
This is the second of today's introductions to other projects by people in Song, by Toad Records bands. Nightjar's The Moth Tra p, Toad Records' first full release, was the work primarily of Andy McKay of the now sadly deceased Celebrity Chimp, and an Edinburgh gentleman by the name of Jack Richold. Nightjar itself was just a one-off project, but Jack of course has continued to work on his own things since Andy moved to London. One such project is The Sea is Salt, which is a partnership between Jack and a young lady called Faith, whose [...]

This is not so much the holiday podcast as the pre-holiday podcast because, for all we are away now, I recorded this on Thursday night before going away, as we prepared ourselves for the unspeakable burden of doing absolutely fuck all for two weeks. I am taking a pile of books and a pile of new music and we are going to do pretty much nothing at all. My parents used to do really adventurous travelling when we were young, but honestly I don't have the energy. I am so incredibly fucking exhausted from constant Toadery that actually, [...]

Part 1: 1-10 Part 2: 11-23 Part 3: 24-36 Part 4: 37-50 Now, I know I played nicey-nicey with the previous parts of this list, and it is certainly true to say that there is barely any real difference between places fourteen and twenty-eight, but at the business end I think that some of it is a bit more definite. Certainly, having thought it over, I think that Now You Are Pregnant is my favourite song of the year. How or why it edges out the superb Wonderful Life [...]

Part 1: 1-10 Part 2: 11-23 Part 3: 24-36 Part 4: 37-50 Now, I know I played nicey-nicey with the previous parts of this list, and it is certainly true to say that there is barely any real difference between places fourteen and twenty-eight, but at the business end I think that some of it is a bit more definite. Certainly, having thought it over, I think that Now You Are Pregnant is my favourite song of the year. How or why it edges out the superb Wonderful Life [...]

Christ on a bike, after nothing at all last week, all of a sudden things are going bananas this week. You could pretty much be at a good show every night if you wanted. I'm not going to write much in this intro because, frankly, there are so many gigs to bloody write about that the post would run on far too long otherwise. Suffice to say that Friday's party was, from my perspective, a massive success. The open mic bit at the beginning was not an idea many people were overly convinced by, but I think pretty [...]
Well we know that Andy - one half of the Nightjar songwriting team - is currently banjo-bothering in London's finest satirical drums and banjo combo Celebrity Chimp, but what of The Other One? The Other One is a certain Mr. Jack Richold and he was responsible for the more delicate songs on that album. Well I [...]