Festive Fifty Build Up Show - December 2024 Join a selection of Dandelion Radio DJs for the hour up to midnight (GMT) on Christmas Eve for this one-off, Festive Fifty Build-Up show. They'll be introducing some of their picks of 2024 that didn't quite make it into this year's legendary listeners' poll, while warming up for the first play of the 2024 results starting at midnight.
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
Sybris	Horny	Digital LP 'Gold On Hold'	Absolutely Kosher
3%	Land Back (Feat. Say True God? & Denni)	Digital LP 'Kill The Dead'	1788 Records
FACS	When You Say	Digital LP' Maggot Brain 020324'
Melys	Santa Cruz	Digital single 'Santa Cruz'	Sylem Records
Jamie XX	All You Children (Feat. The Avalanches)	Digital single 'All You Children'	Yount
Epic45	Passing	Digital LP 'You'll Only See Us When The Light Has Gone'	Wayside & Woodland Recordings
John Cale	How We See The Light	Digital LP 'Poptical Illusion'	Domino
Callahan & Witscher	Boiler Room	Digital LP 'Think Differently"	Post Present Medium
Mdou Moctar	Tchinta	Digital LP 'Funeral For Justice'	Matador
Committee	Brigade	Digital EP 'The Conquest'	Trule
Shirese	Christmas In East Haven	Digital LP various artists 'Have Yourself A Merry Indie Christmas Vol. IV'
Andrew Morrison - December 2024 Unusually, this December sees Andy hosting a show without a single Christmas-themed track. He makes up for it slightly by playing you the three songs he voted for in John Peel's 2003 Festive Fifty, to get you in the mood for hearing Dandelion Radio's upcoming 2024 Festive Fifty listeners poll results (repeating every day from Christmas Day until the end of January). Andy also provides some seasonal cheer by playing you a rather unusual electronic track featuring guest "comedy" from fellow DJ Mark Cunliffe! Elsewhere in this two-hour show, the brilliant new music still keeps coming thick and fast as we race to 2024's finish line. Listen in for tunes from Sjöblom, Kelly Lee Owens, Tired Cossack, Alan Sparhawk, Fake Empire, Lambrini Girls, R. Missing, Peter Perrett, Roberta Fidora, Deary, Azure Blue and more, including a previously unreleased 1987 twelve-inch remix of New Order's classic single 'Bizarre Love Triangle' that features on their 'Brotherhood' definitive edition boxed set.
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
Azure Blue	Visions And Themes (Feat. Smidvik)	Digital single 'Visions And Themes (Feat. Smidvik)'	Hybris
Deary	Aurelia	Digital EP 'Aurelia'	Sonic Cathedral
GLOK & Timothy Clerkin	Nothing Ever (Feat. Du Blonde)	Digital LP 'Alliance'	Bytes
Georgia	Too Much Too Little	Digital single 'Too Much Too Little'	Domino Recording Co Ltd
Bdrmm	John On The Ceiling	Digital LP 'Microtonic'	Rock Action
Roberta Fidora	Information Array	Digital single 'Information Array'
Peter Perrett	Disinfectant	Digital LP 'The Cleansing'	Domino Recording Co Ltd
R. Missing	Party Fade Into Air	Digital single 'Party Fade Into Air'	Terminal Echo
Birds In The Brickwork	December (Snow Fell On The Scrapyard)	Digital LP 'Twelve Months / Volume Three'	Wayside & Woodland Recordings
His Electro Blue Voice	No Value	Digital single 'No Value: Example #1'	Body Crash
Slowdive	Kisses (Electronic Version 3)	Digital single 'Kisses (Electronic Version 3)'	Dead Oceans
Lambrini Girls	Big Dick Energy	Digital LP 'Who Let The Dogs Out'	City Slang
Two's Company	Hardcore Frenzie (Feat. K Complex)	Digital single 'Lost In Beats / Hardcore Frenzie (Feat. K Complex)'	Relentless Vinyl	RLNT:002
Arab Strap	Serenade	CD LP 'Monday At The Hug & Pint'	Chemikal Underground	CHEM065CD
Echoboy	Wasted Spaces	CD LP 'Giraffe'	Mute	CDStumm200
Fake Empire	I'm In Love With A German Film Star	Digital single 'I'm In Love With A German Film Star'	929923 Records DK
David Hancox	Random Fandom (Feat. Mark Cunliffe)	Digital track 'Random Fandom (Feat. Mark Cunfille)'
Alan Sparhawk	Project 4 Ever	Digital LP 'White Roses, My God'	Sub Pop Records
A Certain Ratio	The Big E	LP 'It All Comes Down To Tim Peaks'	Press On Vinyl	ACRKC1LP
Honesty & Softlizard	Measure Me	Digital LP 'U R Here'	Partisan Records
Dena & Lauer	Closer	Digital LP 'Hyacinth'	Permanent Vacation
Tired Cossack	Mace	Digital single 'Mace'
New Order	Bizarre Love Triangle (Stephen Hague 12'' Remix)	Digital LP 'Brotherhood (Definitive Edition)'	Warner Music UK Limited
Kelly Lee Owens	Dreamstate	Digital LP 'Dreamstate'	dh2
Sjöblom	Weirdo	Digital LP 'Dead Of Night'	COP International
David Smith - December 2024 Greetings! Musically, 2024 ends with a furious bang. As proof, I have new and almost new songs from Dame Area, Wiri Donna, Psychbike, Anadol & Marie Klock, Qlowski, Pleura, Open Head, Japandroids, Opinion, Druugg, Middle Edge, Silabario, Alien Nosejob, Kælan Mikla, The Violent Youth, Marerew, Noids, and Khana Bierbood. I also have a long-lost archival release from Limbo District and Al-Qasr offers the best Turkish language Depeche Mode cover that you will hear this year! Enjoy the show!
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
Al-Qasr	Kişisel İsa	Uncovered	Bandcamp self-release
Black Flag	Jealous Again	Jealous Again ep	SST
Slugbug	Layer Of Abstraction	Layer Of Abstraction ep	Bandcamp self-release
Dame Area	Si No Es Hoy Cuando Es	Toda La Verdad Sobre Dame Area	Mannequin
Fy Fan	Du Har Slutat Skratta	Inge Famtid For Alltid	No Way
Wiri Donna	Hell Or Highwater	In My Chambers	Bandcamp self-release
Psychbike	Living In A Shadow	Psychbike	Tetryon Tapes
Anadol & Marie Klock	Quand Le Grenier Aura Pris Feu	La Grande Accumulation	Pingipung
Qlowski	It May Change	The Wound	Maple Death
Frank Zappa	Tryin' To Grow A Chin	You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1	Zappa Records
Dangerous Girls	Heavy Fish On Mandrax	Present	Bandcamp self-release
Gloom Cocoon	Dance o' Doom	Monster Compster Vol. 4	River Monster
Pleura	La Marcha De Les Nadie	Las Cenizas Y El Espejo	In-Correcto
Hiperson	I Am In A Period Of Desperation	Bildungsroman	Maybe Mars
Snowpony	John Brown (Triumphal March)	The Slow-Motion World Of Snowpony	Radioactive
Limbo District	Those Devil Eyes	Carnival	Chunklet Industries
Hazy Sour Cherry	たかが世界の終わり	single	Kilikilivilla
Demain Sans Faute	Ursa	1054 KM	Bandcamp self-release
Optic Sink	Soft Quiet Life (demo)	single	Bandcamp self-release
Death Valley	Wavelengths	Stuntwoman	Chicago Research
Wasted Shirt	Eagle Slaughters Graduation	Fungus II	Famous Class
Bruised	Exotic Backdrop	Rotten Codex	Chicago Research
Dip	Icicleman	Neue Welt	Kilikilivilla
Chuck Miller	The Auctioneer	single	Mercury
Maha	Orkous	Orkos	Habibi Funk
Product KF	Mercy	Songs Of The Groves	Chicago Research
Open Head	Catacomb	What Is Success	Wharf Cat
Dermabrasion	In The Time Of Queens	Pain Behaviour	Hand Drawn Dracula
Japandroids	Alice	Fate & Alcohol	Anti-
Morphine	Buena	The Best Of Morphine: 1992-1995	Rykodisc
Opinion	19	Troisième Opinion	Nothing Is Mine
Druugg	Mélopeé	single	Exag'
Middle Edge	Diffuse Black	I Lost My Mind	Episode Sounds
Silabario	Nosotros Contra Ellos	single	Sello Fisura
L'Épée	La Brigade Des Maléfices	Diabolique	A Records
Alien Nosejob	Annoying Riffs	Turns The Colour Of Bad Shit	Drunken Sailor
Botnleðja	Brains, Balls, and Dolls	Iceland National Park	Trust Me
McCarthy	Unfortunately	I Am A Wallet	Midnight Music
The Fall	Riddler!	Bend Sinister	Beggars Banquet
Kælan Mikla	Stjörnuljós	single	Artoffact
The Violent Youth	Zwanziger	Herz ep	Artoffact
King Sapo	Te Sigo, Te Huelo	Sexo En Marte	Discos Macarras
Marewrew	Sikata Kuykuy (Andi Otto Remix)	Ukouk Remixes Pt. 01	Pingipung
Noids	Viernes Te Extraño	Avoid The Noids	Bandcamp self-release
Khana Bierbood	Srang Sue	Monolam	Guruguru Brain
Dr. Hekyll & Mr. Jive	Warm Vinyl Biscuit	single	no label
Gareth Jones - December 2024 Gareth begins his December show with a suite of songs to mark America's new president, including a beautiful anthem by The Kunts. He also looks ahead to next year with January 2025 new releases from Indiepop three-piece The Gentle Spring and Country singer Eliot Eidelman. Meanwhile the 2nd hour's guest presenter for 'Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue' is New York singer-songwriter Caio Malz who releases her new EP 'Safe Then Sorry' on 6th December through the non-binary label Audio Antihero Records. Please note: Gareth will also have a 2-hour Christmas show available in early December on the Dandelion Radio Mixcloud page and broadcast on Germany's FSK on Friday 20th December.
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
The Kunts	Donald Trump Is A Fucking Cunt	Digital single	Radical Rudeness
The Kiffness	Eating The Cats (Donald Trump Remix)	Digital single	Self-Released
Anomali Studios	Eating The Dogs, Eating The Cats	Digital single	Self-Released/Bandcamp
House of Evo	Eat The Cat (They're Eating The Dogs)	Digital single	Self-Released
Synthetic Things	Arnold Palmer's Penis	Digital single	Self-Released/Bandcamp
Cava	Piss	LP/DL 'Powertrip'	Buback Tonträger
Bart and the Brats	When The Shit Hits	7-inch EP/DL 'Only Fair'	Dirty Water Records / Roaring Blood Records
Lone Striker	Dunno	Digital single	Safe Suburban Home
Sun Atoms	Bus Stop Gospel	LP/DL 'Everything Forever'	Little Cloud Records
Bill Williams and Bileo	Robot People	LP/CD/DL V/A 'Electro Throwdown: Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack on Planet Eart 1982 – 89'	Soul Jazz Records
Eric Lau	Chop 4 Mr Thing	LP/DL V/A 'Nothing Leaves The House: The Anthology'	First Word Records
The Embrooks	Terry And Julie	7-inch/DL	Rogue Records
The Woggles	Anyway The Wind	7-inch/DL	Rogue Records
Panmet	Drunken Bees	Digital album 'Psychedelic Hypnosis 1969'	Self-Released/Bandcamp
Melys	Santa Cruz	Digital single	Self-Released
Louie Zong	Loop Around	Digital EP 'Byte Ballads'	Fuji Apple Records
The Gentle Spring	Severed Hearts	LP/CD/DL 'Looking Back at the World'	SkepWax
Brower	Speed Bike	LP/DL 'Flour'	DIG! Records
MonkeyCat	Sizzle Crackle Boom	LP/DL 'Psychotic Wonderland'	Area Pirata Records
Ciao Malz	Two Feet Tall	Digital EP 'Safe Then Sorry'	Audio Antihero Records
Jack Kittel	Psycho	CD 'Psycho'	Belt Records
Merce Lemon	Backyard Lover	LP/Cass/DL 'Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild'	Darling Recordings
Songs: Ohia	Farewell Transmission	LP/CD/DL 'Magnolia Electric Co.'	Secretly Canadian
J.Cole	Wet Dreamz	LP/CD/DL '2014 Forest Hills Drive'	Interscope Records
Ciao Malz	Gold Rush	Digital EP 'Safe Then Sorry'	Audio Antihero Records
Analogue Electronic Whatever	Friends Are	Digital EP 'Friends Are'	Self-Released/Bandcamp
Adi Scotheque	Where's My Crush..?? (BĘÃTFÓØT Remix)	Digital single	Holit Records
Fleur	J'en Perds La Tête	LP/CD/Cass/DL 'Fille Sauvage'	Soundflat Records
Jokari	Emoticone Song	LP/CD/DL 'Caillou'	Cheptel Records
Eliot Eidelman	Swallow Bird	Digital album 'Silhouette'	EEMU
Dead End Strings	IPA Song	Digital EP 'Dead End Strings'	Self-Released/Bandcamp
Gareth Jones Xmas Show - December 2024 Like too many mince pies or an overstuffed turkey, Gareth's annual 2-hour Christmas Special is another bumper stocking-filled show of brand new seasonal songs. Plus there are specially recorded festive messages from some of the artists, including Hue from Swansea Sound and the legendary Toyah!
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
Seymour Fry	All I Want For Christmas Is Punk
We Never	Santa Is Coming
Nick Capaldi	Come On In And 'av A Dance
Canaan's Land Bluegrass	Favorite Time Of Year
The Cords	Favourite Time
HS2	Christmas Is A Bore
Nathaniel Bawden	I Fucking Hate Christmas
The Happy Somethings	There's Nothing Wrong With Being Alone At Christmas
Ronnie Martin	On Christmas Morning
Rockin' Roly Polys	Under The Tree
Frog	Did Santa Come
future star	Santa Must Have Winter Tires
The Crampus	I Was A Teenage Santa
Rude Girl Revue	Behind Every Santa, There's A Mrs. Claus
Rocki Lane & The Gross Group	Happy Hairy Hippy Harry Claus
Bud Logan	Sock It To Me Santa
Toyah	I Believe In Father Christmas
Swansea Sound	(I Wanna Wear A) Mirrored Hat Like Slade
Vinny Peculiar	All I Want For Christmas Is A Gibson Flying V
Sunturns	Turtle Neck
Beau Bowen	Rock 'n' Roll Christmas
Chandra	Christmas Hugs
Griff and Michele	Christmas Smile
Herr Wade	A Christmas We Deserve
DeRobert & The Half-Truths	Peace On Earth
The Sultans of Ping	Christmas Bubblegum Machine
TV Smith	Xmas Bloody Xmas
The Relationships	Christmas Song
My Dick	Do They Know It's My Dick?
Spectres	Wonderful Christmastime
The Earwurms	Jingle Wurms
Simon Chesterfield	Last Train To Christmas
Jeff and Aoife - December 2024 It's been a while but Jeff & Aoife are back for a two hour December show and a chance to replay some of the years personal faves, reflect on the years highs and lows and talk bollocks in between. So in this months show we'll hear some belters from the likes of Shellac, Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn,Fat Dog, Nahawa Doumbia, The Fat White Family and Das Kompakt amongst a ton of others. Here's to more appearances in 2025 (promise)
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
The Kunts	Donald Trump Is A Fucking Cunt	Digital single	Radical Rudeness
The Kiffness	Eating The Cats (Donald Trump Remix)	Digital single	Self-Released
Anomali Studios	Eating The Dogs, Eating The Cats	Digital single	Self-Released/Bandcamp
House of Evo	Eat The Cat (They're Eating The Dogs)	Digital single	Self-Released
Synthetic Things	Arnold Palmer's Penis	Digital single	Self-Released/Bandcamp
Cava	Piss	LP/DL 'Powertrip'	Buback Tonträger
Bart and the Brats	When The Shit Hits	7-inch EP/DL 'Only Fair'	Dirty Water Records / Roaring Blood Records
Lone Striker	Dunno	Digital single	Safe Suburban Home
Sun Atoms	Bus Stop Gospel	LP/DL 'Everything Forever'	Little Cloud Records
Bill Williams and Bileo	Robot People	LP/CD/DL V/A 'Electro Throwdown: Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack on Planet Eart 1982 – 89'	Soul Jazz Records
Eric Lau	Chop 4 Mr Thing	LP/DL V/A 'Nothing Leaves The House: The Anthology'	First Word Records
The Embrooks	Terry And Julie	7-inch/DL	Rogue Records
The Woggles	Anyway The Wind	7-inch/DL	Rogue Records
Panmet	Drunken Bees	Digital album 'Psychedelic Hypnosis 1969'	Self-Released/Bandcamp
Melys	Santa Cruz	Digital single	Self-Released
Louie Zong	Loop Around	Digital EP 'Byte Ballads'	Fuji Apple Records
The Gentle Spring	Severed Hearts	LP/CD/DL 'Looking Back at the World'	SkepWax
Brower	Speed Bike	LP/DL 'Flour'	DIG! Records
MonkeyCat	Sizzle Crackle Boom	LP/DL 'Psychotic Wonderland'	Area Pirata Records
Ciao Malz	Two Feet Tall	Digital EP 'Safe Then Sorry'	Audio Antihero Records
Jack Kittel	Psycho	CD 'Psycho'	Belt Records
Merce Lemon	Backyard Lover	LP/Cass/DL 'Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild'	Darling Recordings
Songs: Ohia	Farewell Transmission	LP/CD/DL 'Magnolia Electric Co.'	Secretly Canadian
J.Cole	Wet Dreamz	LP/CD/DL '2014 Forest Hills Drive'	Interscope Records
Ciao Malz	Gold Rush	Digital EP 'Safe Then Sorry'	Audio Antihero Records
Analogue Electronic Whatever	Friends Are	Digital EP 'Friends Are'	Self-Released/Bandcamp
Adi Scotheque	Where's My Crush..?? (BĘÃTFÓØT Remix)	Digital single	Holit Records
Fleur	J'en Perds La Tête	LP/CD/Cass/DL 'Fille Sauvage'	Soundflat Records
Jokari	Emoticone Song	LP/CD/DL 'Caillou'	Cheptel Records
Eliot Eidelman	Swallow Bird	Digital album 'Silhouette'	EEMU
Dead End Strings	IPA Song	Digital EP 'Dead End Strings'	Self-Released/Bandcamp
Leo Gilbert - December 2024 Had enough of Christmas already? Leo sympathises, and has put together a four-hour, just-about-Christmas-free extravaganza especially for you, dear listener, to give you something very alternative to immerse yourself in this December. Hidden among the transglobal gems on offer is one of the songs that Leo has almost certainly (at the time of writing) chosen to vote for in this year’s Festive 50. See if you can spot it… You might be surprised... As a teaser of what Leo has in store for you, here is a tiny sample of the bands in the show: Of One, Wild Classical Music Ensemble, Etran de L'AÏr, Thomas Bangalter, Astrid Sonne and Kassie Krut. Or how about De Kift, Two Shell, Yemen Blues or The Agronauts? There is so much more besides, so dive in and find out what you might be missing. Merry Christmas!
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
Helena Hauff	Humanoid Fruit	Single: Multiply Your Absurdities	Tresor
Of One	Alles Ist Klar	Album: Domains	Fort Evil Fruit
The Rheingans Sisters	Drink Up	Album: Start Close In	The Rheingans Sisters
William Tyler	Flight Final	Single: Flight Final	Psychic Hotline
Saint Sadrill	The Soil from the Hill	Album: Frater Crater	Dur et Doux
Wild Classical Music Ensemble	Je ne veux pas	Album: Confined	Wild Classical Music Ensemble
More Eaze	waltz (in memoriam old ways of living)	Album: lacuna and parlor	Mondoj
VoX LoW	Baby Brown	EP: I Wanna See the Light	Astro Lab
Gnod & MC Sissi	Perde - Te Onde Quiseres	Album: Inner Fucking Peace	Rocket
Shitnoise	Hashish (The Yelling Song)	Album: I Cocked My Gun And Shot My Best Friend	Cruel Nature
New Starts & Darren Hayman	A Little Stone	Album: More Break-Up Songs	Darren Hayman
Zamilska	Phantom	Album: United Kingdom Of Anxiety	Untuned/No Paper
Etran de L'AÏr	Ighre Massina	Album: 100% Sahara Guitar	Sahel Sounds
Thomas Bangalter	CHIROPTERA	EP: CHIROPTERA	Alberts & Gothmaan / Because
Ela Minus	COMBAT	Album: DIA	Domino
Oliver Coates	Ultra valid	Album: Throb, shiver, arrow of time	RVNG Intl
MEMORIALS	Name Me	Album: Memorial Waterslides	Fire
The The	Kissing the Ring of Potus	Album: Ensoulment	Edel Music & Entertainment
SUUNS	Road Signs and Meanings	Album: The Breaks	Joyful Noise
Astrid Sonne	Everything is unreal (Valentina Magaletti EDIT)	Album: Great Doubt EDITS	Escho
Elaine Malone	Electric Turbulence	Single: Electric Turbulence	Roy Montgomery & Elaine Malone
helen island	S24BT poem	EP: summer 24 bootleg tapes	triggermoral recs
Glok & Timothy Clerkin	Empyrean	Album: Alliance	Bytes
Immersion & SUSS	In The Far Away	Single: In The Far Away	swim ~
Spivak	Main Character NRG	EP: Violences	Electroménager
Kassie Krut	Reckless	Single: Reckless	Fire Talk
Starcleaner Reunion	The Hand That I Put Down	EP: Café Life	Starcleaner Reunion
Midwife	Autoluminescent	Album: No Depression In Heaven	The Flenser
Zammuto	It Can Feel so Good	Single: Veryone	Temporary Residence
Nathan Micay	The Death of Fomo	Album: To the God Named Dream (Collector's Edition)	Luckyme
Anna Jean, Golden Bug & The Limiñanas	L'effet domino (Dombrance Remix)	EP: L'effet domino	La Belle
The Smile	Foreign Spies	Album: Cutouts	XL
Agronauts	One Minute's Violence	Album: One Minute's Violence	Wormhole World
Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet	ASFT Ruff	Album: HOAX	PAN
Jake Joseph	Dancer	Album: Preparing Myself To Deal With a Miracle	Catching Big Fish
Panda Bear & Cindy Lee	Defense	Album: Sinister Grift	Domino
claire rousay	VIII	Album: The Bloody Lady	Thrill Jockey
Alabaster DePlume	Gifts of Olive	Single: Cremisan: Prologue to a Blade	International Anthem
Yemen Blues	Miss Ballad	Album: Only Love Remains	Yemen Blues
Two Shell	(rock✧solid)	Album: Two Shell	Young
Astoria	love is not the poison	Single: love is not the poison	Synthsiren
De Kift	Trompetboom	Album: Niemandsland	De Kift
The Cure	Endsong	Album: Songs Of A Lost World	Universal
Leo Gilbert on FSK - December 2024 Leo Gilbert brings his mix of music from around the world to FSK
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
Daniel Johnston	All Good Children Got To Die
Goat Girl	gossip
Gurriers	Dipping Out
Moin	Cubby
Oliver Coates	Make it happen
untitled (halo)	blunt subconscious
VeggieHammerr	Keep That Fire Alive
Yemen Blues	Only Love Remains
Alva Noto	Xerrox Kryogen
Gnonnas Pedro & His Dadjes Band	3m 5FESO JAIYE src
Ben Lukas Boysen	Fama
Blawan	Fires
Craven Faults	Groups Hollows
Dijit	Sarkh - ٧- صَرخ
Blanck Mass	Bloodhound
Roberto Musci	Goodbye monsters
sandy chamoun, Anthony Sahyoun & Jad Atoui	Hayawanon Ghader
Cada Minuto Cuenta	Yo No Te Pido La Luna (feat. Mabe Fratti & I la Católica)
De Kift	Dageraad
J Spaceman, John Coxon & Spiritualized	I was stranded in Canton
L'Rain	People Are Small / Rapture (feat. Imara Jones, Mojo Disco & Ceyenne Doroshow)
Two Shell	Stars..
Lomelda & More Eaze	In Another Life
Toru	VHS
Mark Whitby - December 2024 Approaching the end of the year, there's still no let-up in the slew of quality releases dropping into my inbox so, for the last time in 2024, I'm doing what I pretty much did for the rest of it, which is share as many of them as I can with you. This month we've got tracks from new albums from Alan Sparhawk, Porridge Radio and The Weak & The Strong among others, plus EPs from Committee and Clever Bunny alongside new singles from Ciao Malz, Long Hat Pins and Sasshiya. There's also a couple of wonderful recent Xmas releases from Swansea Sound and Kena Wenchi to raise a bit of premature seasonal cheer. In the retrospective corner, we've got a very welcome Charlie Chaplin reissue, an Xmas tune from Hot & Sassy and, of course, this being the month of the festive fifty broadcast, we Peel Back thirty years to delve into some gems from the 1994 chart.
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
The Jesus Lizard	Hide & Seek	CD 'Rack'	Ipecac
Committee	Brigade	12" EP 'The Conquest'	Trule
The Conspiracy	Tick Tock	Download Single	Metal Postcard
Ranking Joe	Clarks Booty Style	CD 'Choice Of Colour	Tad's
Long Hat Pins	Every Time	mp3 download
Godspeed You! Black Emperor	Sun Is A Hole Sun Is Vapors	CD “No Title As Of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead”	CST
Amyl & The Sniffers	Jerkin'	CD 'Cartoon Darkness'	Rough Trade
Vertont	Water Pipe	Download Single 'Vertont 07'
Porridge Radio	Sleeptalker	CD 'Clouds In The Sky, They Will Always Be There For Me'	Secretly Canadian
Clever Bunny	Rolling In The Hay	12" EP 'Each Time'	Slowfoot
Peter Perrett	Disinfectant	CD 'The Cleansing'	Domino
Charlie Chaplin	Eden Ah Try	CD 'Sound System (Expanded Version)'	Trojan
Brad Stafford	Burning Sun	Download Album 'The Imperfect City'	Feral Media
Pavement	Range Life	CD 'Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain'	Matador
H Foundation	Laika	12" Single	Bomba
Portishead	Sour Times	CD 'Dummy'	Go! Beat
Alan Sparhawk	Brother	CD 'White Roses, My God'	Sub Pop
Sasshiya	Thank You & Goodbye	Download Single	Skep Wax
Crespi Drum Syndicate	Espiritus Del Norte	CD 'Beats'	Isla
Ciao Malz	Two Feet Tall	CD 'Safe Then Sorry'	Ciaomoney
Goat	Ouroboros	CD 'Goat'	Rocket
Junior Loves	Piper 32	12" Single	5 Gate Temple
The Weak & The Strong	My Umbrage	Download Album 'Wie Man Schreit'	ETF
Freak Slug	Piece Of Cake	CD 'I Blow Out Big Candles'	Future Classic
Kena Wenchi	Lovely Documents	Download EP 'Charsnuuus Broping Arnd On An Over Fieee
Hot & Sassy	Christmas Strutt	7" Single	Tramp
Swansea Sound	(I Wanna Wear A) Mirrored Hat Like Slade	CD Single	Skep Wax
Mark Whitby on FSK - December 2024 Join Mark as he takes us through another two hours of his favourite new music, with brief glances at reissued gems from the past and a general focus on the interesting, the odd and the unfairly overlooked.
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
Molto Morbidi	Chocolate Ashtray	Download Single
Neon Kittens	Bob & Eddie Make A Current	CD 'Radio Sick Music'	Metal Postcard
DJ Rotundo	Acordou De Juliette (Ft 92's Kid)	CD 'Ventilador No Maximo'	DSRPTV
Alan Sparhawk	Can U Hear	CD 'White Roses, My God'	Sub Pop
Committee	Bread	Download EP 'The Conquest'	Trule
Peter Perrett	Fountain Of You	CD 'The Cleansing'	Domino
Ranking Joe	Natty Man, Traveling Man	CD 'Choice Of Colour'	Tad's
Mogwai	God Gets You Back	CD 'The Bad Fire'	Rock Action
Xeeland	Zones	7" Single	God Unknown
PJ Harvey & Tim Phillips	You're Getting Nothing	CD 'Bad Sisters Season 2 (Original Series Soundtrack)	Hollywood
Dreadzone	Down The Road	CD 'Nine'	Dubwiser
Kim Deal	Nobody Loves You More	CD 'Nobody Loves You More'	4AD
Melys	Santa Cruz	Download Single
Brad Stafford	Cityscape	CD 'The Imperfect City'	Feral Media
Can	Keele 77 Eins	CD 'Live In Keele 1977'	Mute
Oopsie Daisies	In The Rain	Download Single	Metal Postcard
Freak Slug	Sexy Lemon	CD 'I Blow Out Big Candles'	Future Classic
FFF	Gold Dust	12" EP 'Gold Dust'	3am Eternal
The Black Seeds	Raised With Dub	Download Album 'Dub & Fire: The Black Seeds Meets Scientist & Dr Lee'
Uv-Luv	Love (Is What I Have For You)	CD 'The Glory Of Love'	Metal Postcard
The Weak & The Strong	Skin & Bones	CD 'Wie Man Shreit'	ETF
Ciao Malz	Bad For The Bad Guy	CD EP 'Safe Then Sorry'	Audio Antihero
Herman Dune	Daddy'll Be Home For Xmas	CD EP 'Christmas'	Yaya Tova
The Unthanks	Dark December	CD 'In Winter'	Rabble Rouser
Kriva	Carol Of The Bells	Download Single 'Kriva's Christmas Recovery Disk'
Rocker - December 2024 An hour from Rocker this month, including an exclusive session recorded for the show by Helen McCookerybook, plus new tracks from Sissy Space Echo & The Invisible Collaborators; Plastic Bag; The Reds, Pinks & Purples; Candymouse; and House Of All. There's new electronica from Emok, Djuma Soundsystem & Olith, remixed by Tayllor. Boyracer take on a reggae classic by Dawn Penn, and there are essential reissues from Helen McCookerybook's former band The Chefs, and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. This month's Rocker's Shellac Attack is a doo-wop classic from 1954 out of New York, while this month's Educating Elizabeth record is a from new record from the frontman of San Francisco's Monophonics. As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: The Ginger Line is an affectionate name given to the London overground rail system by its users, it is so-named because until 2024 the lines were all printed in orange on official Transport For London maps. This year, for ease of understanding, and to bring them into line with the underground system, the 6 lines which make up the system have been given new names and colours.
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
Hank Levine & His Orchestra	Image (Part 1)	7"	His Master's Voice	45-POP 947
Helen McCookerybook	The Ginger Line	Dandelion Radio Session
The Chefs	Springtime Reggae	2LP - 'Records And Tea - The Best Of The Chefs And Lost Second Album'	Damaged Goods	DAMGOOD621
The Reds, Pinks and Purples	The World Doesn't Need Another Band	Download LP - 'The World Doesn't Need Another Band'
Judah Eskender Tafari	Bezos vs. Musk	7" - 'Great Escape'	Daptone Recording Co.	1157-A
Plastic Bag	Dark Times	LP - 'Dead Kings Of Europe'	Old Bad Habits Label	OBHLP024
Candymouse	I Can't Sing	LP - 'The Light Just Bends'	Teatime Records / Old Bad Habits Label	OBHLP021
Helen McCookerybook	Almost There	Dandelion Radio Session
Emok, Djuma Soundsystem & Olith	Osuga (Tayllor Remix)	Download EP - 'Osuga Remxed'	A Tribe Called Kotori	ATCK057
The Chords	Cross Over The Bridge	10" 78	CAT REcords	C-1232
Boyracer	You Don't Love Me	LP - 'Seaside Riot'	Emotional Response
Helen McCookerybook	Metaforte	Dandelion Radio Session
Sissy Space Echo & The Invisible Collaborators	A Last Look At The Clock	CDLP - 'Leisure Complex Variations: Part 1'	Next Phase: Normal
House Of All	Born At Dawn And Dead At Sunset	LP - 'House Of All Souls'	Tiny Global Productions
Kelly Finnegan	Love (Your Pain Goes Deep)	LP - 'A Lover Was Born'	Colemine Records	CLMN 12046
Helen McCookerybook	Three Cheers For Toytown	Dandelion Radio Session
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart	Kurt Cobain's Cardigan	LP - 'Perfect Right Now - A Slumberland Collection 2008 - 2010'	Slumberland Records
Hank Levine & His Orchestra	Image (Part 2)	7"	His Master's Voice	45-POP 947
Sean Hocking - December 2024 Yes it is the end of the year already and as usual I have 4 hours of fun and surprises for you on Bottom of the Pops to round out 2024. As it is the festive month I have a couple of Christmas releases from Plymouth based band, Smashing Red just released on Metal Postcard. Also from the label this month we have releases by Reine des Lezards, Oopsie Daisies, Bordellos, Occult Character, Chalice King and what would a show be like without featuring the Neon Kittens! Favourite newbies this month are all out of the UK Get Down Services, Pink Eye Club, Gravenshurst and the superb Common Saints and their future balearic masterpiece that is their debut. I revisit a couple of tunes from earlier in the year including out of Australia, Keanu Nelson and a song called Kungka Palyana Nyinanyi, his album released by Mississippi Records is a wonder to behold, and yes another rinse of Indonesia's Senyawa just because I can. Also tunes by The Jack Cades, Burial, The Uplifting Bell Ends, Wreckless Eric, Skelephant and many more. Enjoy the show, enjoy Christmas if you do that sort of thing and I Look forward to assaulting your ears again in 2025.
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
Smashing Red	Christmas Missles
Getdown Services	Crisps
Soup Activists	Typical Flowers
One More Grain	The Oldest Thing in England
Townes Van Zandt	Dead Flowers
Spontaneous Overthrow	All About Money
Pink Eye Club	Art School Fuckers
Woolfy	Junior's Throwin Craze (Eric Duncan AKA Dr Dunks Bar Club Dub)
Reine des Lézards	Lizard goes Home
Kneecap	Harrow Road
Smog	Cold Blooded Old Times
Pitch Black	A Doubtful Sound (Adrian Sherwood Dub Mix)
Common Saints	Sweet Release
Jonny Telafone	Waking Up Crying (featuring Bones)
Oopsie Daisies	In The Rain
Beatles	Long, Long, Long
Komodo Kolektif	Night of the Leyak
Neon Lemon	Good Vibration
Bordellos	The Eye of The Storm
Occult Character	Terrors Era
Bir Şeyler	TurkodiRoma
Burial x Four Tet	Moth
Wreckless Eric	Take The Cash (K. A. S. H.)
Neon Kittens	Demons
The Circulators	Troublemaker
Iñigo Vontier	A Very Vontier Track
Trickski	Pill Collins
Oh No It's Diva	Mango-loid
MDC	Multi Death Corporation
The Uplifting Bell Ends	Listen
Chalice King	Black Cat, Snake Eyes
Geordie Greep	Blues
Common Saints	You Are Beautiful
Pink Eye Club	You're Just A Stupid Fucking Man (In a Really Shit Band)
Gimmy	Bathrooms
Patrick Cowley	I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
The Jack Cades	Something New
Mitraille	With You
Legless Crabs	People
Smashing Red	It's Christmas!
Handy	It's Complicated, But I'm Easy [DIAG063]
She Keeps Bees	Greasy Grass
Gravenhurst	Return To Stapleton Road
Skatalites	Herb Dub - Collie Dub
Komodo Kolektif	Festival of the Black Sun Parts 3 & 4 (The Pit, The Sacrifice)
Keanu Nelson	Kungka Palyana Nyinanyi
Getdown Services	Dog Dribble
Banco de Gaia	Draig Ddu
Elias Rønnenfelt	Worm Grew A Spine
Jari Raaste	Ilmalaiva
Skelephant	Mother Universe
Senyawa	Vajranala
The Clash	I'm So Bored With the U.S.A.
Sean Hocking on FSK - December 2024 Sean, of the Metal Postcard label, continues to bring us new and undiscovered tunes from around the globe in his monthly 'Bottom of the Pops' show.
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
Neon Kittens	Bob and Eddie Make A Current
The Heads	Off My Boots
Pit Scum	Breakfast Bong
Gee Tee	Jumping jack flash
Lee Perry	Cannot Wrong
Reine des Lézards	Howl (dub version)
The Postmen	Metal Fly
Dijit	Hasheesh
Nhá Zefa & Nhô Pai	We'll Never Forget (River of Revenge- Brazilian Country Music 1929-1961, Vol. 1)
She Keeps Bees	Radiance
One more grain	Four Weeks From Success
The Uplifting Bell Ends	Earth on the Verge of Destruction
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet	Friendly Town (Calgary)
The Mekons	Snow (1980)
Buccaneer	Chatty Chatty Mouth
Gold Cup	Checked Out
Bo Diddley	Cadillac
J Spaceman & John Coxon	Mother's Milk (Music for William Eggleston’s Stranded in Canton)
Juan Atkins	Transport (Carl Craig Remix)
Benefits	Land Of The Tyrants
Bruxism	Chaos Moon And Chaos Sun (Eggy Tapes)
Panko	Baby Please Don't Go
Mamman Sani & Tropikal Camel	Toil, Sweat & Sun
Cabaret Voltaire	Do The Mussolini (Headkick) {1978}
Sofa Surfers	Sofa Rockers (Richard Dorfmeister Remix)
Thomas Blatchford - December 2024 Happy thingy from The Thomas Show who start this month's shenanigans with a year-round evergreen earworm from Helen Love that suddenly has more relevance in December, followed by the first new track in half a decade by Kayo. Your host lets slip one of their songs voted for in the Festive 50 (spoiler: it’s by Hott Sexx) plus there's plenty of heat from albums of the year by Good Sad Happy Bad, Yam Lynn, Black Pus, King Stingray and more.
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
Helen Love	Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight)	Yeah Yeah We’re Helen Love (LP)	Damaged Goods	DAMGOOD599
Kayo	Chaos
Electric Prawns 2	Rot n Roll	Split (EP)	Grog	GR05
Yam Lynn	40pagecallout	Selected Yambient Works v. 22.2 (LP)	Unlucky Wind	ULW-010
Memorials	Lamplighter	Memorial Waterslides (LP)	Fire	FIRE766
Mulga Bore Hard Rock	Young Men
King Stingray	Day Off	For The Dreams (LP)	Civilians	CVLP152B
Khalab	I Need A Modem feat. Kasai Allstars	I Need A Modem feat. Kasai Allstars (EP)	Hyperjazz
Lulenga	Kileka Mkwawa (What Mkwawa left us)	Aliyuyo Uyoo (EP)	Digital Indigenous	Digital Indigenous 08
Black Pus	Gothic Socks	Terrestrial Seethings (LP)	Thrill Jockey	THRILL621LP
Hott Sexx	Long Dogs
Casey Nicholls-Bull	Love Like Anthrax (ft. Fin Healy)	When I Was A Sea Sponge (LP)
Good Sad Happy Bad	Twist The Handle	All Kinds of Days (LP)	Textile	T31LP
The Spatulas (ft. Luc Gunn)	Caveman Star (Alternate Version)	Action Now! A Paperface Zine Benefit for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (V/A)	Paperface Zine
East Germany Etcetera - December 2024 This month X-Ray Moon has decided to give a nod to the two anniversaries of, on the one hand the creation of East Germany in 1949, and hence it is their 75th anniversary this year; and on the other hand, it is the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Having lived in Berlin, X-Ray Moon wanted to doff his imaginary Punk hat to the people who he became very fond of, and who made him very welcome in their city and in their former East Germany. East Germany gets a bad press – some of it merited, possibly a lot of it merited… but what is always forgotten are the positives about the country, the culture and the music… And how, which is often forgotten, they ensured that all Nazis and Fascists after the Second World War were imprisoned for their crimes ... unlike in West Germany where some of them even became part of the post-war West German Government. X-Ray Moon wanted to celebrate a moment that is important for European history and remind people that the 'Ossies' made good music too (sometimes). Moon treats us to some Punk, with the likes of Feeling B and Nina Hagen, for example; some Experimental music with, AG Geige, there is also a little East German Jazz, with Manfred-Ludwig Sextett, and there is also some Ska. Moon thought that with these anniversaries having loomed over the musical horizon, either he made this programme now or not at all. So then, for one time only X-Ray Moon hopes the listeners enjoy – both in musical terms and as an intriguing gesture towards a country and a culture that no longer exists – EAST GERMANY ETCETERA.
Artist	Title	Recording	Record Label	Catalogue No.
Feeling B	Ich Suche Die DDR
Herbst In Peking	Haskovo (live)
City	Am Fenster
Sandow	Factory
Sandow	Born in the GDR
Manfred-Ludwig Sextett	Zwielicht
Ton Steine Scherben	Rauch-Haus-Song
Das freie Orchester	Night
FO32	Was sich den ganzen Tag so tut
Pankow	Rock n Roll im Stadtpark
AG Geige	Weihnachtsmann
Müllstation	Tanz auf der Badewanne
Big Savod and The Deep Manko	The Crazy Army
Die Anderen	Die Wunderbar
MC Berlin Radio	Paul's Hochzeit
Die Vision	And We Dance
L'Attentat	Leipzig in Trümmern
Nina Hagen	Erfurt & Gera
Freygang	Im Nebel
Die Art	Für immer und Ewig
Ornament and Verbrechen	Refrigadorable
Klick & Aus	Slow Virus
Klick & Aus	Gebt Mir Schaps
Tausend Tonnen Obst	Zwangsjacke & Leichenhemd
Die Skeptiker	Komm Tanzen
Die Gehirne	Freudige Menschen
Herbst in Peking	German Fool (king size dub mix)
Feeling B	Mix Mir Einen Drink