Ever wondered what the DJs think of Dandelion Radio? Well this is the show that will help you!
One Big House in conversation with Paul Webster (the Station Controller), Andy Morrison, Mark Cunliffe and Rocker. This show covers DJs favourite sessions, highlights of the last twenty years, the Festive 50 and Sleaford Mods. There's even some notable tracks by Manhattan Love Suicides, The Membranes, Tall Pony and Ivor Cutler.
And if you recently sent in some feedback, a voicenote or an "offensive language warning", you may be part of this show too!
The second and final of two one hour specials as part of the Dandelion Radio 20th Year celebrations.

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After spending a significant proportion of his on-air time last month looking back over two decades of Dandelion Radio, Andy's July show shifts the focus back to 100% new music. This month's one-hour show includes an impressive selection of music from Deary, Arab Strap, Third Bloom, The Twilight Sad, Broken Social Scene, Les Big Byrd, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, The Early Years, Sister Ray Davies, Blood Orange, Veps, and a banger of a new single from Sjöblom. Elsewhere in this month's schedule, Andy also appears in part two of our Dandelion Radio documentary '20 Years Of New Music - The Dandelion Radio Story', continuing the celebrations of the 20th anniversary since our first ever broadcasts.

We kick the show of in the usual pedal-to-the-metal fashion with some Chicago punk from Cel Ray off their new album out later this month. There's a great remix off the latest EP by hybrid punk band / DJs from Edinburgh, Bikini Body.
The album by Horse Lords, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! came out last month and deserves getting another plug as it's a cracker.
On the notable new discoveries list this month, we have KOGG and Akram Hajj, both deliciously experimental, creative and exciting. Also some goth, doom, folk from Emaleen Tangleweed who's preview track bodes well for her new album due out at the end of this month.
Brevi hopes that this month's sonic poké bowl will have you glowing in body mind and soul (unlike that rather cheesy line).

Greetings!

I have new stuff from Modern Woman, Gichard, Cocanha, Witch Piss, Plastic Meat, Dez Dare, H8 Mile, Pieuvre, Hez, Los Thuthanaka, Brick Wall, Birth (Defects), Nazi Tampons, Sans Merit, Société Étrange, and more. I also have some new archival issues and reissues from Age Of Chance, La Peste, Huxton Creepers, and more. Finally, I pay my respects to the recently departed Ike Willis, the long time singer and rhythm guitarist for Frank Zappa.

I try to keep my in-show talking to a minimum to make more room for music, but I do have more to discuss about what I play, so check out my companion show notes over at http://davidondandelion.blogspot.com.

Enjoy the show!

Well it's the height of summer and the mercury is soaring so we have a track inspired by the traditional sounds of New Mexico from Lone Piñon, a charming song about a Bee from and the Native Hipsters, a couple of slabs of pure catharsis from YOUFF and TRAS (angry folks always use caps) and some mellow vibes from Max Lachowicz and Foel. There's also a little mention of global warming from Satoyama but it's so beautiful and cooling you won't mind at all. Add to that my new feature 'Two tracks from local bands' which is just a label for something I've been doing all along, and I'll think you'll find we have everything we need for an hour in each other's company.

Gareth's July show is a game of two halves. Kicking off the first hour, he's on the ball with a selection of 2026 unofficial World Cup singles including Lynks, plus some cup classics including Colourbox. Then in the second half, Gareth celebrates National Pet Shop Day (11th July) with a selection of songs about pets, including of course Pet Shop Boys. Plus there are 3 tracks taken from a new Skep Wax compilation album called 'Pets Sounds' (released 17th July) which are introduced by Brian Bilston, Beth Arzy from Jetstream Pony and the members of Railcard.

There are six hours from Leo this month - split across two shows.

Leo's first show for July begins, as all respectable cultural enterprises should, with a song called "No One Will Fuck Me When I Wear Two Different Shoes (One Jordan, One Gucci Flip Flop)" by The Femcels, before immediately attempting to regain dignity via The Leaf Library, Hora Lunga, HYPER GAL and Carla dal Forno. The effort is only partially successful.

Elsewhere, Mt. Gemini gets comfortably altered, ATFK gets remixed by Me Lost Me, and upsammy & Valentina Magaletti remind us that everything eventually ends, a theme enthusiastically expanded upon by Meitei, A Place to Bury Strangers and De Ambassade, who have apparently seen the news.

There are doors to bodies, chlorine fumes, living people, and a version of "Karma Police" courtesy of cumgirl8, because reality no longer has meaningful guardrails. Crack Cloud offers a Safe Room, though unnamed singers from Namibia immediately ask a question that nobody wanted to answer.

Later, Sleaford Mods and Aldous Harding arrive via a Prodigy acid storm, mary in the junkyard crash-lands, 33 & Olan Monk assess the state of things, and Model/Actriz stares uncomfortably through the glass.

The closing stretch brings doves, pigeons, moon-watching, gunslingers, giraffes, atmospheric vandalism and a dead-end street courtesy of Tafese Tesfaye, MEMORIALS, Gilla Band, Greg Saunier and Zoh Amba.

As ever, no promises are made regarding coherence.

Hello and welcome to my debut show for Dandelion Radio. I am absolutely thrilled to join the team.
In my first 2 hour show, I have kept the narration down to a minimum for two reasons - first show nerves and to fit more music into what is essentially a mix tape this month to introduce myself.
I hope there is something for everyone in the show. In future shows, I will be covering new releases, gigs attended and featured artists. If you are in a band and think that your music fits with my show, please contact me by email to lisachristine at dandelionradio.com

Hey. Hope all is ok. We are fighting the "After the Lord Mayor's Show" vibes here following our 20th Anniversary month of June. Fighting it in exactly the right way with a large dollop of new music for July!

There is more from Jawbone and Loose Fit are back in business which gets a big thumbs up from me. Jalen Ngonda has a brilliant new soul album out which transports you back to the 60's in the best way. Kavel comes at us with some great UK Funky from his studio on France and London based CRAIC DAVID is becoming a master of Chicago Footwork. Marsy are featured with their new EP, I'm playing three great tracks from it.

After last month's festivities, we're back to what these shows are really about this month: digging out the best new tunes and playing them. Very much in that category are new albums from Osees, Boards Of Canada, Jon Spencer and Yard Act, plus a compilation from the Akenat label featuring great tunes from the Philippines.

There's also another single from My Best Unbeaten Brother, something else from the excellent Golden Kong EP, a remix of Isaac Chambers & Dub Princess and a preview of the forthcoming Arab Strap album. Aside from the new stuff, we've got something from the new Analog Africa compilation from Los Orientales De Paramonga and, of course, we Peel Back... to the month of July as it looked in 1976, 1986 and 1996.

If it's July in the UK, then the weather will probably be disappointing and there will be plenty of summer sports to enjoy! Add to that the football World Cup and will be easy to miss new music releases; but don't worry here at Dandelion Radio, we've got it covered. And this month's One Big House show squeezes in two hours of brand new stuff!
The LP of the month is by Tara Clerkin Trio and it's so good it will probably be in many best of the year lists in six months' time. Remember you heard it here first! The show also includes exciting new tracks from show favourites Mercy Girl, Lemonsuckr, slippers, Makeshift Art Bar and The Dharma Chain.
Plus some emerging artists that are new to this show, False Reality, Prophetic Justice Authority, The Healing Power of Horses, Elisa Bee and Real Numbers.
Remember, the sport and the weather will be back next July, so you can safely prioritise listening to the fantastic new music in this show!

An hour from Rocker this month, featuring new tracks from Lande Hekt; Warren James; The Guy Hamper Trio; Orquesta Akokán; Touch Girl Apple Blossom; Bramwell; Real Numbers; Nathy SG; Joseph Tawadros; and The TSG.

There's electronica from James Harcourt, and Victor Axelrod reworks a Sugar Minott track.

This month's Rocker's Shellac Attack is a 1955 recording by Humphrey Lyttelton and his band.

As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: The fictional town of Taulkinham, Tennessee features in the 1952 novel Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor, later made into a film directed by John Huston.

Three hours from Sean this month
Just because we had a big party last month it doesn't mean there aren't a shedload of new tunes out there as the heatwaves roll in over the northern hemisphere.
New tunes from The Avalanches with Jamie XX, Jacket Burner, Station Model Violence, Gurry Wurry, Party Dozen and many more.
At long last, Australian / Italian based in the UK Bity Booker has released her debut album. Her singular approach to a folk sound that sounds like nothing else out there at the moment has had me entranced for a while now and her album doesn't disappoint. I also love that she is constantly creating artwork to accompany the music she makes.
We've got a new release on Metal Postcard records from Portland's Oopsie Daisies, more bedroom beauty that will stand the test of time.
Favourite band names of the month Obamacare and $iggy Rett$ a laconic Australian rapper that if you are Australian with a penchant for self deprecating rhymes, like me you'll fall in love immediately.

The 4th June and 20th July 1976 saw the Sex Pistols perform at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester. So many groups that later became seminal and earthshattering were set-up after members of those later groups attended these mind-blowing deck-clearing gigs; people such as Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley (who organised the gigs), members of Joy Division, the Smiths, the Fall, Magazine, the Buzzcocks and John Cooper Clarke – among many others – were there...
Not all of them who got their own groups together or were already in the process of getting their shit together were necessarily strictly Punk – but, let us say, were at least heavily influenced by Punk.
Hence then, this period in time and what followed, X-Ray Moon thought should be "marked" and noted and and and... and and... and, this is Post-Punk Etcetera...
X-Ray Moon states some of these groups could be defined as Punk, New Wave or Alternative.
Whatever belongs wherever: THIS IS POST-PUNK ETCETERA!!!!!!!!!!