On my show this month:
So many great releases about, it seems only proper to try to cram as many of them into our two hours as possible, so this month's show is a bumper 31-track extravaganza featuring new albums from the likes of Horsegirl, Mogwai , Helen McCookerybook , Super Burner and Lambrini Girls , plus EPs from Manwel T , Dope on Plastic and Papa Jupe's T.C..
Our featured compilation this month has a Woolworths (yes, Woolworths) link and comes courtesy of the Jasmine label. There's a brace of great new releases from the almost unfeasibly consistent Metal Postcard, a hard-hitting demo from Serbia's Barikade, a very fine retrospective featuring Gnonnas Pedro and, naturally, we still find time to Peel Back... to what was happening 50, 40 and 30 years ago this month.
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Email:
Bluesky: @markw01.bsky.social
Twitter: @markwdandelion
My previous session guests:
Biography:
My music-related activities over the years have been restricted to such peripheral activities as running a venue and attempting to manage a band to putting together radio shows variously named The A-Z of Punk, Idiot Jukebox and The Diamond Mine as well as masquerading as The Phantom Surfer to produce The History of Surf Music and unintentionally controversial hour-long documentary Surfin' East Kilbride, all of which have made appearances on various community radio stations over the years.
I'm the author of a book on John Peel's Festive Fifty called, with great imagination, The Festive Fifty and a novel that is nothing at all to do with music ... called Balls. I edited a fanzine called The Backdoor in the late eighties, fronted a band called The Beached Whales that never got round to gigging and played amplifier lead and slides with a band who'd rather I didn't make my association with them public. I have what I believe is a healthy contempt for music journalism (even when it's good) and believe the best way to start a band is to put four people who can't play in a room with some second hand instruments, don't feed 'em and don't let them out until they've produced something great. I've tried it on several occasions and no one's died yet.
Tracklistings and listen again to the previous shows:
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