Dandelion Radio

Coming up in May

13 shows feature in May's 26-hour looping schedule, with sessions from former Hefner member Jack Hayter (for Andy); Don Trust (on Peter Nelson's show); Ruth Bellamy (for Mark Cunliffe); and Mark Whitby celebrating five years as a Dandelion DJ with a session from Dalmatian Rex And The Eigentones. Peter Nelson also introduces his second reggae-themed 'Dandelion Roots', plus there's a "nuggets special" from Sean Hocking - in addition to his regular show - in which he plays tracks he bought and heard on the John Peel show in the late 1970s and early '80s. See broadcast times of all May's shows here.
 

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Andrew Morrison:
Andy's 2-hour May show features the second session for his show from former Hefner member Jack Hayter. New music includes Breton, The Twilight Sad, Rival Consoles, Mint Julep, Yeti Lane, Errors and Scuba. Teresa has a Tasty Tip; Scott picks a Funky Five Minutes; plus there a classic session track from July 2010 by Block 45, now known as ?Redo From Start.

Jeff Grainger:
Jeff pops in for an hour during May to delight our ears with songs by Group Doueh, The Real Don Steele, Death And Vanilla, Organs Of Love & Madteo amongst others. There's the very welcome return, to the show, of our dear friends Wolfram Wire and Alisia Casper. Plus, in anticipation of Stranger Son of WB's exclusive session next month, there's a track from the rather brilliant Luna Marseille LP.
Enjoy!

Marcelle:
'Vinyl!'
This show sees Marcelle play her usual mix of vinyl: lots of new releases and some reissues. There's a great post-punk compilation on Caroline True Records, some gospel and African music from the Mississippi label, new cumbia from Batika, new 12"s from amongst others Hey-O-Hansen, Nick Dunton remixed by Sandwell District, Objekt, Wolfgang Voigt and Malorix, new albums from amongst others Black Dice, Goth-Trad and Institut Fuer Feinmotorik.
Truly old vinyl are three Look Back Bore records released exactly 30 years ago (Cabaret Voltaire, Theatre Of Hate and Minny Pops). The Wax Across The Water sent to Marcelle by fellow Dandelion DJ Paul Ackroyd is the excellent electronica of NHK'Koyxen.

Mark Cunliffe:
It's May and as the UK warms up quicker than my old school's 70 year old coal boiler, what tracks have I got to put fire in your belly?

Torro Torro is going to be heading to the hearing aid clinic if he carries on the way he's going. Gappy Ranks is taking us back to Hogmanay and Untold has a good feeling about Gappy's resolutions. Holly Golightly isn't impressed with her new boyfriend but Sonara doesn't care a jot. Post have erected a statue of Mario Balotelli after wise words from Graham Coxon and Bier needs some antibiotics which has blown Mackai away. Finally, there is Ruth Bellamy's second session for my show......straight FIRE!!!......

Mark Whitby:
It's five years since my first show on Dandelion Radio, and to commemorate this there's a session from one of my favourite bands of the period, Dalmatian Rex and the Eigentones, as well as new releases from other show favourites including Llamatron, Best Coast, Venetian Snares, White Hills and Grass Widow.
We play another track from the forthcoming album by The Sinatra Test, new tunes from former Hefner members ANT and Jack Hayter and the latest in a great line of Hungarian discoveries, Opus Null. There's a couple of tracks from the split 10" EP featuring The Movements and The Angry Dead Pirates, new releases from Wave Pictures and Evans The Death some wonderfully spaced out stylings courtesy of Heavy Hippies, a track from Burkina Faso's WAGA 3000 and loads more.
Finally, in the retrospective corner, a couple of releases from the amazing Mississippi Records, some classic Trojan ska, my pick of the Dandelion schedule of five years ago from Gusto Extermination Fluid and the result of a twenty-year long search for my favourite great lost band, Leigh's Those Naughty Corinthians.

Paul Ackroyd:
A bunch of new Mississippi bits in this month's show, including long-players from Alkibar Gignor and Henry Thomas, an ace new gospel compilation, and a collection of Anatolian and Levantine music from 1928-1952; new things from Actress, Ben Vida, SND, 2562, Regis, and NHK'Koyxen; reissue stuff from Vatican Shadow, Akos Rozmann, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins; Oubys in Wax Across The Water; and a load more stuff for good measure ...

Pete Jackson:
Pete returns with a bumper three hours, featuring new releases from old favourites like Sea Dweller, The Wedding Present, Dementio13, White Hills and Lord Numb alongside new releases from new favourites including The Chasms new side-project Sandfingers, plus Death To Pigs, Full Toilet, Piresian Beach and Iconaclass.
Throw in a couple of classics, including one from 1932 (!), and you'll start thinking he should take a month off more often ...

Peter Nelson:
I have two shows this month. You can find me in both "Eclectic Music For Mind And Bodhi" and "Dandelion Roots".

Rocker:
This month's three-hour show features new albums by Evans The Death and Cats On Fire, plus new tracks from The Blanche Hudson Weekend; Allo Darlin'; The Nightingales; Veronica Falls; The Wake; Downdime; The Just Joans; The Rosie Taylor Project; and Dead Mellotron.
There's also electronica from Squarepusher; Marco Bailey & Tom Hades; Microtrauma; and Pinch. The Dualers take on Prince Buster, while Rone remixes Max Cooper.
There's a newly re-recorded track from The Wolfhounds, and both Standard Fare and Tender Trap come up with new recordings of songs they first recorded in sessions for this show.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is a slice of rock'n'roll from 1957, while this month's Educating Elizabeth 7" is a Northern Soul classic from 1966 by Doris Troy.
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: Doris Troy is best remembered by Northern Soul fans for her early American releases, including the 1966 classic "I'll Do Anything", but she went on to have a long and varied career, including backing many artists as a member of The Sweet Inspirations, a harmony vocal trio which also included Cissy Houston and Dee-Dee Warwick. She moved to England in 1969, and recorded a solo album on The Beatles' Apple label, she also recorded backing vocals on Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon', and Nick Drake's 'Bryter Later'.

Sean Hocking:
There are two shows from me this month.
In the regular show, Hong Kong Garden takes in a wide arc around the Pacific Rim.
First we take in the latest electronic dub from Los Angeles, we then head north to Portland OR and the city's current favorite underground band. Then a hop over the Pacific to Hong Kong and mainland China for My Little Airport and 24 Hours. Then it's time for our latest discovery on Maybe Mars Records, Traveller, who manage to sound like a contemporary Chinese version of Traffic.
We then head down to Sydney via a couple of quick stops in Thailand and Bali for some 70's funk and nineties chilled house respectively until we end up in the harbour city for some of the best new electronic music around at the moment.

As a bonus there is an extra show - Sean Hocking's Nuggets.
Around the same time as I started listening to Peel, in mid 1977, I heard rumours about this amazing double album by the guitarist of the Patti Smith group (in those days I had no idea that he had a name! Lenny Kaye) where there was all this music from the late sixties that sounded not too dissimilar to punk rock , or so the rumours led me to believe.
There then followed 2 years of fruitless searching for this most mysterious of records until i eventually tracked it down at a tiny record store hidden at the point where the North End Road meets the Fulham road sometime in 1980 and I spent the huge sum of 40 pounds on the Sire double album re-issue which to this day is still worth every penny spent on it.
Since then my early days of listening to Peel and this album have somehow been intertwined in my musical brain although to my knowledge he never actually played any of the album on his show.
So .. by a hop skip and a jump I have decided to create the first of my nuggets shows which tries to re-create what Kaye did with his collection by applying it to what I heard on the Peel show but also what I dug up in local record stores around the south of England in the late seventies and early 80s.
Some of these songs are bone-fide Peel favourites and some are just music from the period that i feel has been sorely ignored.

Yank Sizzler:
I love the month of May cause endless summer nights are just around the corner! So dig in with me on a ton of new releases that I have for you this month!
There's songs from The Hips, Extra Classic, Writer, Smith's Cloud, Hospitality, La Sera & many more.
Also we delve into wonderful new albums from Spiritualized and Soko along with insanely good compilations of 1960's Jamaican gospel music and a local punk feast that is Replay Records' "Cheap Bear" LP.
Now pass me a PBR.