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 #10 - The Pink Podcast
The tenth Toadcast is a Pink Podcast, celebrating all things gay in indie music, but trying to steer well clear of any sort of annoying Graham Norton stereotypes. So, in avoiding anything that might have seen this lapse into the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert podcast I enlisted the help of my friend James, who was Mrs. Toad’s best man at our wedding.
As well as being gay, James is a real indie fan so I though he’d be perfect to consult with on the playlist and most of these songs are his choices.It’s surprising actually, just how indie this ended up being.I left off quite a few things I really wanted to play and it’s still the longest ever Toadcast.
Ultimately, I’ve tried to explore the relationship between the gay community and indie music, but needless to say there are times where it descends into slightly angry ranting. Hopefully not too much to allow you to enjoy the music though. It’s also not really ended up being as much of a discussion of gay culture as I’d hoped and that is almost entirely down to my own ignorance. I should probably have got James round to help actually present, but that would have been a right pain the arse logistically, as well as technically in terms of capturing both voices on one shitty little webcam microphone.
On a technical point, there is a bit of an echo on the vocal recording. This is because I we have moved out of our house for a couple of months while builders tear it to pieces and I am having to rather make do in terms of recording location. I’ll try and sort this out by next week. Also, I at one point described the Book of Ruth as being in the New Testament, which is also wrong. What a muppet.
Toadcast #10 - The Pink Podcast
01. Pet Shop Boys - It’s a Sin (01.20)
02. The Mamas & the Papas - Dream a Little Dream of Me (08.35)
03. Bloc Party - This Modern Love (13.55)
04. Rufus Wainwright - The Rebel Prince (18.08)
05. The Radiators - Under Clery’s Clock (24.34)
06. The Magnetic Fields - When My Boy Walks Down the Street (29.15)
07. Donna Summer - I Feel Love (35.28)
08. Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf (41.36)
09. The Ballet - I Hate the War (47.52)
10. Madonna - Ray of Light (51.02)
11. Blur - Girls & Boys (60.00)
12. M.J. Hibbett & the Validators - The Gay Train (67.25)
13. David Bowie - China Girl (71.50)
14. Morrissey - November Spawned a Monster (80.40)
15. R.E.M. - First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin (90.27)
16. Scissor Sisters - Return to Oz (103.20)
17. Elton John - Ballad of a Well-Known Gun (112.12)