Andrew Morrison:
Andy's March show features an exclusive session from his hot new US discovery
Raw Milk, and the first ever play of tracks from the forthcoming second album by
Samuraj Cities. There's further new music from
Eliza,
The Race,
Errors and
Bloc Party, along with unsigned music from
Galchen,
The War Crimes,
Lassus,
Small Engine Repair and
The Spinoza State. Scott's Funky Five Minutes has a cinematic theme, and Andy's Old Chestnut is a Middle Eastern-influenced gem from 1988. Listen in for all this and more!
Jeff Grainger:
A full voiced Mr Grainger presents March's two hour show with the usual subtlety and aplomb that only he, dear listener, is convinced his shows contain. However, the Record label
End of the Road does provide three fantastic examples of its catalogue. There are tracks from the newly released album's of
Polly Scattergood and
Amadou & Mariam, shoegazing Japanese style from
Kervey Heithel, delicious Deep House from
Phlash & Friends. Plus tracks by
DJ Blackfoot,
Passion Pit,
Small Engine Repair &
Vegan Abortion.
Wolfram Wire provides this show with an exclusive session - well half of one anyway. As for the first time on Dandelion Radio, a session is to be split over two shows in the same month. You will be able to hear the second part on Mark Whitby's Show elsewhere in this month's schedule. Speaking of sessions
Machine Boy's excellent exclusive from last year gets another whirl. And finally - Finally!! Oldham's Dandelion Radio Night's recieves a well earned promotion from Thursday to Saturday Nights. Starting 16th May @ The Castle Union St (see
News/Events Page) And as a cunning plug; two of the acts on the bill (
Hotpant's Romance and
Town Bike) get air play.
Town Bike also presents us with this months Featured LP with their fantastic 'Go! Fight! Win!
Just in case you thought this wasn't enough, top myspace find - [url=http://www.myspace.com/www.myspace.com/alisiacasper[/url nofollow=yes]Alisia Casper - opens her Dandelion Radio account.
Katherine Godfrey:
This month Katherine was a victim of crime. Some evil laptop thief is now enjoying all the tracks from February's show. Hope they had the decency to listen in. But with a shiny new machine and plenty of fresh music there are definitely no crimes against music in March's show. (Oh dear, what a line).
Helping you bounce your way through the month like a newborn lamb will be choice bass lines from
KUTZ,
Emalkay, and
N TYPE.
First Aid Kit,
Mike Bones, and
Mark Durgan are perfect for days spent lying out on a meadow, or a particularly grassy roundabout, whichever's closest. If you're feeling more intrepid, you can explore the jungle beats of
Rainbow Arabia.
Marcelle:
That most intriguing of all instruments: the car horn
After championing in her previous shows the luxurious sounds of medieval instruments, crying and farting babies and pissing rats, in her current show Marcelle puts the spotlight on the rhythmic force that is the car horn.
Amazingly the car horn features prominently both on a second hand African record and a new dance album on the Tigerbass label Marcelle got in the space of only half an hour! The revered club deejay also plays a wonderful dubstep record with a classic and emotional sample: the spoken introduction to the 1979 Misty In Roots live album - which was also used on the order of service of John Peel's funeral.
Less special but none the less very worth playing is the Johnny Osbourne sample in a German drum 'n' bass track.
Aardvarck goes for a Upsetters reworking and a Scotsman gets into financial trouble in a Barcelona pub. There's wonderful black hip hop poetry, turntablism form Belgium and a thirteen year old spiritual singer. Marcelle even 'plays' a book on this month's show, courtesy of a Sonic Youth exhibition.
The Look Back Bore Records of 'this' month (March 1979) feature a 7" on an upcoming Liverpool label and a first 12" and LP by two bands which went to even greater things. Marcelle has always been cutting out reviews and articles and putting them in the record sleeves. About this LP she reads in a Sounds review, dated 24th March 1979: 'primal rock and roll at it strangest best'.
Marcelle's March 2009 show comes with a 77% vinyl guarantee.
Mark Cunliffe:
As we move into March spring feelings are erupting everywhere. With this new sense of enthusiasm comes enhanced energy and vigour. Fights outside Chonkers bar in Derby's South side have almost trebled since January which is the clearest indication yet, spring is happily springing......
So, what can we expect from Mr Cunliffe this month? There's a jumbled up plane in the offing. He's taken the risk of having both
Wiley AND
Durrty Goodz on the show but he's DEFINITELY NOT taking them to Chonkers!
Tony Rebel's thinking about sticking a magnet on his electric meter. Mark gets a taste of Balkan....Milan?!? from
Figil di Madre Ignota.
Zomby has been short changed on his beverage and there is some
Perfect reggae. He has a band that thinks they're a HORSE? There's a
Suicide and it's alcohol related.
Brotherman bigs up all mothers, that's not just the Derby punk band but ALL of them. Finally,
Esau Mwamwaya &
Radioclit MIGHT be advertising Viagra....but probably not.....
Mark Whitby:
Mark Whitby's restless travelling of the globe leaves him even more breathless than usual in March - and that's after receiving the new
Town Bike album from just down the road (for him at least) in Liverpool.
From Germany,
wolfram wire fly in with a split session (find the other half in Jeff Grainger's fine show).
Faunts fry up some mellow Canadian bacon in the kitchen while
Fever Ray and
First Aid Kit provide a Swedish sonic massage (steady) in the conservatory; Japanese legends
Mono showcase a track from their new album in the porch, and Hungarian industrialists
Waste Disposal Machine and
Bashed Nursling, scrape off the rest of the pig's behind in what sounds like a back shed converted into an abbatoir.
Elsewhere, you'll find fab new tracks from Whitby faves like
Kittens Ablaze,
Over The Wall and
Electromagnetic Impulses and something reassuringly loud from seasoned noisemakers
The Hunches and
endometrium cuntplow
Matt Jones:
The basic version of this month would be 'a show of songs and a bit of talking'. A fancier one could sound like 'two hours of electric light, orchestrated in a most aurally pleasing manner' - You'll have to listen to see which description is most apt. Either way, there is new releases galore, from the brilliant
Dalek, the lovely
Pier and the really rather special improvisational genius of
Children of the Drone amongst others. It's always a great pleasure to bring to the airwaves material from the Jahtari Records stable and this month showcases as yet unreleased tunes from
Soom T and
Mungo's HiFi as well as new material from
Disrupt - Reggae and the Commodore 64 were never so well matched ...
Elsewhere, there is a first airing of the brilliant Lancaster band
One Chip Potato, an exclusive track from
Dubit and not least, some music by the world's best band ever... Who's that? Listen and all will be revealed ...
Pete Jackson:
Pete's March show has as many different flavours of Rock as there are seaside resorts in North Lincolnshire (about three, then) - garage from
The Federals, doomy epic from
Boulder Damn, psychedelic from
The Lucid Dream and -abilly from
The Hyperjax and
The Cramps, to mark the passing of the genius that was Lux Interior.
If all that axe-spanking fills you with the fear, then don't worry, there's still loads of bleepy, beaty noisiness from the likes of
Frederic De Carvalho,
The Upbeats and
Lord Numb to take the edge off.
Rachael Neiman:
In the March 'Rachael Neiman Experience' we have some gorgeous shiny new indiepop from
The Wendy Darlings,
Brontosaurus Chorus,
My Sad Captains and
The Fox and the Bramble, some super Norwichcore from
chickedy and mcguffin,
UH OHs,
cold front and
The Kabeedies, a track from the magnificent new album by pop perfectionists
Town Bike and the first radio play ever for a brand new track by
ste mccabe.
Elsewhere we preview two upcoming festivals, Manchester's I Bike festival and the Breeders curated All Tomorrow’s Parties, and play a couple of the bands playing at each.
Rocker:
As usual a three-hour show with loads of new music from such acts as
The Wendy Darlings;
Girls;
Jay Electronica;
My Teenage Stride;
Sad Day For Puppets;
Saint Sweetheart;
Christy & Emily; and
Modern Grates.
This month there's a plethora of tracks from forthcoming and current LPs, including those by
Town Bike;
Camera Obscura;
Knight School;
MJ Hibbett & the Validators;
The Hartmans;
Comet Gain;
Downdime;
Butcher Boy; and
Booker T Jones - yes that's right, he will shortly be releasing his first solo LP for over 20 years! There's also an 18-minute track from current Krautrock faves
S/T.
Following the recent sad death of Lux Interior, there's a vintage track by
The Cramps. There's also dubstep from
Herd;
Mount Kimbie; and
Sound Safari - plus electronica from
Aymen & Niko Ivanes; and
Marc Romboy; while
Azzido De Bass vs Smallboy are let loose on The Brighton Port Authority featuring a vocal by
Emmy the Great.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is produced & arranged by Lee Scratch Perry, while this month's Educating Elizabeth disc is straight out of The Guinness Book Of Records - but NOT The Guinness Book Of Hit Singles - yet!
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: "The original poem 'Too Many Teardrops' was set to music by ? and the Mysterions as '69 Tears'. The band soon realised that a song of this name would never receive any radio play, so the title was changed to '96 Tears', becoming a US number one record in 1966".
My Sad Captains
