Head Trip 5th Anniversary Weekend Show – Kelvyn Williams

Head Trip is a two-hour radio show hosted by Kelvyn Williams that showcases underground, eclectic music, spanning post-punk, shoegaze, indie, experimental, genre-blurring music. The show leans heavily into DIY, avant-garde and alternative tracks with its wide-ranging, leftfield taste. You’ll find rare cuts, obscure gems, ambient experiments and bold new names. In short, Head Trip is a deep-dive experience of underground music discovery, perfect for music explorers and fans of alternative audio journeys.

Kelvyn did 50 Head Trip shows for Eardrum Buzz Radio and then decided to take a break from his regular fortnightly shows but has come back to the station for occasional one-offs, such as best of the year and anniversary shows.

Kelvyn has been in bands or recorded solo material throughout his life, appearing on S4C (the Welsh-language TV channel in the UK) as the rhythm guitarist of Welsh-language band Angladd Huwcyn, who released a successful album back in 1989. Kelvyn then went on to promote Welsh-language gigs in North Wales and has also promoted gigs in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Kelvyn has also worked for a major music promoter in Northern Ireland, putting on gigs as varied as Enon, JohnAbercrombie, The Unthanks, Lau, The Thing, Polar Bear, Dirty Projectors and lots more.

Kelvyn also records as mwydu, and electronic/noise/experimental project and in The Heavy Light Experiment, a duo with Georgia-based artist Albert Gresens. They have released a few tracks through the Sashimmy Records label. Mwydu’s output has mainly been self-released through Bandcamp but he also released the Ymyriadau Effeithiol EP in April 2018, which was the second release on Brighton’s Shore Dive Records label. The five track EP blends electronic drone, improvised rock, acid techno and dub tinged bass. Inspiration was drawn from 1970s hard rock, the quiet ambience of small seaside living, and experimental distorted electronic drums. Critics described it as “a long EP full of ominous dark techno landscapes” and “an expression of a chaotically intellectual musicologist’s mind”.

Mwydu has also remixed Beatastic’s Nothing Will Be The Same Next Year and Aura Zorba’s The Searcher, both released through Shore Dive Records.

Kelvyn’s all-time favourites:

Band: Mudhoney

Album: The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy

Song: Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy

SETLIST:

1. The Jesus and Mary Chain – The Living End (Psychocandy, Blanco Y Negro, 1985)
2. Swim School – Delirious (Duality & Seeing It Now, LAB Records, 2024)
3. Chimers – Breaker (S/T, self-released, 2021)
4. James and The Cold Gun – Face in the Mirror (Face in the Mirror, Loosegroove Records, 2025)
5. Objections – The Lurker (Optimistic Sizing, Wrong Speed Records, 2024)
6. Junk Drawer – Nids Niteca (Days of Heaven, Pizza Pizza Records, 2025)
7. Model/Actriz – Doves (Pirouette, True Panther Sounds, 2025)
8. The Fall – (Jung Nev’s) Antidotes (The Marshall Suite, Artful Records, 1999)
9. Slow Crush – Cherry (Thirst, Pure Noise Records, 2025)
10. Glare – Nü Burn (Sunset Funeral, Deathwish Inc., 2025)
11. Green Star – Blades of Steel (Bleeding Swirls, GSR Records, 2025)
12. Cameron Graves – Mansion Worlds (Seven, Mack Avenue Records, 2021)
13. Lucy Railton – Phase II (Blue Veil, Ideologic Organ, 2025)
14. Penelope Trappes – Torc (A Requiem, One Little Independent Records, 2025)
15. Yo La Tengo – Little Eyes (Summer Sun, Matador, 2003)
16. Momma – Double Dare (Two of Me, Danger Collective Records, 2020)
17. Say Sue Me – Time Is Not Yours (Time Is Not Yours, Damnably, 2025)
18. The Bug Club – Appropriate Emotions (Very Human Features, Sub Pop, 2025)
19. Tristwch y Fenywod – Ferch Gyda’r Llygaid Du (Tristwch Y Fenywod, Night School, 2024)
20. Ffa Coffi Pawb – Valium (Dalec Peilon, Ara Deg, 2025)
21. Sister Wives – YnCanu (YnCanu, Libertino Records,2025)
22. The Alarm – Absolute Reality (Strength, IRS Records, 1985)
23. Mclusky – People Person (The World Is Still Here and So Are We, Ipecac Recordings, 2025)
24. Pissed Jeans – People Person (Hope for Men, Sub Pop, 2007)
25. Max Jury – Feel Free (Avenue, Sonder House, 2023)
26. The Velvet Underground – Who Loves the Sun (Loaded, Cotillon, 1970)
27. Lael Neale – Return to Me Now (Star Eaters Delight, Sub Pop, 2023)