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You wait ages for one decent demo and then 33 arrive at once

Adam Walton

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This week's show is now available via the BBC iPlayer. Please visit the link any time between now and the start of the next programme.

It never rains good demos but it does pour them. And other bastardised proverbs, to the effect that this is a particularly fascinating week for unheralded, previously uncelebrated and unknown new Welsh music.

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. Mostly – by the time radiophonic folk get to play them – they have been rigorously conceived, raised, socialised, influenced, by anything up to – and, in the more populous areas of our fine country, sometimes exceeding – 10 people. They have been discovered on many, many occasions by the time we stick a flag in them and silently pray that that act of 'discovery' will bathe us in (desperately needed) reflected glory.

I was the first person to play Super Furry Animals (on an English-speaking station) but this does not make me a Super Furry Animal.

I didn't cross their wise foreheads on a sledge pulled by huskies, enduring terribly extreme climatic conditions, to reach their musical pole.

I just put a tape that *they* had posted to me into a cassette player and pressed play.

If that's an act of discovery in the modern age, no wonder we haven't colonised space yet.

Having said all of that, on this week's show, there are debut plays for a phalanx of new artists: The Anchoress, Joey Trilliani, Larah Jay, Village Idiot, Rory Fairbairn, Duck House, Wakes, Sula Bay, Nathan Burton (well, first play for a decade), Paradise Walk, Phantom Islands and Niamh Ellen.

I discovered all of them and have staked a claim for any ensuing mineral rights.

It's a very exciting start to the year.

Please throw demos at the BBC Introducing Uploader or to themysterytour@gmail.com.

Just send your best track. Please don't send photos or biographies that big you up. Neither help me to discover you, you see.

Elsewhere on the show I'm joined by Ben Hayes. He plays me a record he'd already played me three times last week. But it's OK, because it's a very, very good one.

He discovered it in a charity shop in Mold.

IRMA VEP - 'One Eye On Everything'

Llanfairfechan

ANCHORESS, THE - 'What Goes Around [Extended Version]'

Merthyr Tydfil/Deeside

BODHI - 'Entropy'

Cardiff

JOEY TRILLIANI - 'Grimey Thirsty'

Holywell, Flintshire

LARAH JAY - 'My Insecurities'

Merthyr Tydfil

MR PHORMULA - 'Be Ti'n Gweld?'

Llanfrothen

VILLAGE IDIOT - 'Huracanrana'

Cardiff

DEMETER GRIEVING - 'Hurting'

Cardiff

RORY FAIRBAIRN - 'You'

Swansea

PERSONAL BEST - 'Conkers'

Cardiff/Bristol/Portsmouth

LESBIANHORSE - 'Tear My Dreams Apart...'

Newport

HIPPIES VS GHOSTS - 'Camel Storm (Album Version)'

Cwm Y Glo

DAN AMOR - 'Dusk Bird'

Penmachno

DUCK HOUSE - 'Automatic'

Unknown.

OWLS - 'Motion(s)'

Cardiff

RADSTEWART - 'Fix The Roads'

Cardiff

WAKES - 'Headlights'

Boston USA/Welsh Label

CALUM DUELL - 'A Thousand Tides'

Aberystwyth

SEN SEGUR - 'Get On Up (And Get Back Down)'

Penmachno

BASTIONS - 'Foreign Bodies'

Anglesey

WHO ARE THE MONSTERS? - 'When The Light Leaves Us'

Pontypridd

SULA BAY - 'Basic Error'

Lampeter

ELLY SINNETT - 'Love Of Mine [EP Version]'

Pembrokeshire

FINI TRIBE - 'Detestimony (Tauchsieder Mix)'

Edinburgh/Welsh Remix

FUTURE OF THE LEFT - 'Donny Of The Decks'

Cardiff

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND - 'Old Fart At Play'

Unknown

CRAMPS, THE - 'Human Fly'

New York, USA

SECATEURS - 'She Lost Her Mind'

Deeside

BURNING FERNS - 'John (Live On BBC Radio Wales)'

Newport

FORTUNE THE BRAVE - 'The Vaults'

South Wales

PAPER AEROPLANES - 'When The Windows Shook (Ersatz Remix)'

Milford Haven

NATHAN BURTON - 'Cantina'

Wrexham

MOWBIRD - 'Happy Active Horse Organ'

Wrexham

CATE LE BON - 'I Can't Help You'

Penboyr

JOANNA GRUESOME - 'Madison (Album Version)'

Cardiff

LAURA J. MARTIN - 'Dream Of Sin'

Liverpool

ELLIE MAKES MUSIC - 'The Lights'

Cardiff

BEN HAYES - Spoken contribution

Ruthin

SECOND CITY SOUND, THE - 'Shadows'

London

PARADISE WALK - 'Royal Thread'

Cardiff

PHANTOM ISLANDS - 'Raindrops'

Cardiff

NIAMH ELLEN - 'Leave You Lonely'

Aberystwyth

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