Dandelion Radio

08/06/2026

To mark our 20th anniversary month, several of our UK-based DJs and members met for a rare face-to-face gathering on Saturday in Bristol (some for the first time ever)! Starting around 3pm, lots of beer and curry was consumed, and a great time had by all! Hear all our special June shows at https://www.dandelionradio.com/ and https://www.mixcloud.com/DandelionRadio/

01/06/2026

Hey! It's our birthday! Dandelion Radio is celebrating its 20th anniversary this June with our biggest ever schedule - 45 hours of shows coming round in the stream, and also available on our Mixcloud page. As well as our usual shows of new music, there's a lookback over the last 2 decades of our output, and also the first part our first ever documentary show - "20 Years Of New Music - The Dandelion Radio Story"

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15/04/2026

We're preparing special shows to celebrate 20 years of Dandelion Radio in June! We'd love listener contributions: find out how to leave us a WhatsApp voice note we'll play in the shows, or fill in our Google survey at

Dandelion Radio marks the 20th anniversary of its first ever streamed shows on 21st June. We're planning some special shows this June to celebrate, and would love to receive your comments to broadcast during them. There are two ways to do this: Fill in the questions below, and we'll read out your co...

25/12/2025

Christmas Day broadcast of the official 2025 Festive 50 listeners poll on air RIGHT NOW from 4pm to 8pm only at

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24/12/2025

First ever play of the official 2025 Festive 50 listeners poll countdown show RIGHT NOW at dandelionradio.com - next chance to hear it is 16:00 GMT on Xmas Day, then playing at different times every day until the end of January: all broadcast times at https://www.dandelionradio.com/schedule.htm

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24/12/2025

Listen to our one-off, co-hosted Xmas Eve Festive 50 Build-Up show right now only at dandelionradio.com - first play of the official 2025!Festive 50 listeners poll follows at midnight!

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26/11/2025

Still time to vote for your 3 favourite tracks of the year in Dandelion Radio's official 2026 Festive 50 listeners poll (as previously hosted by BBC Radio 1's John Peel). Voting closes at 23:59 on Sun 30 November. Results broadcasting from Xmas Day onwards at

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21/11/2025

It’s that time of year again! Dandelion Radio are once again compiling the John Peel Festive 50 chart of new music. We want to know your favourite three tracks of 2025 - artist and songtitle, in order.
We’ll be putting together the chart show, presented by an assortment of our DJs, to go out in our schedule from December 24th onwards.
Voting closes in just a few days, at midnight UK time on November 30th.
Vote at:

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22/09/2025

A reminder that Andrew Morrison's current show is an Arab Strap special, interviewing Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton. Listen on demand at https://www.mixcloud.com/DandelionRadio/andys-arab-strap-special-202509/ or stream within the looping schedule at https://dandelionradio.com/andy.htm

17/08/2025

Andrew Morrison's favourite band Arab Strap played the Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms for the 6th time on Friday. Andy got a chance to meet and interview them beforehand. Will feature in his September Dandelion Radio show.