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Rum-fumed witter and rambles

Adam Walton

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At what age are you supposed to stop celebrating your birthday?

I missed the memo.

This week's show is - therefore - somewhat coloured by the close proximity of my birthday (the night previous). Fortunately the excellence of the new Welsh music contained therein ameliorates rum-fumed witter and rambles.

For example, we have two tracks from Future Of The Left's forthcoming EP Love Songs For Our Husbands - which you can pre-order now. They're a freshly cooked, super-spiced, authentic Himalayan curry in a world of humdrum, after hours, ghee-saturated reheats.

Lead track - The Male Gaze - has a riff so mighty, it should be wearing a cape and more sing-a-long-ability than Max Bygraves' karaoke robot army.

I snuck another track off the EP into the show right at the end - and, due to not having included it in my painstakingly prepared show notes, I got the title wrong. I've been self-flagellating ever since. It's been kind of fun.

In other news, we have debut plays for Straight Jacket Legends, Estrons, Blues Church, Dr Landstrom's Virus, Rosie Smith, Huw Costin, Za Sonic, Set Aside, Human Is and Tidal.

Please send music direct as a download link to: themysterytour@gmail.com or via the BBC Introducing Uploader.

It's also worth underlining that this week sees the release of Short and Curlies' debut album At The Dance. It's an unpredictable and wonder-filled long player, shaped in the moment by Euros & Megan Childs, Sweet Baboo, H. Hawkline, Laura J. Martin and R. Seiliog. Bees love it. And bees rule.

Elsewhere Huw Williams talks about the Welsh protest song and Ben 'Soundhog' Hayes eulogises the rest of Free's back catalogue that isn't All Right Now'.

I'm off hunting sunburn.

FUTURE OF THE LEFT - 'The Male Gaze'

Cardiff

H. HAWKLINE - 'Kiss Me On The Lips'

Cardiff

BROTHERS - 'My Attention'

Cardiff

ASTROID BOYS - 'Minging'

Cardiff

RECORDIAU - 'Jump'

Wales

STRAIGHT JACKET LEGENDS - 'She's Out Of Line (Feat. MC Lars)'

Holyhead

WOLFCHILD - 'Control'

Cwmbran

CAROLINE HARRISON - 'Beyond The Darkened Skies'

Narbeth

ESTRONS - 'My Turn'

Aberystwyth/Cardiff

BLUES CHURCH - 'Slow Evil'

Cardiff

WICKET - 'Know Your Roots'

Cardiff

MATTOIDZ - 'Gwaed Yn Y Glaw'

West Wales

ELLY SINNETT - 'Love Of Mine'

Pembrokeshire

GRAMERCY RIFFS - 'Get Down'

Cardiff

HUW WILLIAMS - 'Spoken Contribution'

Swansea

MEIC STEVENS - 'Tryweryn'

Solva

EVILS - 'L. Ron'

Cardiff

BAGEL PROJECT, THE - 'Rob Is An Alcoholic Ft Brosexo'

Lampeter

QUINOLINE YELLOW - 'Eythyl Maltol'

Wales

KTRL - 'Learn'

Cardiff

QUEER'D SCIENCE - 'Punish You/Improv/America's Next Top Modem (Live)'

Llanfairfechan/Manchester

DR LANDSTROM'S VIRUS - 'I Would Go With Betty...but I'd Be Thinking Of Wilma'

Swansea

ROSIE SMITH - 'Man In A Mesh Vest'

Cardiff/Brighton

ANTHONY REYNOLDS - 'Loneliness Is The Engine Of The World'

Cardiff

SPANISH DANCE TROUPE - 'La Muerte Del Amor En Andalucia'

Welsh Label

SPARROW AND THE WORKSHOP - 'Shock Shock'

Wales

CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN - 'Homesick'

Llandudno

HUW COSTIN - 'Disconnected (Edit)'

South Wales

ZA SONIC - 'Dusty Glasses'

Mumbles

SET ASIDE - 'Not Acceptable In Suburbia'

Cardiff

HUMAN IS - 'Pulled Apart'

Wrexham

TIDAL - 'Lost In Thought'

Welsh Label

GOLDEN FABLE - 'Crossfire (Single Mix)'

Ewloe

ISLET - 'Triangulation Station'

Cardiff

SHORT AND CURLIES - 'The Feast'

Pembrokeshire/Cardiff/Liverpool

FUTURE OF THE LEFT - 'Perpetual Motives'

Cardiff

BEN HAYES - 'Spoken Contribution'

Ruthin

FREE - 'Trouble On Double Time'

England

GEORGIA RUTH - 'In Luna'

Aberystwyth/Cardiff

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