Texas Radio Band

Texas Radio Band was a Welsh indie rock band formed in the late 1990s by Matthew and Rhodri in the south Wales village of Llansteffan, near Carmarthen. The band sang in both English and Welsh. Beginning by jamming at each other's houses on guitar, keyboards and bass, they took their name from The Doors' album track Texas Radio & The Big Beat. The members of the band included Matthew Williams (vocals, guitar), Rhydian 'Squids' Jones (bass), Alex Dingley (guitar), Rhodri Davies (keyboards), Gruff Ifan (drums) and Brychan England (percussion). According to the discogs website, the band have not released any new material since 2011. 
==Links to Peel==
Peel played the band's debut single, Love Is Informal, in 2002 and would play further material from them in 2004, especially tracks from their Baccta' Crackin' album. After Peel's death, Rob Da Bank mentioned before introducing Texas Radio Band's, Chwareon, on his 30th December 2004 show that Peel frequently said that he'd always wished he'd learned Welsh.
==Festive Fifty Entries==
*2004 Festive Fifty: Chwareon (Bwtleg) #12
==Shows Played==
;2002
*28 February 2002: Love Is Informal (single) Boobytrap
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*18 February 2004: 'Love Is Informal (LP - Baccta' Crackin')' (Slacyr)
*11 March 2004: Baccta' Crackin' (LP - Baccta' Crackin') Slacyr
*11 May 2004: Love Is Informal (LP - Baccta' Crackin') Slacyr
*18 August 2004: "Chwareon" (v/a LP - 'The North South Divine') - (FF Vinyl)
*30 December 2004 (Rob Da Bank): 'Chwareon (Bwtleg)Rob Da Bank mistakenly refers the track as Chwareon Bootleg Pepe Le Pew, forgetting that Pepe Le Pew was another Welsh band who were on that compilation album. (v/a album - Gigs, Chips, A 'Trip' Mews Tacsi) Maes B FF #12
==External Links==
*BBC Wales Music
*Discogs
==References==
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