Digging with Flo

Not only are we off the plot today, we aren’t really gardening either. In this special edition of Digging, Flo is spending time with Penny Rimbaud in his garden. Penny is a founding member of the anarcho-punk band Crass and performance group EXIT, as well as a poet, writer and philosopher. In this episode Penny gives Flo a tour of the garden and ‘sheds’ at Dial House, the radical open house he established in the 1960s. They discuss...

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 ...

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 o...

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 ope...

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, w...

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,  Edit...

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 Chri...

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 o...

This week on plot Flo is joined by Turner Prize winning artist and non-gardener, Mark Leckey. They chat about nostalgia, living in Las Vegas and how Mark got noticed in the art world all whilst doing Flo’s favourite task..  potato planting.

Check out Mark Leckey's show on NTS. 

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Presenter - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Editor - Sam Stone, So...

This week on the plot, Flo gets some help with ground prep from the much loved London musician, Novelist. As they work they discuss his musical upbringing, his new life in Ghana, and Nov’s childhood memories of gardening at his Nan’s house.  

Presenter - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Editor - Sam Stone, Sound Recording & Mastering - Felix Stock, special thanks to Dimitris Mylonas.

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichok...