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So, somehow - and frighteningly quickly - we have stumbled past the halfway point of the year, before I've even had a chance to write my Christmas thank you cards.
Aunty Anne - they're lovely leg warmers and much appreciated. Perhaps - if it isn't too rude my saying - a better-behaved shade of pink next time? Still pink, though, please. It appeals to my inner, metrosexual anarchist.
Here's a rather opaque statistical breakdown of what has been played on the show so far in 2013:
754 different songs/1,012 Total. 522 Artists in 26 shows since 1st, Jan 2013 (~songs per: 39, Unique artists per: 20) Welsh:96% Cymraeg:8%
My promise (to myself) to seek out as many excellent, new artists as possible is borne out by the fact that we've already featured 522 different artists on the show. It's not about quantity... but one of the slack temptations of this role could be to sit back and rely on music from artists you're already familiar with. Seeking out the new takes time but it is eminently rewarding.
To that end, please send your music, or recommendations, to themysterytour@gmail.com or via the BBC Introducing Uploader.
The top five featured artists on the show are: Joy Formidable (31 plays), Sweet Baboo (21), Soft-Hearted Scientists (15), Georgia Ruth (14), Trwbador (14).
Given that these artists are responsible for my favourite albums of the year so far, in (respectively) Wolf's Law, Ships, False Lights (and the Whatever Happened To The Soft-Hearted Scientists compilation), Week of Pines and Trwbador, this is no surprise. They're all wonderful albums, a high benchmark for the rest of the year to aspire to.
I'd still like to hear more murderous filth and/or unhinged volume - but I don't want to be prescriptive. I'm here to reflect the most interesting of the music that is sent to me, not to try and dictate the form that it should take.
I think I had too much pompous with my coffee this morning, sorry.
This week's show features debut plays for Our Tomorrow, Rainbow Maniac, Teenage Mafia, Danielle Lewis, Androo Gwynn, Tobias James, In The Firing Line, Stalin's Street Party, Kiwi Funk, Le Enfant Terrible, James Roberts, Them Dead Beats and Daniel Lane.
At the very end of proceedings, Ben 'Soundhog' Hayes comes in to eulogise The Shadows for us.
MR HUW - 'Cariad Afiach'
Caernarfon
KENTUCKY AFC - 'Outlaw'
Caernarfon
HELEN LOVE - 'Atomic'
Swansea
SWEET BABOO - 'C'mon Let's Mosh'
Bangor / Cardiff
BLATNOVA - 'Satelite (Blixaboy Remix)'
Pembrokeshire
OUR TOMORROW - 'One For The Yearbook'
Valleys
WICKET - 'Know Your Roots'
Cardiff
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'Silent Treatment (William Orbit Remix)'
Mold
PROBLEMS, THE - 'Baby Tonight (Radio Edit)'
Swansea
METABEATS - 'Battery Phunk'
Cardiff
ASTROID BOYS - 'Minging'
Cardiff
HOUDINI DAX - 'Heavy Tease'
Cardiff
BOY, THE - 'Apple Tree'
Resolven
FUTURE OF THE LEFT - 'The Bisexuality Of Distance'
Cardiff
RAINBOW MANIAC - 'Sally Ann Is Dirty'
Pontypridd
TEENAGE MAFIA - 'Holy Landfill'
Llanfairfechan / Manchester
DANIELLE LEWIS - 'Fall'
New Quay
ANDROO GWYNN - 'Kevin'
Valleys
TOBIAS JAMES - 'Tapioca'
New Quay
IN THE FIRING LINE - 'Native Tongues'
Tonyrefail
STALIN'S STREET PARTY - 'Who Said Mary Was A Saint'
Cardiff
KIWI FUNK - 'Super Eagle'
Pembroke
ST PIERRE SNAKE INVASION, THE - 'Call The Coroner'
Rhyl / Bristol
WOBBLY HEARTS, THE - 'Car Seat Fast Food'
Rhyl / Abergele / Liverpool
SOFT-HEARTED SCIENTISTS - 'Song From The River'
Cardiff
LE ENFANT TERRIBLE - 'Qumi Vascopus'
Llanfairfechan / Manchester
SENDELICA - 'Clever Meat'
Cardigan
JAMES ROBERTS - 'Fake Or Real'
Blaina
BOY LEAST LIKELY TO, THE - 'It Could've Been Me (Feat. Gwenno)'
Wendover
ALEX DINGLEY - 'Cats Eyes [Too Pure 7]'
Llansteffan
THEM DEAD BEATS - 'Get Mine'
Cardiff
DANIEL LANE - 'Robots On Guitars'
Beddgelert
SUMMER OF BLOOD - 'Let's Get Lost'
Aberystwyth / Sheffield
REPEATER 64 - 'Oh Lord Oh No Not I'
Bridgend / Sweden
CARA PEARCE - 'Run'
Swansea
BEN HAYES - 'Spoken Contribution'
Ruthin
SHADOWS, THE - 'My Babe'
London
H. HAWKLINE - 'Ghouls'
Cardiff
