Nature is booming and animals happily multiplying. June is about vivacity and colourfulness of life.
June is about the beginning of astronomical summer, summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and midsummer night celebration.
William Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Lysander, Act I
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.
Oberon, Act II
Are you sure
That we are awake? It seems to me
That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think
The duke was here, and bid us follow him?
Demetrius, Act IV
Spoken word
William Shakespeare: Midsummer Dream (Shakespeare Globe)
Music
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince: Summertime
Lana Del Rey: Summer Bummer
Gorillaz: O Green World
Florence + The Machine: June
Jamiroquai: Seven Days In Sunny June
KOOP feat. Yukimi Nagano: Summer Sun
Curtis Mayfield: Summer Hot
Bibio: Don’t Summarise My Summer Eyes
Frank Sinatra: Summer Wind
Sheila Landis: Summertime
Sam Cooke: Summertime
Blossom Dearie: Once Upon a Summertime
Community radio midnight show Through the Bohemian Looking Glass is aired every night at midnight (GMT). A new episode is aired every Friday midnight on Wirral Wave radio or AirTime. Later on SoundCloud for some time.
Suggestions, opinions and comments welcomed at veronika(at)wirralwave(dot)co(dot)uk.
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