Cheers to Rich R in the Lake District for sending us this great pic of the moon above Bassenthwaite Lake not that far from where he lives. Wonderful stuff!
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
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Category Archives: “Radio connects us all”
And the cosmos still keeps coming
We’re in Storm Bert at the moment here in SE23, it’s windy and very dour when you outside. It’s always good on days like this to have something to cheer us up so a big thanks to Debby H for sending us more cosmos pictures taken this week. We must rememember it is late November and as Debby wrote with the attached pictures “Come snow and frost, the cosmos plants struggle on valiantly!” and she’s right. Cheers for that Debby!
On the stereo we have this playing in the background to cheer us up despite the bad weather. It’s a bit of an off kilter bit of dub by the great Bjørn Torske called Dub Vendors (the B side to the single Disco Members from 2000.)
News flash!
NEWS FLASH • NEWS FLASH • NEWS FLASH • NEWS FLASH • NEWS FLASH
Tomorrow morning (Wednesday 20th November 2024) our good friend The Rhythm Doctor will appear on Gilles Peterson’s show on Worldwide FM at 11am UK time. Tune in live here.
Radio connects us all again
The other week whilst looking through some records at North Cross Rd Market and saw this on the back of Arrow‘s Feeling Hot Hot Hot LP (we think it may have been an import version on WIRL). The quailty of the cover had a lot to be desired but had this wonderful advertisement for Radio Antillies.
Waiting for gobbo
Was feeling in need of a cheer up this week so we went to the theatre to see that feelgood classic Waiting for Godot...(!) Yesterday we got into conversation with someone and asked “If Beckett was into punk what would have been his favourite band?” (Samuel Beckett does look a bit on the punk tip in some photographs). We came to the conclusion it may have been Wire. What do you reckon? Would he have liked the Pork Dukes, Sham 69 or The Stranglers? Answers on the back of a postcard (preferably one with a pink haired mohican punk on it) please.
The Blue Peter Garden at the grass roots of dub
Here’s a new mix from One Deck Pete called “An introduction to Dub Gardening” and goes out to all dub gardeners everywhere and we welcome contact from (dub and non dub) gardeners wherever they may be. Dedicated to the late Percy Thrower.
The mix features:
Augustus Pablo – Melody Dub
Soulware – Augmented Seed (Dub Version)
Biggabush – Beat Dem in Dub
Jasmine Tutum & Madtone – Return to the Branches (no hams mix)
Vassell Meka – Flowers Dub
Madtone – Compost your mind
We’re not completely sure where the Dub Gardening phrase originates from but it may (or may not and we apologise if it was somebody else) have something to our good friend across the pond Dr Strangedub (alongside DJ baby Swiss) who brings you the The Echo Chamber which is broadcast on KFAI every Wednesday morning from 8 am-Noon UK time here.
A good few ago the good doctor put together a gardening related mix called In The Garden of dub which is below and has also been featured up on Weeds a few times but well worth posting up again! Features lots of artists inluding Singers & Players (ft. Prince Far I), Earlyworm, Madtone, Finn The Giant, Juno Gad Allstars meet Earlyworm, Leroy Sibbles, Jah Wobble, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Bakshish, DubXanne (ft. Ranking Roger) and lots lots more. Big shout to all dub gardeners.
Gathering a beat for a cold thursday morning
Cheers to Gerry Hectic for sending this over, a track with nice vibes for a cold Thursday morning here in SE23. It’s Leaf Erickson with The Gathering (featuring John Robinson, D Strong & Wildelux). Great stuff Gerry!
Cosmos taking over
Hi to Debby H for sending us pictures of the state of play in her garden when it comes to continuing cosmos flowers at the moment and it is really crazy stuff. All the garden borders have the plants in them and the volunteer/self seeded one in the north bed has the most amazing colour (above).
“I have borders on 3 sides of my lawn, and there are cosmos flowers in all of them, including the northern border where I didn’t even plant any!” said Debby. They really are brilliant and as we said a few posts ago we ask our readers to send us some cosmos pictures next year, wherever you are in the world. Cheers Debby, you’ve started off a growing cosmos trend hopefully!
Redistribution of gardening wealth
One of the best things about this gardening lark is when people pass on things and we’ve picked up all sort of stuff from out in the street or left on garden walls with a “Take me” note on it. We’ve found gardening tools, a very strange coatstand that works as support for climbing plants (here) and even our silver birch that is growing so tall now (here).
In the last week we’ve kindly been given some seeds (Cheers Debby H!) and the other night we happily received a couple of bags (pic above) of Russet Apples (Cheers Adrienne!) which we’ve never tasted before and were very pleasantly suprised when we had them with some frozen berries (found at the bottom of the freezer) with a sponge top.
So keep that circle-a-turning and if you’ve got something that you don’t need, pass it/them on!
Sun Ra is the custodian of the cosmos
As requested by Gerry Hectic here’s some Sun Ra & his Arkestra with of course Cosmos. Cheers for that Gerry!
Weeds up to me knees 