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Y Niwl

Appeared: Saturday, Lake Stage

It’s appropriate given their self-dubbed genre of ‘cold water surf’ music that it was raining throughout Y Niwl’s (pronounced ‘uh nule’) early evening set.

Channelling the spirit of the greats of surf music and funnelling it through some very attractive Duesenburg Guitars, the four-piece have a knack for a fantastic melody and are pretty handy with their instruments, too. A friend of TG nailed it, though, pointing out that, as an instrumental act, they’re the perfect inclusive festival band. You don’t need to know the words to enjoy Y Niwl, which is good, because if you did you probably couldn’t pronounce them properly.

Best Track: 'Undegpedwar'

For more festival goodness check out TG's Top 10 festivals for guitarists and our 12 Dos and Don'ts of the festival season.