On my show this month:
No sessions or featured compilations this month, just a whole load of great new releases, the usual inane ramblings and some Peeling back to tunes featured in session 50, 40 and 30 years ago this month. Among the new releases are yet more new singles from the recently prolific Royal Commission and My Best Unbeaten Brother , plus new albums from Dub Colossus , Dez Dare and yet another early contender for album of the year from Fikir Amlak & KIng Alpha.
There's also a cracking new cassette from Los Angeles' Ongo, a brilliant new Blue Tapes release from Cut A Lonely Figure, a 12" single from Terrain release and a live recording culled from the recently released expanded edition of Fall Heads Roll.
On the show NEXT month:
The questions have been circulating for years now. Whatever happened to Gusto Extermination Fluid, or Schuman The Human, or Retrigger or 2 Hot 2 Sweat ? And while we can't provide all the answers in this show, we can remind ourselves of how such bands graced my Dandelion Radio show in the early years as we celebrate twenty years on the air.
It's not just about artists from those early days, of course. We feature tracks from many of the session guests we've featured over the years, including Dementio13, The Sinatra Test , Jack Hayter and Diane Marie Kloba . We've also got the first track I ever played on Dandelion Radio, something from the best band I heard during the Dandelion years (and, indeed, this millennium), the track I received most feedback about and the one that still manages to bring me to tears, or at least close to them.
There's also a Peel Back...feature which looks back to October 2009 when we invited a whole bunch of Peel legends to record tracks for the show and they more than delivered, as you would expect.
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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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