Andrew Morrison:
Andy's March show features an exclusive session from his hot new US discovery Raw Milk, and the first ever play of tracks from the forthcoming second album by Samuraj Cities. There's further new music from Eliza, The Race, Errors and Bloc Party, along with unsigned music from Galchen, The War Crimes, Lassus, Small Engine Repair and The Spinoza State. Scott's Funky Five Minutes has a cinematic theme, and Andy's Old Chestnut is a Middle Eastern-influenced gem from 1988. Listen in for all this and more!

Jeff Grainger:
A full voiced Mr Grainger presents March's two hour show with the usual subtlety and aplomb that only he, dear listener, is convinced his shows contain. However, the Record label End of the Road does provide three fantastic examples of its catalogue. There are tracks from the newly released album's of Polly Scattergood and Amadou & Mariam, shoegazing Japanese style from Kervey Heithel, delicious Deep House from Phlash & Friends. Plus tracks by DJ Blackfoot, Passion Pit, Small Engine Repair & Vegan Abortion.
Wolfram Wire provides this show with an exclusive session - well half of one anyway. As for the first time on Dandelion Radio, a session is to be split over two shows in the same month. You will be able to hear the second part on Mark Whitby's Show elsewhere in this month's schedule. Speaking of sessions Machine Boy's excellent exclusive from last year gets another whirl. And finally - Finally!! Oldham's Dandelion Radio Night's recieves a well earned promotion from Thursday to Saturday Nights. Starting 16th May @ The Castle Union St (see News/Events Page) And as a cunning plug; two of the acts on the bill (Hotpant's Romance and Town Bike) get air play. Town Bike also presents us with this months Featured LP with their fantastic 'Go! Fight! Win!
Just in case you thought this wasn't enough, top myspace find - Alisia Casper - opens her Dandelion Radio account.

Katherine Godfrey:
This month Katherine was a victim of crime. Some evil laptop thief is now enjoying all the tracks from February's show. Hope they had the decency to listen in. But with a shiny new machine and plenty of fresh music there are definitely no crimes against music in March's show. (Oh dear, what a line).
Helping you bounce your way through the month like a newborn lamb will be choice bass lines from Kutz, Emalkay, and N Type. First Aid Kit, Mike Bones, and Mark Durgan are perfect for days spent lying out on a meadow, or a particularly grassy roundabout, whichever's closest. If you're feeling more intrepid, you can explore the jungle beats of Rainbow Arabia.

Marcelle:
That most intriguing of all instruments: the car horn

After championing in her previous shows the luxurious sounds of medieval instruments, crying and farting babies and pissing rats, in her current show Marcelle puts the spotlight on the rhythmic force that is the car horn.
Amazingly the car horn features prominently both on a second hand African record and a new dance album on the Tigerbass label Marcelle got in the space of only half an hour! The revered club deejay also plays a wonderful dubstep record with a classic and emotional sample: the spoken introduction to the 1979 Misty In Roots live album - which was also used on the order of service of John Peel's funeral.
Less special but none the less very worth playing is the Johnny Osbourne sample in a German drum 'n' bass track. Aardvarck goes for a Upsetters reworking and a Scotsman gets into financial trouble in a Barcelona pub. There's wonderful black hip hop poetry, turntablism form Belgium and a thirteen year old spiritual singer. Marcelle even 'plays' a book on this month's show, courtesy of a Sonic Youth exhibition.
The Look Back Bore Records of 'this' month (March 1979) feature a 7" on an upcoming Liverpool label and a first 12" and LP by two bands which went to even greater things. Marcelle has always been cutting out reviews and articles and putting them in the record sleeves. About this LP she reads in a Sounds review, dated 24th March 1979: 'primal rock and roll at it strangest best'.
Marcelle's March 2009 show comes with a 77% vinyl guarantee.

Mark Cunliffe:
As we move into March spring feelings are erupting everywhere. With this new sense of enthusiasm comes enhanced energy and vigour. Fights outside Chonkers bar in Derby's South side have almost trebled since January which is the clearest indication yet, spring is happily springing......

So, what can we expect from Mr Cunliffe this month? There's a jumbled up plane in the offing. He's taken the risk of having both Wiley AND Durrty Goodz on the show but he's DEFINITELY NOT taking them to Chonkers! Tony Rebel's thinking about sticking a magnet on his electric meter. Mark gets a taste of Balkan....Milan?!? from Figil di Madre Ignota. Zomby has been short changed on his beverage and there is some Perfect reggae. He has a band that thinks they're a HORSE? There's a Suicide and it's alcohol related. Brotherman bigs up all mothers, that's not just the Derby punk band but ALL of them. Finally, Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit MIGHT be advertising Viagra....but probably not.....

Mark Whitby:
Mark Whitby's restless travelling of the globe leaves him even more breathless than usual in March - and that's after receiving the new Town Bike album from just down the road (for him at least) in Liverpool.
From Germany, Wolfram Wire fly in with a split session (find the other half in Jeff Grainger's fine show). Faunts fry up some mellow Canadian bacon in the kitchen while Fever Ray and First Aid Kit provide a Swedish sonic massage (steady) in the conservatory; Japanese legends Mono showcase a track from their new album in the porch, and Hungarian industrialists Waste Disposal Machine and Bashed Nursling, scrape off the rest of the pig's behind in what sounds like a back shed converted into an abbatoir.
Elsewhere, you'll find fab new tracks from Whitby faves like Kittens Ablaze, Over The Wall and Electromagnetic Impulses and something reassuringly loud from seasoned noisemakers The Hunches and Endometrium Cuntplow

Matt Jones:
The basic version of this month would be 'a show of songs and a bit of talking'. A fancier one could sound like 'two hours of electric light, orchestrated in a most aurally pleasing manner' - You'll have to listen to see which description is most apt. Either way, there is new releases galore, from the brilliant Dalek, the lovely Pier and the really rather special improvisational genius of Children of the Drone amongst others. It's always a great pleasure to bring to the airwaves material from the Jahtari Records stable and this month showcases as yet unreleased tunes from Soom T and Mungo's Hifi as well as new material from Disrupt - Reggae and the Commodore 64 were never so well matched ...
Elsewhere, there is a first airing of the brilliant Lancaster band One Chip Potato, an exclusive track from Dubit and not least, some music by the world's best band ever... Who's that? Listen and all will be revealed ...

Pete Jackson:
Pete's March show has as many different flavours of Rock as there are seaside resorts in North Lincolnshire (about three, then) - garage from The Federals, doomy epic from Boulder Damn, psychedelic from The Lucid Dream and -abilly from The Hyperjax and The Cramps, to mark the passing of the genius that was Lux Interior.
If all that axe-spanking fills you with the fear, then don't worry, there's still loads of bleepy, beaty noisiness from the likes of Frederic De Carvalho,The Upbeats and Lord Numb to take the edge off.

Rachael Neiman:
In the March 'Rachael Neiman Experience' we have some gorgeous shiny new indiepop from The Wendy Darlings, Brontosaurus Chorus, My Sad Captains and The Fox and The Bramble, some super Norwichcore from Chickedy and McGuffin, Uh Ohs, Cold Front and The Kabeedies, a track from the magnificent new album by pop perfectionists Town Bike and the first radio play ever for a brand new track by Ste Mccabe.
Elsewhere we preview two upcoming festivals, Manchester's I Bike festival and the Breeders curated All Tomorrow’s Parties, and play a couple of the bands playing at each.

Rocker:
As usual a three-hour show with loads of new music from such acts as The Wendy Darlings; Girls; Jay Electronica; My Teenage Stride; Sad Day For PUPPETS; Saint Sweetheart; Christy & Emily; and Modern Grates.
This month there's a plethora of tracks from forthcoming and current LPs, including those by Town Bike; Camera Obscura; Knight School; MJ Hibbett & the Validators; The Hartmans; Comet Gain; Downdime; Butcher Boy; and Booker T Jones - yes that's right, he will shortly be releasing his first solo LP for over 20 years! There's also an 18-minute track from current Krautrock faves S/T.
Following the recent sad death of Lux Interior, there's a vintage track by The Cramps. There's also dubstep from Herd; Mount Kimbie; and Sound Safari - plus electronica from Aymen & Niko Ivanes; and Marc Romboy; while Azzido De Bass vs Smallboy are let loose on The Brighton Port Authority featuring a vocal by Emmy The Great.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is produced & arranged by Lee Scratch Perry, while this month's Educating Elizabeth disc is straight out of The Guinness Book Of Records - but NOT The Guinness Book Of Hit Singles - yet!
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: "The original poem 'Too Many Teardrops' was set to music by ? and the Mysterions as '69 Tears'. The band soon realised that a song of this name would never receive any radio play, so the title was changed to '96 Tears', becoming a US number one record in 1966".

Andrew Morrison:
Andy's 2-hour February show offers much more than the sum of its parts.
Small Crew are exclusive session guests, providing four excellent new tracks. Brand new music comes from The Race, Y Diwygiad, James Yuill, Joy Formidable and Shortwave Fade as well as a storming new remix of a Bomb The Bass classic. There's striking sounds from Andy's unsigned new find Raw Milk, and further unsigned tracks from Galchen, The War Crimes and others. Add Scott's Funky Five Minutes and Teresa's Tasty Tips into the equation, and there really is no reason not to factor the show into your leisure time calculations this
February!

Jeff Grainger:
Jeff croaks his way through his first show of 2009 with thankfully enough brilliant tunes to distract you, dear listener, from the fact he totally lost his voice, to tonsillitis, the day after he recorded this show.
Jeff will be playing some of this months and recent releases; Carosel, A Middle
Sex. The Joy Formidable and Headless Heroes. Along with some 'Northern Soul', 'Dub' and a few freebies; I Have Clones, red steers and Healey Island.
The countdown to The 'All Tomorrows Parties' Festival gives him the ideal opportunity to play classic tracks by Throwing Muses and Shellac. There'll be a small tribute to folk singer Odetta, who sadly died at the end of last year and for reasons that will be most apparent; a track by Julie London.

Katherine Godfrey:
Katherine's first show for Dandelion was recorded in a loft during a storm. Listen carefully and you'll hear the wind howling across the microphone. Or is that just the dark, atmospheric soundscapes of music from Italy's Alampo records?
Keeping your ears toasty warm this February will be music from Torsten Profrock, Tanlines, Ala Muerte, and a featured EP from Oxford newbies Ute, whilst Action Beat will be crashing onto the airwaves with the force of a hurricane in the featured album for the month The Noise Band from Bletchley.
With Distance and Reso's foundation shaking dubstep, and the glorious clatter of Hawks, Yowie and K.I.T. in the mix, you'd better batten down the hatches.

Marcelle:
The good old medieval days

Marcelle displays in her new show a keen interest for music made years, even centuries ago. She plays an electronic music musician who draws his inspiration from 17th century baroque instruments and reveals which British band who dabbled in 14th century Italy ,eh, only 18 years ago.
She has a Zomby in her show, and Animals: An innocent little dog opens her show, appearing in an oil drum and Suicidal Birds fly side on side with Nightingales. 26 giants make an appearance alongside kung fu zulus. Men are also welcomed, especially as they use a John Peel sample in of their tracks. The Chicks in this month's show are On Speed and sing that everything is alright.
Marcelle investigates which song is a certain 'party ruiner' and champions Monty
Python-esque words like 'Libythth' and 'Vinkepeezer'. She laughingly plays a 78 RPM record on 33 1/3 RPM and gets pushed aside twice by a very strong Cardopusher in three hours.
The Look Back Bore Records Of The Month (February 1979) are oddly shaped and an eight minute reggae cover. By the end of the show we speak French and come to the conclusion that we have drunk one beer too much; no wonder Mark
E. Smith appeared twice in the show. With so many musical adventures we can only say: I Tank U. (77% Vinyl Guarantee)

Mark Cunliffe:
We are getting nicely into the New Year now and that resolution to cut back your food intake by only eating the filling of Custard Creams is getting a bit shaky. So far it's only been a whole Bourbon but a full Custie is only a matter of time....
So what do we have in this months show? King Clarentz does some seductive cooking and we get down to some punctuation in the Ghetto. Asian Dub Foundation sit on the fence for once and regret it with some singed crack hairs. Tigerstyle and Panjabi MC go dhol to dhol in a classic bhangra face off. Maga Bo & Xuman might have well been the pyromaniacs who set Asian Dub Foundation's fence (and arse hairs) on fire. Radio Datacha might be flying in something that sounds a bit like a sectioned helicopter and Spektre has gone planting banana skins around the cosmos....what are they on? Black Acid finds Amy Winehouse on the roadside and we have a live special from a band who's line-up changes completely from gig to gig, that band is God Has Tits If you're still on the reduced Custie diet then congratulations, it's a filling diet....

Mark Whitby:
For the small price of spending three hours in Mark Whitby's company this February, you'll be able to hear an exclusive advance four-track preview of Welsh/Antipodean project Cwtch as well as tracks from new and forthcoming albums by Toykult, Filastine, Fol Chen and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. There's also a little something from the double EP by Beirut and (brace yourselves) a cassette-only release from the magnificent Twin Lion.
Sonic Youth join us to say a fond farewell to Ron Asheton, while Cosmo Vs Flapsandwich say a less tearful TTFN to George W Bush. You'll find Fuck
Buttons remixing Fever Ray, a Qemists remix and a good solid hard dose of electronic noise from the likes of Schaua, Androgyn Network and NoNewYork. Plus a load of bands with "dogs" in their name, Well, two anyway.

Matt Jones:
The boy Jones is back with 2 hours of music to banish the misery of the worst month of the year. February is accepted by all known life forms as rubbish, but happily, the likes of Mrs Cakehead and Dilworth bring some strange sub tropical Lancashire warmth to those of you feeling the winter is a never ending lead weight dragging your soul further into a tarry mire of misery.
Strangeness and joy abounds still further as the gleeful mania of 3Sachetti competes with the schizoid delights of RomanianMyth for your attention and love.
Elsewhere in the show, there is the little matter of hiphop, balkan brass, assorted forms of clicks and beats, a sprinkling of brand new dubstep and some lovely folk from Senegal. Oh, and another corking tune from the ever fantastic RevPorl. All in all, it's better than a kick in the face with a wet stick.

Pete Jackson:
February, like Atilla The Hun, is known for being short and cruel, so let's liven things up with an amazing session from the extraordinaryLord Numb, a whole bunch of new craziness from Bordeaux's second-greatest export Boxon Records, some noises made in the 1960s and 70s in Japan, Jamaica and Fort Lauderdale, Florida and some equally wonderous noises made more recently in Wales by Recordiau Safon Uchel and in Newton-Le-Willows by 13 Amp.
We'll also tip our hat to mark the passing of garage guitar god Ron Asheton with some classicStooges.

Rachael Neiman:
After missing our January show, 'The Rachael Neiman Experience' returns for a jam-packed 2-hours in February with fabulous new art pop from Vanilla Ride, Shrag, Cats In Paris, And What Will Be Left Of Them, The Teenagers, Das
Wanderlust, Monocle Rose and 2 Hot 2 Sweat, glorious indiepop from The San Marinos, The Give It Ups, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Procedure Club, Foxes, Sparky's Magic Piano, Help Stamp Out Loneliness, Hari and Aino, The
Lucksmiths and the latest single by Norwichcore heroes Bearsuit. Elsewhere we have jaunty pop from The Momeraths, The Loves and Lucky Delucci, riot grrrl goodness from Fever Fever and Stilletoes, melancholy pop from Tiger MCs and The Grizzly Owls and dramatic pop from Amanda Palmer. We also have two tracks from our featured compilation, A Place In Space, released on Invisible Girl Records from Elevation and Hektor.

Rocker:
A three-hour show with three fantastic featured LPs - by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Nightingales, and Emmy The Great. There's also new tracks from such acts as Clockwork Four; Phil Wilson; She Keeps Bees; Cats On Fire; Knight School; Mascot Fight; Lean Tales; The Mai 68s; and The Wednesday Club. There's a new single from Penetration, as well as a vintage Pauline Murray track, there's also a gloriously messed-up remix of a track from the current Grace Jones LP, as well as her gloriously messed-up 29-year-old cover of a post-punk classic.
There's dubstep from Wireman and Quarta 330, and electro / house from Dusty Kid; Milton Jackson and Sei A; and an amazing remix of Rennie Foster by Youngsters. There's also vintage soul from The Miracles.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is a blues classic from 1960, and my new "Educating Elizabeth" feature debuts with a Northern Soul standard from Herbert Hunter.
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact, in fact it's a guest little known fact from The Nightingales: "If you keep on walking into a barbers, one day you're gonna get a haircut."

Simon Hickinbotham:
Whilst being mildly surprised at getting a show together for February, I'm nevertheless delighted to be presenting tracks by The Griefs, Two Minute Noodles, AK, Major Grave and Alien Hand.
We'll also be hearing more from those we've met before, including The Giant Leeches, Terry Edwards, Bill Nelson and Joy Division.
There's also a couple of half-cocked attempts at regular features - the long half of a "short song / long song" segment. The short song just wasn't short enough to meet the strict admission rules. I also attempt to play songs from two bands with very similar names - Mein and Maiun - but have trouble pronouncing both.
Enjoy!

Yank Sizzler:
Behold the end of hibernation here on the Yank Sizzler Show following the fear of everything Santa. New recordings from The Homosexuals, Mammoth Life, The Knux, Black Christmas, The Weakends, The Dutchess and the Duke & King Khan.
My disturbing love of Mississippi Records continues as I bring the old world immigrant song of the amazing LP "I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore". And of course we thrive on the collective gamut of blues, Swedish garage jazz, blistered fingers rock n roll, ska classics, English folk, highlife, soul, punk and indie gems with cuts by John Lee Hooker, The Thing, Abe Vigoda, Dark Meat, Free Kitten, Anne Briggs, Pissed Jeans, The Blues Busters, Rex Williams, Blood On The Wall, {{{Sunset}}}, Carla Thomas & many more.

Festive Fifty:
Continuing a Christmas tradition started by the late John Peel in 1976, join Dandelion Radio DJs Matt, Jeff, Rachael, Pete Jackson, Mark Whitby, Neil, Simon, Rocker and Andy as they take it in turns to count down through the best 50 tracks from the last year - as chosen by you the listener! Voters picked their three favourite tunes of 2008 in October and November, and now you can hear the full results of this legendary poll in one mammoth show, repeating daily from Christmas Day until the end of January!

Andrew Morrison:
Hear Andy's musical picks of the last year, in his first show of 2009. The show features highlights from the many exclusive sessions in 2008, including Decoration, The War Crimes and Alex Canasta. There's awesome remixes of MGMT and Blank + Jones; album tracks from Errors, Bloc Party and Lonely Ghosts; Teresa's Tasty Tips; Scott's Funky Five Minutes; and the Atomizer track that became Andy's favourite tune of the year! Oh yeah, and you'll hear a very languid-sounding "Taz" (Teresa's cat). Don't forget that you can still hear Dandelion's 2008 Festive Fifty countdown show repeating as part of the schedule until the end of the month.

Marcelle:
The return of the Messiah

After last month's disappointing 61% vinyl guarantee Marcelle returns to form in the new year with a proud 81,1% vinyl guarantee for her January show. Furthermore the acclaimed Dutch deejay tries to attract an until now neglected kind of listener to Dandelion (babies between 0 and 2 years old) by playing not one, not two but three songs featuring babies crying (and farting and shitting).
By doing so she sneaky plays a track of her own double vinyl mix album 'DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess Meets Her Soulmates At Faust Studio Deejay Laboratory'. As another bonus Marcelle plays a Russian version of a familiar children's television show tune. However, Marcelle doesn't want to alienate the elderly listeners. From this month onwards she will play a 7' and a track of an album which were released 30 years ago that month. The series is called - after a famous Mark E. Smith line - 'Look Back Bore Records Of The Month' and logically features in this months show two classics from January 1979.
Some of the (now) new records by DZ & Loetech, Aardvarck, School Of Seven Bells, Daniel Meteo, High Places, The Nightingales, Si Begg, Llyn Brianeno, Phokus & The Next, Duke Dumont and Toxic Lipstick amongst others will probably feature in the 'Look Back Bore Records Of The Month' editions of her 2039 Dandelion Radio shows.
Believe it or not: Marcelle even has the Messiah in this months show. On vinyl, what else?

Mark Cunliffe:
It's January and therefore, time for new goals. Considering Derby's strike force they'll have to be pretty big ones ...
On my show this month, Mungo's HiFi meets a Mexican called Heinz?????! Prozac Painkiller cheers us up with something approaching gabba ... but not quite. Polka Party turn Japanese? - D'ya really think so?? Dognoize sample a dictator (they got a Stalin tester pot from Wilko). There's some Asian psychedelia from a man called Singh. Sleaford Mods are back on form at the chapel and Anthony B thinks he's Batman. There's an artist who ran out of ink when coming up with his name cos he's just called F. Kink Kong's not bothered about Ann Darrow any more, he's moved on to the campaign for the legalisation of marijuana. Enduser's copying off Prozac Painkiller. Queen Ifrica once again gets conscious, unlike me on New Years Eve who was more towards unconscious.
Finally we have Grievous Angel plotting to do away with The Chuckle Brothers ... and so say all of us ...

Mark Whitby:
In what has to be one of the finest ever midwinter periods in the business of foraging for new music, Mark delivers a double-handed January knockout punch in the form of the very best stuff to surface in the pre-Xmas rush as well as a whole barrage of excellent new stuff about to come your way in the early part of the new year. Among those offering relief to the old cockles are electronic winter warmers from Zombie Nation and Unusual & Electric distorted new year terrorist attacks from Wavves and Grampall Jookabox among a shedload of new stuff that includes the highly anticipated album from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, a much awaited demo from Paraffin Oil Shop and a not-before-time reissue from CPC Gangbangs.
And, as the 2008 festive fifty is unveiled elsewhere in the Dandelion schedule, Mark allows himself a quick look back at the very fine festive fifty of twenty years ago and digs out some winter chestnuts including something from Stump and something else from Loop which, if they're a band who took your fancy way back when, may lead you to care to peruse the wonderful new single from a highly desirable twig from their family tree known as Pumajaw.

Matt Jones:
Describing a radio show is a bit like weighing up a boat on dry land, but with firey abstract hiphop from Oregon's Owl Dudes, some beautiful blissed electronica from William Fields, shouty latin samba rhythm big drum type thing from Orxata Sound System as well as a whole lot more, including a session provided for us by globetrotting Geordie Drum'n'Bass/Jungle/Breakcore artist/genius Kid Hideous, you can be sure this particular vessel is well and truly watertight, if a little overpopulated by forward slashes and comensurately lacking in full stops.

Rocker:
This month's show features live sets from The Wedding Present and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, as well as a featured LP from Hazel Winter - her new third album, entitled "Situation Normal Then". There are also new tracks from Little My; Built By Snow; Dean McPhee; The Manhattan Love Suicides; We Are Burkina Faso; and Je Suis Animal.
Grace Jones gets an electro remix from Aeroplane, and there is a whole slew of aeronautical-related goodies. There is more electro from Pindrop, and Ormatie, as well as dubstep from Kode9, and plain weird shit from Plinth.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is a soul 7" from 1974.
As well as little known acts, here's this month's little known fact: The longest artificial waterway in the world is the Grand Canal, which runs 1794 kilometres from Beijing to Hangzhou, in China.

Simon Hickinbotham:
After the absence of one whole month, its great to be back with my first show of 2009. We dive right in to the action with new songs from Raw Gash from Ireland, Fly Ashtray from New York, Orange Disaster from Brazil, Factory Floor from London and Pentolino's Orchestra from Italy.
But we aren't just here for new stuff this time, oh no. Taking advantage of the New Year to make the point that nothing is from 2009 yet, we look back a little more than usual, to hear from festive fifty old-timers Arcwelder, a post-festive message from the Swinging Buildings, and a reminder of what went on at Bell labs in the 1970s from Laurie Speigel.
Add to all this the new "short song-long song" feature, and you have plenty to keep you happy on these long winter evenings. Enjoy!

Andrew Morrison:
Andy's final show of 2008 celebrates both the old and the new. There's some classic selections from John Peel's past Festive Fifty polls, including The Boo Radleys, Laura Cantrell, Dave Clarke and Melys. Brand new music comes from Bloc Party, Samuraj Cities, The Race and Decoration (whose latest single is up for grabs in an exciting competition). You'll hear a track from Autons' new album that can be won in a second competition. Along with Teresa's Tasty Tips and Scott's Funky Five Minutes, you'll hear five alternative Christmas songs to get you in the mood for Dandelion Radio's Festive Fifty countdown show, broadcasting from Christmas Day until the end of January!

Jeff Grainger:
Jeff marks his last show of 2008 with a three hour spectacular of this years finest head-turners (well certainly the ones that have turned his head). Top of the shop is Superman Revenge Squad who also provides December's Album of the Month with his debut 'This is my own personal way of dealing with it all'. There's another chance to hear tracks by the likes of Miami Bum Machine ,Shookz & Lady Ann.
First time plays of Dognoize, Kobenhavn Store & Guile. These little beauties will be joined by old favourites; Calvin Party & Dalmation Rex and the Eigentones. Also the fabulous music website Earth Monkey Productions gets a nod and a wink with two excellent examples of its electroinca brilliance.
Just in case you thought that wasn't enough the show includes two blinding live sessions by Machine Boy & Galleon. The latter will be on the bill along with The Lovely Eggs at Oldham's Dandelion Radio Night 4 at The Castle on the 18th of December. Hope to see you there.
Have a good Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

Marcelle:
Süsswein's premier musical education

In between travelling all over Europe to enjoy, educate and scare audiences with her wicked live sets, acclaimed Dutch deejay Marcelle has found the time to record another show for Dandelion in her cosy living room. With 7 weeks old pet hamster 'Süsswein' as her only live listener (this is not irrelevant information as Peel named his Dandelion label after his pet hamster of the same name) she recorded a three hour show which includes a glorious comeback for her favourite hiphop label Wordsound, a great mix cd from DJ/Rupture, another Ex-member collaboration and a new great duet by Robert Wyatt and a German chanteuse.
There is the usual new and brutal dubstep, the weird a cappella song and the superb religious chanting. As always in her radio shows Marcelle connects past and present: she reveals where that sample on the new Drumsound And Bassline Smith 12" comes from and plays the original 7" and she shows the brilliant musical past of the owner of the great German label Monika Enterprise.
Not to mention new records by Bearsuit, Kid 606, Death Sentence: Panda!, Marc Houle and Food For Animals amongst others.
Totally Normal. For Marcelle it is. Comes with 61% vinyl guarantee.

Mark Cunliffe:
It's almost Christmas and I've been on Dandelion for exactly one year now. Like the sediment in a Wilko home brew kit, I think I've just about settled.
On this month's show I play the song that a world record holder danced to in their victory celebrations. There's Caspa wondering where his money's got to. Theivery Coorperation beat up a DAB tuner and King Clarentz drops another radio bomb. Shabba D puts in a pilot for Jackanory and Zound & Ku go jungle all over us. Dungen does a bit of a Jimi Hendrix impression, El Yabo serve us some Cuban Reggaeton and Taz Buckfaster could get life for the skank he's plotting.
Finally, this show's synopsis would be extremely remiss if it didn't shout from the rooftops that Babar Luck is back with the second half of his set from The Vic in Derby.
If this show was a Christmas decoration it would be a giant bauble ..... no tinsel allowed ....

Mark Whitby:
Malory trudged home quickly in the snow. He could already hear the faint chimes of Captain Beefheart shattering the silence and he knew that what was afoot. Another Mark Whitby Dandelion Radio December special.
There's be the Listen To Me, top ten, he thought, shielding himself against the blizzard with a withered hand, featuring Whitby's favourite ten bands who introduced themselves to him during the year. And there were bound to be generous helpings of new(ish) albums by the likes of Marnie Stern, Talkdemonic and Monareta as well as tasty festive slices courtesy of Gentleman Auction House, Lowell Fulson and - he gasped almost to think of it - Jethro Tull.
He cursed into the icy wind. Why the hell couldn't Whitby leave the brandy alone? Jethro Tull, for God's sake!
But then Malory remembered the spiciest piece of plum pudding in there. A veritable selection box of Filthy Little Angels records that Whitby had sent tumbling from Santa's sleigh after aiming a dead-eye shot with his crossbow at Rudolph's nether regions. He laughed to himself. Rachael Neimann's Christmas morning would be ruined, but Whitby was churning them out to the benefit of all of us. There'd be Micropenis, he didn't doubt, and Hyperbubble and that new Fantaplastic EP...and, and, and...
In his hurry to sample the goodies on offer, Malory slipped on his arse and fell face-down into the muddy slush. He was drinking the overflowing mush from the drains and he didn't care.

Matt Jones:
New boy Matt Jones steps into the palatial sonic halls of Dandelion Radio for the first time. He brings with him the varied sounds of some of the best new and unsigned music. Join him for journey into the unknown and (legally!) fill up your mp3 player along the way.
He offers up circus freak genius from the incomparable Monkeygrinder, a taste of the gypsy tinged hiphop of Degiheugi and Ghostown and an intro to the breakcore wonder of Kid Hideous. Also on the menu is a tasty smattering of digital dub, sweet, deep and mellow IDM, punk, reggae and dubstep from the likes of Talco, Gente Strana Posse and Echo_TM.
You'd be actually proper daft in the head not to listen now you've read this page. You really, really would. Cos *you might just like it... *

Neil Jenkins:
In his December show, Neil attempts to keep it a Christmas song free zone but doesn't quite manage it.
He does, however, manage to feature the LPs 'Krulle Bol' by This Is The Kit and 'Age Of Solo' by Lettie, as well as the record label Holy Roar Records.
There's also room for a couple of messages to the world from departing US president George W. Bush.
Look out too for some rather stupendous whistling going on.
Despite the relative lack of Christmas songs, mince pies and port are still MANDATORY!

Pete Jackson:
December's show features an absolute feast of festive fun. There's a brand new session from Swedish psych-popsters The Greencoats and a full half-hour of psychedelic flavours from Wooden Shjips, Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve and The Jimi Hendrix Experience, among others.
Elsewhere, there's a festive karaoke special (!) and a cheery Christmas tale from William Burroughs and Kurt Cobain to warm your cockles. Ho ho ho!

Rachael Neiman:
In honour of our very favourite time of year, December's edition of 'The Rachael Neiman Experience' is a joyous festive extravaganza, you're all invited to the Cherryade Towers Christmas party, featuring 2 hours of new Christmas songs collected over the last year.
These include tracks featured on the latest edition of the Very Cherry Christmas compilation, including The Lovely Eggs, Little My, Hotpants Romance, Fever Fever, The Very Most, The Gresham Flyers, Hearts!Attack, The Seven Inches, Micropenis, The Fountain and many more.
Elsewhere we have more fresh Yuletide treats from the likes of The School, Asobi Seksu, Hyperbubble, The Priscillas, Lucky Soul, Wild Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire, Holly Golightly, Shrag and many more.
Join us at Cherryade Towers for an audio mince pie and mulled wine to get your Christmas off to a great start!

Rocker:
Another packed 3-hour show, this month's featured LP is the fantastic debut from New York's Crystal Stilts. There's also new tracks from Minisnap; The Lazy Darlings; The Manhattan Love Suicides; Horowitz; Grace Jones; Je Suis Animal; Hot Silk Pockets; The Bright Lights; Luckwell; We Are Burkina Faso; Wonderswan; and Killing Fields Of Ontario.
There's Dubstep from Headhunter and Mike Epic, as well as electro from Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso remixed by Popov, techno from Williams, and longterm hero of the show James Holden shows how its done in the latest Radiohead remixed competition.
We include several Canadian bands this month, and discover that in Toronto at least, there seems to be a disturbing trend for bands to cover classics from the Sarah Records stable. Meanwhile back in New York, Headless Heroes cover I Am Kloot.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is an uncharacteristically maudlin track from 1959, by an artist better known as a rock'n'roller.
As well as little known acts, here's this month's little known fact: The world's longest conveyor belt is the Fosbucraa conveyor belt, in the Sahara desert. It transports phosphate from the mines in Bu Craa to the coast near El-Aaiun, and is 100 kilometres long.

Andrew Morrison:
Andy's November show features two more exclusively-recorded live songs from Alex Canasta's album launch party in Copenhagen, along with competitions to win Avrocar's latest album and the new single from Lonely Ghosts. Andy's been organising his collection of listener demos, and has picked out several superb unsigned tunes you shouldn't miss. You'll also hear an extraordinarily rare piece of vinyl from New Order, as well as Scott's Funky Five Minutes and Teresa's Tasty Tips. Other track selections include Dope Aviators, The Hot Toddies, Atomizer and Nine Black Alps. Additionally, Andy will be reminding you to vote in the 2008 Festive Fifty before the poll closes on 30th November!

Dubster:
There has never been a better time to invest in Radiodubster!
Yes, as the credit crunch bites harder, our lucky listeners will receive a 50% dividend, meaning the November show will be a whopping 3 hours long as opposed to our standard rate of 2.
Listeners will also receive an excellent portfolio of new music from the likes of Vivian Girls, Brendan Canning, Sian Alice Group and Little Boots. Featured artists Dirty Summer and Dragonette will also be included as part of this special offer.
So forget about your pensions, shares and ISAs that collectively wouldn't cover the down payment on a Mars bar now. Instead, invest 3 hours of your time this month in the company of Steve and Brian, and lets face the music and dance!
(Terms and conditions apply, your home may be at risk if you do not listen to their mindless drivel)

Jeff Grainger:
November sees The Grainger open his Dandelion Radio Session account with an absolute blinder from Dalmation Rex and the Eigentones (and NOT "Dandelion Rex"... as I announce at least once).
This, five track exclusive is a superb piece of work, with a very accurate description of the DJ's here at Dandelion to boot. The Session also ties in just lovely with the bands appearance at Oldham's Dandelion Radio Night3 at The Castle on the 27th of November (and NOT the 29th as I announce at least twice!) Dalmation Rex will be joined on the bill by Manchester's Gnu and the Shrew and Patrice and Pierre. Hence we'll hear tracks by these two acts as well.
The rest of the broadcast will include highlights from November's new releases; Polly Scattergood, Dr Meaker, Machine Boy and Mia Vigar. We'll have a couple of Myspace finds; Crissie Black and Naomi Elizabeth, horrendous mispronunciation and bad grammar from yours truly and, shockingly, for the first time since the debut broadcast way back in August a track by Boards of Canada.

Marcelle:
Rodents In Need

Acclaimed Dutch deejay, Marcelle, presents her first show on Dandelion Radio. Some listeners might find that it echoes the smell of rats piss. For others the distinct odour of vinyl might be present.
The more experienced listener will even detect the sounds of a single room, the Spanish Revolution and a Dutch postal code.
In short: her show is quite an adventure. A Dandelion Adventure as will be clear from the very first seconds. From weird German noises to scratchy (and smelly) sounds from Ghana and from Barcelona dubstep to an American religious fanatic: everything a 21st century radio listener wishes for is there.
More than that: one of the greatest female bands of the UK gets played, plagiarised and sampled in only ten minutes. There's even an English-Dutch 'supergroup'.
Get Out Clause included. Also comes with 100% vinyl guarantee.

Mark Cunliffe:
Ello, ello, ello. It's not the dead of winter yet but Mount Sims are already Breaking The Ice. Some bloke called Boz will be Boring you down to the last Atom. King Cannibal can't spell Origami but he does it in Style and don't tell the RSPCA but there's a Catkiller on the show. King Clarentz comes back with a tune that might well be BIGGER than last months....not possible....SURELY!!
There's a great cover of an Al Green song from the C-Funk camp. TRG serves up some seriously twisted dubstep. Thee Vicars show us just how Bury St Edmunds sounds these days....and finally....for the main event, the MASTER of gangsta folk himself Babar Luck comes at us live from The Vic in Derby. It's a show heavier than me after an all you can eat mackerel buffet....

Mark Whitby:
With Mark trying to find room for everything that's tickled his fancy over the last few months, November's show was always going to be a bit special and was always going to be a veritable aural treat of three hours. There's a featured label in the shape of France's Al Dente records to get your teeth into as well as tracks from a torrent of plastic that's understandably seen 2008 labelled 'the year of the EP, or mini-album, or whatever you want to call it', in Mark's house at least. This means you get a particularly choice fruit from the collaboration between The Mountain Goats & Kaki King, more from Samantha Crain & The Midnight Shivers as well as the band that ate Cheshire, Uncle Meat & The Midnight Children and California dreamers Rainbow Arabia.
And of course the fun doesn't stop there. There are tracks from new or new-ish albums from frenzied guitar maniacs Wino, the much-awaited CD from Old School Tie, and more from the celebrated collections from Stereolab and Los Campesinos. Add to this new singles from Calvin Party and Dr Slaggleberry and you have the perfect recipe to see you through the long winter months. Or at least one of them.

Pete Jackson:
As the nights draw in, settle down for a feast of Autumnal fun with new tunes from Mogwai, Toddla T, Lord Numb and King Cannibal plus a couple of re-issued calssics from The Jesus And Mary Chain and The Smiths. Throw in some crispy remixes, including Soulwax messing with a dancefloor classic, and the always-entertaining company of Mark E Smith, and the long evenings will just fly by.

Rachael Neiman:
In November's 'Rachael Neiman Experience' we wrap up warm and enjoy some chilly winter themed tunes from the likes of The Action Time, Icicles and The Lovely Eggs as well as some brilliant new tracks from Ten Tigers, Hearts!Attack, Los Campesinos!, Mia Vigar, Johnny Foreigner, Pelle Carlberg, The Deirdres and a track from the amazing Fall covers album by Globo featuring contributions from Lisa and Jan from Bearsuit. This month's golden oldie comes from Magnetic Fields.

Rocker:
This month's 3-hour show is as usual packed with new sounds - featured LP is the debut from The Brazen, there's a whole bunch of tracks from those little mini-CD EPs, and the last 20 minutes of the show is all French-related (hope Neil hasn't already played it all). Also this month there's a whole slew of new singles - from Horowitz, Comet Gain, The Lovely Eggs, The Manhattan Love Suicides, Ida Maria, Way Out West, Jim Rivers, Liechtenstein, and I unwittingly play the new single by Emmy The Great.
There's a fantastic remix of the Mystery Jets by Duke Dumont - luckily he has pretty much remixed any trace of the original out of the track, and a new track by Pete Wylie about the death of Margaret Thatcher. Also there's a rather surprising (and successful) venture into dubstep from ace Drum'n'bass duo Chase & Status.
There's a King Tubby dub of Augustus Pablo, as well as a track in tribute to Alton Ellis following his recent sad demise. This month's Peel's Big 45 is a Country & Western track from 1980 by one of the original 50s rock'n'rollers.
As well as little known acts, here's this month's little known fact: Medomalacuphobia is the fear of losing an erection.

Simon Hickinbotham:
My show for this month includes new discoveries from Ireland Raw Gash and some of his mates, three tracks from Finland by three different artists and some old gospel music by Roscoe Robinson. We get some grunting from Beijing via the Hanggai Band, plus strange bass noises from Japan via So Hey. Shana hopla hoi!

This month there are 23 hours, spread across 10 shows.

Andrew Morrison:
Andy's October show for Dandelion Radio features a live session from Alex Canasta, with four tracks recorded at their Copenhagen album launch party in August, along with a competition to win a copy of their debut album. As usual, there are two Tasty Tips from Teresa, and a Funky Five Minutes from Scott. The two hours of new and unsigned music include tunes from Lonely Ghosts, The Joy Formidable, Burial, and Decoration. Andy also marks the fourth anniversary of John Peel's death by playing one of John's favourite twelve-inch mixes. Listen in to find out what it is!

Jeff Grainger:
October's two hour Show follows the usual vague path previous shows have trodden; long, short, old, new and above all, getting hopelessly lost in the process. Accompanying our Album of the Month; F-A-R by Solanums and a brace of Northern Soul stompers. We'll witness a spectacular shoehorned plug for this Months Dandelion Radio Night at The Castle, Union St Oldham (News/Events page) Which means of course you'll hear songs from each of the acts on the bill, in this case it's The Container Drivers, Hug Party, The Hang Project and Ste McCabe.
New tracks by the likes of Onedia, Thomas Tantrum, Sterling, The Joy Formidable, Richie Phoe and others make for splendid travelling companions with this months older contingent, (Hüsker Dü, & The Cimarons) With another damn fine D&B slab from our friend Shookz, warm ambient tones from Pjusk plus a knock treat for all you Broadcast fans to boot. I reckon this months offering definitely leans towards 'the not too bad at all actually'.

Mark Cunliffe:
For this month it's a show that'll amaze you more than Bobby Ball in a good comedy show and stagger you more than Jockey Wilson at last orders.
There's Nirvana being re-worked by Ladyscraper. Pifco spooning up up some indie from Leeds.
Goonda's blowing your mind and Fuda Guy's doing us a cocktail of grime and rock n roll. Damian Marley is going on a mission, Eshamanjaro is well off it and Reso's remixing his brass eye.
RSD lands us in so much dub that it'll feel like bass quicksand. The Federals have me returning to my favourite subject of the moment, the Trabant. Lady Ali's giving it to us straight in a dancehall stylee. The Criterion Band nod off and Iziah DC has given me something so fresh it will never require Listerine mouth wash......and if that's not enough I've even got you a Purple Turkey.....

Mark Whitby:
In his October show, Mark puts to bed the old "never work with children and animals" adage by opening up his studio to a couple of lively pups. But if you can tear your attention away from that and listen to the tunes, there's the shortest Dandelion session ever (and perhaps the shortest ever session?) from Art Raghfunkle, who crams a fair bit of innovation into the minute or so he's on air for, so be careful not to go out to put the kettle on at the wrong time.
In fact, you might want to leave the kettle where it is and engage in the kind of iron-stomach marathon normally only reserved for screenings of Ben-Hur, as Mark brings to your ears new tracks from Lazy Habits, Loman, Passion Pit, Eat Skull and much, much more. Like a Wall of Death rider Mark skirts daringly around the contrasting perimeters of the worlds of Hungarian funk with Kati Kovacs and Parisian elegance with elodieO, snatching a quick energy drink in Mozambique with Neco Novellas, before returning, gasping like a spent fish, to the industrially derelict north of England from whence he came, marvelling at the acoustic charms of Sinking Ships and finishing the whole thing off with the cinematic urban electronica of Ian Wilde.
And finally, to bed, to dream happy dreams of merry sheep.

Neil Jenkins:
October sees Neil return to the virtual airwaves after a three month absence.  No specials this month as Neil plays 'catch-up' to make up for lost time.
Amongst the two-hour mix of material, you will find two back-to-back tracks from show favourites Ladies!Disaster! from Munich and there's a taster of the This Is The Kit LP that Neil will feature in his November show.  Other points of note include a demo track from much-asked-for artist Lettie, plus an announcement of the availablility of her new LP, and (finally) a track from Tina Mali after many failed attempts by Neil to get his hands on her CD.

Pete Jackson:
October brings the first ever session to Pete's show, and its a right corker from Lovecraft - five tracks, including the least-likely choice of cover version imaginable.
On top of that there are two different acts that feature Stuart Braithwaite, great psychedlia from Wooden Shjips and Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve, remixed classics from Skream and Barrington Levy, and a potential contender for the new Swedish National Anthem from The Social Services.

Rachael Neiman:
In October's 'Rachael Neiman Experience' our mammoth Ladyfest Manchester build up of the last few months reaches its crescendo with a 2-hour Ladyfest special ahead of the festival itself which is taking place from 7-9th November. We play tracks from a number of the bands on the bill including The Slits, Manda Rin (well it's a Bis track really!), Zombina and the Skeletones, Shrag, The Duloks, Hotpants Romance, Town Bike, Kids Love Lies, Miss The Occupier, Sophie's Pigeons, Vile Vile Creatures, Candy Panic Attack, The Bobby McGee's, Penny Broadhurst and Hug Party. Elsewhere we have gorgeous indie pop from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Foxes and The Kabeedies, glorious art pop from The Corey Orbison, Chapter 24 and The Container Drivers,electropop from Enfant Terrible and Dinky Loop and classic riot grrrl from Stella Pace.

Rocker:
As usual this month, Rocker manages to squeeze the maximum sounds into a three-hour show.
We pay tribute to the recently deceased Richard Wright, as well as to John Peel himself, hard to believe it is now four years since we lost him.
There's a plethora of new, recent, and forthcoming LP releases, including a featured LP by Canada's Vancougar, and tracks from those by Stereolab; The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart; Flannel; Emily Jane White; Vessels; Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby; Minisnap; Coming Soon; The Brazen; Wire; Calexico; and Bakers At Dawn. And since we don't have any material yet from the forthcoming Emmy The Great LP, we play one of her demos.
There's a couple of remixes of a track from the new Mercury Rev LP, including an absolute stormer by James Holden, and also a couple of remixes of Eric Prydz' house hit "Pjanoo" - both of which radically revise the rather cheesy original in quite startlingly different ways. There's also a stunning new techno track from Petar Dundov. The Manhattan Love Suicides take on Bruce Springsteen, Lightspeed Champion revamps Amy Winehouse, and there's a new dub of one of Easy Star Allstars' classic Radiohead covers.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is a Jagger / Richards composition released on Decca in 1964, by one the finest bands ever to come out of Rugby, UK.
As well as little known acts, here's this month's little known fact: A Titillomaniac is someone who scratches compulsively.

Simon Hickinbotham:
On this months show we'll hear among other things Una Nina Malvada from Chile, Phoaming Edison from New York, f600 from Spain, This Town Needs Guns from Oxford, The Witch Hats from Melbourne, Captain Hotknives from "Bratfut", Fe Fi Fo Fums from Seattle and Monsters from Mars from , er, California.
In addition to all this, as a contribution to any future "dandelennium" for 1927 we have a track from Louis Armstrong, plus from the mid 1990s a mastered-from-cassette gem from the Zimbabwe Cha Cha Cha Kings.

Yank Sizzler:
The October episode of the Yank Sizzler Show on Dandelion Radio is a damn riot as I can't contain my excitement over new releases from Calexico, Giant Sand, The Whispertown 2000 & Dutchess And The Duke.
Plus we dive deep into the small vinyl only label phenom that is Mississippi Records and their archival tastes for African Highlife and Golden Era Gospel. We talk to mad men who talk back in their dreams and tune in the latest from the 8BitPeoples camp. And of course favorites from Stereolab, Pissed Jeans, Shallow, Bob Dylan, Boris & Ex Orkest will all make themselves known. That and more this month.

Andrew Morrison:
Andy has two shows repeating every day in September's schedule on Dandelion Radio. His two hour regular show features two brand new sessions: one from John Peel faves Decoration, the other from Fidgital. Decoration's second session for the show includes exclusive versions of material from their forthcoming second album 'See You After The War' and a mystery cover version. Fidgital contribute an innovative live violin and decks set as their session tracks. There's also a live recording from Alex Canasta's album launch party in Copenhagen at which Andy was a guest DJ, as well as an exclusive new remix of a track from the album.
The show also has several tracks from bands playing at September's Bestival on the Isle of Wight and the excellent 12" version of Bloc Party's new single 'Mercury'.
The latest instalment of the occasional Andy's Archives finds him once again rummaging randomly through his sizeable record collection for an hour, picking lots of excellent tracks that are at least ten years old. Choices this time around include Mansun, Billy Bragg, The Future Sound Of London, Arab Strap, Dubstar, The Prodigy, All About Eve, and many more. Join Andy for this aural trip down memory lane, with classic and obscure selections for your listening pleasure.
Listen out for Andy presenting a show on Bestival FM, live from the festival site on Saturday September 6th from 9am 'til 10am - broadcasting to the entire Isle of Wight on 87.7MHz FM and the world at www.bestival.net!

Dubster:
As we near the end of another glorious British summer...ahem, Steve and Brian bring you 3 more hours of sunshine from Scotland's T in the Park and the Wickerman Festival. Having secured press passes for both, marvel as they try desperately to secure interviews with musical icons, struggling with recording levels and a recently aquired addiction to Pimms along the way.
There are interviews galore with some of Scoltand's finest upcoming musical talent and a few surprise guests, plus a cracking set of tracks from performers at both weekends. So don't be putting away the tent and soft bog roll yet, let us take you on one more summer festival journey before the onset of dark nights and colder weather once more drag you into the depths of misery and self pity.
Will they get to speak to Mark E Smith, Glasvegas or Annie Nightingale? ... You'll just have to tune in to find out.
Wagon roll!!

Jeff Grainger:
Hello again! My Show for September is a two hour bonanza of Myspace finds; (Kategoes and Jujuman to name two.) mixed with Northern Soul resplendence; (Could this be Bill Cosby's debut on Dandelion Radio?) Topped up with brilliant tracks of yore from the likes of Sister Nancy and Paul Rooney and equally brilliant tracks of the 'Now' with Warning! Heatwave, The Beep Seals and Clutter vs Susan Matthews. Gabrielle's Wish bring us this months featured Album with the jaw dropping-ly awesome 'Portal'. Cornerstone to the proceedings is a nod to the late great Isaac Hayes
As a final touch, in a desperate attempt, to usher in the start of Oldham's Dandelion Radio Nights starting the Thursday 25th of September. (See News/Events page) There's a track from each of the Bands on the bill; Bingo Jesus, Rev Porl with Teatime, My Captive Audience and Contra Mundum.
Right lets get to work on Octobers' Goodies

Mark Cunliffe:
It's September and the leaves are going to start falling to the ground quicker than Didier Drogba feeling a puff of wind in the penalty box. On the show we have a recording of Derby's king of drum & bass, Iziah DC live from The Vic Inn. For his live shows he employs the talents of P.Fine on MCing duties and M Alton on sax.....it's BIG! As well as that we have Sugar Bill getting all boombastic on us. There's No.Lay spitting some truth and Nigel Mansell makes an appearance but only under the guidance of Brighton's Chevron. For the kids we have a visit to London Zoo courtesy of The Bug. Sarandon has a Massive Haircut but hopefully not a Gianluigi Buffon. Vex'd finally gets a look in (I've been meaning to play it for MONTHS....sorry Vex'd). Top Cat goes a bit jungle on us in an old skool stylee. Damien Shingleton's found a band and has gone Tunng like which meets approval round these parts. Finally, The Rocky Nest feel things are moving in a promising fashion which is a nice positive note to end on I think.... :-)

Pete Jackson:
September's show sees us invite a few mates round to console us as summer finally gives up and disappears. The Greencoats take a trip from Sweden, Lucy And The Popsonics pop round from Brazil, and Stereolab and Dr Usui join us from space (probably) to enjoy some crazy psychedelic rock from India and Nigeria and some irreligious bluegrass from The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir.
Plus we warm up for the first Dandelion Radio night in Warrington on September 19th with some classic live mayhem from headliners Lovecraft.
See you down the front!

Rachael Neiman:
In September's very special edition of 'The Rachael Neiman Experience', we have two extra special guests, Ste Mccabe and Paul Forster who are joining us to talk about the forthcoming Ladybois – Men and bois who support Ladyfest' Ladyfest Manchester fund-raising extravaganza and play some of the bands who will be performing at the event, including Pete Bentham and the Dinnerladies and The Seven Inches. We also play a couple of songs from Ste's forthcoming debut album Hate Mail. Paul and Ste also pick some favourite tracks from the likes of Tender Trap, Cars Can Be Blue and a couple of golden oldies from The Popguns and Huggy Bear.
Elsewhere we have riot grrrl goodness from Trickbabies, Violet Violet, Micropenis, Postcode, dark pop from Fuck Dress, Captain Polaroid and Paul Hawkins plus sublime indiepop from KateGoes, Mexican Kids at Home, Shrag, Silence At Sea, Socks and Shoes, The Deirdres, Awesome Wells, The Tony Head Experience, Hyperbubble, ShiSho, Gnu and the Shrew and Cherryade's amazing new signings The Lovely Eggs. We also take a chance to celebrate the release of the Best Of Fortuna Pop! Compilation and the upcoming 'Remembering Slampt' festival in Newcastle by playing a classic track from Spraydog.

Rocker:
September brings another packed three hour show from Rocker. There's live tracks from the current LP by The Manhattan Love Suicides, and more new tracks than you can shake a stick at, unless you try quite hard. Or are very good at shaking sticks at large numbers of things.
There's tracks from The Wave Pictures; The Brazen; Bakers At Dawn; Je Suis Animal; The Tamborines; Engine; The Bumblebees; Lonely Boy; Skream; Puerto Muerto; Coming Soon; Ballboy; Flannel; and (the) Nervous Rex. Also new singles from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart; Phil Wilson; Fuck Dress; and Pete Green; as well as techno / electro from Facundo Mohrr; The Chemical Brothers; Sennh; and Ricardo Tobar.
The Charlatans; Laura Cantrell; and Jeremy Warmsley all cover songs by the same act from the 80s, there's a remix of a classic 80s track by Laurie Anderson, and this month's Peel's big 45 is a seminal electronic reggae track from the same era. There's also a brace of classic 60s soul records, in tribute to two of the great singers who we have lost in the last few weeks.
As well as little known acts, here's this month's little known fact: The Manhattan Love Suicides are named after a series of raw and extreme erotic short films from 1985 by New York underground filmmaker Richard Kern, who also directed the "Death Valley 69" video by Sonic Youth.

Simon Hickinbotham:
This month's show is a staggering 92.8% music, so that means only 7.2% glitches, mumbling, false starts and pauses whilst frantically hitting alt+tab. Of the musical content, 30% is from Britain, (including Ugly Billy, Dub Syndicate, The Polaroids and Little Boots), 7% is from Japan (VelocityUT and In Corridors), and 3.5% each from Italy (Gum) and Germany (Phonotones).
We have two songs from fifties America - I didn't plan it, it just happened that way, and to give more details here would spoil the surprise. However, I can reveal that we'll also be hearing a track from Pepe Kalle - one of the African artists that, to quote John Peel "will make you dance until you bleed".

Yank Sizzler:
Come lament the end of summer with me on the Yank Sizzler this month. We will fight the coming of shorter days with awesome new music from Bodies of Water, Suzannah Johannes, Coat Party, The Wilders, Eli Paperboy Reed & Anna Kramer.
The fortifications of our spirits will be strengthened by superb classics from Dr. Alimantado, Tom Waits, Ken Boothe, Percy Mayfield and Galaxie 500.
Lastly the tunes of Bembeya Jazz National, King Khan, DJ Donna Summer, Modeselektor, Vivian Girls, Blood on the Wall and CPC Gangbangs will ensure that we do not go quietly.

Andrew Morrison:
There's a full-on summery feel in Andy's August show, with an exclusive session from his latest favourite new band, Alex Canasta, uplifting tracks from Guillemots, Adam Tensta, Dope Aviators, The Helio Sequence and Blank + Jones (featuring Bernard Sumner from New Order). Bob Dylan is selected as Scott's Funky Five Minutes, Teresa picks more tasty tips for your musical palette to savour, and there's a classic live recording from Neil Young.
The show also sees Andy's 'Orchestra Hit Liberation Front' section attempt to rescue this classic keyboard sound from its confines of the 1980s for a second time, with a suberb remix from 21 years ago!

Jeff Grainger:
How do! For my debut, hour long show for Dandelion Radio, I've picked 13 'finds' that have "melted my butter" over the last 12 months or so. Well that should be 12 tracks plus a track by Gabrielle's Wish, a band who have been 'melting my butter' for the last 16 years – but I digress.
August's Show features electronic genius from Manchester's Humanizer. God (+ Goddess) like Lo-Fi Quirky-ness from Superman Revenge Squad & Soko respectively. There's bonkers experimentalism from LA (that's Los Angeles, not Lower Ancoats of course) in the shape of White Mary. Pure Pop Heaven in the guise of Urbantramper & 10,000 Times Glorious (sorry Mark C).
The rest of the gaps are filled in with Drum & Bass majesty from Shookz, dreamy trippy Dub from Dihedral, offensive noodling from Miami Bum Machine to name 3 more. And as a special treat, a track from the greatest blog on the planet; awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com. Hope you enjoy. Catch you next month. Jeff.

Mark Cunliffe:
Derby gig promoters the Nappy Rash Collective need to take some credit this month. I've come across no less than FOUR of this months artists at NRC gigs, including the artist behind my album for August called Journeys by Babar Luck. The grime Doctor goes Jamaican again with Cotti in production. There's Noisia re-mixing Moby, French world sounds from Watcha Clan. Micropoint will get you pogoing until you've got a hole bigger than Shackleton's crater. We're not being too PC by having some Little Whores On The Prairie.
We get some rocket powered dancing with Jet Set Disco, a real summer vibe from Mattafix and more happiness through a VIP dubstep producer Tes La Rok. No.lay spits fire from her latest mix cd. We have some psychedelic bhangra and how many magicians does it take to change a record?
(ANS – 4 or 5)

Mark Rosney:
In this months shorter than usual offering of all things slightly off kilter, Mark plays music by artists as diverse as Lord Numb, Lauren, Graystar and One More Grain (amongst others), whilst trying to catch this Month's competition prize.
Also included in this hour long weirdfest is an amazing session by Rachel and the Lawngrower specially recorded for the show, and a bunch of talented shouting people from Westward Ho! - which incidentally is the only place name in the UK with an exclamation mark at the end of it's name, and also home to the rudest shop assistant in the known universe.
So, turn down the lights, fill your bath with blue smarties and post your underpants to some random person in the phone book – or alternatively, tune in and listen to the music instead.

Mark Whitby:
In his August show, Mark Whitby returns with a bang and some great electronica from the likes of Silencide and Ekiti Son, some more tracks from those typically great albums from The Fall and Half Man Half Biscuit and yet more irreverant excellence in the form of tracks from Les Enfants Bastard and The Bum-Clocks.
Look out for some genuine classics when I pilfer the festive fifty archives to reveal the eighth greatest US state for music and be prepared to beat your own brains out with pleasure to something a little tasty from the recent Ponytail album.

Pete Jackson:
Pete Jackson's August show is a three-hour bumper summer special, featuring a summer clearout of album tracks by The Breeders, Foals, Crystal Castles and many more who slipped throught the net earlier in the year.
There's also new stuff from the Ed Banger stable, more Turkish psychedelic mayham from Erkin Koray, top drum n bass from TDK and Bizzy B, the best Brazillian indie song you've never heard and an invitation you just can't refuse from Let's Wrestle.
Come on in, and mind you don't get sand on your 99.

Rachael Neiman:
This month's hour-long show is, as usual, jammed full of ear-pleasing treats including delightful tweepop from The Rosie Taylor Project, Gnu and The Shrew, The Roadside Poppies, The Seven Inches, MJ Hibbett & the Validators, Slow Down Tallahassee and The Deirdres, lovely wonky pop from The Lovely Eggs, The Sexual Hot Bitches and The Pocket Gods, sublime noise pop from Chaps, electro grrrl from YouLoveHerCozShesDead, RiotMiloo and Baby Gravy and a riot grrrl Sonic Youth cover by Extinguish Her.

Rocker:
This month's show from Rocker packs a multitude of new tracks into three hours. There's a debut session from Sheffield's finest The Parallelograms, and featured new LPs from The Manhattan Love Suicides, The Velvet Underground, and this year's compilation from the lovely folk at Indietracks.
There's new tracks from The Brian Jonestown Massacre; Cashanova & the Rich Geezers; Eddie & the Scribbles; Superswamis; Stoop; The Very Most; Summer Cats; and Julien Jacob. Also new techno / house from Federico Epis; a great tech remix of Guy J by Error Error; new singles from The Monorals and MJ Hibbett & the Validators; new dubstep tracks from Pinch and Ramadanman; drum & bass from Logistics; and a Peel's Big 45 from his time in Fort Worth, Dallas, in 1964.

Simon Hickinbotham:
On my show this month, we travel from Japan to Europe, and on to New York and the West Coast of the United States to hear The Medium Necks, Kint, Sharon Van Etten and a couple of tracks from Eat Skull.
We nip back a couple of hundred years to catch some Corsican polyphony by Cinqui So, and come back to looking forward via sixties Jamaica for a bit of early Don Drummond.

Dubster:
It's Radiodubster's annual garage sale again.
Yes, time to get down to the garage for an hour or 3 and have a good ransack through our unfeasibly large collection of vinyl and CDs, but take heed of the sign on the door "NO MUSIC SNOBS ALLOWED!"
So leave your inhibitions at the door and prepare for a 3 hour browse back in time through indie, prog, psychedelic, techno, heavy metal, TV detective programme theme tunes (!) and too many other genres to mention.
Come on down, with prices like these we're virtually giving it away!...
...what's that love? Nick Kershaw 12" picture disc? Thats 50 quid......hey that's a rare Jap import y'know ... yeah I know the Woolies sticker says £3.99, but ....

Mark Cunliffe:
Crumbs, we've had more than half the year of new music and it's gone quicker than Ben Johnson on his way to the pharmacy. There's no let up here though.
We have a Bong-Ra chum going by the name of Bong Selecta making like Mowgli in Epping Forest, kinda jungle. We've got a bit of old skool hip hop by Klashnekoff being updated by some Beezwax????! More re-working action, this time from Sinden on Sheffield dancehall king Toddla T.
There's something brand new from Lianne Hall and don't tell your Gran but there's SUCH LANGUAGE from DJ Donna Summer. Son Of Dave goes uber commercial or our ass which ticks a box here. Badeshi gives us some D&B with an Asian flavour that even Alberto Frog would be asking for! The Dust Collectors pitch in with some very welcome new material.
There's Sukh Knight stepping in some dub…..I hope he gets it off his Loefah before he walks on his carpet. Finally, I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE THE DAY, I've got some BASSLINE in the show…..OH MY GOD!!

Pete Jackson:
This month, we're gonna party like its 1989, as a whole bunch of vintage acts, like The Fall, The Wedding Present, Mudhoney and Meat Beat Manifesto release brand new material for the modern age.
We've also got a round-the-world trip that takes in some great music from Portugal, Turkey, Siberia, Indonesia and Japan, we'll doff our hats to the late Bo Diddley and hear the greatest British Rock 'n' Roll song EVER. Apparently.

Rachael Neiman:
July's Rachael Neiman Experience' is back to 2-hours again, and what a fun-packed 2-hours it is! In honour of the Indie Tracks festival, due to take place on July 26th and 27th at the Butterley heritage railway site near Ripley, we play songs by a number of the artists set to appear including Mono Taxi, Je Suis Animal, Still Corners, The Mai 68s, The Kabeedies, Liechtenstein, Shrag, Town Bike, Brontosaurus Chorus, The Bobby McGee's, Strawberry Story, Lardpony, The Deirdres and Helen Love.
Continuing the indiepop theme we have some more bands who could be possible future Indie Tracks stars such as Balbec, The Royal Trumpets, Sing Songs, Bear Cat, Help Stamp Out Loneliness and Stickpin rubbing shoulders with beautiful noise from London's Comanechi and wonky pop from The Stark Palace.
Elsewhere we have superb French riot grrrl from CobSon and Gorgones and more of the homegrown variety from Amy Pennington, Drag Your Heels and Helen's Evil Twin plus a sneak preview of the forthcoming Ladyfest Manchester fund-raising compilation.

Rocker:
This month's three hour show from Rocker features two new sessions - a debut from Bristol's Indie-folk troupe McDowell, and a second from Stoke's finest punk-poppers Horowitz. As part of a preview of this month's Indietracks festival there's tracks from the fantastic new LP from The Wave Pictures, as well as tracks from some of the other bands appearing, including The Manhattan Love Suicides; The Wedding Present; and A Classic Education.
There's also new tracks from The Short Stories; Clouds; Able & Baker; Tindersticks; Solomun; Half Man Half Biscuit; Portishead; Ashley Reaks; Betty & the Werewolves; and First Aid 4 Souls. There's a killer new techno/house track from Laurent Garnier; a new single from The School; new dubstep from Ramadanman; new drum & bass from Chase & Status; and a Peel's Big 45 written by the late Bo Diddley - can you guess which one?
As well as little known acts, here's this month's little known fact: The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

Yank Sizzler:
Tea cups and poodles, the summer's been superbly mild here in Kansas allowing us to enjoy brand new recordings by Tilly & the Wall, Dr. Dog, Genghis Tron, The Vivian Girls, Ad Astra Per Aspera and Islands amongst others.
I've also got live recordings from Kid Koala and Pisstank and great older classics show up throughout from Sister Nancy, Joan Baez, Dale Hawkins and Hank Williams.
Lastly a time spanning debate on the beauty of Isobel Campbell vs Francoise Hardy for it is summer and lust is in the air.

Andrew Morrison:
Andy has two shows in Dandelion Radio's June schedule. His regular two-hour show includes a specially-recorded session from Whole Sky Monitor, as well as another exclusive live track from Eliza. You'll also hear tracks from Burial, Laura Cantrell, The Helio Sequence and New Order, along with Teresa and Scott's regular monthly guest spots and many other new and unsigned tunes.
Andy's other June show is a two-hour special entitled 'Teresa & Andy's Fantasy Festival', in which Andy and his girlfriend pick and introduce their ideal line-up for a 2008 summer festival. There are three days and two stages worth of acts in their "virtual festival", featuring headliners such as Elbow, Depeche Mode, Bloc Party and Neil Young, as well as the finest up-and-coming artists, both signed and unsigned, including Devotchka, Samuraj Cities, Patrick Watson, Lanterns On The Lake and Errors. Pitch a tent near your computer, and join Andy and Teresa for a festival during which you won't get washed away by the elements!

Dubster:
In this months Radiodubster, Steve and Brian pack their rucksacks and return to the Scottish borders to give you a flavour of the acts playing at this years Wickerman Festival in July including Miyagi, Actiongroup, Zoey Van Goey and some group called the Fall.
We'll also be showcasing a few tracks from the Chamber Music album, a collection of no less than 36 different acts adaptations of James Joyce's love poems. Add to this tracks from Mittens on Strings, Magic Arm and Pleasant Grove, and you have 2 hours of aural heaven.
OK boy's packed and ready? No, I think we can leave the smoking jackets and sherry glasses ...

Mark Cunliffe:
Jerry Hope was a key member of The Dust Collectors, a band who I think are the best Derby has ever produced. He died in April and this month I pay tribute to him by playing four tracks he was heavily involved in making.
I also feature Sleaford Mods as yet unreleased album "1 er then ennit". There is Four Tet remixing Thom Yorke, two cover versions, an unwitting array of dancehall, fabulous garage action from The Federals more from the Zim Kids series, Ruff Sqwad's latest 12", King Soly dubstepping to great effect and some loveliness from The Mummers...

Mark Whitby:
In his June show, Mark previews the 2000 Trees festival, taking place in the idyllic setting of the Cotswolds, and featuring Art Brut, These New Puritans and The Anomalies, plus loads of others in what promises to be two days of fun and frolics in the English countryside.
Away from the greenery and the sunshine, this three hour spectacular also features tracks from new (and new-ish) albums by the resolutely urban Fall, electronica from Bitstream, Pink Skull and Cinema du Lyon, Germany's Trondheim, Ukraine's Younnat and a preview track from the forthcoming Stereolab album. All of which, along with a bottle of cheap cider and a piece of grass stuck in yer mouth, adds up to a cracking way of spending a summer's day (or night).

Neil Jenkins:
For June, Neil ditches the older records and concentrates on the newer stuff to help get through the wonderous backlog, including tracks from new albums by The Fall, Portishead, Half Man Half Biscuit, The Kills and a host of newer, less established bands and artists. This month's feature is The ME Band.

Pete Jackson:
This month, Pete Jackson proudly presents The Rebellious Jukebox - a two-hour assault on the ears from the distant, and not so distant, past. As well as high-quality tunes from the 1930s (!) to a couple of years ago, you'll also hear my personal selection of the five best cover versions EVER. So if your idea of heaven is a jukebox that has everything from Lee 'Scratch' Perry to Slowdive, from The 3 Johns to 1000 Homo DJs, you've found it. And you don't even have to put any 50ps in.

Rachael Neiman:
June's edition of 'The Rachael Neiman Experience' is only an hour-long due to continuing hectic times at Cherryade Towers! But, what an hour it is! We talk about our recent adventures at Ladyfest London and play Peggy Sue and the Pirates in honour of it. We also have a feature on the forthcoming Strawberry Shortcake festival in Manchester and play some tracks from featured bands including Amida, Le Tetsuo, Puzzle and The Lovely Eggs.
We also have top quality riot grrrl from Hooker, cute indiepop in the form of Woog Riots, Cars Can Be Blue, the new singles from My Sad Captains and Los Campesinos! And Keytarded with a beautiful keytar cover which knocks spots off the original, listen and see what you think!

Rocker:
Another packed three hour show from Rocker - This month there's an acoustic session recorded for the show by Violet Violet, as well as 5 (count 'em!) featured new LPs, all by artists played by John Peel.
There's also new tracks from Calvin Party; The Manhattan Love Suicides; Eelke Kleijn; The Bumblebees; TV Smith; The Hillfields; Ghosts Of Pasha; Zipper; Booka Shade; Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip; The School; The Udagawa Deal; and Lovingly Yours.
The Parallelograms take on The Ramones; there's a Peel's Big 45 featuring Sly and Robbie; and there's a track from the debut LP by Minisnap - side project of The Bats from New Zealand. As well as little known acts.
Here's this month's little known fact: A regulation golf ball has 336 dimples.

Yank Sizzler:
Let us peruse the recent recordings of The Black Angels, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, Beach House, Dr. Dog, The Kinetiks, The Dirtbombs & Dark Meat as we comfortably snuggle up against classics from Sister Nancy, Son House, The Loved Ones, The Chob, 16 Horsepower, Godspeed You Black Emperor and many more. We also treat ourselves to some of the finest live renditions Calexico has put to tape. And finally I froth at the mouth as it appears that I will get to not only see Tom Waits in June, but The Vaselines as well. Life is grand and so is this show.