Six poems mourning the arrival and celebrating the departure of the monstrous Birmingham Frankfurt Christmas Market.

1 The Awakening Of The Beast

2 Fall Into Christmas

3 An Elf Called Elvis

4 Drunk

5 The New Normas

6. Gales, South Westerly

Credits

Written and performed by Nic Treadwell

Music:

A really dark alley by Loyalty Freak Music is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License.

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Loyalty_Freak_Music/WITCHY_BATTY_SPOOKY_HALLOWEEN_IN_SEPTEMBER_/A_really_dark_alley/

Dark Choral Soundscape_1 by xik6 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License.

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/xik6/this-thought-is-long/dark-choral-soundscape-1/

Lost in the city by TRG Banks is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License.

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/TRG_Banks/Return_to_Dreamland/Lost_in_the_city_1408/

Zenophobic by Salakapakka Sound System is licensed under a Attribution 1.0 Finland License.

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Salakapakka_Sound_System/Buddha_Machines_On_Fire_vol2/02-Zenophobic/

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

https://elevenlabs.io/

Sound FX sourced from Freesound.org

Music sourced from Free Music Archive

https://freemusicarchive.org

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

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Peter_Rudenko/microtonal-piano-study/a-mystical-incantation-31-edo/

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
Facebook 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

https://freesound.org/people/Andrewkn/