Bangor's

However, despite a much lower profile than other bands on this year's poll, Bangor's finest have suddenly come up on the rails: one music paper calls them "the band that can no longer be ignored".

Two Door Cinema Club 2010

The electronics/guitar band make euphoric, instant-anthem noise somewhere between Bloc Party and Foals's staccato rhythms, and shimmering fellow Sound of 2010 band Delphic, whose earlier success has meant Two Door – named after a mispronunciation of Bangor's Tudor cinema – have been able to fill the role of deserving underdogs.

Two Door Cinema Club 2010

Glyder: This ward encompases Ffriddoedd and the eastern part of Penrhosgarnedd - a village on Bangor's borders that has been a Plaid stronghold on a local level for decades.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

The lansdowns are one of Bangor's old families, and he will gain votes that Dyfrig Wyn Jones failed to gain in 2004.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

In order to lay the foundations for such a campaign, he was extremely eager to merge with the society of 'The Three Gs' - y Gymdeithas Genedlaethol Gymreig (the Welsh National Society) - a society primarily of students based in Bangor's University College.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

There were long queues of people outside Bangor's banks this morning hoping to make some panic withdrawals, despite it being a Saturday and thus a non-business day for banking.

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

In the example of Snowdon Books, the vast majority of sales are now made via Amazon, and the main function of the shop itself these days is as a place where the owner can buy books, mostly from Bangor's students, though the shop recently aquired the entire stock of Bangor's Bookland which closed earlier this year.

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

The main hub of offline sales these days is on Bangor's Caernarfon Road industrial estate: B&Q, PC World, Argos ... but even these are facing stiff competition from the internet.

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

There were long queues of people outside Bangor's banks this morning hoping to make some panic withdrawals, despite it being a Saturday and thus a non-business day for banking.

Manic Monday? 2008

Deiniol: Deiniol is Bangor's centre, and the ward is striking because so few of its residents bother to vote.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008