Progress report on Brave New Wales (this was intended to be a PowerPoint presentation with pie charts, histograms and clip-art (I was thinking specifically of those black stick figures with sticks for noses, the ones that dance and stuff), but believe it or not I've got better things to do with my time).

Airplay so far:

Huw Stephens, BBC Radio Cymru
Eirwyn Llwyd Roberts : Beicio
Angharad Davies/Rhodri Davies : Live at St. Giles

Lisa Gwilym, BBC Radio Cymru
Carphology Collective : Moving A Pile Of Bricks... (to the left)

Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales
Carphology Collective : Moving A Pile Of Bricks... (to the left)
Jim Knight, Fiona Owen & Gorwel Owen : Six Minutes
Y Phthwng : Cyfnos

Audition, Resonance FM
The 14th Century : Ei Thwyll a'i Hystryw
Angharad Davies/Rhodri Davies : Live at St. Giles
Chuch : Snorkel
Ian Watson/Mark Jolliffe : 3
Jacob Whittaker : Classic Mix 02
Simon Proffitt : The Ringing Rocks

Battle Flutes & Sideways Skulls, KUSF
WHITENOISESOUND : Sunset

Viva La Trance!, WJFF Radio Catskill
Chuch : Snorkel
Y Phthwng : Cyfnos

Reviews so far:

"...this is an excellent introduction to Wales and its musical undercurrent"
Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly. Read the whole review - including reference to everyone's favourite Dutch town, Nijmegen, in the Vital Weekly archive.

"Play the CDs through a decent sound system and make time for it, it deserves your full attention..."
Emma Louis, Snowdonia Nights Out Gazette. Read the whole review at Snogonline

Other stuff

An interview with Simon P about the compilation at Snogonline

If you want to walk into an actual shop in order to buy your copy, and see it and fondle it first before parting with your spending money rather than relying on newfangled digital technology to transmit virtual cash from your computer to ours, you can visit the following places:

Spillers Records, Cardiff: the oldest record shop in the entire universe.
Cob Records, Bangor: even if there were loads more record shops in the Bangor area, this would still be the best.
Sound 323, London: even though there are loads more record shops in the greater London area, this is still the best.
Aquarius, San Francisco: still the best.

Have you seen or heard reference to the compilation elsewhere? Is someone championing it/slating it unbeknownst to us? Leave a comment! We're greedy for more information.