's, last time I was there in 2001, no one from the family alive anymore..
This is so funny and true. I lived in Tredegar until I was eighteen and it has always been on the rough side but I still have some fantastic childhood memories. I performed at the ballroom and loved it I was only eleven but it was great, People shouldn't get offended at this cause one of the great things about being a welsh man/woman is that we have the ability to laugh at ourselves.
@MrDalekBuster @delphiproductionz No, he's quite correct. Thinking of the Garden Festival that has since been turned into the Festival Park - houses and shopping now.
@A.C. Thomas I'll have a watch fella. I'm a singer myself, I've only found ebbw vale to be supportive. But I do concerts in theatres etc so I don't really get the people who hang out in pubs
Certainly Josh,type in Andrew Harley,You Can Leave Your Hat On,New York New York,Delilah,Papa's Got A Brand New Bag etc.Good singing BTW on Music Of The Night Josh.
Andy, you're starting to sound butthurt. You did just threaten to punch me in the face a few comments ago but don't let me hurt your feelings, sweetheart. What Rhod's doing is a) humour and b) goodnatured. You came on here all chippy about the way you've been treated in the valleys and then went off on one when I had a little joke about it. From comment 1 you've been in a flying rage - but you're not bitter are you. No, cos you're a superstar.
what people forget to realize, when he his talking about the ball room he his mentioning about down stairs, so really not many people must have come to the show. so really he cant be that good for people to see him in the basement.
Well done Josh,your vibrato control is very good on Music of The Night,especially your delicate falsetto part.Your a far better singer than a lot of lead singers in the West End.John Barrowman is out of tune every time I've heard him.Keep pushing,as your still young.I didn't teach myself to sing properly till I was 33.Good luck to you.
@MrDalekBuster no-one said it was bloody Disneyland Ebbw. that's clearly what he means and anyway. wikipedia, the font of all my knowledge, tells me a theme park is "a group of rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group of people". that'll do then...anyway, Rhod Gilbuht, what a nobber
@welshforever95 Ha ha Just saw this comment, chill out.. I'm entitled to my opinion. Thats good that you like it but its not for everyone.. And I got out as soon as I could. The valleys are beautiful but the town itself is run down with little to do but drink..
Of course Josh,type in Andrew Harley,Thunderball the bond theme will come up,You can Leave Your Hat On is clearer,Papa's Got a Brand New Bag,New York New York,Come Fly With Me,Delilah,Its Not Unusual,those are some of the ones the ones all in related videos.Why this Dr.Schandenfreude is having a go at me and thinks I'm a pub singer I don't know,I've not picked on anyone,just an area,which most professional(not club/pub) singers hate going to.to
Yeah, Josh, he's not picked on anyone, just a thousand people. Poor Andy :-( I actually thought your Tom Jones was OK - a pub singer's half-right imitation of a better pub singer - although at the beginning of Thunderball it did look a bit like you were about to throw up.
When I first moved to Wales, I moved to Cwm which is either in, or near Ebbw Vale, and for the sole reason of me being English, everyone gave me hell for it. So when I see a video of someone cussing that place out, I almost dislocate my thumb pressing on it to laugh with those who like me find it a genuinely shite place to exist.
I didn't, I just said I have absolutely no way of knowing... and I still don't :-S Are you sure you don't need a cup of tea? Relax your vocal cords, byt...
No I'm very dry and sarcastic,and a wind up merchant,but I do get trouble up the valleys,hte people up there are the angry ones!I'm only doing my job,but it can bring out the worst in resentful green eyed monster consumed people.Pork pies with tea?What are are you from fair maiden?
There is an area in wales called the newport square. A border going from newport to abergavenny to merthyr to cardiff and back to newport. And i find everything within it is just shit.
I'm sorry, you remind me so much of Johnny Rocco, I've just got to show you. Watch it at youtube /watch?v=mvCdlhmiYtk Also, I'm not sure if you're aware or not and no doubt you're now going to pretend you were but I am a heavily bearded man who is just not attracted to pub singers. Soz.
Oh sorry your a girl with a voice like a mouse,and I impersonate Las Vegas legends with a big band,people like Sinatra,young Tom Jones,Shirley Bassey(original key),Matt Munro,Andy Williams,Tony Bennett,Nat King Cole,and lots of pop and rock legends,60 in all,I play the best hotels in the country,CIA at Cardiff,and even get accused of miming at WRU corporate dinners by bitter resentful people,so how do you derive from that that I'm really really shit ?
I'm currently stood in the Beaufort Ballroom in Ebbw Vale, looking at the very mirrorball. It's still there, and not very big. Every Thursday my daughter has her dance class there...
Fun fact! Tom Jones performed at that very same ballroom
@@aster_nova I actually live around the corner, quite literally in that it's only about 100 yards or so from my front door, from the site of the old Top Hat club, where he apparently first signed his first professional contract. About 100 yards in the other direction is the (now closed) Blaentillery club where Oliver Reed once visited in the late 60's, and no doubt drank the bar dry...
I worked in Ebbw in the seventies and it was still a decent enough little town then with the steelworks still open ( though it didn’t half pong of rotten eggs). But I have to say that notwithstanding Rhod’s jibing, the people there were the loveliest, warmest types of Valleys Welsh. Even met Henry Cooper there once when he was opening a store. Diamond geezer.
I live in Ebbw bloody Vale. He isn't exaggerating.
There's a suburb in Ipswich, Australia called Ebbw Vale and it sounds exactly like this Ebbw Vale.
That second "wouldn't it?" So much anger! 🤣 love it.
Beautiful road over the hill from Ebbw Vale to Llangynidr, looking towards Llangorse lake, the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains- my dogs would always get excited when we turned onto it.
My fathers family was from Letchworth Rd & Alexandra St , Ebbw Vale, totally changed from the 1950's, last time I was there in 2001, no one from the family alive anymore..
One of the funniest men on the planet.
@Josh Lewis,Type in Andrew Harley.Nice vibrato Josh,keep pushing your much better than a lot of known West End singers,and your young .Good luck.
at least it's given it some publicity, I hope people visit to experience it first hand.
Greetings from Blackwood, going to ebbw vale tomorrow
ooh i missed this, i live in ebbw vale oh the bastard, i do love rod though
This is so funny and true. I lived in Tredegar until I was eighteen and it has always been on the rough side but I still have some fantastic childhood memories. I performed at the ballroom and loved it I was only eleven but it was great, People shouldn't get offended at this cause one of the great things about being a welsh man/woman is that we have the ability to laugh at ourselves.
Taja Summers I live in Tredegar too (Dukestown)I’m 15. I also don’t understand why people get so triggered at this 😂
@MrDalekBuster @delphiproductionz
No, he's quite correct. Thinking of the Garden Festival that has since been turned into the Festival Park - houses and shopping now.
gonna see him in 2 days :)
Have you been to Ebbw Vale it's rough as shit...
Damn Rhod you are spot on there. Mind you I'm from Cwmbran so I can't shout!😂😂😂
+Cwmbran1984 I'm from abergavenny
Cwmbran1984 Newbridge here!!😂✋🏼
Cwmbran1984
Hey I live in cwmbran 😀
I live in Ebbw vale !
+RxxronwynxxM 😂😂😂
elise webber btw Elise its Koby from class
Probably the prettiest thing that's ever come out of the place
How do you pronounce it ?
Saw the real Drifters in the ballroom in the early 1970s - but Rod is right the glitter ball !!!
I love the cross-eyed look at 3:38!
@A.C. Thomas I'll have a watch fella. I'm a singer myself, I've only found ebbw vale to be supportive. But I do concerts in theatres etc so I don't really get the people who hang out in pubs
Rhymney here ! 😂😂
Hahaha love this, first time I've seen it, been to the ballroom not that bad lol, still funny though 👍
@playboygena is he performing at the eisteddfodd
haha awesome, i live next door to the ball room in ebbw
My sister lives in ebbw vale, every street corner i walk past i feel like im going to get stabbed
What area I meant?
Certainly Josh,type in Andrew Harley,You Can Leave Your Hat On,New York New York,Delilah,Papa's Got A Brand New Bag etc.Good singing BTW on Music Of The Night Josh.
nowt wrong with Ebbw butty- i live here!!! This is very funny - its a sad world if you cant laugh at yourself -
@delphiproductionz theme park in ebbw vale, you must be mistaken
Andy, you're starting to sound butthurt. You did just threaten to punch me in the face a few comments ago but don't let me hurt your feelings, sweetheart. What Rhod's doing is a) humour and b) goodnatured. You came on here all chippy about the way you've been treated in the valleys and then went off on one when I had a little joke about it. From comment 1 you've been in a flying rage - but you're not bitter are you. No, cos you're a superstar.
i do all my shows in the beaufort ballroom, it really is not THAT bad :L x
I live in Brynmawr. Literally half a mile away form the Ballroom. It isn't that bad haha
ashleighpreece I live I Eureka place
what people forget to realize, when he his talking about the ball room he his mentioning about down stairs, so really not many people must have come to the show. so really he cant be that good for people to see him in the basement.
Well done Josh,your vibrato control is very good on Music of The Night,especially your delicate falsetto part.Your a far better singer than a lot of lead singers in the West End.John Barrowman is out of tune every time I've heard him.Keep pushing,as your still young.I didn't teach myself to sing properly till I was 33.Good luck to you.
@A.C. Thomas Let's hear a tune Mr Thomas.
Ebbw Vale is the worst place I have ever lived in.. cant wait to get my next ticket out of here
@MrDalekBuster no-one said it was bloody Disneyland Ebbw. that's clearly what he means and anyway. wikipedia, the font of all my knowledge, tells me a theme park is "a group of rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group of people". that'll do then...anyway, Rhod Gilbuht, what a nobber
Ebbw not bad, considering i go to school in Merthyr and live in Tredegar. I feel same in Ebbw Vale...
Tolkien based Mordor on Ebbw Vale. Fact
@Soullight86 ;'D Hahahaa.. too true... Good luck escaping :D!
I live in ebbw vale
Beaufort is the posh bit!
John Johnston Newport is now the ‘shithole of South Wales’. Never ceases to amaze me when I come back it gets worse 🤣🤣🤣
i live in cwm and u lot think ebbw is bad well at lest it has a decent rugby team
Nah we fuck them up every time
Used to
Beaufort is not Ebbw Vale, it's closer to Brynmawr than anything else apart from being it's own place.
Beaufort is close to both bryn and ebbw
@welshforever95 Ha ha Just saw this comment, chill out.. I'm entitled to my opinion. Thats good that you like it but its not for everyone.. And I got out as soon as I could. The valleys are beautiful but the town itself is run down with little to do but drink..
Aberdare here
i live in ebbw vale not far from the ballroom :) im not offended i think its funny :D
Of course Josh,type in Andrew Harley,Thunderball the bond theme will come up,You can Leave Your Hat On is clearer,Papa's Got a Brand New Bag,New York New York,Come Fly With Me,Delilah,Its Not Unusual,those are some of the ones the ones all in related videos.Why this Dr.Schandenfreude is having a go at me and thinks I'm a pub singer I don't know,I've not picked on anyone,just an area,which most professional(not club/pub) singers hate going to.to
@Soullight86 me too
haha lol
i lol'd at your comment but then i realised i have no way of knowing you're not just really really shit
Yeah, Josh, he's not picked on anyone, just a thousand people. Poor Andy :-( I actually thought your Tom Jones was OK - a pub singer's half-right imitation of a better pub singer - although at the beginning of Thunderball it did look a bit like you were about to throw up.
@DrSchadenfreude yes but it was never a theme park, it had small minor rides it still has a childish roundabout, but never a theme park
Rohd Gilbert
Don't go to Beaufort you like your life don't you
When I first moved to Wales, I moved to Cwm which is either in, or near Ebbw Vale, and for the sole reason of me being English, everyone gave me hell for it. So when I see a video of someone cussing that place out, I almost dislocate my thumb pressing on it to laugh with those who like me find it a genuinely shite place to exist.
No wonder you moved to cwm the worst place in Ebbw vale they are different breed
Nuthin wrong with ebbw vale least there's no knife crime except for cwm lol
I didn't, I just said I have absolutely no way of knowing... and I still don't :-S Are you sure you don't need a cup of tea? Relax your vocal cords, byt...
No I'm very dry and sarcastic,and a wind up merchant,but I do get trouble up the valleys,hte people up there are the angry ones!I'm only doing my job,but it can bring out the worst in resentful green eyed monster consumed people.Pork pies with tea?What are are you from fair maiden?
I live in Ebbw "Crapvale" :( I go to Crickhowell though so.. I'm happy I'm the only person who says Mum here instead of Mam.. Seriously
+ItzLau lol What's wrong with calling your mother 'mam'? I bet Rhod does - he's from Carmarthenshire.
+Knappa22 Because it's bad..
+Knappa22 And we're moving to Crickhowell..
I sense that you are a very angry man. Would you like a cup of tea? Maybe a pork pie?
Rhod u can’t say much u live in ruff Merthyr
I don't think Ebbw's that bad ? its rough but trust me there's rougher places in the valleys lol!
There is an area in wales called the newport square. A border going from newport to abergavenny to merthyr to cardiff and back to newport. And i find everything within it is just shit.
thomas jones haha yeah. Go 'over the Valley' from Cwmbran to Risca, and you're wondering what dump you've landed in 😂😂
I'm sorry, you remind me so much of Johnny Rocco, I've just got to show you. Watch it at youtube /watch?v=mvCdlhmiYtk Also, I'm not sure if you're aware or not and no doubt you're now going to pretend you were but I am a heavily bearded man who is just not attracted to pub singers. Soz.
why is it the welsh cant spell names properly?
TheArtfulDodger they can't spell anything right
They lost badly at Scrabble...
Oh sorry your a girl with a voice like a mouse,and I impersonate Las Vegas legends with a big band,people like Sinatra,young Tom Jones,Shirley Bassey(original key),Matt Munro,Andy Williams,Tony Bennett,Nat King Cole,and lots of pop and rock legends,60 in all,I play the best hotels in the country,CIA at Cardiff,and even get accused of miming at WRU corporate dinners by bitter resentful people,so how do you derive from that that I'm really really shit ?
haha he's very funny not
i live in ebbw vale
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