Adam Walton
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Glittering, soulful music from Colorama
Adam Walton reviews Colorama's new album Temari and speaks to founder member Carwyn Ellis.
The Wild Eyes and White Noise Sound at Telford's Warehouse, Chester
If you listen to 'new' music, there are odd, discombobulating moments when it sounds exactly like you’ve tumbled through a wormhole back to 1968. Psychedelia is everywhere, so perhaps that should have been 'wyrmhole'.
Track of the week: Sake ‘Almost Never’
In past decades, Chloe Leavers’ music wouldn’t have struggled to make itself heard.
Track of the week: Gabrielle Murphy
Adam Walton enthuses about Gabrielle Murphy, one of the artists chosen as part of the Horizons new music initiative.
FOCUS Wales festival preview
Adam Walton previews the Focus Wales festival taking place in Wrexham on 23 to 26 April 2014
Something special for St David’s Day
If the producers of Through the Keyhole were really scraping the barrel, and decided to send whoever it is that has taken over from Lloyd Grossman through the unpaid bills and discarded record mailers blocking my front-door, it’d be all too obvious who I am.
This week’s musical feast
This week’s show is very, very spiky with brilliant new music of Welsh origin. So many thrilling new artists who hadn’t been baptised on my radio show before: The Featherz, Sea Lion, Luvv, Mandy, Past Grievances, Bur Hoff Bau, Saron, Pine Canopies, The Caspiens, Ruby Parfitt, Sam, Not My Finest...
Music to offer comfort to the downcast
A fair proportion of the country bled copiously from sports-related wounds on Saturday. I'm not unsympathetic. In fact, I'd like to think that this week's show could offer succour and comfort to the injured and downcast. Music, you see, won't bash you about. It doesn't raise your expectatio...
Love letter from a northern soul
On this week’s programme I will feature a half-hour set of my favourite northern soul records. This is my love letter to the genre-that-isn’t-really-a-genre, a better-late-than-never foot on the bandwagon before Elaine Constantine’s anticipated film ‘Northern Soul’ reaches cinemas.
My most played artists
It struck me recently that I’ve been keeping statistical data about the music I play on my show for three years now. It is as geeky as it sounds, the product of a misspent youth and a BBC Micro but it also provides an interesting overview of what I have played on the show in that period.
A rescue centre for mongrel music-makers
What am I for? Good question. I’m good at feeding my daughter, hoovering the stairs, walking long distances in drizzle without complaining, playing one record after another after 4 Guinnesses (but no more) and, erm, well that’s it, really.
The hunt for new Welsh sounds continues
This week's show is brought to you by the number 4, the words 'rammed', 'full', 'of', 'sonic' and 'treats', and the letter 'Ff' (I love that Y Ffug song).
You wait ages for one decent demo and then 33 arrive at once
I always find it odd when radio people claim that they've 'discovered' an artist. Artists are rarely found in a basket under the chimney.
A cabal of fascinating Welsh musicians
Adam Walton's Radio Wales show playlist for 11 January 2014, on the BBC Wales blog.
Last Minute Christmas Present Buyer's Guide to the Best Welsh Albums of 2013
Admittedly it's not the pithiest handle in the world ever — but it does do what it says on the tin.
Welsh albums of 2013 - part five
So that's it. My 10 Favourite Welsh albums of 2013. Buy them for someone using the entirely spurious suitable for/unsuitable for advice detailed here in. Happy Christmas/Nadolig Llawen to you all!
Welsh albums of 2013 - part four
This is the fourth part of the rundown of my Top 10 favourite Welsh albums of 2013. It's a messily subjective and undignified love letter to Welsh music.
Welsh albums of 2013 - part three
Music is the nerve endings of the world outside. I can't write about a song that affects me in isolation to that. It'd be like trying to write about the latest exhibition in the Tate Modern with a welder's mask on.
Welsh albums of 2013 - part two
This is the second part of the rundown of my Top 10 Favourite Welsh Albums of 2013. It's very much a personal list. Music isn't supposed to be objective, democratic or fair.
Welsh albums of 2013 - part one
This year marked my 20th as a new music broadcaster. Thinking back to 1993, it's remarkable how much Welsh music has evolved since then.
