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About Me

The Mark Whitby show on Dandelion Radio:"It's a brilliant mix of independent, underground and better known music and Mark plays freely between genres in a masterful way with gem after gem coming up."PixiegutsYou can listen to my show pretty much every day on Dandelion Radio, playing a combination of the new, the strange, the different and not staying still long enough to occupy anybody else's rut.I'm also the author of "The Festive Fifty", a book on the legendary John Peel's end of year chart, published in 2005. Get in touch if you want one.

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Pass along this small tribute, copy this code.Sadly this is of course never going to happen. Can't think of anyone else who I would have been interested enough to listen to for any length of time.Was denied the chance to meet Peel when a band I was managing (loosely speaking) got played on his show and he met them. However, they wouldn't let me go along because "Peel doesn't like managers", which I'm sure was correct, and entirely understandable.Peel's role in music is best understood in the terms spelt out above. If the articulation of a universal truth is what rock and roll is all about, then John Peel more than anyone had the dedication and honesty to be able to identify the most significant articulations in all sorts of places that others, bound by conformity and illusory categories, wouldn't have known where to look.Peel himself, of course, would have said this was complete bollocks... width="425" height="350">.. ..>

My Blog

In my July Show: The Owls Are Not What They Seem

In my July show: The Owls Are Not What They Seem Youre calmly idling away your days basking in the universal harmony of an early British summer which is unusually warm, in a year where the quality of...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:03:00 GMT

In session on my July show: Edgars Lisp

In session in my July show: Edgars Lisp Edgars Lisps work is precisely the sort of infectious electronica-with-vocals I should have played more of in my show.  In fact, I should have simply played mo...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:04:00 GMT

My June Dandelion Radio show: Downtown Cuckoo

Featuring: Downtown Cuckoo I dont really know whether its a good idea or not for bands, when contacting me, opening up with Weve been told we sound like The Fall.  The side of me that likes to th...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:31:00 GMT

In session this month: nickname: Rebel

In session in my June show: nickname: Rebel As you may have noticed if youre a regular listener, Im aiming to get as many exclusive sessions in the show as possible this year, and indeed Ive got ba...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:37:00 GMT

May 2009 tracklisting

Just a reminder that my May show on Dandelion Radio finishes streaming this weekend, with the June stream starting on Monday.  What follows is the tracklist for the May show.  In June, we have a fine ...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 08:58:00 GMT

Featured in my May and June Dandelion Radio shows: Jeffrey Lewis

Em Are I  Jeffrey Lewis & the JunkyardThere is was quietly musing that, while there have been as many really, really good albums so far this year  easily the equal of any other  there hadnt reall...
Posted by on Sat, 23 May 2009 02:47:00 GMT

Featured album in my May show: 'Advance Paranoia, Advance' by The Chasms

Featured album: Advance Paranoia, Advance by The Chasms. Great records make you think, not in the sense that they kick-start a thinking process that wasnt there before, but in the way they change i...
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 03:40:00 GMT

In session in my May show: The Pocket Gods

In session this month: the Pocket Gods Anyone with ears will surely agree that the Pocket Gods Lo-Fi Sci-Fi was one of the top five albums of last year.  Its irresistible cross-fertilised lets-take-t...
Posted by on Fri, 01 May 2009 08:36:00 GMT

April Dandelion show: Featured EP - 'Eponmously Titled' by Tenaka

Featured EP  Eponymously Titled by Tenaka<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />...... ..I cant remember where I heard of Tenaka.  Certainly this wasnt ...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:57:00 GMT

Three bands you won't want to miss in April

On my April Dandelion Radio show: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />...... ..Featured single: ....Coltrane Motion  The Year Without A Summer (75orless)...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:27:00 GMT