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 David Smith
Greetings! Sadly, another month, another three great artists lost: Dave Allen from Gang Of Four , Clem Burke from Blondie , and Al Barille from SS Decontrol. For this extra long show I have new stuff from John Dwyer , Gnäw , In Covert , Gnöd & White Hills, YHWH Nailgun , Hańba! , Gentles, Saïm , Darko's Aufhebung, Ellis-D , Destroyer, Lucrecia Dalt , SÖT, Jay Reatard & Lindsay Shutt, Moab , Young Widows , Amerol, Aèdes , Resto Basket, Set Dressing, Astio, Dru The Drifter, Bnny, and more. Enjoy the show! |
 Gareth Jones
Gareth's May show enters the wacky world of Eurovision during the first half-hour, including two 2025 entrants and two forgotten 60's classics. Then the 2nd hour will be joined by Christine and Kenny from cult Glasgow band Christine's Cat ! They had one song released on a flexi disc by Sarah Records in 1989, then were never heard of again! But then in 2023 Christine was tracked down and did an interview with Jane Duffus for the book 'These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story'. Christine and Kenny will be chatting about their history and taking part in this month's 'Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue'. Their late 80's recordings are now available on a 10-inch EP called ' Like A Summer's Day' released by Windmill Records. |
 Leo Gilbert
“Waste of Time, Baby,” say MENGZHUMENG, and Renny Conti agrees, saying, “I Find It Hard”. But Russell Haswell responds smartly with “Deep Time”, and Damon Locks chips in, chorusing, “Isn’t it Beautiful?” It’s a Field of Dreams ( Low Roar ) on Leo’s four-hour merry-month-of-May bonanza, though Tungg Didn’t Know Why, and Destroyer got entirely carried away, Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World. Sorry boarded their Jetplane, while Mount Kimbie cause a Shipwreck, and SOM plead, “Don’t Look Back”. Life’s rich tapestry and more on Leo’s show this month. |
 Mark Cunliffe
Well, I have found some time to do a little bit of a show. This may or may not be good news for you! Or you could be indifferent, nothing like a bit of indifference :-) ! I've been doing little pockets of new music listening to keep me on the straight and narrow. There is some Mash Masters and a taste of Sister Wives . Immense jungle gets thrown at us from Nickynutz and there is even some bassline madness from a fellow student who goes by the name of Mr Peach . u426 brings some heat to proceedings and there is something from Lola Demo's new album. There is a fantastic featured album from no less than TWELVE YEAR OLD Natty App and I've managed to secure a brilliant session mix from fellow East Midlander, Stopyral, it's proper good! |
 Mark Whitby
If you heard the tracks from the Awama Together compilation that featured in my show for FSK last month, you'll understand why I'm feeling an irresistible urge to play more of it in this month's Dandelion show. In addition to that, we've got tracks from the new albums by Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs , Dez Dare , Klamp and Adrian Crowley , among others. There's also something from the recent Orbital RSD vinyl reissue, a couple of excellent Skep Wax singles, a Goat collaboration with MC Yallah , dub from Pitch Black and Dubussy and loads more. Retrospectively, we Peel Back... to the sessions of May 1975, 1985 and 1995 and there's another RSD release in the form of a glorious vinyl reissue featuring the great Lightnin' Hopkins . |
 Rocker
A one-hour show from Rocker this month, Including new tracks from Allo Darlin; Jeanines ; 22° Halo; Mekons; Lightheaded ; and The Reds, Pinks, And Purples. There's electronica from Cortona; The Catenary Wires team up with Poet Brian Bilston. This month's Rocker's Shellac Attack is a 1946 song about second hand furniture, and this month's Educating Elizabeth record is a brand new soul instrumental out of Cincinnati, Ohio. As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: David Thomas named his band Pere Ubu after the central character from the 1896 surrealist classic Ubu Roi, by French playwright Alfred Jarry. |
 Sean Hocking
There are two shows from me this month. The special is "Executive Orders". For the regular, I'm is more pleased than most that Wet Leg are back. I love Catch These Fists it sounds like a band conquering 2nd album wobbles and enjoying being at the top of their game. The new album by Paris artist Helen Island has really captured my imagination. It's like Burial,the XX and the Avalanches and a bunch of early 2000's r&b artists have all been chucked in the blender and spewed out in 2025. It's beguiling, wistful and full of the equal joys and sadnesses of being young and now. Also featured are Sydney northern beaches outfit, Dog Trumpet , the men behind mambo art and mental as anything. Their latest single as is as beautiful as Helen Island's but from the axis of experience. I saw them some years ago in a small upstairs supper club in Sydney and was blown away by their songwriting and harnessed energy. Robert Forster 's got a new album out so have to feature a track off that. Lot's of other stuff too. |
 Thomas Blatchford
This month’s show is dedicated to roots giant Max Romeo who died last month, and starts doing what the BBC didn’t dare to back in the late sixties by spinning his ode to - as my dear old nan use to call them - “nighttime emissions”. The influence of Jamaican music is evident throughout this May’s episode, e.g. when Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band start “versioning” up their big hit, or when Froid Dub get as dubby as their name suggests, or when Biased claims to be at somewhere called “Riddimsburg”. Album of the month goes to C Powers , album title of the month goes to ‘Cake and Arse Party’ by Cold Meat (although Rrose gives it a good crack too), and poem of the month goes to Allara. All that and the first Christmas song of 2025 from Alice Douglass Skye, it comes round quicker every year ... |
 X-Ray Moon
X-Ray Moon this month is treating us to a cornucopia of interesting, intriguing and excellent tunes. His two hour May show will embrace mainly relatively newly released tracks with a smattering of older contributions that are too extraordinary not to be played at least one more time. There will be a few tracks from the West Country of the UK, such as The Booyah Settlement. Women of Sodom provide a breathtakingly marvellous tune, as do The Velvet Hands with their track that was released in March. The Lovely Eggs are a DIY, avant-garde, do-everything-yourself kind of artistic explosion. Sofia Härdig is a cross between Nick Cave, PJ Harvey and Patti Smith, and X-Ray Moon provides us with the beautifully haunting track from her newly released (in April) album ‘Lighthouse of Glass’. Amongst his small scattering of older tracks, one of the ones to look out for is ESG with their 1983 New York dance floor favourite... X-Ray Moon wishes everyone a happy, peaceful and subversive May and hopes everybody enjoys the show. |
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