On my show this month:
Last month's session guests Tiberius return with a blistering live set, one of two live offerings in a show that also includes something from the new Osees live album. Our featured compilation this month is a new box set from Cherry Red focusing on US 80s 90s indie rock.
There's also something from the new Guerilla Toss offering, a whole bunch of great reggae/dub releases from the likes of Manwel T , MyDubz & Dub Idren and E.R.S. and two phenomenal albums from Sweden courtesy of Hidden Operator and Stress Assassin .
In addition to that, we do what we normally do in the month of Festive Fifty voting and Peel Back... to a selection of tunes from the chart of forty years ago.
On the show NEXT month:
This final Dandelion show of 2025 features, as you would expect, some great new releases as we head towards the end of the year, including something from new albums by Emma Pollock , Whalesharkattacks and Stealing Sheep among others.
We've also got the first release from the Nu Industrial - an uncompromising debut featuring The New Wives Of Bath - and the new album from Tiberius, whose blistering live set featured in last month's show.
Speaking of live performances, we've also got something from the live albums from Yard Act and Porridge Radio .
Our featured compilation this month comes from the Dubmission and, for those of you so-inclined, a brief festive section at the end of the show featuring, among other things, a great new single from Sir Robert Orange Peel.
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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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