Over my Dead Bodies: Celebrating 20 Years of Dandelion Radio

In June 2026, a bunch of John Peel fans decided the death of the great DJ had left such a hole in their lives, they'd better do something to fill it.

The result was Dandelion Radio, named after Peel's 1970s record label, and it's been broadcasting uninterrupted ever since.

I joined the station eleven months later and, while the ethos of the station is very much about discovering new and diverse music, sticking as closely to the Peel model as possible, we've taken time this month to reflect on some of our favourite moments over the last twenty years.

So it seems as good a time as any to share the first track I ever played on Dandelion Radio, in that first show of May 2007: The Dead Bodies and Pink Muff Dance Party Vampire Resolve, a weird mix of pulsing tunes and Donald Duck vocals that somehow morph into the restrained tones of an upper class Englishman. 

The track comes from their album Mr Spookhouse's Pink House, released on the Quite Scientific label, out of Ann Arbor Michigan. No idea what happened to the band after that: if anyone does I'd be keen to know, but the album's now available on Bandcamp here. It's worth five dollars of anyone's money and then some.