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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
