Cheers to our mate Spike of Morschen43 from Le Puy-en-Velay, France for sending us a picture of a couple of plum trees that are really suckers of an ancient plum tree which was in the garden. They are about 4-5 years old and one did bare fruits last year but just carried on with the job of growing this year. We don’t know too much about Plum trees and what happens when you let suckers grow, any idea? Nice autumn colours Spike.
“One of our self-seeded tomato plants (below) has also decided to flower. Too late though, unless we bring it indoors.” That is crazy Debby, a tomato flowering in November!
“Finally, our strelitzia (bird of paradise) flower looks as though it will actually open!”
Brilliant stuff Debby, the pictures give us all a bit of hope what with the horrible weather on its way. Fingers crossed we don’t get that bad a winter. Good luck with the bird of paradise!
Big thanks to Kit G5KIT in Bristol for sending us an update on his chillies (see an earlier post here):
“Remember those Demon Red chilli seeds we planted here in Bristol? The tiny little seedlings eventually turned into lovely plants, and we gave most of them away.
The one we kept has produced plenty of the explosively hot little peppers, and we just finished what’s probably the last harvest of the year for it. A good haul of hotness, but now the plant itself is looking a bit sorry; it doesn’t seem to like the cold weather that’s setting in.”
“I’m going to prune it right back and see if it goes dormant, and with a bit of luck it’ll wake up next spring and start flowering again. The chillies have just gone straight into the freezer, and will get used a few at a time when some chilli oil is needed, or to liven up a curry.”
Brilliant stuff Kit, we love the way you gave plants away, giving other people the pleasure of growing them and then picking the chillies fresh off the plant.
That’s great you are going to cut it back and bit and let it rest over the winter. We’ll be doing the same with the two plants we have in the polytunnel but they still look alright at the moment and giving us chillies but perhaps in a week or two it may be a different matter as it is getting cold. Cheers for letting us know and keep sending us the updates!
Bells Group – Kingston 13 (Blank) 1962 (B side to Derrick Morgan In My Heart)
A lovely little number from the Bells Group on a Jamaican (President) blank 7″ (later to be released on the Prince Buster label in 1962) found in a bunch of tunes this evening. We haven’t heard this for a long while!
The blank at the top above is our copy but unfortunately not the one directly above, which has the legendary “Beverley Ice Cream Parlour, 135 Orange Street, Kingston” stamp on it. That’s a bit of musical history there.
That one goes very well with this one below which we pulled out as well. Top tunes from yesteryear.
This weekend the second episode of TV on the Radio by Imaginary Stations was beamed over the shortwaves in monochromatic colour in 405 and 625 lines, thanks to the services of the great Shortwave.de
Above is the studio version up on Mixcloud which features all sorts of theme tunes and cathode ray tube business from DJ Frederick and the crew. There are mixes from the Mysterious Kit at 02.02 and One Deck Pete’s “Alternative Television” at 27.24 minutes in, featuring audio memories from the good old days of the coin-operated TV set.
Tunes featured on “Alternative Television”:
The Tony Hatch Orchestra – Theme from Crossroads
Midnight Television – Commercial Dreams
The Lost T shirts of Atlantis – Theme from Crossroads
Ron Grainger – The Prisoner
Mice Parade – Stereolab Remix – Warm Hand in Farmland
(which samples The Persuaders theme tune)
Just a little reminder that while we kip tonight the clocks will go back causing all sorts of havoc to sleeping, shortwave radio programming schedules and the like. So come 2am tomorrow morning in the UK, those hands of time will be turned back automatically (or manually when we wake up).
Cheers to our good mate Gerry Hectic for letting us know about Gardener’s World
It really is bonkers stuff as Jason uses a biofeedback device to come up with some ambient soundscapes by hooking up plants to a laptop. Tune in above and below for some top biosonification business.
And we love this tune. Thanks again Gerry and wonderful stuff Jason, it’s well up our street!
Cheers to The Rhythm Doctor for letting us know about a great LP called David Rodigan’s Dubwise Shower on BBE bandcamp here. There’s some classic stuff on there including the above horns cut of Delroy Wilson‘s “Have some mercy” that we haven’t heard before.
Also a version of Gregory Isaacs’ “Walk right in” by Sylvan Morris & Andy’s All Stars.
And talking of said tune and thanks to Steve Barker playing it on On The Wire a while ago, here’s some Banjo Dub!
Big shout to our radio collaborator Jesse Yuen, for sending us last month’s and the month’s before Dubwise and Otherwise show this morning. Both shows are well worth listening to for some genuine Sunday morning chilled vibes.
The show is broadcast once a month on Radio Cazimi, an online community radio station based in Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia. (Walyalup is located at the mouth of the Swan River and of course Jesse’s other show was called North of The River Swan!)
We’re half-way through the Springtones show at the moment and it is cracking! We were scratching our head’s thinking “Where do we know the intro from?” and it’s The Aloof with Never get out of the boat, a tune we only had in our hands last night while rearranging our records.
We’ll check out the Soundcloud link in a couple of days for yesterday’s great show. Cheers Jesse!
Big shout to Jesse Yuen and friends Lia T and Rok Riley who are on the air via the internet for the “Dubwise and Otherwise” show from 8-10am on this Saturday morning from the other side of this world of ours. If you want to chill out indoors in the warm to some downtempo bass heavy vibes tune into radiocazimi.com here.