On my show this month:
Andy's one-hour May show has a wide selection of music from Europe and Canada, including Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor from Denmark; Púah from Italy; Tired Cossack from Winnipeg, Manitoba; Killing Kind and Les Big Byrd from Sweden; and from the UK, Shelf Lives, Real Lies and Deary from London; Winter Gardens from Brighton; Pigeon from Margate; and The Twilight Sad from Glasgow.

Also stay tuned for news on the upcoming 20th anniversary of Dandelion Radio's first broadcasts, and how you can be involved in our special June shows marking the beginning of our third decade on air!

On the show NEXT month:
In a very special schedule marking 20 years of Dandelion Radio, Andy appears in no less than four (and a bit) shows, playing a whopping total of 43 tracks! His one-hour regular monthly show for June features a special Dandelion Radio 20th birthday present in the form of an exclusive session track from Tired Cossack – with two other tracks from the same session featuring in two different shows elsewhere in this month's schedule. There's lots of great new and recent tunes from The Twilight Sad, The Metatrons, Sister Ray Davies, Deary, Pigeon, Basht., Broken Social Scene, and more. It's fitting that in the month Dandelion Radio turns 20, Andy's favourite band Arab Strap marks their 30th anniversary, and Andy plays the brand new single that's been released to coincide. You'll hear an excellent song from last year's mini album by Brighton band Winter Gardens; his favourite track from an album by Les Big Byrd that it took a near-criminal eight years to discover; plus an Andy's Old Chestnut that is one of the earliest acid house tracks to break the UK singles chart back in 1988.

In a separate two-hour 'Andy's 20th Anniversary Special', Andy plays at least one session track or favourite tune from each of the 20 years Dandelion Radio has been broadcasting. The tunes are played in chronological order starting from 2006, and finishing in 2026 with the second exclusive brand new session track from Tired Cossack. You're going to hear Swathes, West Wickhams, The Divided Circle, Skuldpadda, Norma, Paul Draper, Communions, Willis Earl Beal, Atomizer, Before You Die..., The Orch, Cygnus X-1, Martin Carr (formerly of The Boo Radleys), Alex Canasta, Epic45 and loads more.

Also listen out for the co-hosted 'Dandelion Radio 20th Anniversary Show' (featuring a third Tired Cossack session track); plus our very first Dandelion Radio documentary: '20 Years Of New Music - The Dandelion Radio Story'. Andy also has a brief cameo appearance in Johnny Row's show this month, as one of the DJs who introduces and plays a track in answer to his question 'what one song do you think John Peel would have loved during the past 20 years?'.

Email:
Tracklistings Website (with links to hear each show again): www.dandelionradio.com/andy/tracks
Mixcloud (hear all my shows on demand): www.mixcloud.com/MorrisonAndy
Bluesky: @andydandelion.bsky.social
Last.fm: last.fm/user/AndyDandelion
Twitter: @andrewuk
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/andrewmorrison

My previous session guests:

Biography:
"Brilliant... reminded me what radio should be about" (Cygnus X-1)
"Grotesquely self indulgent, but why not?" (John Peel, 15/7/2004)

From Portsmouth in southern England, I was the voice of BBC Radio 1's John Peel show, providing the spoken word 'offensive content' announcements, which can be heard here. I also recorded announcements and title music for Radio 1's Rob Da Bank One Music show.  I was interviewed by Radio 1 in October 2005 for a documentary about the life and legacy of John Peel.  Listen to it online here.

I was one of the founding members of Dandelion Radio and have been presenting a monthly show since its inception in 2006. This follows my previous experience presenting a weekly show for Portsmouth Hospital Radio back in the late 90s. I've also appeared on Rob Da Bank's Bestival FM and Portsmouth's Express FM. I occasionally spin tunes out and about, with highlights so far including DJing at Danish band Alex Canasta's album launch party in Copenhagen, and supporting Autons, Forest Giants and King Of Spain at the Shoreditch Cargo, London. I also have a wide-ranging background of music production, performing, remixing and engineering.

You can browse through my entire Dandelion Radio tracklistings archive and find links to hear all of my previous shows at www.dandelionradio.com/andy/tracks.

Tracklistings and listen again to the previous shows: