Yesterday the Ding Dong gals packed up their wee santa sacks and popped down to the Lighthouse in Glasgow for the Made in the Shade Holiday Hullaballo!! What a fantastic market (as always!). An amazing array of talented artists, crafters and such. With 3,000 lucky shoppers, the place was buzzing from 10.30-5pm! By the end of the day we were knackered but with massive cheesy grins after enjoying a good old chinwag with fellow makers, a boogie to the jaunty tunes and a good ole nosey around. Here are some of the talented artists there on the day...
Ding Dong Designs stall!!
Freda Ding Dong hiding...
Made In the shade Carrie with MEGA lucozade orange!!
Neil Slorance
Small Stories
Clare Nicolson - Made in the Shade girlie!
Josie Ding Dong with Bonnie Blings JLS knuckle duster!
Freda and Josie Ding Dong are warming up our christmas stockings cbecause this Saturday, 10th December, we're popping our goodies into our santa sack and heading on down to the Made In the Shade holiday Hullabaloo!!
Today was the last live show until the new year! The next two weeks will still be my selection just not my chirping inbetween, it'll be a mix of some of the tunes I've played in the last few months.
Tunes of the Unexpected - 29th
November
Lyn Collins – Think (about it)
James Brown – Your cheatin
heart
The Average White Band – cut
tha cake
Stevie Wonder – Higher Ground
Unlimited Touch – I hear music
in the streets
Peoples Choice – Do it anyway
you wanna
Roy Ayers – Running Away
Real Estate – Always there
The Strikers – Body music
Hi Tension – Hi Tension
Dimitri from Paris – Just
about right
D Train – You're the one for
me
Loose Joints – Is it all over
my face (Masters at Work mix)
Thanks to all who listened in on the is weeks Tunes of theUnexpected. Our artist of the week was DySFUNCTIONAL RoTARY EnCODER, an artist from Glasgow. Tunes are released through EML recordings, check out his soundcloud!
Tune in next Tuesday at 1pm for a winter wonderland!! aaahhh oooohhh www.radiocaley.com
Just loving the freebie downloads at the mo! so many great free tunes out there so tickle those earlopes with. So below is this weeks tracklisting with links :-)
If you have or know anyone who is unsigned, unknown or just as some fantastic tune they'd like to share with the world just email me at dingdongdesigns@hotmail.com and I might just play them on the show!!
oh and get yourself down to
VINTAGE ROCKS – this Thursday at 7.30pm, ONLY £2 ticket/ £3 at
the door, FREE ENTRY afterwards – Bands: Bear Arms, People Places Maps, and Mark Campbell
as well as Vintage stall from Once Upon A Time Vintage!!
Well it was a packed show this week! I'd love to know what you liked and didnt like so pop over to our facebook page and say hello!! I've linked some of the tracks which you can download for free and will try and get a recording of the show up soon :-) Enjoy...
Thundercat
Joakim – Forever
young (extended afro mix)
Can't – Too late
too far
Lana Johnidas with
the swinging strings – Scotch tape boy
some videos are just too good to put in the vaults, here are a few I have came across ro people have passed on to me. So let's start off with probably my fav of all time, I just can't get enough of this. Gets me everytime!
Video 1 (can't embed this video so just click on the link) The delights of Big Al. Love the guy at 0.33secs so funny, or the guy with the tash at the end. simply amazing :-)
This next one was sent to me last week from someone who knows of my love for disco...
Oh yes they let us back on the airwaves yet again! Josie Ding Dong will be gracing your earholes with her dulcet tones once again on Tuesday mornings at 10-11am on www.radiocaley.com, can't wait!!
P.S....
found this the other day, thought it could be the sound track to our wee shop! enjoy
As I haven't been able to shut my underwear drawer for months, I thought it best to have a good old clear out. I knew I did have a love for tights but after rummaging I have quickly learnt I borderline fanatical on tights. (Note to self: DO NOT buy any more tights. In fact don't go near the tights dept in shops.)
Please note: this is NOT an actually picture of the bra hat
So was chucking out bags of stuff and thought some of this is a waste, but really can't put it back in to sit unwore in darkest, deepest corners of the drawer next to the lavender cushions or smelly soap in a box (hope I'm not the only one who does that...)
After inventing the bra hat, I thought better of it and had a gander online to discover that you can infact donate your old and unused bras to charity! Brill, just what I was hoping.
There seems to be a few charities doing different things but to save you surfing for too long here's one I've picked. Yorkshire Air Ambulance collect them through Bag It Up and when they have 200,000 they send them over to West Africa where they are needed. So don't through them out, send them to:
‘Bag it Up’
Calder Street
West Vale
Greetland
Halifax
HX4 8AQ
Just back the other day from my very first trip to Manchester, what a fab city! Real friendly and some stunning architecture. I was mainly traveling down to see Bjork in her residency at the Manchester International Festival but to also taste the delights of the Mancs and their city.
Bjork's new project is about the relationship between nature, music and technology. And the concert was something else!
As a saddo Bjork fan, I got my pals to queue with me 1hr & 1/2 before the concert so we could get front row. I had heard on the rumour mill that it was a round stage so you can get real close. The wait paid off and we managed to get front row near the amazing drummer called Manu Delago. She had seemingly came across him through this video playing the hung drums (which he played on the night for her rendition of One Day from Debut LP).
The stage was a small square with a step on each side with instruments in each corner of the stage. We were behind a rope round the stage which made the whole experience really intimate. and as a big fan meant that she was only really feet away at many points! Amazing!
For this musical experiment she has been collaborating with scientists, geeks and musicians to come up with brand new instruments. Swinging pendulums that play the harp, the largest music box I've ever seen, 3 different organs that play from ipad apps and a giant lightening Tesla Coil, check this video for a sneaky preview of some of them. She also had on stage a 24 strong Icelandic female choir and David Attenburgh voice over introducing each new song. Strictly no photos though so these are all from other sources. The concert was defiantly a new experience and well worth the trip down!
If you're interested she is co-editing this months Dazed & Confused too!
Now I could go on all day about the place and where all we went but thought I'd just give a wee taster of places I really enjoyed and hopefully you would too if you were living/going for a trip there.
Exploring Manchester was fun, loving the Northern Quarter. We tripped over the Chinese Arts Centre, I actually went in cause I thought it was a nice shop! But was so glad we did as we went to the current exhibition which is a sound installation by Angie Atmadjaja who is a local artist. It's held in a room, with speakers at different heights and lines around the floor. You follow the line according to your height and listen to different tones, sounds and loudness of white noise. The sound also bounces off the walls which give to different vibrations and sounds. If you're down in Manchester definitely take a wee trip to this installation!
Just along the road from this we found a terrific poster shop called Richard Goodall Gallery. Loads of screen printed and also prints of band posters well worth a gander. Oh and if you like a smell/taste/listen of some scrumptious vinyl must take a wander to Vinyl Exchange (even has a Hacienda section!!) and if you have any change go directly across the road (!) to Piccadilly Records. Got loads of treats in both shops but could have spent sooo much more!
On our last day we too a trip to the Arts and Crafts Centre, also in the Northern Quarter. It's hidden up a side street but what a fantastic place. Over 2 floors, artists have a workspace and shop and there is also a nice wee cafe in the middle.
I would totally recommend a little cafe just round the corner called Home Sweet Home, Edge Street. Pretty, homely family friendly wee eatery place. The staff were superb and the food was so tasty mmmm, you should try their club salad, I'm slavering just thinking about it! Actually it would be great with a hangover...
we'll jeezo, it's been so long since I've popped up a wee blog entry! At Ding Dong quarters we've been busy beavering away designing some new stuff and making a start on a new website (and about time too!).
You can also find us in a new shop in Edinburgh called Rosita Craft Boutique. You can find this really cute shop at10 Barclay Terrace just off Bruntsfield Links. They opened at the end of April and sell lots of really nice gifts for all sorts.
Talking of Edinburgh, watched a animated film which is set in the city called The Illustionist. It has some really stunning animation of the city. If you enjoy this then check out an earlier work by the same studio called Belleville Rendez-vous.
Thought I'd leave you with this animation I found a few months ago by Ryan Woodward. The guy is super talented and this animation is simply beautiful...
Can't believe it's the end of term and the last show until September! So I thought I would have a total indulgance and just play tunes I love. But watch this space over summer as I'll be putting up the odd little mix here and there.
Tunes of The Unexpected Week 14 – Total Indulgance
Earth wind and fire – in the stone (1979 LP I Am)
Prince – I wanna be your lover (1979 first big single)
Various productions – In this
Audiowhore – It's good but it's not right
The phenomanal handclap band – 15 to 20
Bjork – Verandi
Marie Knight and the Sam Price Trio – A travellers Tune
Test Icicles – What's your damage (Alan Braxe and Fred Falke mix) (2006)
The Normal – Warm Leatherette (1979 – grace jones covered)
Michael Jackson – PYT
Primal Scream – Come together (The hypnotoneBrainMachine mix) (1990)
Quincy – Bruce Lee
Roxy Music – Hula hula
Frank Wilson – Do I love you (indeed I do)
Harold Melvin – The Love I lost (Dimitri from Paris mix)
Auch come away in, grab yourself a nice wee drink, take your coat off and make yourself at home. I'll go and stick some tunes on.... This weeks tracklisting
Tunes of The Unexpected House Party!
Justice - Tthhee Ppaarrttyy
Fred Wesley – House Party
Lisa Left eye lopez – Block party
Happy Monday – 24 hour party people
Michael Jackson – Working day and night
Monie Love – Grandpa's Party
Inner city – Big fun (magic Juan mix)
Paperclip people – Floor
Orbital - Nothing Left
Sterling Void – It's alright
The beloved – Sun Rising
Future Sound Of London - Papa New Guinea
Tune in next week for the last show before summer!!!!!
it's our second last show until the autumn, eek! so thoguht I'd make some music confessions and play some guilty pleasures. It ended up being 80'stastic, well thats what you get from a child of the 80's!
Tunes of The Unexpected – Guilty Pleasures
Alphabeat – Fascination
Wham! - Wham rap
Flashdance – she's a maniac
Glenn Frey – The heat is on
Steely Dan – Peg
Shakin Stevens – This ole house
Go West – We close our eyes
Will Power – Kissing with confidence
Van McCoy – The Hustle
Roachford – Cuddly Toy
VIP – Special request
KLF – Last Train to transcentral
Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakley – Together in electric dreams
Oh for the love of funk! thinking we all need a pick-me-up from time to time, what better way than good ole funk workout! ooohhh! so here was this weeks tracklisting...
James Brown – Get up offa that thang
Betty Davis – F.U.N.K
Paul Jackson – Quack, Quack, Quack
Zapp – More bounce to the ounce
Funkadelic - If you got funk you've got style
The Sisters Love – Give me your love
Ohio Players – Fire
The Masters – Part time
Parliament - Testify
Tom Tom Club – Genius of love
Reginald Milton & The Soul Jets - Clap your hands
RMD band – Butter that popcorn
Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)
Chairmen of the board – Finders Keepers
Heaven 17 - B E F – Groove Thang
you listen to my show at www.radiocaley.com on wednesday mornings at 10am or even on your iphone!
So only 3 shows left of this term booo. If you have any requests please do get in touch at our facebook page for the show (search Tunes of the Unexpected), while you're on there why not join our Ding Dong Designs facebook page too!
Tunes of the unexpected Week 10 – Freak of the week
Happy days theme
New order - Blue Monday
DJ Shadow - Six Days
Stevie Wonder – Tuesday Heartbreak
Les 10 Jours Fous (10 days of Madness) – Ettienne De Crecy
Velvet Underground & nico - Sunday Morning
Josephine Foster – Who will feel bitter at the end of the day
After having a wee rumage around my records I thought I'd put together a wee mix of a few wee favs! If you have any requests for future weeks just go to our facebook page - Tunes of the Unexpected and drop us a line :-)
Tunes of the unexpected Week 9 – Pink 'n' Mix part deux
The Super Sounds of Bosworth - Drama in space
Jackson and his computer band – Headache
John Miles – Slow Down (1976 Decca)
Shitdisco – Reactor party (2006)
Millie – My boy lollipop (1964)
Bob B Soxx and the Blue Jeans - Why do lovers break each others hearts (1963)
