This week's show is now available via the BBC iPlayer. Please visit the link below any time between now and the start of the next programme.
This last week has been more than a little mind-blowing for me. I've been fortunate enough to visit the East coast of the States with one of my favourite bands, The Joy Formidable. I won't recap on the details; there are far too many of them, for a start.
This week's show - live from WGBH in Boston - reflects many aspects of the experience. There is a tour blog I assiduously recorded every day - despite varying levels of lack of sleep and blood alcohol, and an interview with the band.
There's more about my experience with the band here. Much, much more!
Feeling all ambassadorial, the music is a selection of my favourite Welsh tracks of the last year, or so. Not definitely all of them, but a fine selection nonetheless.
Elsewhere, Huw Williams celebrates Wales' most musically influential ex-pat, John Cale.
Send demos/new releases etc. as a download link/mp3 to themysterytour@gmail.com
Many thanks/diolch o galon.
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'Cradle'
Mold
PIXIES, THE - 'Gouge Away'
Boston, U. S.
CATE LE BON - 'Puts Me To Work'
Penboyr
GRUFF RHYS - 'If We Were Words (we Would Rhyme)'
Bethesda
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'Joy Formidable Toy Diary - Day 1 (new York)'
Mold
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'A Heavy Abacus'
Mold
IFAN DAFYDD - 'Treehouse ( E. P. Version )'
Llanrug
UNTIL THE RIBBON BREAKS - 'Pressure'
Penarth
METABEATS - 'The Snap Featuring Mudmowth, Rtkal & Ruffstylz ( Radio Edit )'
Cardiff
HARRY KEYWORTH - 'Flux'
Hebron, Pembrokeshire
JOHN CALE - 'Big Apple Express ( Excerpt )'
Garnant
HUW WILLIAMS - 'Spoken Contribution'
Swansea
JOHN CALE - 'Ghost Story'
Garnant
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'Joy Formidable Toy Diary - Day 2 (new York)'
Mold
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'The Magnifying Glass ( Radio Edit )'
Mold
FUTURE OF THE LEFT - 'Polymers Are Forever'
Cardiff
GALLOPS - 'Miami Spider ( Ponciau Edit )'
Wrexham
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'Joy Formidable Toy Diary - Day 3 ( New York )'
Mold
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'Austere (single Version)'
Mold
SCHOOL, THE - 'Never Thought I'd See The Day'
Cardiff
TOY HORSES - 'Love At Arm's Length ( Live )'
Cardiff
TOY HORSES - 'No One's Ever Gonna Leave You ( Live )'
Cardiff
TOY HORSES - 'Loyal To The Cause ( Live )'
Cardiff
TOY HORSES - 'Interrupt ( Live )'
Cardiff
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'Joy Formidable Toy Diary - Day 4 ( Philadelphia )'
Mold
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade'
Mold
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'U. S. Tour Interview Pt. 1'
Mold
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'Maruyama'
Mold
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'U. S. Tour Interview Pt. 2'
Mold
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'I Don't Want To See You Like This'
Mold
Y NIWL - 'Chwech'
Gwynedd
IRMA VEP - 'Breast Fed'
Llanfairfechan
WHITE NOISE SOUND - 'Sunset'
Swansea
DOC DANEEKA & BENJAMIN DAMAGE - 'Battleships Feat. Abigail Wyles'
Swansea
ISLET - 'Entwined Pines'
Cardiff
SUE DENIM - 'Brewster Mccloud'
Bangor
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'Joy Formidable Toy Diary - Day 5 ( Boston )'
Mold
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'Whirring ( Edit )'
Mold
GEORGIA RUTH - 'Bones'
Aberystwyth / Cardiff
