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The Peel Festive Fifties
(From 2006 Dandelion Radio Kept The Lists Alive)


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Dandelion Radio Festive Fifties
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“We are an internet radio station inspired by the work of the much-missed UK DJ John Peel. In an age where terrestrial radio stations are increasingly moving towards automated output, combining pre-recorded DJ links with a predictable playlist & where most internet radio stations seem to be simply a stream of uploaded MP3s with no effort on the part of the DJ, our aim is to provide a challenging, unpredictable & often uncompromising mix of new & old music, selected by DJs who love it & presented by those DJs in a traditional radio style in shows recorded as live. We want to serve the needs of the people who create & distribute new & interesting music &, thereby, provide a unique listening experience to listeners, with the spirit of John running through all we do.” During November 2006, Dandelion Radio were asked to take over the Festive Fifty from BBC Radio 1, its home since John Peel set it up in 1976.

2004 - BBC Radio 1 / Dandelion Radio


After John Peel died in 2004, the chart for that year was played by Rob da Bank.

1. Fall - Theme from Sparta FC Part 2
2. Bearsuit - Chargr
3. Caroline Martin - Singer
4. Aereogramme - Dreams & Bridges
5. Sluts of Trust - Leave You Wanting More
6. Delgados - Everybody Come Down
7. Sons & Daughters - Johnny Cash
8. Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy Division [Peel Session Version]
9. Graham Coxon - Freakin’ Out
10. Jawbone - Hi-de-Hi
11. Bloc Party - Helicopter
12. Texas Radio Band - Chwareon Bwtleg Pep le Pew
13. Martyn Hare - Do Not Underestimate
14. Cinerama - It’s Not You, It’s Me
15. Aereogramme - Unravelling
16. PJ Harvey - The Letter
17. Laura & Ballboy - I Lost You But I Found County Music
18. Jawbone - Jack Rabbit
19. DJ Distance - Ritual
20. Bloc Party - Banquet
21. Ballboy - Art of Kissing
22. Black Keys - 10am Automatic
23. PJ Harvey - Shame
24. Decoration - It Tried It, I Tried It, I Loved It
25. 65 Days of Static - Retreat! Retreat!
26. McLusky - That Man Will Not Hang
27. Listen with Sarah - Animal Hop
28. XBooty - O Superman
29. Digital Mystikz - B
30. Black Keys - Girl Is On My Mind
31. Art Brut - Formed a Band
32. Delgados - I Fought the Angels
33. Shitmat - There’s No Business Like Propa Rungleclotted Mashup Bizznizz
34. Magic Band - Big Eyed Beans from Venus [Peel Session Version]
35. Jon E Cash - International
36. Wedding Present - Interstate 5
37. Tunng - Tale from Black
38. Melys - Eyeliner
39. Decoration - Joy Adamson [Peel Session Version]
40. Cornershop featuring Bubbley Kaur - Topknot
41. Calvin Party - Northern Song
42. Plastikman - Cha
43. Kentucky AFC - Be Nesa
44. Bloc Party - Little Thoughts
45. Aphrodisiacs - If U Want Me
46. Mountain Goats - Your Belgian Things
47. Magic Band - Electricity - [Peel Session Version]
48. Ella Guru - Park Lake Speakers
49. Ballboy - I Don’t Have Time To Stand Here with You Fighting About the Size of My Dick
50. Vaults - No Sleep No Need

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John Peel Festive 50: 2005  (Dandelion Radio)

Huw Stephens from Radio 1’s OneMusic strand, the original replacement for Peel’s show, joined fellow OneMusic presenter Rob da Bank for the chart for 2005.

1. Jegsy Dodd - Grumpy Old Men
2. Crimea - Lottery Winners On Acid
3. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor
4. King Creosote - Klutz
5. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
6. Early Years - All the Ones & Zeros
7. Camera Obscura - I Love My Jean
8. Ollo - Lord Lucan Is Still Missing [Ask Betty or Freddie Queenspiracy Mix]
9. Steveless - Bored
10. Laura Cantrell - Bees
11. Paranormal - Movin’ Twistin’ Groovin’
12. Evils - Pig Fucker
13. Listen with Sarah - Another Nice Mix
14. Fall - Blindness
15. DJ Riko - Whistler’s Delight
16. Misty’s Big Adventure - Story of Love
17. Autochtone - Last Thing She Ever Said
18. Hunting Lodge - Don’t Touch My Neck
19. Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy Division Oven Gloves
20. Rory McVicar - Little One
21. Pipettes - Dirty Mind
22. Antony & the Johnsons - Hope There’s Someone
23. Malcolm Middleton - Break My Heart
24. 65 Days of Static - Drove Through Ghosts To Get Here
25. Jegsy Dodd - All I Ever Wanted Was You
26. Kid Carpet - Your Love
27. Radio Luxembourg - Pwer Y Fflwe
28. DJ Scotch Egg - Tetris Wonderland
29. Fall - What About Us
30. Mother & the Addicts - Take the Lovers Home Tonight
31. Wedding Present - I’m from Further North Than You
32. Fall - I Can Hear the Grass Grow
33. Cuban Boys - Nation Needs You
34. Decoration - I Tried It, I Liked It, I Loved It
35. Aluminum Babe - Everything 2 Me
36. Acid Casuals - Bowl Me Over
37. Delgados - Girls of Valour
38. Art Brut - Emily Kane
39. Go! Team - Bottle Rocket
40. Son of Dave - Goddamn
41. Suicidal Birds - Me Animal
42. Kate Bush - King of the Mountain
43. Mugstar - My Baby Skull Has Not Yet Flowered
44. Wax Audio - Imagine
45. Deerhoof - Green Cosmos
46. Stabmaster Vinyl - Masho Fe Lan Star
47. Benjamin Zephaniah - Rong Radio Station
48. Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind
49. Fleeing New York - Hollywood Bowl
50. Richie Hawtin - The Tunnel

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John Peel Festive 50: 2006  (Dandelion Radio)


1. Tall Pony - I’m Your Boyfriend Now
2. Autons - Snakes
3. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
4. Decoration - Job In London
5. Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks
6. Beatnik Filmstars - Really Quite Bizarre
7. Playing Fields - Hello, New World
8. TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me
9. Misty’s Big Adventure - Fashion Parade
10. Mogwai - Friend of the Night
11. Decoration - Candidate
12. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
13. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager (Part 1)
14. Das Wanderlust - Orange Shop
15. Mogwai - Glasgow Mega Snake
16. Bobby McGee’s - Ivor Cutler Is Dead
17. Mugstar - My Baby Skull Has Not Yet Flowered
18. Bearsuit - Steven Fucking Spielberg
19. Pipettes - Pull Shapes
20. I’m from Barcelona - We’re from Barcelona
21. Cartridge - Fooling Around
22. Mugstar - Good Posture vs Bad Posture
23. Beatnik Filmstars - It’s Not What You Know
24. Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control
25. Nightingales - Born Again In Birmingham
26. Nightingales - Black Country
27. Klaxons - Magick
28. Joanna Newsom - Only Skin
29. Morrissey - Life Is a Pigsty
30. Knife - We Share Our Mothers Health
31. Uffie - Pop the Glock
32. Cat Power - Greatest
33. Metric - Monster Hospital
34. Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes
35. Long Blondes - Once & Never Again
36. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
37. Booka Shade - In White Rooms
38. Mates of State - Fraud In the ‘80s
39. iLiKETRAiNS - Beeching Report
40. Dustin’s Bar Mitzvah - To the Ramones
41. Jarvis Cocker - Running the World
42. N-Type - Tolerance
43. Forest Giants - So You Think You’re Unhappy
44. Chalkdust - Cheddar Would Be Better
45. Lost Penguin - I Believe I Can Fly
46. Tilly & the Wall - Reckless
47. Seize the Day - Flying
48. Lost Penguin - Mr Whippy
49. Gilbert - Willow
50. Uke Stanza - You Will with Ivor Cutler

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John Peel Festive 50: 2007  (Dandelion Radio)

1. Battles - Atlas
2. Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill
3. Bearsuit - Foxy Boxer
4. Beatnik Filmstars - Curious Role Model
5. Paul Rooney - Lucy Over Lancashire
6. Beatnik Filmstars - Life In The Country AKA This Civil War
7. The Fall - Reformation
8. Beatnik Filmstars - Inside The Mind Of Sam (Breakfast Serial Killer)
9. Von Südenfed - The Rhinohead
10. Von Südenfed - Fledermaus Can't Get It
11. The Fall - Systematic Abuse
12. Trouserdog - Taxi For Tit Boy
13. Arcade Fire - Intervention
14. The Nightingales - What No Blog?
15. Electrelane - To The East
16. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
17. The Nightingales - Eleven Fingers
18. Horowitz - Tracyanne
19. The Bobby McGee's - When Father Died Ferrets Licked Away The Tears
20. The Fall - Fall Sounds
21. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
22. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
23. My Device - Eat Lead
24. Uke Stanza - The Picket Line
25. Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe
26. Bat For Lashes - Horse And I
27. Skream - Chest Boxing
28. Trouserdog - Apolocalypse For Gary Glitter
29. Battles - Tonto
30. Bearsuit - Steven F***ing Spielberg
31. Modest Mouse - Dashboard
32. Tinariwen - Matadjem Yinmixan
33. Lucky Soul - Lips Are Unhappy
34. The Bees - Listening Man
35. Tall Pony - I'm Your Boyfriend Now
36. Kubichek! - Outward
37. Pete Green - Everything I Do Is Gonna Be Sparkly
38. Laura Marling - My Manic And I
39. DJ Europe - Christmas Bells
40. Pete And The Pirates - Knots
41. MJ Hibbett And The Validators - The Lesson Of The Smiths
42. Radiohead - All I Need
43. Arcade Fire - Black Mirror
44. Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital Door
45. Of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
46. The Nightingales - Plenty Of Spare
47. Panda Bear - Comfy In Nautica
48. The Royal We - All The Rage
49. The Manhattan Love Suicides - Keep It Coming
50. The Duloks - (I'm Gonna Follow Your) Star Trail

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John Peel Festive 50: 2008  (Dandelion Radio)

1. Fall - 50 Year Old Man
2. Wanderlust - Puzzle
3. Decoration - Square Mile
4. MGMT - Time To Pretend
5. Ste McCabe - Huyton Scum
6. Container Drivers - It Must Be the Pipes
7. Fall - Wolf Kidult Man
8. Deirdres - Milk Is Politics
9. Hillfields - Spoon
10. Beatnik Filmstars - Hospital Ward
11. Lovely Eggs - Have You Ever Heard a Digital Accordion?
12. Portishead - Machine Gun
13. Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Everything with You
14. MGMT - Kids
15. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
16. School - Let It Slip
17. Manhattan Love Suicides - Heat & Panic
18. Superman Revenge Squad - Idiot Food
19. Wolfmen - Cecilie
20. Wedding Present - Thing I Like Best About Him Is His Girlfriend
21. Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day
22. Portishead - The Rip
23. Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love for Planet Earth
24. Sarandon - Kill Twee Pop!
25. Glasvegas - It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry
26. Fall - Tommy Shooter
27. Town Bike - Dougie
28. Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Come Saturday
29. Decoration - Glasshouse
30. Pete Green - Best British Band Supported By Shockwaves
31. Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
32. Wolfram Wire - Armitage Shanks
33. Extradition Order - Penetrate
34. Glasvegas - Geraldine
35. Half Man Half Biscuit - Took Problem Chimp To Ideal Home Show
36. Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen
37. Deirdres - Claire, Are We Safe To Be On Our Own?
38. Sigur Rós - Festival
39. Alex Canasta - Records
40. MIA - Paper Planes
41. Fall - Can Can Summer
42. Wedding Present - Don’t Take Me Home Until I’m Drunk
43. Thomas Tantrum - Swan Lake
44. Parallelograms - 1-2-3 Go!
45. Jegsy Dodd & the Original Sinners - Liverpool 2008
46. Manhattan Love Suicides - Clusterfuck
47. Santogold - Les Artistes
48. Lovely Eggs - I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too
49. Earl Grey & the Legomen - Last Summer
50. Pocket Gods - Superman’s Head


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John Peel Festive 50: 2009  (Dandelion Radio)

1. Los Campesinos! - There Are Listed Buildings
2. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Young Adult Friction
3. Animal Collective - My Girls
4. Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
5. The Chasms - I'm Here To See The Clouds Of Blood
6. Nightingales - I Am Grimaldi
7. The Joy Formidable - Whirring
8. The Brownies - Cougar
9. Los Campesinos! - The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future
10. Ste McCabe - Murder Music
11. Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers
12. Camera Obscura - French Navy
13. Ginger Tom - Two Of The Beatles Have Died
14. Alisia Casper - Mother I Am Free
15. Crystal Stilts - Love Is A Wave
16. Will And Rick - Hot Dog Man
17. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
18. PJ Harvey And John Parish - Black Hearted Love
19. Fever Fever - Keys In The Bowl
20. Moolah Temple $tringband - Cherry Bed Antique
21. Super Furry Animals - Cardiff In The Sun
22. Allo, Darlin' - Henry Rollins Don't Dance
23. The Joy Formidable - The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade
24. Qwel & Jackson Jones - The CD Exchange
25. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than The Stars
26. Violet Violet - C C C Cat
27. Bat For Lashes - Daniel
28. Atomizer - Black Hand
29. Sky Larkin - Matador
30. Health - Die Slow
31. Florence + The Machine - Drumming Song
32. Animal Collective - Brother Sport
33. Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
34. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
35. Fuck Buttons - Space Mountain
36. The Humms - Are You Dead?
37. Art Brut - Demons Out!
38. Llamatron - You Make Milf Ill
39. Darkstar - Aidy's Girl's A Computer
40. Ten Tigers - Superlucky
41. Beatnik Filmstars - Back Up Plan
42. The Bumblebees - The Way
43. Sky Larkin - Antibodies
44. MJ Hibbett & The Validators - My Boss Was In An Indie Band Once
45. Red Cosmos - Son Of Morris
46. Crescendo - High Infidelity
47. Standard Fare - Dancing
48. Autorotation - Ginger Pants
49. Future Of The Left - Arming Eritrea
50. Apple Rabbits - Metro Dromedary

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John Peel Festive 50: 2010  (Dandelion Radio)

1. Standard Fare - Philadelphia
2. The Fall - Bury Pts. 1 + 3
3. Chris T-T - Nintendo
4. Warpaint - Undertow
5. The Chasms - Blue Sun, Golden Sky
6. Phil Wilson - I Own It
7. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Say No To Love
8. Allo Darlin' - Dreaming
9. The Truth About Frank - The Headless Rentman
10. Allo Darlin' - My Heart Is A Drummer
11. Tingle In The Netherlands - Prostitute's Handbag
12. Joy Of Sex - Red Rocket
13. Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee
14. The Radio Dept. - Heaven's On Fire
15. 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - Waiting There
16. Gindrinker - Bob Grainger: Sexual Pervert
17. Gonjasufi - Ancestors (From A Sufi & A Killer)
18. The Venopian Solitude - Mother Nature And Father-Man Made
19. These New Puritans - We Want War
20. Belle And Sebastian - I Didn't See It Coming
21. The Orch. - Kenny & The Snake
22. Caribou - Sun
23. Crystal Castles - Baptism
24. Wu Lyf - Concrete Gold
25. Crocodiles - Groove Is In The Heart / California Girls
26. Los Campesinos! - Straight In At 101
27. Mugstar - Serra
28. Ryan Hardy - Reinforced Concrete Monsters
29. The Blanche Hudson Weekend - Only Snow
30. The Phantom Light - Sky Lanterns
31. The War Crimes - Treatise
32. Will And Rick - Haunted Homes
33. Applicants - Evelyn Waugh
34. Bearsuit - Please Don't Take Him Back
35. Best Coast - Crazy For You
36. Cygnus X-1 - Logical Steps
37. Ghost Society - Love Love
38. The Granite Shore - Flood Of Fortune
39. James Blake - CMYK
40. L.B. Dub Corp - Take It Down In (Dub)
41. The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
42. Bombay Bicycle Club - Ivy & Gold
43. The Horn The Hunt - Raptor
44. Beach House - Zebra
45. Damn Vandals - Crocodile Song
46. Emeralds - Genetic
47. Harmonious Thelonious - Angewandte Muziek
48. Skream - Fields Of Emotion
49. Yuck - Georgia
50. Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here



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John Peel Festive 50: 2011  (Dandelion Radio)

1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. The Lovely Eggs - Don't Look At Me (I Don't Like It)
3. The Chasms - The Occult Soul Review
4. Darren Hayman - I Know I Fucked Up
5. Allo Darlin' - Darren
6. Bearsuit - When Will I Be Queen?
7. Lana Del Rey - Video Games
8. Yuck - Get Away
9. Veronica Falls - Bad Feeling
10. Cyclic Freeload Unit - Bitch Chicken Flower
11. JD Meatyard - Olive Tree
12. Burial - Street Halo
13. James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream
14. Twiggy And The K-Mesons - Preset Love
15. Let's Wrestle - In Dreams Part II
16. Björk - Crystalline (Omar Souleyman Version)
17. Help Stamp Out Loneliness - Split Infinitives
18. Atomizer - Silicon Warning
19. Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy In Leeuwarden (We Are Ready)
20. The 2 Bears - Bear Hug
21. John Maus - Cop Killer
22. The Cambodian Space Project - Chnam Oun Dop Pram Mouy (I'm Sixteen)
23. The Horrors - I Can See Through You
24. tUnE-yArDs - Bizness
25. Baxter Dury - Isabel
26. PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
27. Zoë Bestel - 35 Missed Calls
28. Mogwai - Drunk And Crazy
29. Seedhill Bruiser - Trees
30. Explosions In The Sky - Last Known Surroundings
31. The Felice Brothers - Ponzi
32. Dadfag - Candy
33. Peaking Lights - All The Sun That Shines
34. M83 - Midnight City
35. The Rosie Taylor Project - Sleep
36. Seapony - Dreaming
37. Wooden Shjips - Flight
38. Spidersleg - Salt
39. The Go! Team - Buy Nothing Day
40. Kurt Vile - Baby's Arms
41. The Orch. - Ingland Strip
42. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - I Wanna Go All The Way
43. The Lovely Eggs - Panic Plants
44. Dum Dum Girls - Coming Down
45. Low - Try To Sleep
46. Lord Numb And Julien Auroux - Facile
47. Broadcast + Wolfram Wire - Verstehen 1,8; 3.296.2.1
48. The Fall - Nate Will Not Return
49. Keshco - Fly By Night
50. The Phantom Light - Echoes Of Ghosts