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An exclusive session (from Rocker) and a new DJ (Johny Row) and lots more.

This Month On Dandelion Radio
Descriptions of every show broadcasting within our looping audio stream until the end of the month
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Andrew Morrison

Andy's one-hour March show features music spanning some 39 years, including a great house 12" mix from 1987 as an Andy's Old Chestnut; a 1992 BBC session recording from Pulp; a brilliant Mansun B-side from 2001; a vinyl-only 7-inch flip side from Norway's Harrys Gym; a Team Ghost album track from 2016; Sweden's Les Big Byrd from a 2018 album; and from 2023, tunes from Epic45 and Killing Kind. You're also going to hear more recently released selections from TEED, AxWax and Sister Ray Davies, along with songs from the brand new album by former session guests Tired Cossack.

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Brevi Linens

Brevi's got a bumper show for you this month since, in his part of the world at least, nature is springing into life again and let's be honest, nature's something we can be cheerful about, as well as the music of course. He's excited to have a track from the new Swell Maps album out this month after a long period of inactivity. There'll also be new stuff from the Welsh artist Bol Buwch (meaning Cow's Stomach), Coaxial, Ivan The Tolerable and a recent discovery he's buzzing about: Angine de Poitrine, a punch-packing two-piece from Quebec.

Brevi's also paying tribute to the sad and sudden passing of the Yorkshire singer-songwriter legend, Captain Hotknives who touched the hearts of many, bringing joy through his music and performances to those who followed him.
There'll be another one of Brevi's psychedelic wanders to get lost in and he'll be sneaking a few other gems in from his collection that may also be worth a lend of your ears.

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David Smith

Greetings!
We mourn the recent deaths of Billy "Bass" Nelson (the bass player for the first three Funkadelic albums), reggae legend Sly Dunbar, and Ghana Highlife master Ebo Taylor and pay tribute with a song from each this month.
I also have new songs from Robber Robber, Damaged Bug, Varna GL, Welt Star, Maddie Ashman, Disket, Ekko Astral, Adiós Cometa, Vikowski, Gerchi, Hot Face, Taker, Benzyna, 86 It, and something from a future release by T.Y. due out this summer. I also have two new and absolutely wild covers by Ty Segall and Dwarves.
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!

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Gareth Jones

Gareth will be spending most of March celebrating his 50th birthday, anticipating 50 pints of beer and 50 slices of cake. However, he's managed to take time out of his busy birthday schedule to bring you another two hours of interesting and eclectic tunes.
From Indiepop icons Heavenly to erotic electro from Peaches, crude comedy from Kunt And The Gang and edible exotica from The Tikiyaki Orchestra.
Plus the 2nd hour's guest presenter for 'Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue' is Nicole from the Seattle, Washington garage-punk-rock female band The Darts who release their new album 'Halloween Love Songs' on March 3rd.

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Johny Row

I start the show with a banger from the new Sleaford Mods album which might just be their best yet. There's also some Geordie Jazz from Knats, medieval trap from Zukenee and Spanish cello goodness from Yamila.
It's hard to believe that Gnod have been going for 20 years and I have an excellent new track from their excellently named new album Chronicles of Gnowt (Vol 1). This will be the first of three albums from them this year to celebrate their anniversary. Speaking of excellent albums I can't get enough of the new Hen Ogledd album which is gloriously weird and right up my alley. If you haven't heard it yet you are seriously missing out. DISCO!
A lot more great new music on this month's show, I feel very privileged to be able to do this on Dandelion Radio and I hope this is the first of many, many more to come.

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Leo Gilbert

There are two shows from Leo this month.
One of Leo's March shows drifts between shadow and glow, opening with the gloriously ragged devotion of The Fat White Family's live ode to Mark E. Smith — a fitting gateway into a journey that's equal parts haunted, tender, and defiantly alive. From Daniel Knox's storm-tossed piano laments to Daniel Avery's nocturnal pulse, the programme traces a path through late-night city streets, flickering neon, and the quiet spaces between conversations.

There are moments of strange beauty and off-kilter charm: Sparks alongside Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard reminding us how overwhelming love can feel, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver summoning ancient winds, and Brian Bilston's wry poetry finding fragile truth in the digital age. Elsewhere, Dry Cleaning, Pictish Trail, and The Twilight Sad lean into emotional abrasion, where vulnerability and noise become inseparable.

We take detours into shimmering ambience with Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore, ritual rhythms from KINACT, and the intimate ache of Nasiba Abdullaeva's voice. Bruce Springsteen appears like a lone figure beneath a streetlamp, while PVA and POWER PANTS inject flashes of defiance and electricity. The textures shift constantly: folk dissolves into drone, spoken word into static, melody into atmosphere.

By the time MEMORIALS closes the show, we're deep in the weeds — somewhere reflective, uncertain, but strangely comforted. This is a space for outsiders, night thinkers, and anyone who finds meaning in the margins. Stay with us, and let the signal carry you somewhere unexpected.

The other show slips between the mechanical and the human, opening with Mandy, Indiana's stark pulse and Shackleton's ritual rhythms — signals from somewhere deep underground. Charli xcx and John Cale collide in a beautifully unlikely moment, while Nocow and Throwing Snow trace cold electronic constellations overhead.

There's movement and friction throughout: Holy Fuck's kinetic drive, Sorry's restless storytelling, and the wiry immediacy of The Nicked and SPRINTS. Elsewhere, the mood softens into something more fragile — Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover offer a quiet devotion, Flor and Emmanuelle Parrenin drift into pastoral dream, and Stereolab remind us that repetition can feel like floating.

Global echoes ripple outward, from Damily's hypnotic rhythms to imal Gnawa's trance and Bawrut's radiant dancefloor warmth.

Conrad Schnitzler and Charles Amirkhanian bring experimental textures that feel both archival and futuristic, while Craven Faults and caroline stretch time into wide, contemplative spaces.

As the show unfolds, tensions rise and dissolve — Mclusky snarl, Bill Orcutt fractures the blues, and Krista Papista burns with neon intensity. By the end, Neon Kittens leave us somewhere strange and unresolved.

This is a journey through pulse, memory, and transformation — music for late hours, open minds, and the thrill of not quite knowing what comes next.

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Mark Cunliffe

I think the year has started well, musically, but then I always think that. I'm as happy as a pig in s**t when listening to new releases and there always seems to be plenty good ones out there on the conveyer belt :-)
Triptides bring some psychedelia and DJ Ends is searching for Molly with a difference. Pem warbles very well as is her want and Jack Acid, yes, JACK ACID is back and it's a banger.
There is more from the wonderful SAULT and The Womack Sisters do old skool sounding soul music so very well in the modern world. There's also a fantastic track for BobbybPhoolan no less.

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Mark Whitby

It was nearly the show that didn't make it. Future generations may well have labelled it 'the great lost Dandelion show'...or something. Anyway, by a combination of technological wizardly and dumb luck (OK, dumb luck had the dominant role), the show was rescued and you can hear it now, a highly cherished two hours of music that may rank alongside vintage Goon Shows or Hancock's Half Hour episodes or...
Or just Mark Whitby playing his favourite tunes. He admits to a degree of self-indulgence even, reflected in the choice of featured compilation, a new Cherry Red box set featuring great Scottish bands of the eighties and nineties, a Girls Against Boys reissue and, of course, a clutch of tunes from the Peel Back... archives.
But that's not the whole story. We've got tunes from new albums by JD Meatyard, Heraclitus Akimbo, Bill Callahan and Shackleton, yet more great releases from the Skep Wax stable, new singles from Dez Dare and Jah Wobble & Jon Klein and, as you'd expect, much more.

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One Big House

This month's two hours will shine light in the dark, give love where hate dominates and wave play on when your team is clearly offside. When all around you begin to falter these 120 minutes will give hope ... alright, alright, the overhyping doesn't come naturally to this show but playing great tunes does!
There are some absolute cracking new singles from My First Time, The Itch, Kiosk, Him & Earl and Prostitute. There are also brilliant tracks from upcoming LPs by Kim Gordon, Hollie Cook, The Violent Youth and Hiro Ama.
The LP of the month is from the wonderfully loud and shouty Bratakus and we keep up the noise levels with Middleman, Parcel Tape, Chat Pile, Hot Face and comfort. We also share some more subtle moments from Would-be-goods, Railcard, Lowmoon and Touch Girl Apple Blossom.
Plus as part of this show's celebration of the 20 years of Dandelion Radio, we raid the archives to see what Rocker was playing on his show in the early months of the station in 2006.
That sounds like a great way to escape the world for two hours!

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Rocker

A two hour show from Rocker this month, including an exclusive new session from The Charlie Tipper Rebellion, and new tracks from Alan Sparhawk; The Just Joans; The Early Years; Heavenly; JD Meatyard; Sweetpool; Lande Hekt; Courtney Barnett; The Guy Hamper Trio; Would-Be-Goods; Willie Gibson & Helen McCookerybook; The Reds, Pinks and Purples; and Special Friend.
There's electronica from Sasha & Marsh; [Solée remixed by Stephan Zovsky; and Third Bloom featuring Tash Breeze. There's an essential reissue of a long out-of-press track by John Peel's favourite reggae band, Misty In Roots. Half Egyptian Oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros amuses us all by singing about English identity, his favourite pudding, and the limited company Reform 2025.
This month's Rocker's Shellac Attack is from 1957, and features one of the original rock'n'rollers, while this month's Educating Elizabeth record is an ultra rare Motown single from 1973, reissued more recently by specialist label MD records.
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: In the UK's February 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election the Tory party candidate lost their deposit by polling less than 5% of the vote, only the second time this has happened since 1962. Rocker hopes very much hope it's not the last.

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Sean Hocking

3 hours from me this month. As I spent most of Feb in Thailand I thought we'd better kick off with a newish track from there with Cult Shotta going trap Isaan style.
Frog Power has had a recent burst of energy so 2 new ones from the pond. Neon Kittens have taken on all things legal in their latest ep, "I Fought The The Law but the Law was Gone" ep and also on Metal Postcard we've got a stonker of an album coming from The Conspiracy this month so I had to include a track from that and, Yes, Salem Trials are back with a new album too, as fiercely independent in their sound as ever, a great thing to see after almost 35 years of making music!
Newbie acts include The Spectres, Print Head, Badger Hunt out of NYC who I'm quickly falling in love with, Mildred, Dr Dence Dot Spam, Nelson of The East and Moar, amongst others.
The Lankum cover of the Specials Ghost Town is pretty special, Beck's version of True Love Will Find You In The End doesn't quite hit the power of the original but is still worth a listen and we we revisit Bicep's edit of the 808 State classic, "In Yer Face".
You'll also be hearing from Xray Xerox, Kilynn Lunsford, Shackleton, The Bug Club, Au Pairs, Powerpants & Brian Protheroe to name a few.
As always I try to mix it up and keep it fresh. I hope you enjoy

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Thomas Blatchford

You don't have to know how many computer crashes went into the making of this month's hour of power but regardless your host is very grateful to be here with so many hot new humdingers!
This show features a couple of sex-based horror stories from Twat Union and Hetslayer, deadly new hits from Miss Kaninna and Famili, a dip into Scottish independent pop past thanks to Cherry Red, and future classics from Xiao Xiao, Public Figures, Nondi_, Season 2 and more.

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X-Ray Moon

X-Ray Moon has an intriguing one hour show for us this month.
Full, so he tells us, of spicy grooviness and herbally fascinating psyche-licious tunes. Umbilical Noose, Melvic Centre[artist], [artist]Peplum[artist], and [artist]Neon Crabs, are just some of the groups he presents us with to tickle our aural taste buds.
He also, somewhat non-perplexingly and rather joyously, does not seem to be able to help himself when it comes to playing one or two of the old staples that have got many of us to where we happen to be today. Such as, for example, The Doors, because they are re-releasing a picture disc of Morrison Hotel. As if all of this were not enough he introduces us to a short sound poem by SJ Fowler.
He hopes everyone enjoys his show and the slow arrival of spring - at least in his hemisphere.