Domenica 29 Nov 2009, 7:12

Festive 50:
Continuing a Christmas tradition started by the late broadcaster John Peel in 1976, an assortment of our DJs count down through the best 50 tracks from 2009. Voted for by listeners to Dandelion Radio, you can hear the full results of this legendary poll repeating every day from Christmas Day until the end of January, culminating in Rocker revealing this year's winner!

Festive Fifty Build Up Show:
Join a selection of Dandelion Radio DJs from 10pm to midnight GMT on Christmas Eve for this one-off, 2-hour Festive Fifty Build-Up show. They'll be introducing some of their picks of 2009 that didn't quite make it into this year's legendary listeners' poll, while warming up for the first play of 2009's results - and Santa's bulging sack coming down their chimneys!

Andrew Morrison:
Andy's December show features a specially recorded - and satisfyingly noisy - session from Dave Swain, along with new music from the likes of Lucas Renney, Sad Day For Puppets, Rival Consoles, Pope Joan, and Hyperdub Records. A couple of "Christmas moments" from The Flaming Lips and The Cocteau Twins bookend the 2-hour show, and you'll hear some exciting unsigned tunes including Damn Vandals, The Explorers and DeadDogInBlackBag. The icing on the Christmas cake is Andy throwing a rare technological tantrum complete with a comprehensive array of X-rated expletives. You have been warned! Also listen out for Andy appearing in Dandelion Radio's Festive Fifty countdown show every day from Christmas Day until the end of January, and the Festive Fifty Build-Up Show at 10pm on Christmas Eve!

Greg Healey:
An urgent start to a new show from a new DJ with a dollop of finest Belgian Electro Punk to celebrate the coming of Christmas. This kind of thing is not lined up in the windows of chocolatiers in the heart of Brussels for the delectation of European techonocrats. Though you might find them smearing such tasty treats on themselves in a back street away from the publics' gaze.
With mellow lounge vibes we continue until we are lifted screaming by the forelock into the stratosphere and beyond with an updated take on space rock from the far north of Europe. And so it carries on via glitchy electronica and ironic tuneful postdate europop with a catchy tune and a dark message.

Jeff Grainger:
Jeff's 2009 ends with a real CRASH (his PC) BANG (his foot on the PC) WALLOP! (PC hitting the wall). Yet still manages to retrieve a blinding 3 hour show from the wreckage. Return visits to his favourite sessions from the past 12 months (The Half Sisters, Wolfram Wire and The Stink Taps) with another chance to replay his personal highlights of '09 (Gaggle, Sonic Youth, Billygonebad, The Greenland Choir).
However the 180 minutes isn't all about wallowing in the past as there are some first time plays (A Life in Film, Liberty Vessels & Rosie Lugosi) and no less than 3 exclusive sessions by The Rain Bonnets, Rev Porl & Alisia Casper. Who each recorded an exclusive Christmas session -'tis indeed the season to be merry!

Marcelle:
The time to forget

December is certainly not Marcelle's favourite month: too cold, too dark, too Christmassy, too Santa Claussy, in short: too many boring, predictable Festivities!
To get her and the more curious listeners through this month she made an extra cutting edge show with the most unusual sounds from all over the place: weirdness from Belgium (Uské Orchestra), Germany (The Durian Brothers – making music on turntables without any records!) and Greece (ancient songs about drugs!).
There are more new tunes, from amongst others Jah Wobble, AGF, The Bent Moustache, Cyrus, Aardvarck, Mathias Schaffhäuser and Matt Shadetek. And Schlachthofbronx, Anzala, Dolor, Vélo and Wild Billy Childish make such a happy, joyful noise that you will almost forget that it is this time of the year!

Mark Cunliffe:
Well December has come upon us quicker than a dingo on an stray Mcendries* Kebab…..oh, no….hang on, that wouldn't be that quick at all…..dingo's like meat……
So anyway, what is there for you to get your teeth into on my show? Gideon Conn can offer you up a salmon medallion if you fancy and if you want to freshen your breath up afterwards then Boris Brejcha can offer you some Wrigley's with a difference. On matters away from the stomach Aidan Moffat is doing some DIY sewing which Qwel doesn't see the funny side of and leaves Boston Spaceships fundimentally flabbergasted. Scuba's all nostalgic and The Intelligence are talking about Katie Price no less. The Council Flats Of Kingsbury are living it up in Lyme Regis and Rob Threezy's gunna join them if he can. It's as The Spivs'll tell ya, It's True…..all of it….
*Derby's premier palace of gastronomy

Mark Whitby:
Mark's December show takes place in the unlikely setting of a house full of people. And what's more, they've brought seasonal gifts and exclusives aplenty for Dandelion listeners.
Look, there's Lord Numb in the corner, merrily pulling out old toenails hidden in the plum duff. And The Chasms, Alisia Casper and Spidersleg are a-carolling around an open fire, each with what might be a glass of eggnog, but, with a prankster like Dilithium Tourdes already up to his ears in festive spirit, it could be anything!
Elsewhere, Wolfram Wire regales us with the epic tale of the Christmas Tree while we sit, moist with anticipation (or is that a result of the eggnog?) as we count down my annual top ten of new bands who've had the good grace to contact me over this fine year. All this and lots of new stuff to play with too. God bless us one and all.

Matt Jones:
December and no mention of Christmas, just a series of shambolic DJ errors redeemed by the superb music that breaks up the chaos. The show includes new releases from the likes of Prince Kong, Degihuegi, ZXDK, Mikus, Ottersgear, Predator Prey, Ben Frost, Tickley Feather, Nekkroteukh, Abby Lee Tee, Simptom Pogremushki and Ramadanman. We also have what appears to be an exclusive track from KNVB, courtesy of producer Titus Twelve. Enjoy in a festive way.

Pete Jackson:
Pete's December show brings festive fun for all, with a cracking new sessions from Manchester psychedelisists Gnod in full-on garage mode, new and wonderous sounds from Zun Zun Egui, Crimson Death and Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medecine. Wooden Shjips testify about their heroes, and there's special Christmas treats from Goldblade, Captain Polaroid and Nosferatu D2, among others. Ho Ho and, if you will, Ho.

Rachael Neiman:
It’s the most wonderful time of the year here at Cherryade Towers so grab a mince pie, a glass of mulled wine and, whether you've been naughty or nice, join us for a Santa's sack of festive audio treats in December's very special Rachael Neiman Christmas Experience. Our 2 hour Yuletide special is stuffed with more seasonal audio treats than you can shake a candy cane at.
The gifts under our musical tree come from the likes of Das Wanderlust, Shrieking Violets, Doris and the Jumpers, Allo Darlin', The 10p Mixes, Persil, Sparky's Magic Piano, The School, Foxes, Priscillas, Betty Serveat, Asobi Seksu, Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire, Pullover and many more super stocking fillers, beats novelty socks!

Rocker:
This month we have another packed three-hour show. There are new tracks from The Blanche Hudson Weekend, Socialist Leisure Party, The Wild Swans, Pants Yell!, Gregory Webster, Let's Wrestle, Swathes, Calvin Party, Decibelles, Tricia Yates Fanclub, Brilliant Colors, and Beak>.
There's a featured album from Monster Island, and new electronica from Dominik Eulberg, Paul Kalkbrenner, Ucleden, and Giorgos Gatzigristos; also dubstep tracks from Joy Orbison, Ganja White Night, and Mala.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is a classic American psychedelic release from 1968, while this month's Educating Elizabeth is a current cover version of a Northern Soul classic from the same era.
Oh - and this show carries Rocker's "No festive records" guarantee.
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: Blanche Hudson was the character played by Joan Crawford in the 1962 film "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?", opposite Bette Davis. The two stars detested one another, and they never again appeared together in a released film. On hearing of Crawford's death in 1977, Davis has been quoted as saying "Joan's dead… Good".

Ste McCabe:
In my December show I present a bumper 2 hours of underground and forgotten noise to excite and inspire, and I defy you not to be inspired!
There's beautiful lo-fi pop from Internet Forever and Laura Wolf, 80's classics from The Go-Go's and The Sugarcubes, as well as insanity from the electro-poetry collaborators HT & OJ and bonkers punk-folk Scottish band Pusbunny.
For those feeling festive there's even a very special drunken-sounding cover of a Christmas classic from everyones favourite shouty ladies Hotpants Romance. Everything for the perfect grrrl-punk-queer-electro Christmas is here, so come listen!

Yank Sizzler:
Merry XMAS! And here on the Yank Sizzler show this month we launch into a randy, rough-housed, rambunctious 3 hour orgy of the best music that exists. New music from The Mantles, Boris, Thomas Function, The Mayfair Set, A Place to Bury Strangers, King Khan & BBQ Show and many more. There'll be classics from Alton Ellis, Black Randy, Baby Neal and The Smart Brothers and the Basement 5 amongst others. And as always, my charming, disarming wit. Some people refer to it as "Assholeness". Oh yeah! Merry Xmas!