This week's show is
now available via the BBC iPlayer. Please take a listen any time between now and the start of the next programme.
Our special guest this week is Bangor's fuzzy-haired weaver of song, Huw M. Huw's new album, Gathering Dusk, is as delightful and refreshing as a mountain stream. It sparkles with melody, shimmers with wondrous arrangements and glows with humanity. Yep, it's got most of those light-related verbs pretty much covered. Imagine a beautiful heart made out of folkish sound and you're partway there. Buy the album, or listen to the tracks Huw and I talk about, and you'll get to go the whole hog.
Our own hog, of the Sound variety, comes in to tell us about DIY evangelists, Desperate Bicycles.
Huw Williams brings in the awe-inspiring, Shirley-Bassey-influencing larynx of Dorothy Squires. A woman whose recordings are almost as big as her personal life was fascinating, and - ultimately - more than a little sad.
Pete Lawrie treats us to an exclusive play of his new Until the Ribbons Break project... a musical endeavour that aims to celebrate the random joy and sonic pleasure of the compilation tape.
And I have fascinating music from all over Wales.
Please send new releases/demos and gig info to themysterytour@gmail.com.
Have an excellent week. If you hear anything great, please let me know about it. You're my spies, and excellent spies to boot.
DRMCNT - 'Kingdil'
Llansteffan / Japan
LOS CAMPESINOS - 'By Your Hand'
Cardiff
LOVELY EGGS, THE - 'New Allergies'
Lancaster
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - 'The International Language Of Screaming'
Wales
GRUFF RHYS - 'Post Apocalypse Christmas'
Bethesda
CARAMELOU - 'Those Night's ( ed )'
Newport
ISLET - 'This Fortune'
Cardiff
HUW M - 'The Perfect Silence'
Pontypridd
PEN PASTWN - 'Shake My Heart'
Cardiff
LAURA J. MARTIN - 'Salamander ( Featuring Euros Childs )'
Liverpool
HUW WILLIAMS - 'Spoken Contribution'
Swansea
DOROTHY SQUIRES - 'Till'
Pontyberem, Camarthenshire
HENRY'S FUNERAL SHOE - 'Gimme Back My Morphine'
Ystrad Mynach
JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, THE - 'Talk About The Blues'
New York City
PETE LAWRIE - 'All That We Keep ( Remix )'
Penarth
UNTIL THE RIBBON BREAKS - 'Carousel'
Penarth
UNTIL THE RIBBON BREAKS - 'Back To The Stars'
Penarth
UNTIL THE RIBBON BREAKS - 'Motel Blues'
Penarth
I AM AUSTIN - 'D. T. T. R. H.'
Connah's Quay
MEKONS, THE - 'Afar & Forlorn'
Croesyceiliog
SOLUTIONS - 'Drug Money'
Cardiff
SATURDAY'S KIDS - 'Grey On White ( E P Version )'
Cardiff
PAPER AEROPLANES - 'Winter Never Comes ( Foxymoron's Warm And Fuzzy Remix )'
Milford Haven
HUW M - 'Dyma Lythyr'
Pontypridd
Y TEBOT PIWS - 'Godro'r Fuwch'
Cardiff
Y NIWL - 'Chwech'
Gwynedd
PIXIES, THE - 'Cecilia Ann'
Boston, U. S.
YOUNGTEAM - 'Your Love'
Sweden
YR ODS - 'Troi A Throsi'
Gwynedd
EUROS CHILDS - 'Something On My Mind'
Pembrokeshire
INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, THE - 'The First Girl I Loved'
Edinburgh / Glasgow
KEYS, THE - 'I Tried To Find It In Books'
Resolven / Cardiff
GALLOPS - 'G Is For Jaile'
Wrexham
MANUFAKTURE - 'Space Debris'
Barry
MARTYN JOSEPH - 'Always Will Be'
Penarth / Cardiff
HUW M - 'Ysgafelloedd Gwag'
Pontypridd
CERI FROST - 'Strawberries In May'
Cardiff
BEN HAYES - 'Spoken Contribution'
Ruthin
DESPERATE BICYCLES - 'Smokescreen'
London
MAGNA CARTER - 'I'm Talking To You'
Cardiff
CAYO EVANS - 'The Belle Of The Ball'
Silian
