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Adam Walton playlist and show info: Sunday 23 October 2011

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Adam Walton Adam Walton | 13:04 UK time, Wednesday, 26 October 2011

This week's show is now available via the Â鶹Éç iPlayer. Please visit the link any time between now and the start of the next programme.

The show is - inevitably - flavoured by the excellence of the past weekend's Swn Festival. Sŵn is a breathless and brilliant celebration of new (mostly) leftfield music across an impressive spread of Cardiff's venues and hostelries. It's the best weekend of the year - much better than Christmas... because who'd think to wrap Brandyman up and gift you them on Christmas morning?

My Sŵn was, this year, a little different from years gone by. I did a bit more DJing and had the honour of presenting the inaugural Welsh Music Prize (the award for the best album of Welsh origin 2011). And, although there were a few fluffed lines, it was a magnificent, humbling experience. Handing the award over to Gruff was one of the happiest moments of my life - as can be seen quite clearly from my facial expression as I make the announcement.

And Radio Wales spent much of Saturday hosting our Best of Sŵn (slightly self-aggrandising, but who isn't these days?) acoustic sessions at KuKu Club in the bowels of one of Cardiff's swankiest hotels. I co-hosted with the most excellent Bethan Elfyn and you can hear some of the Welsh highlights from those sessions during this show: tracks from Race Horses, Sam Airey and Denuo.

I didn't get to see as many bands this year (hence the lack of the traditional really, really long blogs on the subject), but I do play a selection of the best bands I did manage to catch.

Hwyl Sŵn 2011 - you were amazing. I can't wait for 2012.

Elsewhere in the show you'll hear a selection of the best new Welsh sounds that have arrived in my inbox this week.

Don't be shy in getting any demos/new releases/tips to me. The email address for download links/mp3s etc is themysterytour@gmail.com

This coming Sunday night's show (30 October) will feature a woofer-worrying mix of bass attuned brilliance from Jay Robinson and a live set from Paper Aeroplanes (recorded at Focus Wales in Wrexham back in May - it's beautiful!).

I have a number of Welsh music events coming up that I'll be DJing at, and it'd be excellent if you could join the throng:

: The Dulcimer, Manchester - Meredith Nights present Plant Duw/Yucatan/Tom Edney & me & DJ Fuzzyfelt DJing

: Connah's Quay Civic Hall - The Keys/The Method/Houdini Dax & me DJing

: Telfords Warehouse, Chester - Yr Ods & (you guessed it) me DJing

Tuesday 22 November: Telfords Warehouse, Chester - Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog/Georgia Ruth + band & me DJing (shameless!)

For the stattoes amongst you (probably just me) here are some show-related statistics automatically generated by my Orwellian show database:

1384 unique songs/ 1773 Total. 770 Artists in 42 shows since 1st, Jan '11 (~songs per show:42, unique artists per show:18) Welsh:92%

Thank you for listening (feel free, please do, to share the iPlayer link with whoever you love the most).

- 'Polymers Are Forever'
Cardiff

- 'Sensations In The Dark'
Bethesda

- 'People Meet People'
Resolven/Cardiff

- 'Punkrock Crowd ( Exotope Clean Edit )'
Cardiff

- 'Heavy Metal Uncle'
Cardiff

- 'What Am I To Do? ( Best Of Sŵn Live Session )'
Aberystwyth

- 'Ikopol'
Llangollen

S T D - 'Petit Mal'
Cardiff

- 'All That We See Or Seem'
Chester/Llangollen

- 'See What You're Saying'
Camarthen/Aberystwyth

- 'Can't Lose Out'
Cardiff

- 'Cavity'
Ammanford/Newport

- 'Dundun'
London ( Welsh Label )

- 'Drive Away'
Wales

BOATBAR TO HAMBURG - 'Comfort Eating'
Swansea

- 'New Adventures'
Cardiff

- 'Cradle'
Mold

- 'The Lengths ( When Wants Become Needs )'
Angelsey

- 'Orbitoclast'
Caernarfon

- 'Hello Sadness'
Cardiff

- 'School Ii'
Cardiff

- 'Way No Way'
Dwygfylchi/Llanfairfechan/Conwy

- 'Cool'
Holyhead/London

- 'Endless Sea ( Best Of Sŵn Live Session )'
Anglesey

- 'Person For The Person'
Cardiff

- 'Puzzle Pieces'
Neath

- 'Devil's Pinch'
Rhyl

- 'Anvil And Chains'
Ystrad Mynach

- 'Halloween Bass Bash Opener'
Llanelli

- 'Get Mad Now'
Colwyn Bay

- 'Run You Like A River'
Penmachno

- 'Salamander ( Featuring Euros Childs )'
Liverpool

- 'V Moyn T'
Benllech

- 'Puts Me To Work'
Penboyr

- 'Bowie's Ghost'
Cardiff

- 'G T F O'
Bangor

- 'Un'
Gwynedd

- 'Robin You Lie'
Cardiff

- 'Dumpamundo'
Cardiff

- 'Boston ( Best Of Sŵn Live Session )'
Penmaenmawr

- 'Sunday Song'
Snowdonia

- 'The Lost Button'
Milwaukee/ Bridgend (label)

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