Andrew Morrison:
Andy's May show includes an exclusive first play of all three tracks from Stylus Rex's new EP, along with Bloc Party's new single (as remixed by Armand Van Helden) and new tunes from Dan Deacon, Sad Day For Puppets and Depeche Mode. Unsigned choices include a brand new unheard song from Lanterns On The Lake, The Reject Club, Bye-Bye Violet Tapes and Block 45, as well as two tracks by Raw Milk. Teresa picks a Tasty Tip, Scott selects a cover version to fill his Funky Five Minutes, and there's a competition to win CDs including the debut album by Dalmation Rex And The Eigentones.

Jeff Grainger:
Jeff's Dandelion Radio Show for May is two hours packed with brand new tunes by the likes of The Second Floor Band, Sables, 5turns25, The Young Republic and Arborea. He'll also be playing a variety of older tracks by The Chameleons, Rita Chao & the Quests and Boubacar Traore
Album of the Month is 'Why There Are Mountains', the ear-popping debut by, New York's, Cymbals eat Guitars. And if all this wasn't enough the highlight of the 120 minutes is a Session recorded exclusively for the show by Alisia Casper

Katherine Godfrey:
This month Stenchman, Martyn, Ekelon, and experimental dubstep label Frijisfo Beats cut basslines from the wreckage, dragging them from the depths to surface alongside Instra:Mental's Lynchian nightmare, while Trembling Bells and Teengirl Fantasy pull etherial melodies from the heavens only to find themselves heavyhandedly butted up against 2 minute punk rock.
New monthly feature, Wax Across the Water, sees Katherine and fellow Dandelion DJ Marcelle exchanging a record that is setting their world alight right now; this month: tracks from Hamburg-based label Pudel Produkte.

Marcelle:
Kiss and tell - the statistics

Dutch band The Ex are celebrating their 30 year existence with an album featuring lots of statistics about their career. Inspired by this Marcelle reveals at some point during her show which of the artists she's playing she actually has kissed. Apart from revealing stunning numbers Marcelle plays her favourite run-out grooves and some animal sounds.
And next to her popular Look Back Bore Records of this month (May 1979) series, Marcelle together another of the Dandelion deejays starts a new series: the two women send each other a vinyl record to play on their respective show each month. To top it all: Marcelle's exciting-and-surprising-as-ever May show comes with a proud 89,2% vinyl guarantee.

Mark Cunliffe:
Crumbs! It's May! 2009 is going quicker than a crate of Blue Wkd at a school disco.

New releases are coming thick and fast too. Ashley Beedle's gone and bought himself a Sagem mobile phone the silly boy. Badawi's finally passed his Scouts knotting exam and grime crew the Newham Generals are rinsing it old skool. Juju Orchestra are not quite on a latin tip, well, that's what they say. Hawt has up-ended the TravelLodge off the M62 ... naughty. Black Pepper's run out of petrol and would you credit it, she was on the M62 at the time and hasn't got a bed for the night 'cos of Hawt's legging up antics....the bugger. Flare are doing a Marley with a bit of a drum and a bit of a bass and Sway's only got Two Fingers these days ... bit remiss ...

Mark Whitby:
Buds are opening in his garden faster than he's got time to knock 'em down again, so Mark has retreated indoors to escape from the triffids and put together a three hour show for May, with spectacular results. Nature's loss is your gain as you get to hear an exclusive session from The Pocket Gods as well other aspirants to the title of Mark's favourite band in the world, such as Belgium's Dietrich, Florida's Slideshow Freak and, emerging strongly as a contender on the blind side, the curious amalgamation of Chilean and Scottish sonic adventure that is the province of the remarkable Vapouboat.
Also featured are magnificent new albums from King Creosote, Jeffrey Lewis, The Broken Family Band and Cunninlynguists as well as tracks from as yet unreleased gems by Extradition Order, The Chasms and Lactation Sandwich. And our new Peel Back and Sniff feature focuses on the contrasting charms of Fairport Convention and Crass.

Matt Jones:
What does this month bring? It brings joy and light in the form of Phylis Dillon, Lullaby Arkestra, Gargle, Pendle Coven, Mikus, Hayvanlar Alemi, Toxic Chicken, Voodoo Economics, TRYPTA, Eat Rabbit, Dilworth, Obits and many more,
plus an exclusive sneak peak at the new album from the lovely Tartufi. So in short - a genre blending blitz of musical goodness that's worth way more than 5 a day. Enjoy

Pete Jackson:
May blooms in to life on Pete's show with some awesome psychedlic stompery from Aqua Nebula Oscillator, Happy End and Wolf People, tracks from new albums by Mono, Mistabishi and John Parish and Polly Jean Harvey and we'll be taking an inordinate interest in our own footwear with a focus on ace shoegaze label Sonic Cathedral. We'll also get some more fiesty exuberance from And What Will Be Left Of Them? and hearing Lord Numb's postcard from India.

Rocker:
This month's three-hour show is as usual packed with new music - there's exclusive sessions from Hazel Winter and The Manhattan Love Suicides, as well as a featured new LP from MJ HIbbett & The Validators.
We have new singles from Violet Violet; Standard Fare; Lapels; Crystal Stilts and My Teenage Stride; also new tracks from Ozone Baby; John Parish and Polly Jean Harvey; Moofish Catfish; Matilda Lights; Neil Young; Cats On Fire; and Vanilla Ride.
There's electronica from Solaris Heights; Jurek Przezdziecki; Gui Boratto and an excellent Pete Heller remix of Faithless; there's also dubstep from Kontext, remixed by Ramadanman; and some weirdness in the style of Captain Beefheart from Blurt.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is a punk classic from 1977, and this month's Educating Elizabeth is an absolute Tamla Motown classic from 1967.
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

Yank Sizzler:
While our time is rationed this month by the perils of the economy, famine, war & what not, here at the Yank Sizzler show on Dandelion Radio we worked the fruits of our brow to bring you brand new music from Maps & Atlases, Der Todesking, The Black Keys, Grampall Jookabox and more.
There's also classics sent to us by the resistance; tunes by Louis Lasky, Sam Cooke and Ludus direct from their Peel Session. And lest we tempt to forget the brave work of The Builders & The Butchers, Jay Reatard & {{{Sunset}}}. Behold an hour of aural extravagance.

Andrew Morrison:
There's an underlying dark atmosphere to Andy's April show, with new tracks from The Joy Formidable, Samuraj Cities, Various Production and The Race, as well as three cracking cover versions including The Big Pink tackling The Cure, and Raw Milk's take on Guns N' Roses. April's session guest is Spidersleg, who contributes five exclusive new tracks. Unsigned music this month includes Figg and Small Engine Repair, there's a competition to win Decoration singles and you'll also hear a rare New Order track chosen by fans on their website.

Dubster:
It's a show of 2 halves.
Steve first, Brian second ... or is it Brian second and Steve first?
No hang on, we think it may be Brian first and Steve second ... or even Steve second and Brian first ...
Oh, we don't know, but what we do know, is it's a garage sale and it's 3 hours long.
So do join us for some retro bliss.
Bliss that comes from CD's, vinyl and quite possibly an old 8 track cartridge machine (not to mention Myspace).

Jeff Grainger:
As April is the Month of Jeff's Birthday, he'll be celebrating with a two hour show packed with fineness. There's an excellent session by Brighton's The Half Sisters. New tracks from The Hurtful Taunts, Furesshu, Billy Gone Bad, Humanizer, The Horn The Hunt and (a bit of) an exclusive from The Young Republic with a track from their forthcoming "The Alchemist" LP. Speaking of exclusives, Wolfram Wire and Alisia Casper return with one of three songs they recorded together especially for the show.
This Months Featured Record Label is Habite Records of France and there'll be classic tracks from Sonic Youth and Hüsker Dü. Finally, there's two songs by Manchester's Eyes Wide who headline Oldham's next Dandelion Radio Band Night (see News/Events page). Now all we need is a cake big enough for all the candles!

Marcelle:
Mind the gap!?

In this month's show Dutch deejay Marcelle tries to close one of the more renowned gaps in human history, the generation gap, and she hopes to close some other gaps along the way.
She gets the help from one man band Zea, who in his live set changes an old Ramones track into a up-to-date anti-computer song ('I Wanna Be Deleted'). Zea makes also use of the lyrics of man who actually looks three generations older than he actually is, Mark E. Smith, with his rendition of Leadbelly's very old blues classic 'Bourgeois Blues'. A 20th century German hardcore electro musician puts his teeth into a 21st century electronic music label.
Jazzsteppa close the gap between jazz and dubstep and Burnt Friedman ends a generation gap or two by collaborating with former Can-drummer Jaki Liebeszeit. Dancehall singer Louie Rankin sings about a machine quite unknown to the current generation, the typewriter. Gudrun Gut tries to close a cultural gap with a visit to Poland and according to Disrupt there is no gap between man and robot.
The Look Back Bore Records of the month (April 1979) close as always a 30-year old gap, courtesy of The Piranhas and J.J. Burnel. Marcelle hopes that all generations will be satisfied with this month's show 80% vinyl guarantee.

Mark Cunliffe:
It's April and we are coming to the end of the season. Yep, the East Derby Wheelie Bin Tipping League could have taken a decisive turn recently when Sevvel Street scored a perfect 10 for emptying a full garden waste Wheelie off a set of railings onto a Porsche Boxster....

....Meanwhile, on the show this month we have The Phantom Band juggling a skeleton. Tenna Star may need more than the first half of his name. Ghouqueu's given up making music to be a lumber jack and Kryptic Minds will keep your can of Ostrogoth Loose Label very nicely indeed. Common & Insight have been taking tips off Michael Phelps and Elephant Man is making Tenna Star very jealous indeed. Finally XisForEyes are entertaining themselves down at the butchers, never has a gizzard seemed so much fun....

Mark Whitby:
In April, Whitby salivates over a cocktail of great New York sides including stuff from Kittens Ablaze, SXNDRGS and Black Dice, follows this up with a psychedelic Texan slammer and then reveals that was a mere aperitif to the culmination of the countdown towards the greatest US state for music.
There's also a six-pronged label feature on I Blame The Parents, including a much-awaited airing for Chav Stabber and a glimpse of the upcoming Extradition Order album, plus a smattering of soon-to-be-released gems from Finland's KXP and England's Slideshow Freak. Making up the numbers are tasty treats from old favourites of the show Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Camera Obscura and Pterodactyl.

Matt Jones:
Like a home for unloved pets, this show is full of potential new best friends. Men Diamler leads this month's cast of waifs and strays that also includes Gosprom Elfata and Cthulu is Sex.
So across just 4 songs, that's a combination of beautifuly unhinged folk, ukranian hiphop inspired by the poetry of Vladamir Nabakov, 8-bit Afrobeat and sheer brutal noise.
With another 19 tracks including brand new material from the likes of Ottersgear, Pix, Echo TM and King Dubby.
What more could you possibly be waiting for? Listen or miss out.

Pete Jackson:
TS Eliot once wrote 'April is the cruelest month'. But his name is an anagram of toilets, which hardly makes him trustworthy.
Instead, come listen to what I have on offer in April, including a session from psychedlic superstars The Lucid Dream, new albums from Electromagnetic Impulses, And What Will Be Left Of Them? and Northerner and fantastic music from the likes of The Phantom Band and Wavves then make your own mind up.

Rocker:
Another three-hour show packed with new music - there's singles from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart; The Wild Swans; My Teenage Stride; The Beatnik Filmstars; Help Stamp Out Loneliness; Crystal Stilts; and Liechtenstein; also new tracks from Puerto Muerto; The Wendy Darlings; Camera Obscura; MJ Hibbett & the Validators; MC Sense aka Buddha; The Pete Green Corporate Juggernaut; Vanilla Ride; Cats On Fire and (the) Nervous Rex.
There's dubstep from Mount Kimbie and Chase & Status, and electronica from Agoria; dOP; Itamar Sagi; and Yeark.
Milky Wimpshake take on The Isley Brothers; while The Manhattan Love Suicides take on The Jesus & Mary Chain. There's vintage tracks from Vivian Stanshall, and Nico (no, sadly not together), and a fine record featuring Wendy Richard. This month's Peel's Big 45 is the 1994 debut of one of the greatest current female singer / songwriters.
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: Sir Isaac Newton invented the catflap.

Yank Sizzler:
Here in the US, yearly taxes are due in April, but I haven't even paid the ones from last year. But what I have accomplished is a new show for April on Dandelion Radio. This month we jump in the pool with new recordings by Neko Case, Shrag, Crystal Antlers, Crystal Stilts, The Black Lips, The Snuggle Bugs & The Whore Moans along with some snuggle time for classics by Shirley Ellis, Dale Hawkins, The Hippy Boys, Huggy Bear, Calvin Party and more.
Cheers and the next time you see me, I'll be on the run from the law. The taxes and all.

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.