This week's show is very enamoured - nay, besotted and utterly obsessed with - the new albums from Jonny (featuring Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's Euros Childs and Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake) and Gruff Rhys. The general opinion as the show was broadcast last night, via Twitter and email, is that both of these albums are magical, musical and some of the greatest work these most notable artists have been involved with.
That's high praise.
They're great albums. You'll hear three tracks from each over the course of our three hours of sonic fun together. And you'll hear debut plays for brand new Welsh artists like Proserpina, Exotope, Takk For Alt and Anika.
And I'm ravenous for more of that new, untarnished tuneage. Whether you're a musician yourself, or have a (shy) friend who's a secret sonic genius, your sounds and recommendations are the lifeblood of this show. Please mail mp3s or download links to: themysterytour@gmail.com.
Post packages to:
Adam Walton
BBC Radio Wales
Library and Arts Centre
Rhosddu Road
Wrexham
LL11 1AU
Elsewhere in this week's show, godfather of the Welsh underground Alan Holmes, reminds us of The 'real' Smiths: a band that preceded Morrissey's lot, who were innocent of any gladioli-bashing but managed to cause a lot of confusion amongst the fey indie kids of the mid-80's.
Ben Hayes - now seemingly back using the Soundhog moniker (his latest, genius bootleg is played earlier in the programme) - comes in to inspire us with the manic creative energy of The Legendary Stardust Cowboy. And, disappointingly, not my childhood muse Alvin Stardust.
Have an excellent music-filled week.
Do treat yourself to the Jonny album if you're at all drawn to tunes that'd elevate the most (rugby) bruised hearts. It's unashamedly lovely and no, I'm not on commission.
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Adam.
JON BROOKS (LO EDITIONS)
Don't Forget Your Torch
MONKY (Cardiff)
Little Acts Of Nature Inspire
THIN LIZZY
Do Anything You Want To
THE WHITE STRIPES
Jimmy The Exploder
STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR (Cardiff)
I Am Weatherproof
WY (Ruthin/Carmarthen)
Paid A Malu Awyr
GRUFF RHYS (Bethesda)
Christopher Columbus
ELIS REGINA (Brazil)
Roda
JONNY (Pembrokeshire)
I Want To Be Around You
SATURDAY'S KIDS (Cardiff)
Whisper In My Ear
ANIKA (Bristol)
Officer Officer
JON LANGFORD & SKULL ORCHARD (Newport)
Self Portrait
FAMILY OF THE YEAR (Cardiff)
Psyche Or Like Scope
ASTROID BOYS (Cardiff)
Mike?lowry
EXOTOPE (Newport)
Only You
THE VOLUNTARY BUTLER SCHEME (Cardiff/Midlands)
Satisfactory Substitute
THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT (Wrexham)
Sometimes
PRETTY PLACES (Llanfair P.G.)
You See What I See
LIBERTY 37 (Swansea)
Revolution
PROSERPINA (Swansea)
Trees Have Eyes
TAKK FOR ALT
We Used To Have Fun
THE SMITHS (Bangor)
Red Beak
SOUNDHOG (Ruthin)
A Witty Title Involving Rockets & Losing Sleep [goldfrapp V Edwyn Collins]
EDWYN COLLINS
In Your Eyes
COLORAMA (Benllech)
Candy Street
COLORAMA
Magic Lantern Show
HEHFU (Caerphilly)
Thirty
THE FAG MACHINE
In Yr Skin
JONNY (Pembrokeshire)
Circling The Sun
GRUFF RHYS (Bethesda)
Space Dust #2
THE VOLUNTARY BUTLER SCHEME (Cardiff/Midlands)
At The Height Of A Frisbee (featuring Sweet Baboo)
60FT DOLLS (Newport)
Alison's Room
RACE HORSES (Aberystwyth)
Last Boat To Dover
THE LOVELY EGGS Don't Look At Me (i Don't Like It)
WRIGHTOID (Bangor)
My Sun Is Yr Sun
FAT BARRELS (Wrexham)
M
BEDFORD FALLS (Cardiff)
Useless Facts
BEDFORD FALLS
Wilmington
EMMY'S UNICORN (Swansea)
Singular
DIDZ (Cardiff)
Missing Memory
HOLLOWED OUT THE SEA (Carmarthen)
City Surf
JOSHUA CAOLE (Cardiff)
Please Don't Try To Reach Me
PETE HICKMAN (Wrexham)
Castle In The Air
THE LEGENDARY STARDUST COWBOY (Lubbock)
Paralysed
GRUFF RHYS (Bethesda)
If We Were Words (We Would Rhyme)
DEZ WILLIAMS (Bangor)
Kretin
JONNY (Pembrokeshire)
Never Alone
