This week I'm busy trying to avoid the depressing inevitability of a 'significant' birthday. My mid-life crisis won't manifest itself in the shape of a nifty sports car. Nor am I going to try and hoodwink a woman of half my age into thinking my precipitous forehead is distinguished rather than Tefal-like. Nope, I'm just going to hang out with musicians, jollying them along like a careworker without the requisite qualifications. I may grow a pony tail... what do you think?
Fortunately this week's show is much more about the music than it is about me. And I have some truly excellent music with which to beguile > you. The full playlist is below. We have debut plays this week for Audio Herz UK, Discord, Rural, Maxx Roach, Heldinky, Khytop, Deficit and Adam A Williams.
If you have an excellent piece of music, hot out of Garageband or Ableton Live, or - why not! - fresh from a recording studio, please toss it to me in an easily catchable manner via themysterytour@gmail.com.
You can also post excellence to this address:
Adam Walton,
BBC Radio Wales,
Canolfan y Diwydiannau Creadigol / The Centre for the Creative Industries,
Prifysgol Glyndwr / Glyndwr University,
Wrecsam / Wrexham
LL11 2AW
I'd recommend you read the expansive blogs on submitting music to the show - start with the last one if it's your first time.
Elsewhere in this week's show, Alan Holmes comes in smelling strongly of pachouli oil, having back-combed his, erm, well... yes. He's clutching something by Dammerung. It has Gothic tendencies. And it's great.
Lara Catrin translates something poetic from Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog and Ben Hayes treats us to something AMAZING (and legal in the UK) from Amsterdam.
ASTROID BOYS - 'Welcome To The Zoo ( Flying Skulls Remix - Radio Edit )'
Cardiff
SKINDRED - 'Bad Man Ah Bad Man'
Newport
P. L. O. FEAT. HAS - LO, ZILLA ROCCA & CURLY CASTRO - 'The Heat ( American Language Remix - Radio Edit )'
Cardiff / Philadelphia
T. O. T. S. O. - 'Pogo's Gotta Go Go'
Swansea
DAUWD - 'Shimmer'
Llangollen
SHY AND THE FIGHT - 'How To Stop An Imploding Man'
Chester / Llangollen
JONNY - 'You Was Me'
Pembrokeshire
GRUFF RHYS - 'Xenodocheinology'
Bethesda
VICTORIAN ENGLISH GENTLEMENS CLUB, THE - 'Bag Of Meat'
Cardiff
AUDIO : HERZ UK - 'Do It'
Llanelli
GALLOPS - 'Miami Spider ( Ponciau Edit )'
Wrexham
DEZ WILLIAMS - 'Typikal'
Bangor
ALAN HOLMES - 'Spoken Contribution'
Bangor
DAMMERUNG - 'Faith In Fakes'
Bangor
CHLOE LEAVERS - 'Don't Leave Your Joy'
Colwyn Bay
TOY HORSES - 'No One's Ever Gonna Leave You'
Cardiff
CAMERA - 'Change Your Mind'
Wrexham
DISCORD - 'Sunday Dub'
Cardiff / Bristol
MARCIA GRIFFITHS - 'Feel Like Jumping'
Jamaica
RURAL - 'Erased'
Hebron, Pembrokeshire
MAXX ROACH - 'Girl I Want U'
Cardiff
MONKY - 'Shirley Temples'
Cardiff
TELEGRAM FROM THE QUEEN - 'Thrashopolis'
Cardiff / Newport / Bristol
FAG MACHINE, THE - 'Interrogation'
Wrexham
MOWBIRD - 'Lady Lion'
Wrexham
PLYCI - 'Impetigo'
Rhyl
HELDINKY - 'Ketchup'
Bangor
GENTLE GOOD, THE - 'Llosgi Pontydd'
Cardiff
KHYTOP - 'Justice Emerges'
Newport
UNDER ALIEN SKIES - 'Cedar'
Prestatyn
SURVIVALISTS - 'Tear It Down'
Cardiff
SWITCH FUSION - 'Mercenary'
Llanberis
VICTORIAN ENGLISH GENTLEMENS CLUB, THE - 'As Jungle Drums Rang Across The Amazon ( We Held Our Heads & Screamed )'
Cardiff
GRUFF RHYS - 'Honey All Over'
Bethesda
SOFT-HEARTED SCIENTISTS - 'The Trees Don't Seem To Know That It's September'
Cardiff
LARA CATRIN - 'Spoken Contribution'
Bangor / Cardiff
COWBOIS RHOS BOTWNNOG - 'Malu Ffenestri'
Llyn Peninsula
READS, THE - 'Nothing Bound'
Penyffordd
GINTIS - 'Do You Ever Stop To Think You're Dying?'
Rhyl
RACHEL LLOYD - 'Calling'
Wrexham
BEN HAYES - 'Spoken Contribution'
Ruthin
HUNTERS, THE - 'Russian Spy And I'
Amsterdam
HOUDINI DAX - 'Fizzy Moon'
Cardiff
DEFICIT - 'December'
Bethesda
ADAM A. WILLIAMS - 'Antipodal Point'
Gwespyr
