Artist Profile

Huw Stephens

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Agent: Sinan Ors

Huw joined Radio 1 at the extremely young age of 17 and has since gone from strength to strength. Huw now presents on BBC Radio 1 Wednesday 9-10pm, playing the most extraordinary new and emerging, weird and wonderful music as well as pulling together the highlights from the UK’s BBC Introducing shows. He also hosts his own show on Radio 1 (Thursday 0000-0200) which concentrates on the finest new music and unpredictable emerging talent. Huw regularly deputises for Zane Lowe and Jo Whiley.

Being very proudly Welsh and with the language being his mother tongue, he presents two shows a week on C2 for BBC Radio Cymru, the Welsh language radio station, playing the best new music. He contributes to the Welsh and UK media regularly, including BBC News and an appearance on Mastermind.

He is the host for Bandit on S4C, the flagship music show for the TV station where he interviews bands, musicians and reports from all the festivals. Huw has also travelled to Texas for the South by South West festival, Iceland, the Netherlands, Venezuela, Patagonia, LA, and Norway to report on the music and cultural scene.

Not limited to just Radio and Television, Huw also writes reviews and articles for various magazines, newspapers and is always asked for his professional opinion on new bands for all types of press. He has written for the NME, Guaridan, Independent, Mirror, Barn, Planet, Cambria and writes a regular column for Kruger Magazine.

His career started with him presenting his own show on hospital radio, getting the independent label Ankst to kindly sponsor his show with records and CDs, which he played to an audience expecting to hear Bryan Adams. He answered phones on BBC Radio Cymru shows, listened to the radio, managed a band, wrote reviews for local magazines, bought music and went to as many gigs as he could until he met Bethan Elfyn who he went on to co-present the Radio 1 Session in Wales show with. The show highlighted the best underground and alternative releases of the day, concentrating on the vibrant and eclectic music scene in Wales.

Huw has DJ'd at Sonar in Barcelona, Venezuela, Latitude, Glastonbury, The Big Chill, the National Eisteddfod, Camp Bestival, Wakestock and compères at gigs, clubs and festivals, including the Radio 1 and main stage at Reading, Glastonbury and LATITUDE (where he also curates the Lake Stage).