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 #12 - The End of the Roadcast
My what a splendid festival. You’ve read what I had to say about the thing (overview, day one, day two & day three), now here’s the ‘downloadable in one easy to digest chunk’ version, with more tunes.
I had a splendid time at this, I really did. The line-up was spectacularly good and, despite being not much more than a well-executed variant on the standard festival format, I would highly recommend it to those of you sick of the exercise in cattle-herding and aggressively intrusive marketing that the modern festival has become.
Anyhow, I’ve gone through the festival in chronological order, playing songs from artists in the order in which I attended them over the weekend. Hopefully I give you a decent overview of the festival itself as well as a taster of the quality of the lineup, from the indie legends to the connoisseur’s selection of emerging acts that made this such a quality bill. No ranting in this one either, or at least, very little. What a relief for you all.
Toadcast #12 - The End of the Roadcast
1. Midlake - Young Bride (02.08)
2. Yo La Tengo - By the Time it Gets Dark (07.43)
3. My Brightest Diamond - Dragonfly (14.17)
4. King Creosote - You’ve No Clue Do You (23.19)
5. Monkey Swallows the Universe - Sheffield Shanty (28.29)
6. David Thomas Broughton - Unmarked Grave (34.56)
7. British Sea Power - Remember Me (46.11)
8. Port O’Brien - Five & Dime (51.39)
9. The Young Republic - Excuses to See You (56.14)
10. The Wave Pictures - Long Island (63.28)
11. Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit - Tickle Me Pink (70.44)
12. Paris Motel - My Demeter (77.20)
13. Charlie Parr - Worried Blues (80.53)
14. Howe Gelb - Get to Leave (88.34)
15. Lambchop - Up With People (95.35)
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