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 #11 - Not Sure What This One's About
There’s no real theme to this week’s podcast, but there’s plenty of splendid new music. Basically I felt so guilty about the crazy rant that the Pink Podcast descended into that I have tried to say as little as possible in this one.
I’m off to the End of the Road Festival this weekend, which is why I recorded an advance post, so you’ll be enjoying this while I’m away getting rained on. The lineup is just phenomenal actually, so it should be really quite a splendid weekend. Tim from the Daily Growl will be there, as will Jamie from the Runout Groove and I believe possibly Sweeping the Nation as well, so it may turn into quite a blog-in. Tragically, however, I will be without my Midget Companion. Mrs. Toad is away in Australia (jammy bitch) with work and doesn’t get back in time to come along, so I will be taking a book and enjoying the pleasure of my own company as best I can.
There was at least one inevitable balls-up though - when describing the Catherine Howe song I said ‘I can’t believe this is current - it sounds so old-fashioned!’ and I have since discovered that in fact it is a 2007 re-release of a 1971 record which may just explain that. In the process I also discovered that I am something of a fucking idiot.
So, End of the Road, and in the meantime, enjoy the podcast - Toad on his very best behaviour!
Toadcast #11 - Not Sure What This One’s About
01. A.A. Bondy - Vice Rag (00.52)
02. White Rabbits - The Plot (03.39)
03. The Courteeners - Cavorting (08.19)
04. Alaska in Winter - Close Your Eyes/We Are Blind (11.46)
05. Beirut - Fork & Knife (La Fete) (18.32)
06. Band of Horses - Is There a Ghost (21.57)
07. Nathan Lawr & the Minotaurs - We Go Down (26.52)
08. David Dondero - Rothko Chapel (30.34)
09. Jackson C. Clarke - Blues Run the Game (38.15)
10. Calexico - All the Pretty Horses (41.45)
11. Catherine Howe - In the Hot Summer (48.53)
12. Little Name - How to Swim & Live (53.31)
13. Emma Pollock - Adrenaline (56.36)
14. George Pringle - Fellini For Prime Minister (63.52)
15. Octoberman - By the Wayside (67.27)
16. The 1900s - When I Say Go (74.54)
17. (The Real) Tuesday Weld - Kix (79.44)