We're off doon the Barras this Saturday for Supermercado. It's the new market by the Made In the Shade gals. You can find it in the Barras Centre which is beside the antiques part of the market...

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It's the only Glasgow market we are doing up to Christmas this year, however we will be in Edinburgh too next month. Great chance to start the dreaded christmas shopping!!

Come and say hello!

Down the red carpet...

So this weeks Tales of the Unexpected took you to the movies! Our artist of the week was the magical Yann Tiersen.

Below is the tracklist of the show

 

Week 2 – Music from the movies

1.      Also Sprach Zarathustra -  (2001 Space Odyssey) 

2.      Heigh Ho – (Snow white & the seven Dwarfs, 1937)

3.      You make my dreams come true - Hall & Oates (500 days of summer)

4.      Love Man – Otis Redding (Dirty Dancing, 1987)

Yann Tiersen

5.      Just dropped in - Kenny Rogers (The Big Lebowski, 1988) 

 6.     In the musicals – Bjork (Dancer in the dark 2000)

7.      Whistle Stop – sung by Roger Miller   Disney (Robin Hood, 1973)

8.      Diary of a taxi driver – Bernard Herrman (Taxi Driver)

 9.     Summer 78 - Yann Tiersen (Good bye Lenin!, 2003)

10.   La Noyeer - Yann Tiersen (Amelie, 2001)

11.   Ding Dong the witch is dead

12.   How do you like your eggs in the morning? – Helen O’Connell & Dean Martin (Rich, Young & Pretty, 1951)

13.   La Lucertola – Ennio Morricone (Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna)

14.   Let’s hear it for the boys - Denise Williams (footloose, 1984) 

15.   Twisted Nerve – Bernard Hermann (Kill Bill)

16.   Betty & Zorg – Gabriel Yared (Betty Blue, 1987)

17.   Bare Necessities – (Jungle Book)

18.   Nobody does it better – Carly Simon (The spy who loved me)

The next show is Tuesday 9th November at 1pm www.radiocaley.com

M.i.n.i.m.a.l....

So trotted on down last weekend to the new Minimal Festival in Glasgow. This was the first weekend of a three year project bringing sound landscapes to Glasgow. With several concerts on throughout the weekend, I started off Friday night with Icebreaker's interpretation of Brian Eno's Apollo album brought to us in the fantastic backdrop of Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket venue.

We walked in to the hall with the sounds of an invisible orchestra playing (they were up on the balcony out of sight) and a room full of atmospheric fog. Eventually found a few seats together as this was one packed out show. Once settled the colourful Christmas lights dimmed down and the ensemble joined the stage. Three large screens lit up the stage with footage of the Apollo mission which absolutely made the performance.Especially the astronauts jumping about which looked animated.

Next day skipped back along to the Fruitmarket to catch the first of two performances. First one was Steve Reich's 'different trains', played by the Smith Quartet. Secondly, Philip Glass's 'Music with changing Parts'. This trance-like performance was amazing, close your eyes and it helped create your own visuals and took you away into your own wee world. Having seen Philip Glass himself in Glasgow many years ago it was great to hear one of his works played by a full ensemble of musicians.

After Friday nights treat, sadly both these performances lacked stimulating visuals - just shapes slightly merging. Think they lost a great opportunity there, but thankfully the music was so colourful you just had to use your own imagination.

The next installment of Minimal is in February, with Steve Reich's '18 musicans' played by the London Sinfonietta, should be interesting! For more info go to www.glasgowconcerthalls.com/minimal

Disco Fever!

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to Tuesdays show! The next one is on Tuesday 26th October at the new time of 1pm. The theme is Music from the Movies, so if you have an old fav or know a fab piece you think should be shared then pop a comment below or go to our facebook page Tunes of the Unexpected and name it!

So here is Week one's Disco tracklist...

Artist of the Week: Sylvester

Artist of the week: Sylvester

1. The Players Association – ‘going to the disco’ (1977)      
2.  Phyllis Hyman – ‘under your spell’ (1979)         
3.  Love Committee – ‘Just as long as I’ve got you’ (1978)   
4. Sylvester – ‘You make me feel mighty real’  (1978)   
5. Fatback – ‘(do the) Boogie Woogie (1979)    
6. SJNRL (white label)       
7. Norma Jean – ‘Sorcerer’               (1978)  
8. Sister Sledge – ‘Lost in music’   
9. Sylvester – ‘dance disco heat’   
10. Silver, Platinum & gold – ‘I got a thing’ (1976)

Thanks for listening!

Ding Dong on the airwaves...

Exciting news at Ding Dong Towers... We have our very own radio show! You can press that dial to Tunes Of The Unexpected every 2nd Tuesday (starting from tomorrow 12th October) at www.radiocaley.com at 3pm. There is also an iphone app for on the move!

Tunes of the Unexpected is a selection of fab tunes, some you'll have heard of, some you won't have put to a different theme each week. So I'll be starting off with pure disco (only from the 70's).

If you have some exciting news, events or anything else you would like plugged on the show please let me know and I'll see what I can do!

We have a facebook page to keep you all up to date.

Over and out!

Doon the Barras 'n' Briggait...

Have you heard what folks are up to at the Barras? No, not talking about the wheeling and a dealing in a fakery DVD kinda way but the all new Barras Centre?

This new venture is headed up by Camille Lorigo, a New Yorker who relocated to Scotland five years ago and runs Che Camille.  The centre will house around 15 shops with fashion designers, jewellers, and more.

Yesterday the Ding Dong gals popped along to have a wee peeky peek at the new Made in the Shade weekly market ventre Supermercado which is in the courtyard of the Barras Centre (situated beside the antiques part of the barras). As usual, a great selection of quality crafty types, as well as yummy cake stalls mmm mmm. 

Ding Dong Designs will be there on Saturday 30th October, this will be our only Glasgow market date before christmas so if your looking for something a little different for some pressies then get yourself down!

Once we had filled our pockets with goodies, we made our way down to the open day at the brand new Wasp studios The Briggait. What an amazing space for artists and creative types to have their own studios. A hive (mind the pun) of activity with a great community feel in a beautiful building. What more could you want?

The open day consisted of you having the opportunity to wander through floors full of artists studios, see their work and have a chat to them. Yan Wang and Katie Johnson were two artists that particularly stood out to me. But on one of the floors we were lucky enough to find Angharad McLaren behind her colourful loom. 

Angharad McLaren is a textile designer and I was in awe of her beautiful fabrics. The colour combinations, textures and patterns were truly amazing. I'm definately goin to get one of her scarfs.

Yan Wang's work was dream-like and romantic. In her studio your greeted with little clouds of cotton wool hanging from the ceiling. Her large painting, which I didnt get a note of you can see on her website. 

I really loved Katie Johnson's work. I thought the images were like ghosts trying to get through the canvas, just stunning.

Unfortunately we didnt get to go through the whole place as our car ticket was due up and the blue meanies around Glasgow are definately mean! They have regular open days at the Briggait if you fancy a little pop down!