This morning whilst on an early morning mission to Deptford we caught this poster in a pub window. It’s for Wednesday’s May Day celebrations featuring an appearance of Fowlers Troop and the Deptford Jack in the Green (more on them here which even includes a Hawkwind and Pink Fairies connection!)
The great John Rogers has got a interesting little film that explains the celebrations a little more. Looks like a fun day!
All this talk of May Day revelry reminded us of one spring evening years ago when we were going to London Bridge station and followed a man dressed as a tree walking with a lady who was sporadically ringing an old school bell. We made a bit of a detour so we could capture more of the madness and just before we turned off for the station we had to see what it was all about. “Excuse me mate, could you explain more about your get up” we said to the tree man/man tree to which he curtly replied, “Mayday?” We were told that day and by a bloke with a painted green face.
And talking of John Rogers, here is again the two part excellent walk of the “Magic” River Quaggy, which is a “much watch”.
Weeds up to me knees 
Oh that was fun! Had to look up Jack in the Green!
And thanks for introducing me to the Deep Sea Cosmonauts!Definitely Echo Chamber material…so had to get it1 Think I’ll have to do a bit of a May Day special!
With medieval ties – like your Jack and the May poles – and of course “workers of the world”!
Saw the latest edition of the legendary Skatalites last night!They are now with no original members left, but a couple of the band members have been around for quite some time, like Mel Douglas on bass, Ken Stewart on keys, and the great Larry McDonald on bongos!
Respect & Dub, Dr. StrangeDub
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Hi Dr Strangedub!
Glad you liked it, I love the idea of the mayday special! Yes Maypoles, Jack in the greens and Workers of the world of course. Ace about the Deep Sea Cosmonauts too.
Thanks for playing the ODP mix the other week, appreciated as ever.
This may be a good tune to drop into the mayday mix
I’ll tune in Wednesday!
All the best
Pete