A lovely tune from Skinny Pelembe called Toy Shooter heard on last week’s Ross Allen’s NTS show here. It features touches of Willie Williams’ Armagideon Time and is on the hypnotic tip. Again, again…
Remember to kick it over
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Monthly Archives: March 2018
This land is your land
Yesterday afternoon just as the rain started to pour we popped in to Shannon’s for some multi-purpose compost for our new zinc planters in the back garden. While we were there we got chatting to a nice chap from The Woodland Trust and asked if they’d be up for compiling a chart for us. Until they get back to us here’s a quick woodland-related five on this wet and chilly Good Friday. We honestly can’t see ourselves putting those spuds in the ground this weekend, so it’s back to looking on the internet for odd and interesting seeds.
There’s nothing like cheap easter egg chocolate
This weekend should be the time for gardening but will any be done this judging by the weather forecast? This nice mix of three top tunes will brighten the gloom we hope. The first from Octave Diesis called Mercure Pt.1 is a lovely number; chilled and moody how we like it here tonight (after being woke up by a B&Q delivery at 7.30 am this morning!)
The second some fine bonkersness from that island of Jamaica from the great Equiknoxx with “A rabbit spoke to me when I woke up”. Another example of excellent titled stuff from the ensemble. Dancehall but not dancehall if you see what we mean.
And finally Luca Musto with a very nice bit of deep bumpiness with a lovely vocal sample that like the 70’s chocolates Rose’s, grows on you with each play. Who needs good weather when we have tunes like these!
Spud U like?
As it isn’t too long to Good Friday – traditionally the time to be sowing your potatoes (according to the late great Joe Maiden) – thought went out to the seed spuds chitting away merrily on the windowsill at Weeds HQ.
While on the internet researching about the variety we have chitting here ‘Rocket”, we found out a couple of interesting things about it on Gardenfocussed.co.uk. It turns out it’s easy to grow and one of the first early spud to mature. The other was that it was:
“A rather bland tasting potato. They can be perked up flavour-wise by adding slightly more salt than normal, a knob of butter and preferably a good sprinkling with fresh mint. But there’s no getting away from it, if you want a tasty spud, look elsewhere.”
https://www.gardenfocused.co.uk/vegetable/potatoes/variety-rocket.php
And we thought we were doing so well! So this weekend it’s back to the drawing-board and down the garden centre to get some Maris-Pipers or something tasty. The moral of this spud related tale is do your research!
And unconnected to anything potato based here’s a lovely tune as heard on On The Wire the other week: Rhythm & Sound’s History Version. Tune!
Roses grow on you
Two tunes from the great Michael (Mykal/Mikal) Rose. The first, Peace and Love in the Ghetto was heard on the other week’s episode of Dub Front on BRUZZ, an excellent weekly show of reggae and all things dub-wise that’s well worth tuning into. The second Born Free was something we’ve remembered from a few years back also from the Jammy camp. Taking of roses, when do you reckon spring will spring? We’ve had snow today in London even though things were looking and feeling quite nice yesterday afternoon. What is wrong with that weather?
A Jasmine called Joey Ramone
Plant variety name of the week is the Daylily called “Punk Rocker”. Wonderful stuff! Seen a Pelargonium King Tubby or a Hydrangea Clock DVA on your travels? We here at Weeds are always on the look out for music related plant name varieties so next time you’re at the garden centre “Keep them peeled” as Shaw Taylor used to say.
It’s a punky leggy party (and it’s alright)!
Weeds progress report March 2018: The seed trays on the windowsill in the front bedroom are doing well if not on the leggy side (nice article about correcting leggy seedlings here), containing heritage varieties from the Roots & Shoots event and some nice herb and veg seeds from Shannon’s. It’s early days yet but spring really does come around before you know it so it’s best to be prepared!
And the seed potatoes are chitting nicely (above). The hymn sheet-like list to the left corresponds to the seed tray next to it as we’ll probably forget what’s been sown. Roll on spring when we can sow those seeds in situ!
On a Bamberger tip
The other week at the Roots & Shoots potato and seed shop day we purchased alongside some seed spuds and a good few packs of heritage seeds some long onions that took our fancy not knowing anything about them. Imagine our surprise when we found out last week the Bamberger Long Onion we selected was rare (and you know we love anything that’s deemed “rare” here!) All we know about them is they grow long, are supposedly white and sweet and used in recipes where it’s stuffed with all sorts. Has anyone had success with them and are they any good?
Until we hear anything here’s a couple of cracking onion related tunes…
For your (listening) pleasure
Here’s a great interview with Victor Rice whose tunes we’ve featured a fair few times here on weeds with our musical collaborator Jazzmin Tutum on Dub Kali Rootz a couple of weeks ago on Radio Dreyeckland (Germany’s first free radio station). It’s interesting stuff and well worth listening to. Something to put on loud while dreaming of spring. Big Up Victor and Jazzmin!
Funkology in the flower beds
A big thanks to Pete Haigh from the monthly Funkology radio show (alongside Andy Madhatter Holmes on BBC Radio Lancashire’s On The Wire here) for sending in a gardening inspired chart. There’s some brilliant stuff from Hugh Masekela, Frankie Valli, The Leaves, The Seeds and a whole heap more. More on Pete here.
1. Grazing in the grass – Hugh Masakela
2. Green grass of home – Thomas “Boyo” Jones Esq.
3. Flowers in the rain – The Move
4. Poison ivy – The Coasters
5. Ladybird – Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood
6. Going back to my roots – Richie Havens
7. Where have all the flowers gone – Walter Jackson
8. Don’t fence me in – Bing Crosby
9. Flowers – The Emotions
10. Hey Joe – The Leaves
11. In the bush – Musique
12. Jennifer Juniper – Donovan
13. The sun aint gonna shine anymore – Frankie Valli
14. Forkhandlesfourcandles – The 2 Ronnies
15. Mountain greenery – Ella Fitzgerald
16. Dust my broom – Ike and Tina Turner
17. Sensemillia – Black Uhuru
18. Pushin too hard – The Seeds
19. Crop Dustin – Steve Cropper
20. Green Onions – The MG’s
And here’s last month’s instalment of Funkology a show well worth tuning into live or hearing on listen again. Cheers again for the excellent chart Pete, our mate Percy Thrower would be proud!
Weeds up to me knees 