Digging with Flo – Détails, épisodes et analyse

This is the last episode of Digging for a while, and we’re celebrating with the queen of vegetables… potatoes! Flo is joined by CMAT for her favourite job on the allotment. CMAT is a fast rising singer songwriter from Ireland who has been tirelessly touring Europe and North America with her incredible live show for years now. She’s just been nominated for the Mercury Prize, adding that to her list along with Ivor Novello and Brit nominations. 

The irony of having the only Irish guest of the season harvest potatoes is not lost on CMAT, who considered her superior harvest some form of reparation. In this episode she and Flo talk about pretty much everything, but highlights include CMAT’s refreshing love of fame, growing beans in Red Stripe tins and the art of songwriting - all whilst they dig up those unfortunate potatoes. 

Presenter - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Editing - Chantal Adams, Sound Recording & Mix Mastering - Sophie Ellison

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & Captured Tracks.

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Flo’s joined today by the godfather of Memphis rap, DJ Spanish Fly. Fly is celebrated for his influential role in the early sound of Southern hip-hop, and known for his lo fi, distortion heavy musical style. In this conversation with Flo he recalls his childhood in the church, his arrival in Memphis as a country boy from rural Illinois and his role in the development of bucking, a dance style which emerged from his DJ sets at Club No Name in the late 80s and 90s. It was at these daily DJ sets at Club no Name that DJ Spanish Fly pioneered the Memphis sound, which is, in Flo’s words, spooky. The pair discuss the surprising merits of this spooky sound as they plant out cucumbers on the allotment.  

Presenter - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Editing - Omar Serge, Sound Recording - Connor Gani, Sound Design and Mix Mastering - Sophie Ellison

A video version of this episode is also available on YouTube

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & Captured Tracks.

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We’re back on the plot today with Slauson Malone 1, formerly Slauson Malone, also known as Jasper Marsalis. Jasper is a painter, sculptor and musician who currently lives in Los Angeles. His work in music feels like a form of collage; of narratives, sounds and references.

In this episode Flo and Jasper are appealing to Jasper’s perfectionist qualities and planting out garlic. They discuss the music that Jasper is currently fake listening to; his respect and fear of cooking and appreciation of dumb but useful items, like the dibber - which is well used in this episode. 

Jasper is currently reading Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant, listening to Abdul Wadud, By Myself; and watching Winter adé as well as Fast X.  

Presenter & editor - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Sound Recording - Fabrice Robinson, Audio production - Felix Stock. Special thanks to Dimitris Mylonas.

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & Captured Tracks.

Listen back to Jasper's shows and guest spots on NTS

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Today Flo’s off the plot and into the garden of English musician Tirzah. One of the most enduring exponents of weird and wonderful music, Tirzah has released a string of acclaimed albums, and works in close collaboration with other musicians, namely school friend Mica Levi. 

In this episode Flo and Tirzah are planting onion seeds and broad beans into seed trays to be grown inside, until they’re ready to be planted out on the allotment. Whilst they set about this task they discuss the delicate business of karaoke, the musical impact of exiting Jehovah’s Witnesses, motherhood, and the art of collaboration. 

Discover more of Tirzah on NTS

Presenter & editor - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Sound Recording - Sophie Ellison,  Audio production - Felix Stock. 

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & Captured Tracks.

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Today’s guest digger is rising UK rapper Sainté: originally from Leicester, this charismatic artist is an accidental musician: forced to rethink his promising basketball career due to the pandemic, he uploaded a song born out of a freestyle on the bus on the way to practice, and the internet did the rest. 

In this episode Flo and Sainté plant out raspberry canes as they discuss Sainté’s career so far, his aspirations of opening his own cafe, and early memories of growing the wrong kind of peas at his mum’s allotment.

Presenter & editor - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Sound Recording - Sophie Ellison, Audio production - Felix Stock. Special thanks to Dimitris Mylonas.

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & Captured Tracks.

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Flo is back on the allotment for another season of Digging. In this first episode, she’s joined by English contemporary artist Jeremy Deller. The Turner Prize winner often weaves music and pop culture into his art, which tends to be politically focused and collaborative in nature. 

In this episode of Digging, Deller and Flo attempt to bridge the gaps between Take That, William Morris and the lost magic of the jumble sale, whilst planting out strawberries to overwinter on the plot. 

Presenter & editor - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Sound Recording - Jennifer Walton, Audio production - Felix Stock. Special thanks to Dimitris Mylonas. 

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & Captured Tracks.

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This week Flo is joined by old friend and DJ OK Williams to help harvest potatoes on the plot. As they work in the blazing sunshine they reflect on Londoner OKW’s recent ascent in clubland, how she got into DJing, macho club culture, and her past role producing Andrew Weatherall’s influential NTS show.

Check out OK Williams’ monthly NTS show

Presenter - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Sound Recording - Jennifer Walton,  Editor - Sam Stone, Mastering - Owen Pratt, special thanks to Dimitris Mylonas.

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & Captured Tracks.

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Flo is off the plot again today, this time at the veg patch of Cosey Fanni Tutti. Cosey is an artist, musician, and writer. She was a co-founder of COUM transmissions and later went on to form industrial music group, Throbbing Gristle. Both groups were highly censored and at one point they were accused by the mainstream press of being ‘wreckers of civilisation’ for their shocking and confrontational work. Cosey went on to form Chris and Cosey, and later Carter Tutti Void with her bandmate and partner, Chris Carter. 

In this episode Cosey talks Flo through her DIY approach to gardening, her recent work scoring the Delia Derbyshire film, and their mutual love of the Rosemary Tonks book, The Bloater. Later in the podcast they discuss Cosey’s choice of music to strip to, all whilst they sow carrot seeds and plant out onion sets.

Check out Cosey Fanni Tutti's shows on NTS

Presenter - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Sound Recording - Jennifer Walton,  Editor - Sam Stone, Mastering - Rory Bowens.

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & Captured Tracks.

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Flo is off the plot today and doing some container gardening on Brix Smith’s roof garden. Brix started out at the liberal arts college Bennington, alongside Donna Tartt and Bret Easton Ellis, before going on to join seminal British post-punk band The Fall. She was also married to Mark E Smith. Today she fronts her own band, Brix Smith - a “kind of all-female supergroup”. 

Between her time in bands, she was the fabulous co-host on Gok’s Fashion Fix. Flo and Brix discuss how Brix’s acute synesthesia marries up the seemingly disparate worlds of 1970s British post-punk and the mainstream 00s TV fashion competition, whilst they pot up some tomatoes and peas.

Presenter - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Sound Recording & Editor - Sam Stone, Mastering - Felix Stock. 

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & Captured Tracks.

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