Straight out of my head and onto the page - a creation in homage to David Lynch. An audio play which riffs on an antiquated late night televisual memory from childhood. Three preposterous stories of seduction.
Credits:
Sirens Of Suburbia was written, conceived and produced by Nic Treadwell with the assistance of Eleven Labs.io and freesound.org. Signs To Nowhere by Shane Ivers was used with thanks from www.silvermansound.com/free-music/signs-to-nowhere under creative commons licence CC BY 4.0
Read the script on my substack page
https://open.substack.com/pub/nictreadwell/p/sirens-of-suburbia?r=1eh0xb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
In this podcast I explore what was my best childhood Christmas ever. In 1984 I received a ZX Spectrum from father Christmas and my whole world changed forever.
Some 40 years later, with those gaming days firmly behind me I've had the chance to go back and relive those days once again. But this time from the perspective of a world weary member of the human race.
What has changed and what hasn't? What is the advantage for re-engaging in childhood play? And can I even play some of those old games?
Credits
A Child Of The Micro was written by Nic Treadwell
The following 8 bit music was used with thanks:
Land of The 8 Bits & Boss Time by David Renda
https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/policy
Manic Miner Theme by Matthew Smith 1983
ZX Spectrum Chiptune Mixhttps://zxaaa.net/ftpmusic.html
Game Over by Danijel Zambo
https://uppbeat.io/t/danijel-zambo/game-over
License code: EJEKEEJEVJMDUPRU
Chip Mode by Danijel Zambo
https://uppbeat.io/t/danijel-zambo/chip-mode
License code: 1ILTKKIGG6NAWSDL
My thanks also to members of The Spectrum facebook group for their contributions.
Storyville opening sting and outro:
Outre by Ov Moi Omm
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ov-moi-omm/
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ov-moi-omm/single/outre/
Theme X by Steve Combs & Delta IsTheme X bySteve Combs & Delta Is is licensed under aAttribution License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs__Delta_Is/Themes_Vol_1/Delta_Is_-_Themes_Vol_1_-_13_Theme_X/
As a child, Danny Gildhurst didn’t fit in. Coping with the scorn and ridicule of rival Jason Parker and the tragic death of his brother Davy, his memories have become shattered pieces of a puzzle that can not be trusted. As he attempts to fix what is broken he is forced to reexamine his actions, and relationship with both Davy and Jason.
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This porject uses Voice changing technology to add depth to the narration and characters.
Credits
Danny Gildhurst Remembers was written and narrated by Nic Treadwell
Additional voices sourced from Eleven labs
Sound FX sourced from Freesound.org
Music sourced from Free Music Archive
Included music:
Drone Lemon by Blue Dot Sessions
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/The_Bulwark/Drone_Lemon/
Licenced under Attribution Non Commercial
Run by Philip Weigl https://freemusicarchive.org/music/philipp-weigl/piano-and-strings/run-5/
Licenced under Attribution International
A Mystical Incantation by Peter Rudenko
Licenced under Attribution International
Post Drone by Uuriter
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Uuriter/Analog_Fields_1913/10_-_Uuriter_-_Post_Drone/
Licensed under Attribution
To mark the 10th anniversary of Ron Jonson's 2014 documentary about Nic Treadwell's life and death, I am posting it here for your listening pleasure.
"My name is Ron Jonson , I am a jounalist and documentary writer. In this programme I look
back at Treadwell's life & death and dig up a few surprises a long the way."
With Music
from:
Dirty Scavenger -
Drowning
Methyl Ethel -
Rouges
The Batrn Door Slammers -
Snatchin & Grabin'
Mistys Big Adventure - He Never
Felt Anything
Dave Sounds - One Last
Pastie
The Greenbeans - A Happy
Life
The Mae Trio - The Sands of
Time
Public Service Broadcasting
- Inform Educate Entertain
Addtional Material :
The Rooke Report - An Appeal
by Nigel Rooke
The
Homegrown Podcast - Where Is Treadwell
The Melvyn Bragg Petition
Dave Sounds - Tribute "One
Last Pastie"
Nigel Rooke
Facebook
Ron
Jonson Facebook
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Book Of Rememberance
To mark the 10th anniversary of the cult era defining spoof podcast documentary that was created by Ron Jonson for the Homegrown Podcast, which investigated the mysterious disapearance of Nic Treadwell, the host of the Homegrown Podcast after he went missing from social media for a month in Oct 2014, later reported dead in his local Greggs. Ron discovered the horrible truth, that Nic had faked his own death in order to get listeners!
This new documentary then, explores Nic's interest in podcasting from the begining, he talks frankly to Ron about his hopes and dreams and what happend when podcasting took over his life. There are new revelations to discover and a whole new level of insanity.
Original footage from The Life & Death Of Nic Treadwell was used withpermission of Homegrown Podcast - https://homegrown.libsyn.com
Excerpts from The Feed episode 34 from 2014 used with thanks to Elise Escobar & Libsyn
Sound FX were sourced from Freesound.org
Music sourced from Free Music Archive - https://freemusicarchive.org
included:
Feabhas by Rhapsody from Free Music Archive - licensed CC-BY-NC-SAlicensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/rhapsody/single/feabhas
Way To The Light by by Lobo Loco from FMA licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/tree-spirits-meditation/way-to-the-light-id-1636/
The programme was created, realised, and produced by Nic Treadwell Copyright 2024 NT Productions.
This series of 5 short poems explores the theme of solitude and was inspired by periods of isolation at home while my family visited with relatives abroad. The narrator arrives back at the family home alone, a house that was once filled with love and the sounds of a young child is now empty and silent. Over the course of the next few days and weeks his imagination, sense of loss, and inability to deal with simple domesticities collide in a surreal dreamlike silliness that threatens to unhinge his humanity.
To accompany these poems I asked the artist and documentary filmmaker Momentori Madrassi to make a series of arty films which were narrated by Klaus Vankerman (think Werner Herzog). A sparse improvised piano soundtrack was additionally provided by Bernardo Boniffe.
Unfortunately Momentori never completed the fifth film, as he walked out of the project after a blazing argument with me when I suggested the final film should include a sequence where I as buried alive in a coffin full of baked beans!”
Sorry Luv is a radio play created by Nic Treadwell. It is set somewhere in a suburb of the Black Country.
Baz is having a few problems with his "Waterworks", so Jules sends him to the doctors where he gets more than he bargained for.
Sorry Luv "The Qacks" - develeoped, recorded and edited by Nic Treadwell. Copyright 2024 NT Productions
Additional Sound effedts sourced from Freesound.org
Music sourced from Free Music Arhive under creative commons license.
https://freemusicarchive.org
Prelude No 21 by Chris Zabriskie
In Eternity - by Andrwkn
This is an audio version of an article written for my Letter From Storyville substack, in which I review a new book of poetry by the author Whitley Strieber.
A Hidden Garden, the poems of Whitley Strieber, is published by Walker & Collier and is available from most online bookshops.
Further information on Whitley Strieber can be found at Unknowncountry.com.
A fictional poetical testimony based on true life experiences of travelling on overcrowded trains on a daily basis.
Share with your local train provider if they are taking the piss!
In this podcast, I reflect on my encounter with the childhood hip disorder, Perthes, and recount some of the barbaric treatments myslef and my fellow sufferers had to put up with back in the 1970s.
Ultimately, I learn that writing a funny silly peom about the whole sorry episode, in a northern accident, may not bring closure, but does help to place the illness in the context of a wider life of shite.
A personal reflection and tribute to Brendan Higgins who died in January 2024. Big Bren was a writer who was well known around Birmingham for his unforgetable poetical outbursts at events over many many years. He also fronted the avant garde free jazz banf Big Bren's Combo, was a novelist, playwright, actor, facilitator and event organiser.
In this podcast I reflect my friendship with Bren , his creative output and his legacy.
Including poetry, music and more from the man himself.
Further infomration about Brendan can be found @ Big Bren's Facebook Page:
In Oct 1973 the Midwest United States experienced a UFO flap that ignited the imagination of the country. Sightings of strange light, craft and beings flooded the TV and Radio.
One such strange incident happended one rainy night in Zanesville, Ohio. Seventy five year old Eric Gillan (suffering with the late the stages of Alzheimer's disease) woke up in the middle of the night and saw a strange light out of the window of his care home .
What happend next would have a profound effect on him and his son Will.
Written and narrated by Nic Treadwell (C) 2023.
Angelsong - written by Marc Cohn & released Atlantic Records 1991
Help and support for families affected by Alzheimer's
https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/
A one act, one scene play set in a living room of a quiet suburban home in the West Midlands. Jules has been waiting patiently for Baz to return from the pub, where he’s been most of the evening. Their son Ricky is in his room playing on his Xbox. It is around 10pm when Jules hears the front door slam signaling Baz’s return.
Credits:
Sorry Luv, was written, recorded and produced and performed by Nic Treadwell
Additional music sourced from freemusicarchive.org under creative commons license included:
Prelude No 21 by Chris Zabriskie - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/chris-zabriskie/ CC BY 4.0 DEED LICENCE - https://chriszabriskie.com/
Free Day By Denys Kyshchuk https://www.audiocoffee.net
httpsfreemusicarchive.org/music/daynigthmorning/business/free-day/ CC BY NC-ND 4.0 DEED
Additional Original Sound Recordings sourced from Freesound.org
In part Two of this two part podcsst, i explore some of the horror films that made a big impresssion on me during my teenage years - Jaws, The Fog, Poltergeist, The Burning, Alien, An American Werewolf In London and The Omen.
There will be a spcial spotify enhanced version of this podcast feauring soime of the music from the films.
in part one of this two part podcast, I revisit some of the strange and weird kids tv shows I was subjected to as a child.
Shows such as The Pipkins, The Boy From Space, Chocky, Wurzel Gummidge, Public Information Films and Project and Survive.
In part two I will tackle some of the films that terrorised my teenage self.
A review and my experience of reading Liz Berry's new book of poetry, The Home Child. Which is a story in verse, inspired by her great aunt, who, orphaned, was chosen to be emigrated to Canada in 1908 as part of the Home Children project.
More on Liz's work at her website - https://www.lizberrypoetry.co.uk/
The Home Child was published in March 2023 by Chatto & Windus
This article was written by Ron Jonson following an extensive Skype interview in 2021 with the artist, Jacque Stru’del, it first appeared in the Bloxwich Slacker on 9th April 2021. For this podcast, Ron has kindly contributed the original recordings of the interview, records from his own private collection of Stru’del memorabilia, and the voice over narration.
Jacque Stru'del is pop icon from 60's band The Stru'del Brothers. After leaving the Brothers he blazed a solo artist trail, leaving a wake of experimental projects in music and audio. His name is synonymous with disasterous failures, though his contribution to culture is priceless.
This is his story.
This podcast features the narration to Ron Jonson's latest substack article. Which you can find here
https://open.substack.com/pub/nictreadwell/p/the-return-of-a-maverick-cb6?r=1eh0xb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Following an extensive Skype interview in 2021 with the artist, Jacque Stru’del, it first appeared in the Bloxwich Slacker on 2nd April 2021. For this podcast, Ron has kindly contributed the original recordings of the interview, records from his own private collection of Stru’del memorabilia, and the voice over narration.
Jacque Stru'del is pop icon from 60's band The Stru'del Brothers. After leaving the Brothers he blazed a solo artist trail, leaving a wake of experimental projects in music and audio. His name is synonymous with disasterous failures, though his contribution to culture is priceless.
This is his story.