Doug Wendt's Midnight Dread is now heard every midnight on World One,
World Beat every noon, Native Son Rising every 6am, all Pacific Times

Midnight Dread #24 Ska Ruder Than You + Outlaw Louis Blanche June 16th 1980 KTIM, CA Part One of Two by Midnightdread on Mixcloud

Midnight Dread 33 Years Ahead
Listen Up Time Travelers!

the very first program!

the first twenty three Midnight Dread programs
as aired from September 1979 - June 1980

September 11th, 2012 introduction to Midnight Dread's Rare Interview With Peter Tosh San Francisco, 1983
"Tosh loved the truth so much he had to sue his record label & wait 4 years for the release of his last lp"
Wendt's November 1987 Pulse! column Review of Peter's No Nuclear War cd via Midnight Raver

Midnight Raver & Midnight Dread's joined forces also posted Doug's Puma Jones Black Uhuru interview,
MD Archive's Bob Marley 'Rastaman Rocks Penn Hall' 1979 Philadelphia review and photos,
Wendt's Pulse! magazine article & interviews with Linton Kwesi Johnson & Dennis Bovell,
and Doug's Midnight Dread blogspot page on Midnight Raver amongst many others.



21st Century Midnight Dread Announcement
Vintage Midnight Dread press clippings
May 1st, 2012 Premier Program
Midnight Dread on Facebook

World Beat Is The Answer

Dancers at Doug's video party, front page San Francisco Examiner

Kennel Club fave & tv coverage:

Doug's 2012 radio season began
with this electric eclectic mix that occupies Earth

WORLD ONE FESTIVAL July 3rd-July 4th 2013:

DOUG WENDT'S WORLDBEAT / GHOST TOWN SOUND
RETURNED TO THE WORLD ONE FESTIVAL July 3rd-July 4th 2012:

Buck up & ride World One & Doug's
recent Ghost Town Sound radio show

Psyche Your Delic to the sounds of the 60s with Doug's
latest Man Of Constant Sorrow style radio

The complete 1984 digitized Quake Radio Programs are out now including
Tony Moses & Doug's December 3rd Co-birthday Celebration


Plus several new shows curated by Doug now on our World Beat radio page


our other website:

now also Shoutcasting here, Doug's 'BEST OF ALL WORLDS', 'MIDNIGHT DREAD', and
'NATIVE SON RISING' airing/streaming daily at High Noon, Midnight Dread, & 6am respectively

Completed: The legendary Midnight Dread playlists from
the 1984 broadcasts on KTIM & San Francisco's KQAK, The Quake.
Ongoing: amazing Adventure Hour KFOG programs' playlists & digitizing
of Midnight Dread shows aired in San Francisco from 1979-1990
A complete listing of all the KTIM playlists from 1979-1983
The KQAK playlists from 1985

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY DREAD (news, views, & auctions)

Here's the new DEEP WORD DUB Deluxe Edition cd:

Get These Exclusive Offers & More Thru Our Amazing:


Click on each of these cds to hear INDIVIDUAL SOUND SAMPLES of some of the other dynamite discs also available now from our store:

Click on cds above for info on Midnight Dread Records' MOTOWN MEETS TRENCHTOWN ('Reggae Celebrates Detroit')
and NATTY & NICE (Reggae Xmas) plus TRIBUTE TO A REGGAE LEGEND (Bob Marley), AFRICAN REGGAE, &
REGGAE AROUND THE WORLD 10th Anniversary Edition (all on Putumayo) with liner notes by yours dreadly.

Mikey Dread cut his distinctive Midnight Dread stingers for me at KTIM in March of 1980
while on tour with The Clash. I still use them all the time. He did them improv stylee as
an afterthought following an interview that I did with him live right after a Clash concert
where he appeared, when Midnight Dread was in its first year, Sunday nights 'round
midnight. We were on our way down the hall leaving the station's building in San Rafael
when I asked him if he'd do a few custom jingles for my show and he immediately made
a u-turn back to the studio, sat down, and did three killer Midnight Dread themed toasts
over his Roots & Culture dubplate then improvised several minutes of amazing dread bits
for my radio show, no prompting, no-prep, non-stop, off the top of his dreads. Being a radio
selector himself he knew exactly what was needed. He made my show sound authentic.
It was crucial and done out of love for spreading the music and I'll never be able to express
the deepness of my gratitude. Thank goodness we had a great time backstage at the first
Dreadstock show a couple years ago in Vallejo, CA and I got to tell him again personally
how I I-preciated his crucial contribution to my show's success and development. The tracks
he did that night are a treasure trove and Mikey a giant in conscious roots reggae music.
His entire prolific output is the essence of all-killer no-filler. Mikey passed away way too soon.
Zion destination Drrrreeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaddddddd!!!!!!!
Love up Mikey,
Doug

Highly Recommended Websites/Blogs:

Upsetter.net -Mick Sleeper's boss Lee Perry plus site-

Ras RoJah Roger Steffens' website
-1984 Year End Reggae Wrap-Up webcast with Doug & Roger Steffens-

Lumanation -our original webmaster's crucial dub rock reggae band-

Midnight Raver blog



This beautiful beadwork is the gate to brother Joel Wendt's site SHAPES IN THE FIRE
Plus check his excellent essay The Degeneration, and the Redemption, of Political Life in America





Webcasts

Please make donations here to help support midnightdread.com
or purchase items from our Premiums Store to help keep us going deh.

Contact Midnight Dread & Webmaster: midnightdread@gmail.com

American Ghost Town

available on the exclusive "Live at the Round Dance" dvd here

Ghost Town Sound "Otahku" from Doug Wendt on Vimeo.

"The truth ain't got no friends." -Lee Perry

SMiLE wait over for the Man of Constant Sorrow

We've got Art Clokey's Gumby MD's exclusive report

Segment from Midnight Dread's Ustream Channel Xmas Eve Debut:

Ska Santas' cd with Midnight Dread available here

A-Z Site Map: Auctions / Big Ska Country / Bob Marley's Best Videos / Bob Marley's Sacred Scrolls / Daily Dread / Deeling.com / Deeling Merchandise / Deeling's Midnight Dread Art & Bio / Doug's Biography / Films by Doug Wendt / Lee Scratch Perry Outerviews / Man Of Constant Sorrow / Midday Dread / Midnight Dread's Exclusive Store / Midnight Dread Radio Archives / Midnight Dread Merchandise / Midnight Dread Premiums Store / Midnight Dread Webcasts / Musings & Letters / Native Son Rising / Peter Tosh Interview / Press Clippings / Reggae Mountain Front / Reggae On The River Sets / Ustream Midnight Dread / Worldbeat Radio / World Sound Vision / Years' Best Video Charts

World One Radio features world music 24/7/365!