Voting open in the 2025 Festive Fifty

The November Dandelion Radio shows begin today and with them the opening of Festive Fifty voting for 2025.

The format's still the same as in the John Peel days: choose your three favourite tracks of the year before the end of the month. As usual, the results will then be broadcast from the stroke of midnight as Christmas Eve passes into Christmas Day and then at various times throughout the rest of December and January.

A reminder that last year's top ten looked like this, with Fontaines DC joining Festive Fifty royalty like Joy Division, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Pulp in securing both of the top two slots:

1. Starburster - Fontaines D.C.

2. Favourite - Fontaines D.C.

3. Aim Higher - House of All

4. Gift Horse - Idles

5. Nearly Daffodils - English Teacher

6. U Should Not Be Doing That - Amyl & The Sniffers

7. Alone - The Cure

8. Bye Bye - Kim Gordon

9. Tonight In Belfast - Orbital

10. Lay of the Land (Live) - House of All





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