On my show this month:
Difficult to imagine a better way to start the year than with an exclusive head-shredding session from VX to shake off any residual New Year cobwebs. We've also got a featured compilation from Western Vinyl, all proceeds from which support refugees and asylum seekers in the US.
Naturally, we look at what's coming our way in the early weeks and months of 2026 and the signs are good: new albums from Ladytron , Bill Callahan , Dry Cleaning and Bodel, among others. There's also a new single from Novelistme and, of course, there's something from the new Xiu Xiu covers album in there too.
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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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