And to continue the festive themed soundtrack here’s a clever little number by Bodyswitch from the Stocking Stuffers EP a nice dubbed up version of Carla Thomas’ Gee Whiz, it’s Christmas.
And a lovely dub from from R. Santa on Nou Art Records out of Barcelona called “Time Dub”
Has Gavin & Stacey finished yet? And is it really the last one?
A big season’s/holiday greetings to all our readers and our gardening, radio and musical mates from around this globe of ours. A big thanks for supporting the blog, the radio show we’re associated with (Imaginary Stations) and the music we release (though that’s been a bit thin on the ground this year but we’re sure that’ll change soon).
Here’s a reggae Christmas LP worth sticking on the stereo today:
Remember we’re on our way to spring (it won’t be long before we’ll be sowing those seeds) and as ever we hope that all your gardening wishes come true.
Spotted in a charity shop in Lewisham this morning, this excellent solstice-related jigsaw puzzle. Let’s hope every piece is there or it may be a right pain in the neck when it comes to completing said ancient monument.
We thought of a daft thing, wouldn’t it be great to travel back in time and bring the game to a cave and see if stone-age man/women/kids would enjoy the game. We reckon they would be delighted with it especially knowing that it was on sale for the bargain price of 4 quid.
And on the subject of those sacred stones we just found this excellent film on youtube! We even spotted an example of the famous “Punk Kicking Dance” (that we’d never be able to do now) at 3.51 mins in. Happy belated Solstice.
More on the Stonehenge Festival Campaign here.
Happy Winter Solstice! From tomorrow, days will be getting longer which is great news to us gardeners. If you want to celebrate the great day in style without having stayed up all night in the pouring rain and cold, shivering by the heel stone, why not tune in via youtube (above).
So turn up the heating, put on your best solstice suit, pour yourself a glass of warm mead and pretend you’re at Stonehenge with the best of them. Happy Solstice and a big shout to that yellow round thing we call the Sun.
Above is the audio of KNOW from Imaginary Stations broadcast on Saturday December 14th and repeated on Sunday December 15th 2024 via Shortwave Gold.
As usual it’s a great mix of tunes from the Imaginary Stations crew and at 16.15 in there’s a mix from One Deck Pete called “Have you got the Knowledge?” featuring the tracks above. Well, what do you know!
Here’s a track we found by pure chance last night while putting together a shortwave mix. It’s from Mice Parade (who sadly we’ve never heard of before but will now research) with a track called Warm Hand in Farmland and it’s the Stereolab remix from a couple of years back. It’s one crazy track, part brass, part acoustic, part hip-hop and part mad and over 5 minutes long but it don’t seem it.
We may be imagining it, but is the piano sampled from the start of The Persuaders theme tune by John Barry used in the latter part of the tune? We’re sure of it.
And if our memory isn’t playing tricks on us The June Brides used The Persuaders theme as walk on music once when they supported the great McCarthy (which featured one Tim Gane oddly enough). Coincidence or a tenuous link to play McCarthy’s brilliant Frans Hals tune again? Who knows.
Tune into KNOW from Imaginary Stations on Saturday December 14th 2024 at 1200 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and repeated on Sunday December 15th 2024 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and also at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz via Shortwave Gold.
They will be imparting some very deep knowledge on the show, answers to questions like “What is the meaning of life?”, “Can you speak Venusian?” and “Why are Jaffa Cakes known as a cakes rather than biscuits?” and bringing you songs that you may or may not know. At 16.15 in there’s a mix from One Deck Pete called “Have you got the Knowledge?” featuring Avmus, Deezz, Ernest Wilson, Capstone and Gregory Isaacs.
Big shout to The Rhythm Doctor for the KNOW related classic below and to Jesse Yuen the other week for reminding us how good it is. Below that, an Observer classic with a brilliant dub. Seeing is knowing and all that.
It seems like a while away now but the weather over the weekend was awful, blustery and wet. We’re back to some sort of normality for this time of year, cold and wet! Cheers to Rich R for the picture from last week just as the storm was arriving in the Lake District. Great to hear it wasn’t too mad up there.
Big shout to Thomas from Dub Explorations for letting us know about this excellent tune by Professor Skank from Greece entitled Jah Jah Is Coming (The rootsman version). This has taken a couple of days to worm its way into our brain here at Weeds and now we can’t get it out of our heads. A must have tune!
Weeds up to me knees 