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Dear January,
I just wanted to say 'thanks'.
Normally you're a wasteland... not in the TS Eliot sense. In all honesty, I never understood that poem, despite hours racking my broadcasting brain over its multiple allusions and clever metaphors. It was a bit like the time I tried to enjoy Kid A, or indeed any of Radiohead's output since OK Computer.
I digress.
Sorry.
So, January - you're mostly a rubbish month. Traditionally you're the quietest time for new music. In past years, trying to nail together a three hour music show while in the clutch of your milkless bosom was a challenge akin to trying to fill a hot air balloon with Cristiano Ronaldo's modesty, being forced to dry shave with One Direction's edginess or getting Paul Weller to have a grown man's haircut.
Impossible, in other words.
Yet this year - 2013 - has proved anomalously bountiful. I don't know whether you've swapped with February, for a laugh, like the time that joker infiltrated the Man United team photo prior to a Champions League game with Bayern Munich. Although that's not really like you swapping with February to hoodwink BBC Introducing music presenters, is it?
Anyway, thanks to your unexpected sonic generosity, this week's programme - like last's - is bumper full of virgin aceness. We have debut plays for The Drowners, Junior Bill, Andy Murda & Tea Leaf, Masts, Dan Bettridge, Robyn Griffiths, Hide Your Vices, Brothers, Diablo Rojo, Roosevelt, Moken Operetta, Sonny Jim and Calum Duell.
If you know of any other Welsh artists of creative excellence, with an original vision to tantalise a weekend radio audience, would you ask them to submit three of their best tracks via the BBC Introducing Uploader?
I feel a bit silly writing to a month like this. Your real name is Janus, isn't it? I'm not surprised you changed it. That must have made for some long, difficult hours in the school playground.
My sincere condolences.
SHY AND THE FIGHT - 'I'd Rather You Lied'
Chester/Llangollen
DROWNERS, THE - 'Long Hair'
Rhondda Valleys/New York City
QUEER'D SCIENCE - 'Vaginal Wrath'
Llanfairfechan/Manchester
STRAWBERRY BLONDES - 'Dazed And Bruised'
Unknown.
JUNIOR BILL - 'Tatty Laces'
Cardiff
DOOM REGGAE - 'Doom Wha Dis [Remix]'
Llanfairfechan
THIRD PARTY - 'Ballad Of A KP'
Cardiff
ANDY MURDA, TEALEAF - 'Corruption'
Aberystwyth/Luxembourg
DIDZ & CHICO - 'When I Say [Coco 7" Dub - Feat. Vanity]'
Cardiff
L I A (LIFE IMITATES ART) - 'Heartbreak'
Wales/London
BODEZ - 'Pit Bull [Feat. Melo] (Radio Edit)'
Cardiff
COLORAMA - 'Good Music (Shawn Lee's Jubilee Mix)'
Benllech
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'This Ladder Is Ours'
Mold
EARTH, THE - 'I Deserve U'
Cardiff
BODHI - 'Deliquesce (Ifan Dafydd Remix)'
Cardiff
SCULPTURE - 'Insanity'
Blackwood
MASTS - 'Fossils'
Pontypridd
ALAN HOLMES - spoken contribution
Bangor
HUW G AND D J WILLIAMS - 'Trip Dewi Emlyn'
Wales
DAN BETTRIDGE - 'Harvey's Angel'
Ogmore-By-Sea
WINTER VILLAINS - 'The Air'
Cardiff
ROBYN GRIFFITHS - 'Beagle With The Beak Of An Eagle'
Swansea
BASTIONS - 'With Love'
Anglesey
HIDE YOUR VICES - 'The Reckoning'
Merthyr Tydfil
BONES OF SAINT JAMES - 'Dole Wretches'
Penarth
BROTHERS - 'Gun Runner'
Cardiff
BLUEBOTTLE VEINS, THE - 'It's All Gone'
Deeside
JOANNA GRUESOME - 'Do You Really Wanna Know Why Yr Still In Love With Me'
Cardiff
IRMA VEP - 'The Jerk'
Llanfairfechan
TOUCHSTONE PICTURES - 'It's Krong'
Dunvant
PULCO - 'Gnarl Chess'
Bangor
GALLOPS - 'Bromden'
Wrexham
WE'RE NO HEROES - 'Distort The Air'
Cardiff
DIABLO ROJO - 'Hong Dong'
Holyhead/Caernarfon
FUTURE OF THE LEFT - 'He Is Not A Hymn'
Cardiff
SOFT-HEARTED SCIENTISTS - 'The Trees Don't Seem To Know That It's September'
Cardiff
ROOSEVELT - 'Do You Love Me Now?'
Rhondda Valleys
GIVE ME MEMPHIS - 'Snowing'
Newport
ASH AND THE OAK, THE - 'Jigsaw [single]'
Newport
MEMORY CLINIC - 'You Forget'
Anglesey
MOKEN OPERETTA - 'People Against People Against Progress'
Cardiff
LITTLE ARROW - 'Red Sky'
Cardiff
RACE HORSES - 'Mates'
Aberystwyth
BEN HAYES - spoken contribution
Ruthin
JIMMY PAGE - 'She Just Satisfies'
England
MILK RACE, THE - 'Miso Miso [New Version]'
Cardiff
SONNY JIM - 'Knight Of The Long Nights'
South Wales
ZERVAS & PEPPER - 'Lookout Mountain'
Cardiff
CALUM DUELL - 'Talk To Me'
Aberystwyth
AKIRA THE DON - 'Occupants'
Anglesey
