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This month X-Ray Moon completes his two-parter dedicated to The Velvet Underground and the spirals that circled around and beyond them.
This, in total (with last month's show: PART 1) two hour special is due to the fact that sixty years ago, in 1966, the Velvet Underground began recording tracks for what would become their first album: 'The Velvet Underground & Nico', released in 1967.
Such an important music group were they, that it would have felt incongruous to have let such a pivotal moment, anniversary, in music history to pass unmarked.
X-Ray Moon hopes everyone enjoys the show... and suggests that maybe people play this month's show along with last month's show, back to back... or even back to front... or even... upside down:
"What goes on in your mind makes me feel I'm upside down"

This is: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND ETCETERA - PART 2

(other specials by X-Ray Moon include programmes on: CAN; Nirvana; Protest Songs; East German Music; The Jam, etc...)

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This month X-Ray Moon has put together another one of his 'specials'.
And not wishing to look like a raspberry at a gooseberry's wedding he has compiled this extravaganza for three reasons.
Firstly, it is a special that is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Dandelion Radio (this month);
secondly, it is dedicated to John Peel - for without him none of us would be here and we would not be celebrating twenty years since we first aired; and
thirdly, this year is the 50th anniversary of the release of what is known (by many) as the first ever Punk single: 'New Rose' by The Damned (it was released on 22nd October 1976 on Stiff Records). It is this anniversary that set Moony off on this special programme in the first instance.
When considering punk there is so much that is excellent that if you cut the programme too short you risk leaving out loads of great stuff... In this programme X-Ray Moon covers not only the obvious groups that should be in any programme on Punk, such as the Clash and Stiff Little Fingers, but also some of the less well known groups from approximately the same period of time: Icons of Filth, Bérurier Noir, and, Third World War for instance... Hence, this is P-P-P-Punk...
X-Ray Moon hopes everyone enjoys his programme - replete with many old favs, and, as he tells us, hopefully numerous tracks that the listener will not have come across before.
Sections in the programme - non-linear and not necessarily well-defined - include sections on French Punk, American pre-76 Punk, and Precursors to Punk. X-Ray Moon reminds us that this programme is not a completest transmission, and is - rightly or wrongly - more or less the way he see things.
He hopes everyone enjoys this gorging on the feast that is Punk!
Either way: Happy Birthday Dandelion Radio...
This is 'PUNK ETCETERA: 50th Anniversary of Punk'.

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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.

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