Show #2576: Saturday 13th January 2024 - Casey / The Murder Club / Melys

Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales, Sat 13th January 2024: Liam from Casey interview... / The Murder Club - The Long Song / Andrea from Melys / Gareth Potter selects...

PLEASE NOTE: This isn’t an official BBC / BBC Wales post. All words / opinions expressed here are my own.

Listen here via BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001v29f

In a rush... aim for:
1’02’25 - Melys
1’41’12 - Murder Club
2’06’44 - Casey
2’41’30 - Gareth Potter

This week's programme goes deep into Newport band Casey's expansive and consummate new album 'How To Disappear'. I speak with the band's guitarist Liam Torrance about this revelatory and brilliantly realised comeback album, and Liam talks about the added resonance the album has for the band, because it's one they thought they'd never get to make.

The album has an emotional undertow as sweeping and powerful as its comet tail guitars, and hits hard when it needs to hit hard. The songs have been orbiting around my bonce since my first listen... touching some of my favourite Ride and Slowdive-shaped shoegaze buttons, but heavier.

It's really really good.

I wrote a lot - an Eryri forest of words - about Melys on Friday. You can read that here: https://adamwalton.substack.com/p/111-for-30-005-melys-chinese-whispers Andrea from Melys speaks to me on this week's show about what brings them back to touring and hints at what should be on the horizon for them and for us later in 2024. It's so wonderful to have them back.

My Long Song this week comes from The Murder Club. If there's a better blast of melodic, harmony-glazed indie pop in 2024 I'll eat my baseball cap. I probably shouldn't be wearing it at my age but I feel quite safe in the assertion. This Newport four piece are as close musically as they are as friends, and this quality positively glows from the recording. Their new single 'Pictures of Myself' is somewhere between Personal Best and The Bangles... in other words, pretty much stellar from every perspective. It's out NOW on Venn Records.

Eminent DJ and musicologist Gareth Potter is roused from his slumber (this is true...) to tell us about the brilliantly off kilter Y Dyniadon Ynfyd Hirfelyn Tesog... Gorky's meet The Bonzos on the set of Wicker Man... imagine that!!

And there's a lot of excellent new Welsh music to tantalise and elevate you.

Please send new recordings - from your highest draw - via the BBC Introducing Uploader or as a download link to my BBC email address (you can break the code...)

Thanks for listening / reading

Diolch am wrando / ddarllen

Adam x

2: THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST

Tom Auton - 'Self Destruct Shuffle'
Cardiff
http://facebook.com/Tom-Auton-317705458277900

Chroma - 'Girls Talk [2024]'
Pontypridd
http://chroma.band

Half Happy - 'Runaway Girl (Ooze Remix)'
Cardiff
http://facebook.com/wearehalfhappy

Minas - 'Stress ft. Razkid'
St Davids / Caerphilly
http://facebook.com/MinasSound

corrupted serotonin - 'CYBERBREACH'
Tremorfa / Cardiff

Brutal Caesar x Bad FX x Vague x Jdar - 'Locust [radio edit]'
Cardiff
http://brutalcaesar.bandcamp.com

Gruff Rhys - 'Bad Friend'
Bethesda / Cardiff
http://gruffrhys.com

Catrin Finch & Aoife Ní Bhríain - 'Wings'
Llanon, Ceredigion
http://catrinfinch.com

Junior Bill - 'David'
Cardiff

Skunkadelic - 'Pressure ft. Abstract Soundz'
Cardiff
http://facebook.com/skunkadelicuk

SageTodz - 'GSB (Gone, Seen, Blocked) ft. Luke RV'
Penygroes
http://instagram.com/Manliketodz

The Black Vultures - 'Never Say'
Gwent Valleys
http://facebook.com/THEBLACKVULTURESUK

Cerys Hafana - 'Child Owlet'
Machynlleth

Melys - 'Noeth'
Capel Curig / Betws Y Coed
http://facebook.com/melysmusic

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREA FROM MELYS...

Melys - 'Skating (Adam Walton Session 2004)'
Capel Curig / Betws Y Coed
http://facebook.com/melysmusic

Nogood Boyo - 'Ffarwel'
Cwmbran
http://facebook.com/NoGoodBoyoBand

Elkka - 'DJ Friendly (Chloe Robinson & DJ ADHD Remix) Radio Edit'
Cardiff

Bad Shout - 'Big In Tech'
Barry / Cardiff
http://repeatfanzine.bandcamp.com

Monet - 'Sticky Wheel [radio edit]'
Swansea
http://linktr.ee/monetbanduk

Underworld & KETTAMA - 'g-town euphoria (luna) [edit]'
Abergavenny
http://underworldlive.com

Foxxglove - 'The Chaos'
Ferndale
http://facebook.com/Foxxgloveuk

THE LONG SONG #025 - THE MURDER CLUB

The Murder Club - 'Pictures of Myself'
Newport
http://facebook.com/Murderclubuk

Joyce - 'Deja Vu'
Llanelli / Carmarthen
http://instagram.com/joycemakesmusic

Mace The Great - '3am In Montreal'
Cardiff
http://facebook.com/ItsMaceOnline

M. Yesekaon - 'Never Changed'
Colwyn Bay
http://www.instagram.com/m.yesekaon/

Idris Keith - 'C Minor Noodle 71bpm'
Llanfairfechan

Spencer Segelov & Great Paintings - 'The Contender'
Cardiff
http://spencersegelovgreatpaintings.bandcamp.com

Olive Grinter - 'Murmurations'
Cardiff
http://instagram.com/olive_grinter

INTERVIEW WITH LIAM FROM CASEY...

Casey - 'Unique Lights'
Newport
http://facebook.com/Caseytheband

Casey - 'Puncture Wounds To Heaven'

Casey - 'How To Disappear'

2080s - 'Six Ten'
Wrexham
http://2080s.xyz

GARETH POTTER SELECTS...

Y Dyniadon Ynfyd Hirfelyn Tesog - 'Gast'
Wales

Lansano Drive - 'Smokescreen'
Cardiff
http://instagram.com/lansanodrive

Amelia Martin and DX8 - 'Weightless'
Port Talbot
http://facebook.com/ameliamartinmusic

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3: SHOW STATS

70 diff songs/ 72 Total. 65 Artists in 2 shows since 1st, Jan '24 (~Songs per:36, Unique artists per:33) Welsh:94% Cymraeg:4% (feat. lyrics in Welsh); Source: Uploader:46%, Direct:22%, Bought:13%, Plugger:17%, Commission:1%

Comprehensive Session / Interview List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w-rIPj0l0QhUcbEm08PUPLUWh-416mwlteG_8wpNWtQ/edit?usp=sharing

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