Every couple of weeks I sit down with a couple of gins and talk you through the new music that's caught my ears in the last fortnight. There'll be a few classics and a few mainstream bands but the focus will always be on the new, the emerging, the eclectic and the interesting.
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Toadcast #302 - The Palecast
Well as you can probably tell from the graphics and indeed also the title, this is going to just be one long plug for our August antics at the Pale Imitation Festival this year.
But, as you will hear me rattling on about, I suppose the label and the gigs are essentially the same as the blog really aren't they, in that it's basically just me having a massive tantrum that the entire world doesn't completely agree with me about music. So in that sense plugging label releases and our live shows on here isn't me compromising the integrity of the site, is it, it's just an extension of the original purpose of the site in the first place isn't it? ISN'T IT?
I hope so, anyway.
In any case, for those of you outside Edinburgh you can't actually attend this festival but that won't really matter because basically this is just a podcast full of absolutely fantastic Scottish bands, so for a change I am being Mr. Scotland tonight, although as you will hear, I'm not all that gracious about it!
01. Adam Stafford - Vanishing Tanks (00.22)
02. Le Thug - Paints (08.40)
03. Andrew R. Burns - Stinking Ship (16.19)
04. Sharptooth - Bonnie Blaze (19.22)
05. alansmithee - Snooze (26.07)
06. Deathcats - Danny Dyer (29.47)
07. Ian Humberstone - Ocean Paths to Palace (37.57)
08. LAW - Lilo (44.45)
09. Rick Redbeard - Dreams of the Trees (47.30)
10. Kitchen Cynics - When Father Hanged the Children (57.22)
11. Halfrican - I'm in L.U.V. (1.05.55)
12. PAWS - War Cry (1.07.04)