Reggae and radio, what a combination

Merry Christmas to all of our friends near and far and we wish you all a great festive season and a grand new year. We hope you have a great growing season next year, that all your veg and flowers do swimmingly well and your compost heap rots down well and gives you some great organic matter.

We were going to stick up the Mikey Dread “Dread at the Controls” live on JBC Radio recording from December 1978 as usual but just found some completely different show recordings with some excellent footage too. They’re a new one to us and there’s a few of them as well.

Have a great day today, keep safe and away from the endless Dad’s Army reruns and remember this is the only day you can officially have a glass of Bailey’s and some Cadbury’s Roses before lunchtime without people thinking you’re odd.

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It’s that festive time of year again, so a big Happy Christmas (and a jolly new year) to all our readers and hope you’ve survived the day of food and drink madness and the usual entertainment on the telly (which this year included Call the midwife live on ice, a Two Ronnies marathon and a interesting film about Patrick Moore’s mate Brian May, “A life of barnets and telescopes”). Let’s hope 2019 brings you all a good year with plenty of great gardening!

Rather than the usual festive tunes from us here’s one heard on Justin Robertson’s Temple of Wonders show on Soho Radio the other day, it’s a great dub in a Paradise Garage style.

And a classic heard via On The Wire the other week produced by the great Lee Perry.

And talking of Patrick Moore here’s something that cheered us up earlier this year which is a million times better than watching Eastenders again.