The musician faced resistance when he premiered his sound in the 60s, but audiences have fallen in love with it since. At 82, he’s still finding new directions – and wants more recognition for Africa’s indigenous artists

We don’t usually look back in time but by chance we saw this which originally was posted on Weeds on July 10th 2016. Have a read/listen. Thanks again to Steve Barker for sending us this at th…

Comedian Stewart Lee tells the story of Resonance FM, the UK’s greatest radio art station.

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Thanks to a chance meeting in a Clerkenwell street the other Friday lunchtime, we heard from urban bird photographer Daniel Lomas who sent us some amazing pictures all taken in an urban environment…

Thanks to Gerry Hectic for sending us a picture of his first flowering lily in his pond complete with Belfast sink in the corner filled with some water plants. Lovely flower and that water looks a …

Cheers to Gerry Hectic also in Dorset for sending us a picture of his potato plants, he said “think I might have got a bit enthusiastic about the spuds, I’ve some in an old water butt a…

Ellie Wilson has a new project devoted to a small East London river launching this week. The River Ching, beautifully described by Wilson as “a river with no airs or graces”, rises among the trees of Epping Forest, before flowing down through the Chingford suburbs, disappearing into culverts under the Walthamstow dog racing track made […]

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We tapped in “Soulful Electronica” into the search engine on Bandcamp this evening and guess what came up as an example of the genre? The seminal Conet Project put together by Akin Fern…

This weekend there was a edition of Skybird Radio International featuring DJ Frederick and Justin Patrick Moore, who journeyed all over this globe of ours in an all genre style. You don’t nee…