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This week's show treats us to a session from North East Wales & Chester's multi-limbed folkish orchestra, Shy & The Fight. Theirs isn't a familiar name, just yet - but their elevating songs, like balloons for heavy hearts, are earning them a devoted audience. The session was beautifully recorded by John Lawrence on a mountainside in Snowdonia... and it very much has the ambience of a glowing fire welcome at the end of a wind-blasted ramble across the mountains. Beautiful stuff.

Godfather of the Welsh underground, Alan Holmes, introduces us to the multifold, avant-garde delights of the Fflint Central record label. A label that's experimental wonders have beguiled and befuddled folk all over the world, whilst hardly registering on the Welsh media map. Me included. This is a first, tiny step to make amends for that short-sightedness.

Ben Hayes, the tweedy man occasionally known as Soundhog, inspires us with some of George Martin's orchestral compositions.

Lara Catrin translates something emotive in quavering falsetto from Meilir.

And we have provocative and excellent music from all over Wales, including first time plays for Wolf Curse, Jamie Anderson & Owain K, And The Machine Screamed, Big Stick, After An Alibi, YTU13 and Pale Sketcher (& Jesu).

Please send demos to as high quality .mp3s/download links to themysterytour@gmail.com

Or post 'em:

Adam Walton, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Wales, Library & Arts Centre, Rhosddu Road, Wrexham, LL11 1AU

Thank you/diolch yn fawr,

Have an excellent music filled week,

Adam

POOH STICKS, THE - 'Young People'
Swansea

- 'Whisper In My Ear'
Cardiff

- 'Up Down Up Down'
Bangor

- 'Something You Should Know'
Neath

- 'Visitant'
Angelsey

- 'Patterns Of Power'
Bethesda

- 'Dream'
Chester/Llangollen

- 'Pop Peth'
Cardigan

- 'Without MSG I Am Nothing'
Cardiff

- 'I Am Weatherproof'
Cardiff

- 'Young Loins'
Cardiff

- 'Masters Of War'
Bristol

- 'Steady Walking'
Newport

- 'Airwalk'
Cardiff

- 'Roundabout'
Cardiff

- 'Goodgurgerelief'
Cardiff

- 'Lle Wyt Ti Heno Iesu Grist?'
Bangor

- 'Checking In, Checking Out'
Cork/London

- 'The Pessimist Light'
Cardiff/Aberdare

- 'Nightmares'
Pembrokeshire

- 'Gypsy Glitch'
Cardiff

- 'St Annes'
Pembrokeshire

- 'Hear The Sea'
Chester/Llangollen

- 'Fluids For Dark Pleasures'
Flint

- 'Kill The Mc'
Rhyl

- 'The End'
Bangor/Cardiff

- 'When Time Stands Still'
Cardiff

- 'Moment 4 Life (remix)'
Newport

- 'Let It Breathe (radio Edit)'
Cardiff

- 'Blood On My Hands'
Cardiff

- 'Ghost Writers'
Cardiff

- 'Lifeline'
Abergele

- 'Seventh Heaven'
Abergele

- 'Heathens Beneath Our Feet'
Newport

- 'Cheylene'
Chepstow

- 'Sugarblast'
Deeside

- 'Terrorf*ckingdactyl'
Deeside

- 'Elephants And Castles'
London

- 'As For Tonight'
Chester/Llangollen

- 'At The Height Of A Frisbee (featuring Sweet Baboo)'
Midlands/Cardiff

- 'Tawel Yw'r Nos'
Brynford

- 'Call Out [live Version]'
Swansea

- 'Space Dust #2'
Bethesda