7-8am Saturday & Sunday
Wake Up to the Weekend with Connor Morgans on Radio Cardiff

Listen online via https://radiocardiff.org, 98.7FM or DAB in Cardiff, via the Radio Cardiff app on Android & iOS and also on your smart speakers.

Tracklist:
00:00 Morgan Elwy a Pen Dub - Awr ar ol Awr
03:27 Wigwam - Cylched Yr Haul
07:51 Siula - Kyoto Sky
11:14 Milly Mason - The Girl That I Was Before
14:59 ADJUA - CLARITY
20:17 RoseDatta - Gwerthfawr
23:25 Adwaith - Aros Am y Chwiban
26:18 Mali Haf - Llais
29:19 Olesia Glants - Save Me
31:32 Here and Everywhere - Restart
37:30 Chloë Wilson - Broken Me
41:28 Dadleoli - Casanova
45:55 Small Miracles - You Know
49:21 Sywel Nyw - Teimla'r Gwres (feat. Mared)
54:31 Mynadd - Awn Ni

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Wake Up to the Weekend with Connor Morgans - 06/08/25

More fun with Lene Lovitch guitarist producer Les Chappell setting the lyrics of my Marked For Life theatre show (which later became the novel River Deep Mountain High). The finale reprises and develops the allegro into the sonnet section via the ghost valley and disco themes of the adagio and dance movements. Or to put it another way, we finally 'go for a walk together. Up the Mountain." The epiphany on a bridge in Wales, hemmed in and called elsewhere by green mountains, is my favourite Phezants backing track with the sonnet superimposed. It fitted like a glove. The imagined 'girl' in line 14 is the one singing the harmony and we have been married 45 years as this track is released on Soundcloud. Nice. Also thanks to our old harpist bandmate Vanessa in the Penland Phezants for kindly letting me sample some of her harp, even if this isn't really her style. I also add some percussion as a 'variation' on the previous arrangements.

Angel years
Golden nights
Young Running Shadow...
Just watch me now.

With a working class hero who didn't feel fine. 
In a coal-shadowed valley where nothing was maine.
I was studying hard to es caper the job line.
A Lennonist Student was something to be.
A Lennonist Student was something to be.

In life's uncertain lodging, youth is crucified by elders from the start.

Scream.

Uniforms are worn and torn and corn and porn and every morn with heads all shorn we swarm upon the school.
The old school tie will never die for she and I at throat and thigh are tied for life by Dai the Stupid Rule.
His uniforms's an overall, his mind's a blinking traffic light.
If he's the model of our age I hope I die with Megan on Friday night. (Yeee!)
Old School Tie.
Let go Dai.
Die the death die.
Always say die Dai.
Die Dai!

Holidays keep getting shorter.
Start of term is always nigh.
Time is getting nowhere faster,
Life's bitch and then you die.
Hanging on between each new inspection is the teacher's way.
They stole the great important lesson.
We make believe in what we say.

(And maybe we can go for a walk together?
Up the Mountain.)

The river’s prophet tongue I now understand: 
I am heir to my druid realm at last. 
Girl’s curves hover, almost in my grasp, 
The boys step back a bit; I have command. 
Down Jerusalem Lane, mine’s the upper hand, 
A Carpenter of Fate in the Christmas 
Sun - then the mocking mud, led on by a judas 
To his Hotpoint, house, wife, ‘friends’, looks that brand. 

No escape, through a room that madly pulsates 
To Pen y Maen bridge, tracing beneath it 
Green microdot fields, hills’ pie in the sky, 
Victorian railings, Dad’s Thought Police eye. 
I need a real home, away from this place: 
A girl, a room, a bed, tavern, music…

*

Coda Star The Dark 
We're comprehensively full of ability
And it breaks my heart
Why they bite off and grade the fingers that could
Star the dark. Star the dark. Star the dark. Star the dark.
Save the whale. Save the whale. Save the whale.
Kill the shark.

'Hiraeth' - Symphony No 1 in Coal Minor finale

Newyddion Cymraeg (Welsh Newscast)

Anghofio Taid

Deialog Carchar

Tywyllwch Dwfn

7-8am Saturday & Sunday
Wake Up to the Weekend with Connor Morgans on Radio Cardiff

Listen online via https://radiocardiff.org, 98.7FM or DAB in Cardiff, via the Radio Cardiff app on Android & iOS and also on your smart speakers.

Tracklist:
00:00 Wigwam - Cylched Yr Haul
02:55 Aderyn - FEEL NOTHING!
06:53 Siula - Kyoto Sky
10:15 Lleucu Non - Llygaid Cwrw
15:21 ADJUA - CLARITY
19:17 Ani Glass - Phantasmagoria
23:41 Clara - Paint It, Black
27:33 Josh Hearmon - Dreams
30:41 Telliodora - Nothing Can Help You
34:56 Stella Maria - Wait For Me Line
37:38 Rose Datta - Gwerthfawr
42:00 Adwaith - Aros Am y Chwiban
44:53 Aleigchia Scott - Diolch
50:08 Dadleoli - Casanova
53:16 Milly Mason - The Girl That I Was Before

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Wake Up to the Weekend with Connor Morgans - 06/09/25

A recording of a hymn singing festival at Bethesda Independent Chapel, Llangennech, Wales (1957)

'Caniadaeth y Cysegr' - Bethesda, Llangennech (1957)

A Welsh hymn sung by 1200 people at Zion Chapel, Llanelli, Wales

Wrth Deithio Drwy'r Anial

Welsh hymn sung by 1200 people at Zion Chapel, Llanelli, Wales

Pan Oedd Iesu Dan Yr Hoelion

Welsh hymn sung by 1200 people at Zion  Chapel, Llanelli, Wales

F'enaid Gwel I Gethsemane

Yn Y Dwys Ddistawrwydd

A Welsh hymn sung by 1200 people at Zion Chapel, Llanelli, Wales.

Rwy'n Dewis Iesu A'i Farwol Glwy'

Arian (Alt. Version)

Arian

Adam Walton ‘Afal’ single release
Friday 26th September 2025
Whipcord Records

‘Afal’ is a brand new recording from north Wales songwriter Adam Walton.

‘Afal’ embraces the melancholy and colours of Autumn. It’s a flashback to annual late September foraging behind The Sportsmans Arms on the Denbigh Moors (Mynydd Hiraethog) when I was a teenager, lying on our backs and falling into the sky.

I broke down up there once, in the late 90’s or early 00’s, on the way to a Gruff Rhys gig. No signal on my clamshell mobile phone. I walked to the only habitation I could see… an isolated cottage defying the heather, to call the AA as night fell hard.

The skies up there are bigger and darker than most places, and while I waited for the AA van to arrive, orbs of light span and wheeled above me… eerie and beautiful.

I’ve never know what they were. 

This single has no connection to my previous album of the same name.

‘Afal’ is the Welsh word for ‘apple’. I munched through 12 of them recording the rhythm track. A doff of the cap to McCartney’s contribution to The Beach Boys’ ‘Vegetables’. I haven’t been able to eat another apple since.

‘Afal’ is on my new album ‘Burmo’ which I’m releasing on the 14th November on Whipcord Records.

‘The Silent Strings’ isn’t on the album. It’s a standalone b-side because I love standalone b-sides.

‘Afal’ - written, played and recorded by Adam Walton (published by Copyright Control).

‘The Silent Strings’ - written and played by Adam Walton (published by Copyright Control). Recorded by Russ Hayes at Orange Sound Studios, Penmaenmawr.

Afal

Warm baritone with high range who excels in BBC-style authorative documentaries and audiobooks. I also voice tough guys, foppish and aristocratic arrogants, and anything in between. Write/play music in my spare time.

A marriage (and we are actually married, 45 years so far) of melody and rhythm. We do folk, indie, Americana, Norfolk noir, beat poems &  ghazals. Traditional tunes with contemporary beats. Music videos  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb8wV0-DNiFs1R5G2VSytBQ
Maz lead & harmony vocals, acoustic guitar. Gaz vocals, voice, bass, drums & percussion, harmonium, recorders, lyre harp, field recordings.

[For enquiries about my BBC Radio Wales music show, please email my BBC email address... you can easily guess it. Music submissions for the show should be sent via the BBC Introducing Uploader (please). I can't guarantee that I'll see messages sent via Soundcloud - thank you.]

The Immediate are a three-piece indie, power pop band from Mold in north Wales.

We release our Mold EP on Friday 3rd March 2017. The EP will be available to buy on limited edition CD and digitally via bandcamp / iTunes etc.

Mold features 4 brand new recordings, 3 of which are exclusive to the EP.

Lead track, What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?, is a song about some of the kids we went to the Alun School with, who weren’t as fortunate as us and didn’t make it into their 30’s. 

Light Dimensions is the first song we wrote when we reconvened after a long hiatus.

Manbuoy is the title track of our forthcoming debut album, however it does not feature on the album itself. It’s a mostly spoken-word piece that exaggerates all of its writer’s worst qualities.

Mold was recorded at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr, North Wales by Russ Hayes, who has worked on recordings by Peaness, Campfire Social, Kidsmoke, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Billy Bibby and the Wry Smiles.

The sleeve design was done by Paul Maurice from Wrexham. It’s a detail of Shire Hall, the brutalist former seat of Flintshire County Council that sits on a hill, above Mold town centre.

The Mold EP will be launched at a hometown gig at Theatr Clwyd, Mold on Friday, 3rd. March. We’ll be joined by our friends Campfire Social and Skellums. Tickets are £7 and available here:

https://www.theatrclwyd.com/en/whats-on/headliner-rock-night/

Mold EP tracklisting (r/d 3rd March 2017):

1.	What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?
2.	Light Dimensions
3.	Tremble
4.	Manbuoy

If you have any further enquiries, please contact:

theimmediateband@gmail.com

http://facebook.com/theimmediate
http://twitter.com/the_immediate

There is a YouTube video telling the story of the band so far, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtERsE3ihDg

We originally split in 1997 due to frustration, an argument over a mouth organ and the success of Stereophonics.

We released one single (unaccountably popular in Sweden), made every conceivable mistake in the How To Be A Successful Indie Band handbook, toured with some excellent bands (Mansun, 60ft Dolls, Dodgy) and flickered out, leaving behind the memory of some great gigs, a few fine songs, and little else.

In March 2016, we reconvened to repair friendships and renew tinnitus. New songs came much more easily than the old ones, probably because we are playing to please only ourselves - with no thoughts of success or acclaim - for the first time in our existence.

There is more truth and resonance in our songs now than ever before. And power. And invention. We write songs about hope and love in the face of the moribund, daily grind. 

You will possibly hear fragments and echoes of the following artists in our sound (The Jam, Wire, XTC, Pixies, Badfinger, REM, Dr Feelgood, Small Faces, Husker Du, The Who, Ride, Big Star, The Cure, Joy Formidable, The Go-Betweens, Teenage Fanclub), but nothing has been plagiarised or misappropriated to mask a deficiency of our own ideas.

Don‘t stop, it's rave o'clock. 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/55XGspWrZVgVv7kWJXgL2D?si=vf7DclKdTH28g5mVRNM92g

My music is atmospheric and invites you to float. For the duration of my track you live completely in the here and now.
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