Sending you postcards from…

We thought we would whisk you away for an hour to other cities and countries so this weeks theme is called

Sending you postcards from…

1. Daft Punk – Around the world
2. Beatles - Kansas City
3. Doors – Hello to the cities
4. Door – L’America
5. St Etienne – Only Love will break your heart
6. D’Angelo - Africa

Artist of the week – Beruit  (The Flying Cup club 2006)

7. Nantes
8. Cherbourg

9. Craig Armstrong – Glasgow
10. Julie London – Yummy yummy yummy
11. Grimes – Devon
12. Kate Bush – Brazil
13. Light of the world – London Town
14. Orbital - Belfast

Next week it's all about the anti-valentines!! go to our facebook page - and get your requests and stories in...

We're back on air!!

After a break over December, Tunes of The Unexpected is back!! We're on Wednesday at 10am, weekly at the moment on www.radiocaley.com, where you can also download the iphone app! We have a facebook page if you want to share a great tune or want to leave a comment or just join in. On our show we like to play tunes hopefully you won't have heard before with a sprinkling of some old favs.

As usual we have different themes each week, we started off with 'Body Parts' then had a little 'Pick 'n' Mix'. Here are the tracklistings of the last 2 weeks...

Body Parts 

1. Beastie Boys - Shake your rump 
2. The Dells - Wear it on your face 
3. Chew Lips - Slick 
4. Nneka - Heartbeat 
5. Fever Ray - If I had a heart 
6. 
   The Middle East - Blood  

Artist of the week – Clark  (Body Riddle) 

7. Clark - Night  Knuckles 
8. Clark - Vengence Drools

9. The Smiths - Hand in Glove 

10. Jayne Mansfield - Suey 

11. Yoko Ono - Walking on thin ice 

12. Architecture & the Helsinkinis - Heart it races 

13. Margo Thunder - Expressway to your heart 

14. Human League - Human 

Pick ‘n’ Mix

1. 
   
   Simple Minds – I Travel
2. Stereolab – Neon Beanbag 
3. Dome – rolling upon my day
4. Cut Copy – where I’m going 
5. Sufjan Stevens – too much

Artist of the week – Painted Palms  (from EP Canopy) download free here

6. Painted Palms – All of us 
7. Painted Palms – Canopy

8. The Four Tops – Still Water Love 
9. Of Oceans – In love, Not Limbo 
10. Walls – Burnt Sienna 
11. Toro Y Moi – New Beat
12. Chairlift – Bruises

phewee, has it been that long?

Oh dear can't believe it was November last time I was on here! It's been a busy, cold, long winter but so glad to see the first signs of spring are popping and bursting out in the garden. Thankfully we'll soon have a carpet of colour outdoors.

I took this photo one chilly but lovely walk up East Kilbride in December, it was taken on my phone so excuse the quality. Don't think East Kilbride has looked so pretty!

Here is a photo, also taken on just my phone, of Freda Ding Dong in the supermarlet carpark with a little mound of snow!

and a lovely santa hat my friend Alecia made me for Christmas, so cosy and warm!!

On the Ding Dong front we were included in the super cute magazine 'Little Thing' in December, even my niece got in on the pic! We're the pictures at the bottom left of the page (puppets and stall). Unfortunately we haven't been able to get our hands on a copy as yet...  

Here at Ding Dong headquarters we decided not to make any new years resolutions but to promise lots of new puppets, badges and all going well, a new website!!

Just a quickie today, so signing off!

Santas a coming...

Santa & Rudolph finger puppets

As it's getting near christmas shopping time we've popped on a few new things on to our site and to celebrate we're giving FREE WORLDWIDE POSTAGE to orders over £10 until Saturday 4th December!

Great for stocking fillers or something a bit different. Check out our new Santa & Rudolph finger puppets...

Get them www.dingdongdesigns.com!

Through the woods...

As i had a wee wander through Chatelherault Park (somewhere you'll find us very often) I thought this weeks show would be about a trip through the trees, all things tree and wood related...

Tunes of the unexpected

Artist of the week - Radiohead

Through the woods

1. Timber - Coldcut

2. In the trees -Faze Action

3. A Forest - The Cure

4. A wood tree - Ivor Cutler

5, Knock on Wood - Eddie Floyd

6. Wild Wood (Portishead mix) - Paul Weller

7. The Trees - Max Richter

Artist of the week

8. Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead (The Bends)

9. Treefingers - Radiohead (Kid A)

10. Ragged Wood - Fleet foxes

11. Jonathon and the Oak Tree - Jeremy Warmsley

12. Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

13. The Trees - pulp
14. Stem/Long stem - DJ Shadow

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country shopping...

If your out near Lesmahagow way in Lanarkshire, you should pop into the Woodhead Studios for a nice gift or two! Lucy is selling beautiful landscape pictures taken by herslef as well as hand-made gifts including Ding Dong Designs! yay!

The studios are situated just behind Boghead on the way to Strathaven. For details click here.

Shiver me timbers...

Another week rolls in, boy it's a chilly one. So to warm your cockles here is this week's playlist of our radio show...

Tunes of the unexpected Week 3 – Cover versions

1. Express Yourself  - Leroy Sibbles (N.W.A. 1988
2. We can work it out – Stevie Wonder  [Grammy nomination 1972] (The Beatles – double a-side with daytripper)
3. Black Steel – Tricky (Public Enemy  - Black steel in the hour of chaos)
4. Enjoy the silence – Tori Amos (Depeche Mode)
5. At last I am free – Robert Wyatt (Chic)



Artist of the week - Nine Inch Nails

6. Be thankful for what you’ve got – Massive attack (William DeVaughn)

Artist of the week Nine Inch Nails

7. Hurt - Johnny Cash (Nine Inch Nails)
8. Gotta get closer Maxwell – (nine inch nails)

9. A minha menina – The Bees (Os Mutantes – Portuguese 1968)
10.  Me and my shadow – Mrs Mills (1927 Whispering Jack Smith)
11. Unbeliveable – The Big Ghana band (EMF)
12.  Mah Na Mah na – The muppets (Piero Umiliani) 
13.  Le Soleil de ma vie (you are the sunshine of my life) – Bridget Bardot & Sacha Distel (Stevie Wonder)
14.  Superstar - Sonic Youth (the Carpenters)
15. Respect – Norma Fraser (Otis Redding and then Aretha Franklin)