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It's been one hell of a week.
It started with Green Man Festival in Glanusk, middled with H Hawkline and Sex Hands in Manchester, and ended with The Joy Formidable at Reading Festival.
My eyes look like a shrew's. My ears feel shot to death. I smell of doughnut stalls and portaloos. But it has been incredible. Not all of it, of course... but the highs have been dizzying, the lows merely peripheral.
Somewhere betwixt and between the paper cups, the open air sounds, the rain and the sound of strangers beyond my tent flaps, I made a half good radio show. In it you will find Carwyn Colorama (not his real surname, of course) talking about their stallion of a new album, Good Music. Carwyn also threads together a wonderful mix tape of sounds past, present and future that have been turning him on. Like I said, 'stallion'.
Huw 'Pooh' Williams (he was the singer in the Pooh Sticks, for the uninitiated. This isn't a nickname he earnt himself after an unfortunate incident on a long train journey after a careless vindaloo) talks about The Oppressed, south Wales' anti-racist Oi! group.
Lara Catrin translates some Memory Clinic. Can't remember which one, though. Oh, ha ha!
Ben Hayes plays a record of such epic, smouldering, intimate grandeur that the stars will weep a bit - sentimental sausages that they are.
I try and hold myself together with a voice that sounds like Count Basie doing bear impersonations. But it's all worth while.
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JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'Wolf's Law'
Mold
FUTURE OF THE LEFT - 'Beneath The Waves An Ocean'
Cardiff
SKINDRED - 'Warning'
Newport
EUROS CHILDS - 'Around Around'
Pembrokeshire
WELCOME TO MARATHON - 'Balfour'
Cheltenham
HUW WILLIAMS - 'Spoken Contribution'
Swansea
OPPRESSED, THE - 'Joe Hawkins'
Cardiff
AFAL DRWG EFA - 'Marwnad Y Fam'
Wales
22/22 - 'They Stray'
Newport
YR ANGEN - 'Fel Na Fydd E [Acoustic Version]'
Swansea
DETACHED - 'Keep Smiling'
Caerphilly
HARRY KEYWORTH - 'Flux [E P Version]'
Hebron, Pembrokeshire
BAGEL PROJECT, THE - 'A Letter'
Lampeter
METABEATS - 'Hookers Feat. Action Bronson'
Cardiff
DIRTY GOODS - 'Know No Other Feat. Fernquest ( Didz & The Organ Grinder Remix )'
Newport
PERFUME GENIUS - 'Put Your Back N 2 It'
Seattle/Welsh Management
BEDFORD FALLS - 'Prick'
Cardiff
RACE HORSES - 'My Year Abroad'
Aberystwyth
PHIL DAVIES & THE NINJASMOKEBOMBS - 'All Mixed Up'
Llangefni
LARA CATRIN - 'Spoken Contribution'
Bangor/Cardiff
MEMORY CLINIC - 'Er Mwyn Ni'
Anglesey
FUTURE OF THE LEFT - 'Johnny Borrell Afterlife [Mike Davies R1 Session]'
Cardiff
COLORAMA - 'Good Music'
Benllech
COLORAMA - 'Carwyn Interview Pt. 1'
Benllech
COLORAMA - 'Why Is She'
Benllech
COLORAMA - 'Carwyn Interview Pt. 2'
Benllech
COLORAMA - 'Delaware [Album Version]'
Benllech
COLORAMA - 'Carwyn Interview Pt. 3'
Benllech
BRENTON WOOD - 'Gimme Little Sign [Colorama Mixtape]'
USA
BOYD RIVERS - 'That Fireshed In My Bones [Colorama Mixtape]'
USA
BROWNS, THE - 'Heaven Fell Last Night [Colorama Mixtape]'
USA
GEMMA RAY - 'Trou De Loup [Colorama Mixtape]'
Berlin
LEE HAZLEWOOD - 'The Night Before [Colorama Mixtape]'
USA
OPOSSOM - 'Fly [Colorama Mixtape]'
New Zealand
TRISTEN - 'Baby Drugs [Colorama Mixtape]'
USA
ADVISORY CIRCLE, THE - 'Mogadon Coffee Morning [Colorama Mixtape]'
UK
BOBBY RUSH - 'Bowlegged Woman, Knock-kneed Man [Colorama Mixtape]'
USA
AM & SHAWN LEE - 'Dark Into Light [Colorama Mixtape]'
USA/London
CATE LE BON - 'That Moon'
Penboyr
SEX HANDS - 'Way No Way'
Dwygfylchi/Llanfairfechan/Conwy
BEN HAYES - 'Spoken Contribution'
Ruthin
TOP DRAWER - 'Song Of A Sinner'
USA
ELAN, MARGED A GWILYM - 'Mae Na Lew Tu Mewn I Bob Dryw Bach'
Wales