This is the first ever official release of the John Peel session recorded by Dandelion Adventures at Maida Vale studios on 13 May 1990 and broadcast on 18 June 1990 by this band from Lancashire who named themselves after John Peels record label Dandelion while sounding nothing like the bands on that fabled label. The B-side of the album is the bands first demo and a couple of bonus rehearsal songs. The band were Ajay, Geoff, Jason, Mark and Stan.
The album and Peel session opens with Exit Frenzy Revisited a frantic Fallesque dark slab of intense indiebilly, with a super diseased bass break down, before the frenzied vocals come back in, like the Long Tall Texans on acid.
Bing Crosby's Cathedral is a brilliant song title that has a narrated vocal story, guitars and drums slowly build around this tale of Lancastrian monsters, voices chip in details becoming clear or opaque, loads of ideas are thrown in, frenzied guitars attack as if they have just seen a huge mosh pit explosion, bodies flying everywhere.
Don't Look Now the drummer is working overtime as this goes through some dark organ and waves of intense vocals allowing the bass to come through all illustrated in a fantastic video. (see below).
The Peel session closed with All The Worlds A Lounge with vocals that sound like they are recorded through an Airport lounge pa system, guitars are set to fry your brain, intense blistering drums, weird noises and effects with an Arthur Brown sample among the assorted madness of 2300 ideas poured into one 5 minute song, like they have all chomped a week's worth of Speed before entering the studio, this is totally fractured, yet has some sort of overarching mania that holds it all together.
The B-side opens with The Weedkiller Tapes, the first song on that tape was Speed Trials that has been supping from Mark E. Smiths cups, this has a low slung low-fi indie tune with some cool vocal effects ideas.
Death Is A Beautiful Carpark clearly hasn't spent anytime in a concrete brutalist carpark as they find love among the parking spaces before she dies far too soon, just gone in this sketch that I'd like to hear a fully realised version of.
Chickenfeed is low-fi punk madness with some gang style vocals, fuzzy guitars with super speedy drumming driving them on towards getting rid of all that Chickenfeed, it's that or kill your family now.
King Burger Autopsy opens with doom laden bass, higher guitar illustrates the perils of eating King Burgers that necessitates the need for an Autopsy, my advice then and now is stay away from the Burgers, don't be like Elvis, whatever you do don't eat burgers on the toilet.
The first rehearsal tune is Disneytime recorded in Blackpool 2 August 1988 this is fried guitars, clatter to the walls drumming, strained vocals, I do hope I hear something this manic on the 2 August at Rebellion in Blackpool this year.
The album closes with There Goes The Neighbourhood from a rehearsal on July 19th 1988 it's distinctly low-fi built around Ajay's guitar part, snaking through the song, they tell us such is life, they are resigned to being ignored as they see the pain around them.
