Search & Destroy John Peel's Dandelion label

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get to it.

and if you feel sufficiently enthused, please give a tiny description of the bands you like, i've never heard any of it besides a Bridget St John album.

― team jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 23 March 2006 05:45 (twenty years ago)

here's a list of the groups that put out records on the label

BEAU
BILL ODDIE
BRIDGET ST. JOHN
BURNIN RED IVANHOE
CLIFFORD T. WARD
DAVID BEDFORD
GENE VINCENT
JOHN TREVOR
KEVIN COYNE
LOL COXHILL
MEDICINE HEAD
MIKE HART
PRINCIPAL EDWARDS MAGIC THEATRE
SIREN
STACKWADDY
SUPERSISTER
TRACTOR

― team jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 23 March 2006 05:50 (twenty years ago)

The best thing for me was when he licensed Supersister, the Dutch band with Robert-Jan Stips. Dandelion released "To The Highest Bidder" in England in about '72. Rock band without a guitarist, funny lyrics, good singer. Some would say "progressive rock", but...it's better than merely that. Probably on CD in Holland. Stips has been in and out of Dutch band The Nits for several decades now.

Siren was Kevin Coyne's band; Principal Edwards Magic Theatre was unmemorable; Tractor was a heavy band, but I think it was only 2 guys (Jim Milne was the main guy).

― So Ho La (So Ho La), Thursday, 23 March 2006 05:53 (twenty years ago)

BEAU - never heard it
BILL ODDIE - comedian, member of The Goodies
BRIDGET ST. JOHN - had records produced by Ron Geesin
BURNIN RED IVANHOE - Danish band
CLIFFORD T. WARD - singer/songwriter who eventually died of MS, had LP's on Charisma
DAVID BEDFORD - "Nurses Song with Elephants", esoteric music
GENE VINCENT - last hurrah of US rocker in England
JOHN TREVOR - never heard it
KEVIN COYNE - see Siren
LOL COXHILL - aka "The Bald Soprano" for fans of Canterbury / esoteric jazz
MEDICINE HEAD - had a genuine hit single
MIKE HART - never heard it
PRINCIPAL EDWARDS MAGIC THEATRE - i don't remember either album
SIREN - see Kevin Coyne
STACKWADDY - "Bugger Off!"
SUPERSISTER - see my previous post
TRACTOR - see my previous post

Is that it?

― So Ho La (So Ho La), Thursday, 23 March 2006 05:57 (twenty years ago)

If someone wants to talk about Medicine Head, that's okay with me, cos I've a hunch they might be interesting but I've never actually heard them.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 23 March 2006 09:07 (twenty years ago)

LOL COXHILL

i can't get over the feeling that this is the kind of thing someone would post on a thread about a band called like soxhill or something

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 23 March 2006 09:25 (twenty years ago)

BRIDGET ST. JOHN - i still need to hear her

PRINCIPAL EDWARDS MAGIC THEATRE - like them alot, folk-psych stuff

STACKWADDY - thugged out pub rock, excellent

TRACTOR - more folk-psych stuff by two guys who were prebiously "the way we live." first song is pretty heavy, the rest more folky but i can't hate a band with lyrics like "don't sign your life away/don't let the man in the grey suit deceive you" and "riding in your goblin ship/guided by a mermaid."

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Thursday, 23 March 2006 09:30 (twenty years ago)

xpost I've seen his name for many years, and that's never occured to me!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 23 March 2006 09:37 (twenty years ago)

The Kevin Coyne album recorded for Dandelion, "Case History", is one of his best. Go and buy it (or at least listen to it). The Siren albums are a bit patchy.

― Dadaismus, the Male Poster (Dada), Thursday, 23 March 2006 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Are people familiar with this blog? Lots of the Dandelion catalog here:

http://downoncyprusavenue.blogspot.com/

― - stefan (- stefan), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Dadasimus is right, the Siren is patchy - worth hearing though. I really need to hear Stackwaddy, I think I'd love it.

My favorite though is the Medicine Head album New Bottles, Old Medicine - I think it's a brilliant record. Does anybody know if Heavy Drum is any good?

― TRG (TRG), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

stefan, that site is why i ask

― team jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

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