On my show this month:
If your family pet is constipated X-Ray Moon's brief rendition of a snippet of a Monty Python song should loosen the damn mongrel up.
This month Moony loosens our waxed-up post festive ears with another damn fine cross-section of bad-arsed grooviness and funkalicious tunes from the likes of:
Reverend Beat-Man, Nyron Higor and Split System. He doesn't hold back either, by introducing us to some new tunes or reissues from some old favs. There is, for example, a track from The Damned's upcoming album; there's a (oh god, it must be the mid-80s again) track from Half Man Half Biscuit, and the superb Beta Band. And to completely go wild in the country (Bow Wow Wow reference that) he plays a namesake with their track Static Cling by the group Xray Xeroxx ...
This is a fabulous show, as are all the Dandelion Shows, for brushing away the post festive blues and to welcome in the beginnings of a New Year. And if that weren't enough – he also announces another one of his Specials programmes that will be coming later in the year.
X-Ray Moon wishes everybody a peaceful, subversive and egalitarian 2026 ... and finally announces the shocking revelation that he is more 'Roll' than 'Rock'.

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Biography:

Music both old and new. My tendency has always been to be attracted to the 'different', the other, the subversive… something that in one way or another challenges authority or orthodoxy and somehow attempts to shape wider society. Whether that be Punk, two-tone, Krautrock, Rai… etc.
In addition to that though I quite simply enjoy discovering the new, the different and the strange. Sounds, voices and atmospheres from around this small globe we call home are what excite me...
Over the years I have lived in many different countries, and wherever I was John Peel was the background, for many years, that aurally lit-up my adventures. He so perfectly reminded us that the quality, importance and worth of something has nothing to do with its 'popularity', and more to do with how it breaks down barriers and makes the complacent feel uncomfortable. How music at its best can be so much more than just a wallpaper-friendly pop song. So, then, eternal thanks to John Peel, who helped mould many of us…
Plus, thanks for listening. It is a great pleasure and joy to bring these shows to you; I hope you enjoy what you hear.

Tracklistings and listen again to the previous shows: