On my show this month:
It was nearly the show that didn't make it. Future generations may well have labelled it 'the great lost Dandelion show'...or something. Anyway, by a combination of technological wizardly and dumb luck (OK, dumb luck had the dominant role), the show was rescued and you can hear it now, a highly cherished two hours of music that may rank alongside vintage Goon Shows or Hancock's Half Hour episodes or...
Or just Mark Whitby playing his favourite tunes. He admits to a degree of self-indulgence even, reflected in the choice of featured compilation, a new Cherry Red box set featuring great Scottish bands of the eighties and nineties, a Girls Against Boys reissue and, of course, a clutch of tunes from the Peel Back... archives.
But that's not the whole story. We've got tunes from new albums by JD Meatyard , Heraclitus Akimbo , Bill Callahan and Shackleton , yet more great releases from the Skep Wax stable, new singles from Dez Dare and Jah Wobble & Jon Klein and, as you'd expect, much more.
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Email:
Bluesky: @markw01.bsky.social
Twitter: @markwdandelion
My previous session guests:
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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