With the Festive 50 now over, we get back to regular shows - plus a new DJ, Katherine Godfrey.
Andrew Morrison:
Andy's 2-hour February show offers much more than the sum of its parts.
small crew are exclusive session guests, providing four excellent new tracks. Brand new music comes from
The Race,
Y Diwygiad,
James Yuill,
Joy formidable and
Shortwave Fade as well as a storming new remix of a
Bomb the Bass classic. There's striking sounds from Andy's unsigned new find
Raw Milk, and further unsigned tracks from
Galchen,
The War Crimes and others. Add Scott's Funky Five Minutes and Teresa's Tasty Tips into the equation, and there really is no reason not to factor the show into your leisure time calculations this February!
Jeff Grainger:
Jeff croaks his way through his first show of 2009 with thankfully enough brilliant tunes to distract you, dear listener, from the fact he totally lost his voice, to tonsillitis, the day after he recorded this show.
Jeff will be playing some of this months and recent releases;
Carosel,
A Middle Sex.
The Joy Formidable and
Headless Heroes. Along with some 'Northern Soul', 'Dub' and a few freebies;
I Have Clones,
Red Steers and
Healey Island.
The countdown to The 'All Tomorrows Parties' Festival gives him the ideal opportunity to play classic tracks by
Throwing Muses and
Shellac. There'll be a small tribute to folk singer
Odetta, who sadly died at the end of last year and for reasons that will be most apparent; a track by
Julie London.
Katherine Godfrey:
Katherine's first show for Dandelion was recorded in a loft during a storm. Listen carefully and you'll hear the wind howling across the microphone. Or is that just the dark, atmospheric soundscapes of music from Italy's Alampo records?
Keeping your ears toasty warm this February will be music from
Torsten Profrock,
Tanlines,
Ala Muerte, and a featured EP from Oxford newbies
UTE, whilst
Action Beat will be crashing onto the airwaves with the force of a hurricane in the featured album for the month
The Noise Band from Bletchley.
With
Distance and
Reso's foundation shaking dubstep, and the glorious clatter of
HAWKS,
Yowie and
K.I.T. in the mix, you'd better batten down the hatches.
Marcelle:
The good old medieval days
Marcelle displays in her new show a keen interest for music made years, even centuries ago. She plays an electronic music musician who draws his inspiration from 17th century baroque instruments and reveals which British band who dabbled in 14th century Italy ,eh, only 18 years ago.
She has a Zomby in her show, and Animals: An innocent little dog opens her show, appearing in an oil drum and
Suicidal Birds fly side on side with
Nightingales. 26 giants make an appearance alongside kung fu zulus. Men are also welcomed, especially as they use a John Peel sample in of their tracks. The Chicks in this month's show are On Speed and sing that everything is alright.
Marcelle investigates which song is a certain 'party ruiner' and champions Monty Python-esque words like 'Libythth' and 'Vinkepeezer'. She laughingly plays a 78 RPM record on 33 1/3 RPM and gets pushed aside twice by a very strong Cardopusher in three hours.
The Look Back Bore Records Of The Month (February 1979) are oddly shaped and an eight minute reggae cover. By the end of the show we speak French and come to the conclusion that we have drunk one beer too much; no wonder
Mark E. Smith appeared twice in the show. With so many musical adventures we can only say: I Tank U. (77% Vinyl Guarantee)
Mark Cunliffe:
We are getting nicely into the New Year now and that resolution to cut back your food intake by only eating the filling of Custard Creams is getting a bit shaky. So far it's only been a whole Bourbon but a full Custie is only a matter of time....
So what do we have in this months show?
King Clarentz does some seductive cooking and we get down to some punctuation in the
Ghetto.
Asian Dub Foundation sit on the fence for once and regret it with some singed crack hairs.
Tigerstyle and
Panjabi MC go dhol to dhol in a classic bhangra face off.
Maga Bo &
Xuman might have well been the pyromaniacs who set
Asian Dub Foundation's fence (and arse hairs) on fire.
Radio Datacha might be flying in something that sounds a bit like a sectioned helicopter and
Spektre has gone planting banana skins around the cosmos....what are they on?
Black Acid finds Amy Winehouse on the roadside and we have a live special from a band who's line-up changes completely from gig to gig, that band is
God Has Tits
If you're still on the reduced Custie diet then congratulations, it's a filling diet....
Mark Whitby:
For the small price of spending three hours in Mark Whitby's company this February, you'll be able to hear an exclusive advance four-track preview of Welsh/Antipodean project
Cwtch as well as tracks from new and forthcoming albums by
Toykult,
Filastine,
Fol Chen and
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. There's also a little something from the double EP by
Beirut and (brace yourselves) a cassette-only release from the magnificent
Twin Lion.
Sonic Youth join us to say a fond farewell to Ron Asheton, while
Cosmo vs Flapsandwich say a less tearful TTFN to George W Bush. You'll find
Fuck Buttons remixing
Fever Ray, a
Qemists remix and a good solid hard dose of electronic noise from the likes of
Schaua,
Androgyn Network and
NONEWYORK. Plus a load of bands with "dogs" in their name, Well, two anyway.
Matt Jones:
The boy Jones is back with 2 hours of music to banish the misery of the worst month of the year. February is accepted by all known life forms as rubbish, but happily, the likes of
Mrs Cakehead and
Dilworth bring some strange sub tropical Lancashire warmth to those of you feeling the winter is a never ending lead weight dragging your soul further into a tarry mire of misery.
Strangeness and joy abounds still further as the gleeful mania of
3Sachetti competes with the schizoid delights of
RomanianMyth for your attention and love. Elsewhere in the show, there is the little matter of hiphop, balkan brass, assorted forms of clicks and beats, a sprinkling of brand new dubstep and some lovely folk from Senegal. Oh, and another corking tune from the ever fantastic
RevPorl. All in all, it's better than a kick in the face with a wet stick.
Pete Jackson:
February, like Atilla The Hun, is known for being short and cruel, so let's liven things up with an amazing session from the extraordinary
Lord Numb, a whole bunch of new craziness from Bordeaux's second-greatest export Boxon Records, some noises made in the 1960s and 70s in Japan, Jamaica and Fort Lauderdale, Florida and some equally wonderous noises made more recently in Wales by
Recordiau Safon Uchel and in Newton-Le-Willows by
13 Amp.
We'll also tip our hat to mark the passing of garage guitar god Ron Asheton with some classic
Stooges.
Rachael Neiman:
After missing our January show, "The Rachael Neiman Experience" returns for a jam-packed 2-hours in February with fabulous new art pop from
Vanilla Ride,
Shrag,
Cats In Paris,
And What Will Be Left Of Them,
The Teenagers,
Das Wanderlust,
Monocle Rose and
2 Hot 2 Sweat, glorious indiepop from
The San Marinos,
The Give It Ups,
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart,
Procedure Club,
foxes,
Sparky's Magic Piano,
Help Stamp Out Loneliness,
Hari and Aino,
The Lucksmiths and the latest single by Norwichcore heroes
Bearsuit.
Elsewhere we have jaunty pop from
The Momeraths,
The Loves and
Lucky Delucci, riot grrrl goodness from
Fever fever and
Stilletoes, melancholy pop from
Tiger MCs and
The Grizzly Owls and dramatic pop from
Amanda Palmer. We also have two tracks from our featured compilation, A Place In Space, released on Invisible Girl Records from
Elevation and
Hektor.
Rocker:
A three-hour show with three fantastic featured LPs - by
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart,
The Nightingales, and
Emmy the Great. There's also new tracks from such acts as
Clockwork Four;
Phil Wilson;
She Keeps Bees;
Cats on Fire;
Knight School;
Mascot Fight;
Lean Tales;
The Mai 68s; and
The Wednesday Club. There's a new single from
Penetration, as well as a vintage
Pauline Murray track, there's also a gloriously messed-up remix of a track from the current
Grace Jones LP, as well as her gloriously messed-up 29-year-old cover of a post-punk classic.
There's dubstep from
Wireman and
Quarta 330, and electro / house from
Dusty Kid;
Milton Jackson and
Sei A; and an amazing remix of Rennie Foster by
Youngsters. There's also vintage soul from
The Miracles.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is a blues classic from 1960, and my new "Educating Elizabeth" feature debuts with a Northern Soul standard from
Herbert Hunter.
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact, in fact it's a guest little known fact from
The Nightingales: "If you keep on walking into a barbers, one day you're gonna get a haircut."
Simon Hickinbotham:
Whilst being mildly surprised at getting a show together for February, I'm nevertheless delighted to be presenting tracks by
The Griefs,
Two Minute Noodles,
AK,
Major Grave and
Alien Hand.
We'll also be hearing more from those we've met before, including
The Giant Leeches,
Terry Edwards,
Bill Nelson and
Joy Division.
There's also a couple of half-cocked attempts at regular features - the long half of a "short song / long song" segment. The short song just wasn't short enough to meet the strict admission rules. I also attempt to play songs from two bands with very similar names -
Mein and
Maiun - but have trouble pronouncing both. Enjoy!
Yank Sizzler:
Behold the end of hibernation here on the Yank Sizzler Show following the fear of everything Santa. New recordings from
The Homosexuals,
Mammoth life,
The Knux,
Black Christmas,
The Weakends,
The Dutchess And The Duke &
King Khan.
My disturbing love of Mississippi Records continues as I bring the old world immigrant song of the amazing LP "I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore". And of course we thrive on the collective gamut of blues, Swedish garage jazz, blistered fingers rock n roll, ska classics, English folk, highlife, soul, punk and indie gems with cuts by
John Lee Hooker,
The Thing,
Abe Vigoda,
Dark Meat,
Free Kitten,
Anne Briggs,
Pissed Jeans,
The Blues Busters,
Rex Williams,
Blood on the Wall,
{{{Sunset}}},
Carla Thomas & many more.
Blood on the Wall
