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Frequently – when I'm fighting paper tigers somewhere southeast of reality – music does seem like the (joint) most important thing in the world (with cake... I mean 'family')... but it isn't really. Not compared to the truly big stuff.
What music can do, though - and what it has done since mankind first banged one bone against another and thought "we'd better take a step back down the evolutionary chain to find a drummer who'll do this, while we ponce about over the top" - is serve as a way to help us through the Big Stuff.
A friend of mine - a friend of many south Wales-based music fans - passed away in a very untimely fashion last week. This programme is dedicated to the memory of Peter James – or Pete II - the Swiss Penknife Thief, as I knew him. We're all shocked and greatly saddened at his passing. Thankfully every other memory we have of Pete will be a happy one.
Elsewhere on this week's show, we preview this weekend's Rhondda Rocks festival. An excellent bill of Welsh artists is bolstered by some touring artists from indie's past.
Subversive Pooh Sticks front-man, pop subversive, situationist and the man once half-responsible for herding 60ft Dolls, Mr Huw Williams, joins us with one of John Cale's less-celebrated productions. But it's a class - and cosmopolitan - one. So good, I've just paid through the nose for a copy off eBay.
Ben Hayes tricks us into thinking he's not talking about Colin Blunstone when he is.
We have debut plays for the excellent States and Empires, Tarsiers, AC Fear and 2Rude (although Mark from Newport's 2Rude tells me that I did play his previous band The Calm back a few years ago. I always wondered what had happened to them.)
Please throw new music at the BBC Introducing Uploader, or via themysterytour@gmail.com.
I'm off for a quick canoe down the high street.
WE ARE ANIMAL - 'Royal Wolf'
Bethel/Caernarfon
SWEET BABOO - 'C'mon Let's Mosh'
Bangor/Cardiff
MR HUW - 'Cariad Afiach'
Caernarfon
FUTURE OF THE LEFT - 'F**k The Countryside Alliance'
Cardiff
REM - 'I've Been High'
USA
MANIC STREET PREACHERS - 'The Everlasting'
Blackwood
JOANNA GRUESOME - 'Secret Surprise [Radio Edit]'
Cardiff
STATES AND EMPIRES - 'Say Anything'
Cardiff
CAMERA - 'Shine On You'
Wrexham
DRAW ME STORIES - 'Human Machine'
Cardiff
HARRY KEYWORTH - 'Solar [Rollo Remix]'
Hebron, Pembrokeshire
METABEATS - 'Music (Part One) Ft. Ralph Rip Sh!t Edit'
Cardiff
IFAN DAFYDD - 'Celwydd (Feat. Alys Williams)'
Llanrug
HYPERMETRIX - 'My Favourite Riots Are Liquid'
Newport
GEORGIA RUTH - 'In Luna'
Aberystwyth/Cardiff
TARSIERS - 'Camel'
Cardiff
AC FEAR - 'Another Day'
Pontypridd
2RUDE - 'Rudeboy Can't Get No Bail'
Newport
SKINDRED - 'Warning'
Newport
SEAZOO - 'Carp And Man'
Wrexham
HUW WILLIAMS - 'Spoken Contribution'
Swansea
MARIE ET LES GARCONS - 'Rebop'
Welsh Producer
IRMA VEP - 'Recluse Man'
Llanfairfechan
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'Silent Treatment'
Mold
QUIET NOISE - 'Working Against The Wind'
Pembrokeshire
RUFFSTYLZ - 'Prison To Paradise'
Cardiff
ST PIERRE SNAKE INVASION, THE - 'Call The Coroner'
Rhyl/Bristol
SOFT-HEARTED SCIENTISTS - 'The Centaur Of Uttoxeter'
Cardiff
SWEET BENFICA - 'Sliding Stones Of Death Valley'
Neath
HEAL THE LAST STAND - 'The Gathering'
Wrexham
LUTHER - 'Cincinnati Harry'
Pontypridd
GOLDEN FABLE - 'Always Golden'
Ewloe
ISLET - 'Triangulation Station'
Cardiff
HELEN LOVE - 'Day - Glo Dreams'
Swansea
FUTURE OF THE LEFT - 'The Male Gaze'
Cardiff
DORA NADINE - '2 Step'
Holyhead
BEN HAYES - 'Spoken Contribution'
Ruthin
NEIL MACARTHUR - 'She's Not There'
England
RICHARD JAMES - 'Joe Punk'
Croes - Y - Ceiliog
