Mouth-Off 2.06: Pride Month Special Feature – Sense Memory: Knee Deep in Rainbows

2025-06-29

This Pride Month, Mouth-Off revisits a milestone from the archive: Welsh and Proud – Schools’ Songwriting Sessions (2014). Funded by the Arts Council of Wales and produced by Forget-Me-Not Productions — our first project as a Ltd company — this initiative brought together over 150 pupils from five Cardiff secondary schools to create original LGBTQIA+ themed anthems. The winning song, The Person Within, was professionally recorded, filmed, and screened on the main stage at Cardiff Pride 2014. A decade later, we untangle the cables, revisit the voices, and reflect on the queer legacy of music, memory, and visibil...

This Pride Month, Mouth-Off revisits a milestone from the archive: Welsh and Proud – Schools’ Songwriting Sessions (2014). Funded by the Arts Council of Wales and produced by Forget-Me-Not Productions — our first project as a Ltd company — this initiative brought together over 150 pupils from five Cardiff secondary schools to create original LGBTQIA+ themed anthems.

The winning song, The Person Within, was professionally recorded, filmed, and screened on the main stage at Cardiff Pride 2014.

A decade later, we untangle the cables, revisit the voices, and reflect on the queer legacy of music, memory, and visibility.

🎧 In this episode:

Archival clips from the original project
Interviews with participating teachers, judges, and community figures
A musical montage of student submissions
A tribute to late supporters and judges Scott Travers and Ian Bazzard (Bazz)
Audio from sister projects United Community and Homophonic is Gay
Reflections on ageism, allyship, and protest
A Cwtch live set snippet
An excerpt from Claire Dowie’s Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? as part of the Cultural Cwtch

🎵 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Theme music: Intro and Outro by Clary Saddler
Featuring:
- The Person Within – by pupils from Mary Immaculate School
- United Community – by pupils at Willows High School and Clary Saddler
- Live Out Loud (LOL) – by pupils from Fitzalan School and Clary Saddler
- Don’t Hide Away in the Shadows – by pupils of Michaelston Community College and Clary Saddler
- Pam Padlocks – by pupils from Ysgol Plasmawr and Radyr Comprehensive School
- Mirrors – by pupils from Bro Edern and Clary Saddler
- Unity – by pupils from Bishop of Llandaff School
- Forget-Me-Not – by Cwtch
- Good Thing – by Cwtch
- Confide in Me (Kylie Minogue Cover) – by Cwtch
- Shiver – by Cwtch
- Remember Me – by Cwtch
- Turn to You – by Cwtch
- Unreal Reality – by Word Groove Collective
- Claire Dowie monologue excerpt – Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?
- Additional clips from Homophonic is Gay
- Interview snippets from Radio Cardiff and Vibe Creative archives
- SFX: Pixabay