Two Paradise Garage classics were heard in a couple of retail establishments earlier today. The first was “My Love is free” by Double Exposure heard in a coffee/expensive sausage roll shop in Herne Hill at 9.30 am.
Later on while walking through Lewisham Shopping Centre (home of probably the cleanest public loos in London) at about 12.30 pm The Fatback Band‘s “Going to see my baby” was coming through the speakers. What next, a bit of Death Metal in the meat aisle in Tesco sometime this week?
What’s the best tune you have heard being played in a shop? Answers please via the comments and we’ll blog up a chart.
By the way here’s a classic Paradise Garage cassette from supposedly1982 but possibly recorded a few years later.
Gil Scott Heron – The Bottle
The Clash – The Magnificient Dance
Cymande – Bra
Loose joints – Is it all over my face
Double Exposure – My love is free
Exodus – Together Forever
First Choice – Double Cross
First Choice – Dr Love
Lenny Williams – Running (mixed with Man Fridays Love Honey, love heartache acapella.)
Fatback Band – Going home to see my baby
Loleatta holloway & Salsoul orchestra – runaway
Shades of love – Body to body
Positive force – We got the funk
Roy Ayers – Running away
Salsoul orchestra – Ooh, I love it (love break)
Salsoul orchestra – You’re just the right size
Carl Bean – Born this way
Here’s an excellent radio programme featuring those Maunsell delights Shivering Sands. It’s a 24 minute great listen so tune in 
We’re seeing flower buds on the cosmos. We did sow a few seeds in various places but these are the ones that survived. There’re under an old dead cherry tree and they seem have taken well. In a few days there should be flowers (Cheers Debby H again).
And this look like a couple of the Thompson & Morgan seeds 
A big thanks to Debby H for sending us some pictures of her garden that’s come on a bit since she went away for few weeks. The above is of the first cosmos flowers.
Above is the radio related Marconi red pepper which is doing very well and her second pepper plant (below) is looking good too.
Cheers to our friend in the Lake District Rich R for sending us a picture of his first cosmos flower, brilliant stuff. It’s fantastic about all this passing on seeds that gardeners do and a big cheers to Debby H for starting all this cosmos mania off in the first place. Ours are still a work in progress, but we may know more in a few days time.
Big shout to Gerry Hectic for sending us the link to an auction this month called “The John Peel Collection” featuring all sorts of stuff from Peel Acres. There’s John’s copy of Joy Division’s Ideal for Living 12″ with a letter from Rob Gretton. Got £3,000 handy? Have a butcher’s at what else is up for grabs if you’ve got some spare cash
Weeds up to me knees 