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Band rocks in at the top spot

Glamorgan Gazette

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April 24, 2025

A BRIDGEND band are celebrating after achieving their first number-one album.

- ROBERT HARRIES

Band rocks in at the top spot

Rockers Those Damn Crows claimed top spot in the UK Official Albums Chart with their new album God Shaped Hole.

The band - Shane Greenhall, Ian Thomas, David Winchurch, Lloyd Wood and Ronnie Huxford - have become the first Welsh artists to secure a UK number-one album since Ren in 2023.

They join an illustrious set of Welsh bands to have had a number-one record, including Stereophonics, Manic Street Preachers and Catatonia.

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