Happy New Year from Dockrad Records! Blwyddyn Newydd Dda pawb!
News of Howl Griff's New Year's Eve Single...

Hope you enjoyed our Howl Griff and Volent releases last year - which you can hear on our Soundcloud site - https://soundcloud.com/dockrad-records . Singer-songwriter Volent has a new EP with electronic influences out in March called 'Broken Promises' check out www.facebook.com/VolenteOfficialPage for updates...and in the meantime here's the great story below of Dockrad's Howl Griff being the first band to be played anywhere in the world in 2013! More info and video at www.howlgriff.com and from Wales online here: http://tinyurl.com/a4vc4cq . You can follow us on Twitter @DockradRecords or on Facebook.com/DockradRecords or visit www.dockrad.com

Diolch am ein cefnogi drwy'r flwyddyn! Dyma stori gwych isod am Howl Griff a sut mai nhw fydd y band cyntaf i gael eu chwarae unrhywle yn y byd yn 2013! Mwy o wybodaeth a gwyliwch y fideo yma - www.howlgriff.com , neu yma arlein gan y Western Mail http://tinyurl.com/a4vc4cq . Mae yna EP newydd electroneg gan Volent allan cyn bo hir ym mis Mawrth o'r enw 'Broken Promises' gwyliwch www.facebook.com/VolenteOfficialPage am newyddion a gwyliwch y gofod am cynnyrch Cymraeg yn ofuan. Gallwch ein dilyn ar Twitter @DockradRecords neu Facebook.com/DockradRecords neu gwelwch www.dockrad.com

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Unique New Years single International Dateline celebrates a year since Samoa crossed timezones and lost December 30th

Welsh band Howl Griff are set to become the first band played on the radio in the year 2013, as Samoan radio prepares to play their unique single, International Dateline, at the stroke of midnight on New Years Day 2013.

Thanks to the fact that Samoa sees in the New Year before any other country, it will make the Welsh-Anglo-American four-piece the first music broadcast in 2013.

The single is all about Samoa, with its lyrics celebrating the countrys decision to hop one day forward last year, aligning their calendar with Australia and New Zealand rather than America. They skipped 30 December 2012, moving straight from 29 December to New Years Eve.

The catchy song, a live favourite for the critically-acclaimed band, is being release to coincide with the first anniversary of this event. It is the second single from the album Fragile Diamond, which has received airplay across many UK radio stations and a torrent of positive reviews.

We were fascinated by the idea of Samoa jumping westwards and skipping a day, missing out December 30, says the groups singer, Hywel Griffiths. So we wrote a song about it.

We were interested in the implications of the move the way Samoa seemed to be stepping away from American influence and towards one more in line with New Zealand, and it led to us writing the lyrics Im changing my mind and crossing the line/ making the time up to you, and I feel one day younger.

When we play gigs in Cardiff or London, we always explain that the song is about Samoa, and it gets people really interested in the fact that they lost a day. One person at a gig said they were glad they hadnt done it here, because December 30 was her birthday.

It is a very danceable, fun song, and it always gets the crowds going, in London or Cardiff. Maybe one day well get to play it in Samoa, or New Zealand. That would be amazing.

You get a lot of Christmas singles, but this is probably the first ever New Years single. Wed love it could get played in Samoa as they watch the New Year dawn. We feel close to the Samoan people too, because theyre always beating us at rugby.