Anyone got a line on Steve Jones?

No, not the Sex Pistols guitarist. The recently booted host of The X Factor, who would really come in quite handy at the moment. Though the 34-year-old former model is also something of a sex pistol, come to think of it.

What was I on about?

Oh, right — I could use someone familiar with the Welsh language, and Steve Jones was the first countryman from across the pond that came to mind. See, I recently received a very nice email from Geraint Pickard of Clinigol, a pop band from Cardiff, Wales, that he formed with his brother, Aled, a few years ago. “We invite guests to sing on our tracks,” says Geraint, who’s also an actor and a newsreader/announcer for the BBC. “Often the guests are big names on the Welsh language music scene, but as you’ve never heard of them, or won’t understand a word of what we’re on about, it just leaves you with the music, which we think is rather good.”

Geraint is biased, but he’s right. Clinigol recently released their sophomore album, Discopolis, and I’m now under the spell of “Gwna Beth Sydd Rhaid,” a track that features Welsh actress/singer Carys Eleri on vocals. The swirling synthpop number wouldn’t have sounded out of place on Kylie Minogue’s Aphrodite. Well, except for the whole being-sung-in-Welsh bit. No doubt Kylie has people that would have swiftly handled the song’s translation to English, so she might have been none the wiser of its Welsh origins.

Since I don’t have people to do such things, “Gwna Beth Sydd Rhaid” could be about hanging laundry on the clothesline. But lesser pop tunes have been sung about more banal subjects, no? So no need to chase after Steve Jones for a hand. In this instance, ignorance is pure pop bliss:

I know everyone’s on about K-Pop these days, but two gentlemen from Cardiff might just turn the world on to W-Pop.

Purchase Clinigol feat. Carys Eleri – “Gwna Beth Sydd Rhaid” via iTunes, Amazon MP3.