Fighting Tigers

Beating hearts and tempered moans erupt from the bedroom walls but there’s no love between those sheets, just a reckless and cold release. Breathe slow, they’ll never know if you keep your voices low enough. Sleep tight past sunrise, to wake up alone. Fading lights for desperate souls holding out for the ones they loved to come home and hold them close, a heart has no home for loneliness. Our heroes are in freefall, they couldn’t find their worth in the free world. High up from the rat race, they jump one by one from buildings to fly away, far from the lives they came to save, and hate.

There’s No Business Like No Business

High time I ran on intuition when our ties get bound and burned at every turn. All I find are ways to remain the same within confines that I’ll spend a life re-pitching. Alight is the runway leading into a city I don’t believe in. Old songs for older bones emanate from a radio below the wrought hearts and roving souls. Burdened, but not alone. One night fate an apparition and our lives found ourselves a purpose up against the tides we’ve fought but never sought to wade inside beyond our fear of overreaching. I’ll leave footprints upon the path where my old man walked to work. I’ll grind all day and drink these nights from a dirty glass under faint bar light.

http://www. bbc. co. uk/iplayer/episode/b00gs0jj/Adam_Walton_18_01_2009/<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />....

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In session: Cardiff's Solutions... they're punk, but not quite as we know it. They take the template and bend it to suit their own vision.
http://myspace.com/solutionsmusic

In interview: Ritzy from The Joy Formidable talks about their imminent plans.
http://myspace.com/thejoyformidable

In memory: Huw Williams expounds on the delights of 'The Bystanders'.

In excellence: we have a brand new Demo of the Week, courtesy of Brother Junkie Rat
http://myspace.com/brotherjunkierat

In wisdom: the legendary Kim Fowley [ see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Fowley ] shares a few nuggets of wisdom with us for the aspiring musicians listening.

In prog: Soundhog -- music historian, artful re-editor and renovator of music, visits the land of Egg.
http://soundhog.co.uk

In interview: Threatmantics discuss life on the road & their excellent debut album, 'Upbeat Love'.
http://myspace.com/threatmantics

& In answer to: the question 'How do I get my music onto download stores?', the WMF's Lisa Matthews gives us the definitive answer.
http://welshmusicfoundation.com


Please send music / info & your opinions on the show to:

themysterytour@gmail.com

Here is the playlist:

RON GRAINER
theme from 'the prisoner'
AKIRA THE DON [Anglesey / London]
back in the day
FUTURE OF THE LEFT [Cardiff]
the hope that house built
BLANKETS FOR WINTER [St. Asaph]
ducks
COLORAMA [Cardiff]
sound
SOLUTIONS [Cardiff]
[sesion track] to die a pioneer
THE BINARY KIDS [Newport]
she loves it

THE JOY FORMIDABLE [Mold]
the last drop

interview with Ritzy from The Joy Formidable

THE JOY FORMIDABLE [Mold]
cradle

Huw Williams dusts down The Bystanders

THE BYSTANDERS [Merthyr Tydfil[
cave of clear light

DIRTY GOODS [Newport]
honest
PULCO [Bangor]
summer sotry ba ba ba
PAGAN WANDERER LU [?]
you and me and winston churchill
COSMO vs FLAPSANDWICH [Cardiff]
george bush rip
VALLEUM [Anglesey]
dream rubble
BEEFCORE [Cwmbran]
theme for kidnap
HENRY'S FUNERAL SHOE [Ystrad Mynach]
Maria Maria

Demo of the Week

BROTHERJUNKIERAT [Cardiff]
saint johns wort

SOLUTIONS [Cardiff]
[session track] i turned to knife crime

Nuggets of Wisdom from Kim Fowley

CAT STEVENS
portobello road

THE LOVES [Cardiff]
the ex-gurlfriend
SIBRYDION [Waunfawr]
femme mentale
TORI BRAGG [Llandudno]
fine

Soundhog shares

EGG
fugue in d minor

KZSS [Newport]
never change
SPIDER KITTEN [Cardiff]
burdened
LEUCINE [Rhyl]
We Thought That We Could Fly
HOMESPUN [Rhyl]
100 nations
SWEET BABOO [Bethesda / Cardiff]
codi'n gynnar

THREATMANTICS [Cardiff]
james lemain

interview with Threatmantics @ Central Station, Wrexham 15.01.09

THREATMANTICS [Cardiff]
little bird

SOLUTIONS [Cardiff]
[session track] the rest will follow

F.A.Q. - Lisa Matthew from the WMF answers: 'How do I get my music on a download store?'

EGG
a visit to newport hospital....
 

1) Mary Anne....

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Mary Anne, broken, surrounded by photographs of time she'll never get back, Polaroid’s kept by old childhood toys. All alone, soaking up sounds from the radio before the shakes take hold, who'd have known that love would break us all? Weighed down by the books upon her bed, the books she bought but never read. They would tell…Kept back by the anchors in her head, the words she thought but never said. They would yell… Burn like a star, turn the world. Ambulance races around the indifference of ..four am.. drivers, sirens on, making like a song. A symphony embroiled with the chords of this tragedy, a key change we never could see but we should've known that trust would break us all…Mary Anne, save me a seat on the stars above, before the nights over I'm coming up for one last kiss and one last dance.....

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2) I Turned To Knife Crime....

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We spray the walls with curses and insults. Empty promises line the floors that we pace down. We used to talk before the walls took us for every letter we loved and left us this relentless anger. A message unread, a call left unanswered, drunken letters were scrawled and left on the front door. Now valium comes in monthly prescriptions but sleep brings dream after dream of you in your best clothes. Summer sent us among the young lovers; winter wailed her woes and pressed on the windows. Four walls have taught us more in just ten months than we ever could learn from years at our folk’s home. Before the roars a chase must come, but for all our wars we’ve no breath left to run. One cold Saturday some built love upon stone to watch it grow, and to watch it fall when the wind came rolling in. They shed tears but soldiered on; now watch them come, and watch them go.....

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3) The Rest Will Follow....

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One and all! Our hearts in the jaws of the lions, keeping score as we lose our minds to violence. Shots rang around the neighbourhood as you lit a smoke and turned the TV up. Kicked back for the ..midnight.. broadcast "All we love is all we cannot have!". The pixels on the dusty screen numb the weight of formalities like love and debt, death and regret "All you know is all you have been shown!". As we all spend our days chasing things that are never there and never were. Let this go and be sure that the rest will follow. One and all! Our lives in the hands of the liars, marching forth, now we've sold our pride for silence. Cops swarm around the roadside and there's a body of a child lying nearby. He can't be more than fifteen years old "All you know is all you have been shown!". Propped up against a disused lamppost with the medics fast approaching, he looks up and with his last breath says "All we love is all we cannot have!".....

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4) To Die A Pioneer!....

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This angel escaped the choir and set off for the lake of fire where hearts are traded with perfect strangers. A dance led to several more as the juice led to shots of vodka until every passing song arrived like an anthem. Slow jams for the lovers, hard rock for the heroes. No end to the constant weekend, but no way could you keep the pace without burning up and out. This angel is beat and tired of making the most of bad nights chasing saviours in the worst kind of places. She’s anchored to past mistakes and not getting any younger, but come now, another round to drown our problems? Cold hands under covers, hot lights over dreamers. No end to the constant weekend, but no way could you keep the pace without burning up and out.....

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5) Young Hearts....

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We could never keep track of all the holes and the cracks in our hearts. Those times we beat the walls with balled up fists, our knuckles torn. You and I weren’t meant to be, we were young and got carried away, do or die, it was us against the world. I’d found my place in life at the side of a girl. As the weeks rolled by I fell in love with every inch of your body and your touch. We’d get drunk and laugh til’ the light resigned, falling asleep with a smile, side by side. Hand in hand on ..midnight.. strolls I’d tell you stories of old and you’d tell me yours, I hung on every word you said and at every drawn out pause I’d kiss your blood red lips. But we couldn’t keep the act up as those long weeks turned into months; we were both living in denial on borrowed time and on plastic smiles. On the night it all fell apart, underneath an audience of stars, I held you close and whispered soft “never look back and always stay strong”. For all the young hearts, should we fall apart, repair yourself with music. Sweethearts come and go and it gets hard when it get’s low, but keep your head, don’t lose it. To the one that got away, pick a star and raise a whiskey, wish them all the best.....

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6) A Devil Among The Dancers....

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In a place where no one is at, we'll slip secrets in the silence. The night leans on the overpass, a city blinks in the distance. As safe homes and circuit boards, our limbs will work together to keep warm and in control should the urge to bail take us. He knows she knows, and she knows he knows an unbreakable adhesive is the fear of being alone. Every dance has an invitation for a little reciprocation, but hold on tight because once we start this can never stop. Talk, talk about the things we know, steering clear of the things we don't, like how to act in situations when an attraction overtakes our hearts, heads and all the rest. I can't be cool if I'm a nervous wreck. We took a walk to the promenade, as we would for the next ten months.....

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7) Where The Good Ships Go To Sink....

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Hope is the gallows upon which we tie the ropes that swing wild in the breeze, there to choke us on our insecurities. We spent our wishes on love and riches but we ended up poorest of all, with no one to call our own and lists of things that we wish we’d done. When records turn but make no sound, at twenty four we could turn this around to find something more. Drop the anchors beneath the wailing waters where the good ships go to sink another mystery upon the ocean floor. We kept the letter our loved ones sent us in a box amongst the rations as Disaster cut for every corner of the atlas. Stars in the eyes of the ones who fight. Stars in the eyes of the ones who take flight.....

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8) You Cannot Outnumber A Mathematician....

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Benny lit a smoke on the rocks by the River Severn and choked “If this is love, box me up and ship me off away from the pretty faces, false hope and misplaced faith. And when I reach a shore, I’ll find a new face to call my own”. More and more the panic shows, searching for a signal, simple logic will conquer all “It’s all we have and it’s all we’ve got to hold”. More and more the anger grows, searching for a reason, simple logic will save us all "It's all we know and it's all we've got to hold". (Unfinished).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00g4w1p/Adam_Walton_28_12_2008/<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />....

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THE HOT PUPPIES
somewhere
ANTHONY REYNOLDS
i know you know
KING OF DESPAIR
like a sign
GALLOPS
windows fx
THE ARTERIES
[keep on] truckin'
NIA MORGAN
on the hillside
GENOD DROOG
genod droog theme
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY
seven
THE HEPBURNS
[session track] breakfast of champions
MOTHER OF SIX
castell
DJ METHODIST
gunga
RIVAL FACTION
i wish
BUZZ BOP
have a happy
MARTIN CARR
orpheus lament
MC MABON
be di be
BEARS FROM LABRADOR
god
GLOW
open your heart [album version]
GLOBAL PARASITE
smash the new world order
MAC
the wave
VARIOUS BANDS AND SOME HOOLIGANS
cardiff city superstars
MARTIN DAWS
under the slates
DIE CHIHUAHUA DIE!
stuck pig
SPENCER MCGARRY SEASON
the reason not the meaning
AVAN RIJS
what's on the radio?
MUDMOWTH
the broken home of mr jones
SICKNOTE
death before employment
9BACH
cweiriwch fy ngwely
CLAY STATUES
droids
BLACK CESAR
breakneck
RED STRIPE
happy within
BEATS FOR TEA
jazzed up
SWEET 'N' TENDER HOOLIGANS
pretty eyes
LITTLE ERIS
karma 2 u
BASTIONS
phantom limb
GHAST
give your wrists
FUTURE OF THE LEFT
manchasm
TRUCKERS OF HUSK
a future animal
CHAVBOY
don't wanna waste
THE JOY FORMIDABLE
austere
THE SCHOOL
let it slip
SOLUTIONS
young hearts
GINTIS
[session track] the bakery song
PARKING NON-STOP
city in the intermediate realm
THE PENNY DREADFUL
13 bones
KLAUS KINSKI
black bile
PETER LAWRIE
sweet baby ffion
Y SAIS
dangos dy liwia
GEORGIA RUTH WILLIAMS
strange bed
DEEP VEIN
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