After writing about the SAY Award, I thought I might well do a podcast about it, given there are more than enough ace bands and ace records on that list, last year's list and I assume next year's list to make a couple of podcasts. I play a couple of shocking, scandalous omissions from this and last year's long- and shortlists, and stamp my little foot about them. I play a couple of tracks from bands who I reckon should be in with a very strong shout of making next year's shortlist. And I play a random tune [...]
Leith is the place I moved when I first came to Edinburgh in 2005, so it's always been my favourite part of the city. I love where we are now of course, but it's a bit posh, and I prefer a place to be a bit scruffier and rough round the edges. Leith is a brilliant combination of the two, in my opinion, and I still kinda wish we lived down there, even though I don't really want to leave our current house. Well, not after what we've just had to spend repairing the roof, that's for fucking sure. [...]
With the second of the Haddow Fest Presents drawing near and The 1004's will be taking the stage in Edinburgh's Electric Circus. The 1004's have recently released a new single 'Throes' to much critical acclaim (this blogger included) and it's addition to their live set for the 24th May will be most welcome. They're joined on stage by Dumb [...]
La définition écossaise du mot "acoustique" diffère sensiblement de la nôtre. On leur avait pourtant expliqué bien en amont le concept d’une Soirée de Poche, mais ils sont arrivés avec des guitares électriques et des amplis, et la ferme intention de les utiliser. On leur a demandé maintes fois de baisser le volume, pendant le soundcheck puis lors de la soirée, mais rien n’y a fait. C’était peine perdue de toutes façons : la voix de Neil Pennycook est suffisamment puissante pour couvrir tous les larsens et toutes les percussions du monde. Alors, on l’a laissé chanter fort, lui, [...]
By Danielle Gibson April 30, 2013 The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) has just announced the long list of twenty albums in the run for the 2013 Scottish Album of the Year Award. These albums represent a variety of genres and musical styles representing the large amount of musical talent in Scotland. Submissions were received by 100 specially invited nominators from Scotland and the rest of the UK music industry as well as elsewhere in the arts and media. Now a four week promotion of the [...]
Well, I don't know how many of you were there, but didn't the Meursault Liquid Room show go well on Friday! The place was rammed, gin was consumed in some quantities and even the hangover the next day wasn't all that bad. The sun was out, and it's that glorious time in Edinburgh when the weather is starting to improve, the sun is out and the tourists haven't really turned up yet in any great numbers. Nothing against tourists, of course, just their absence does make the place rather pleasingly peaceful. There are some interesting things happening in [...]
The Scottish Album of the Year Award longlist has been announced, and there happens to be a little Song, by Toad Records interest this year, as Meursault have been nominated for Something For the Weakened . Now, of course, from my point of view they are the one and only justifiable winner of this award and if it goes to anyone else it will be a fix/swizz/further evidence of the Glasgow-centric, incestuous cliqueyness of the Scottish music industry (delete as appropriate). I would also like to make it clear now that if it [...]
So, Record Store Day is over, the subsequent hangover dispatched, a tedious day of sitting around waiting to find out about jury service has been put to bed. I've been out to Bathgate in order to be fucking terrible at football, returned to Edinburgh to watch United claim their 20th title, and now here I sit at my computer wondering what the rest of the week holds for me. Boundless excitement, I am pretty sure. Actually, after last week's Beer vs. Records (bored of that yet?) and the forthcoming Sparrow and the Workshop album launch shows, there is still a [...]
Chariot from SomeLoveMusic on 8tracks Radio . Tracklist: Rooster - Doron Diamond Family Tree - Evening Hymns A Lifetime in Heat - The Guggenheim Grotto Leviathan - God's Little Eskimo Boyfriend - Chelsea Wolfe Cabin In The Burn - Evening Hymns USA - Yellow Ostrich Thumb - Meursault
Having toured Europe extensively in the last few years, it's not all that frequent that Meursault get the chance to charge around the UK for a bit. In May they have some really good dates coming up though, including Manchester, Brighton and London. I can be woefully disorganised about this kind of thing, so I thought I'd give you plenty of notice this time. The band will have a new single available by that time as well, and these gigs will be your first chance to get your hands on it, just in case you needed [...]
As we all dream of sunnier days and festival time approaches here's some news from the Haddow Fest team of a new monthly club night in Edinburgh called Haddow Fest Presents and preceding the announcement of Haddow Fest 2013. [...]
Yes, it's that time of year again, the time when we shower you with bounteous goodness from the vaults of Toad, in the form of our annual label sampler. It is free to download from Bandcamp , with the slight proviso that you sign up to our mailing list, from which you can unsubscribe instantly at any time you choose, if I happen to bore you to tears with my constant entreaties to buy our records. Which I won't, of course, our newsletters are fucking awesome. On this edition of the sampler we are taking the opportunity [...]
Our pal Seb Reynolds has done a remix of Dearly Distracted by Meursault, which he is selling from his Bandcamp page to raise money for charity. Please give generously, people! All proceeds from this download will be donated to Helen and Douglas House . Helen House opened in 1982 as the world's first children's hospice. Douglas House opened in 2004 as the world's first hospice specifically for young adults aged 16-35. Dearly Distracted is of course from Meursault's third album Something For the Weakened , which we [...]
The Plumbcast is so named because we are currently having an awful time with plumbers. My flat in Leith has a leak into the flat below and we've had three different fucking plumbers out to look at the thing and they just can't find anything wrong. Couple that with a general lack of desire to take on a difficult job - and after all why would you when there are far easier jobs out there for good money - and we are having a godawful fucking time with the plumbers of Edinburgh and the moment. Anyhow, domestic frustrations [...]
So, apart from complaining about the snow is there much going on this week? The answer, I think, is not all that much so I thought I might take the opportunity to plug our next BAD FUN gig at Henry's. There are, however, a couple of things going on in which you might be interested, so let's get that dealt with first, shall we. Neu Reekie are hosting a rather interesting-looking Burns Night thing at Summerhall , but it's sold out so umm... well, tough tits really, if you don't have tickets yet. Something you [...]
Welcome to 2013, Toadcast listeners. As is tradition around these parts, we start the year with a podcast of songs we will be releasing this year on Song, by Toad Records, combined with a few we have released quite recently. There are a few things I didn't put on here, because it seemed a shame to spill the beans too early - we have a new Rob St. John single coming soon, as well as a new album by The Leg and that collaborative album between Jill from Sparrow and the Workshop, Neil and Pete from Meursault, Rory [...]
Well well well, the voting for the song of the year was indeed done by a rather hometown audience, with the new Meursault album dominating, and only one song in the top five coming from outside our own wee corner of the Scottish music scene. The votes were genuinely all over the place as well. The Walkmen deserve some sympathy for having loads of songs in the voting, but not enough going to one specific one to register on the leader board, and it was the same for a lot of stuff, as votes didn't seem to really [...]
Sorry, there's no glitzy results show, no D-list celebs presenting an award, or even a logo. We'll a least try and get through this without Emeli Sandé turning up though. Votes were cast, I applied the same formula I've always used to them, got a headache, and wondered again why I don't use a formula that requires less counting, but now, here, a wee bit late (now there's a surprise) are the results of the Readers' Poll for 2012. Voting was anonymous, which led to some hilarious bitchy answers, some of [...]
Sorry, there's no glitzy results show, no D-list celebs presenting an award, or even a logo. We'll a least try and get through this without Emeli Sandé turning up though. Votes were cast, I applied the same formula I've always used to them, got a headache, and wondered again why I don't use a formula that requires less counting, but now, here, a wee bit late (now there's a surprise) are the results of the Readers' Poll for 2012. Voting was anonymous, which led to some hilarious bitchy answers, some of [...]
Winter is the coldest, most melancholy of seasons but also one of the most beautiful times of the year. On Winter (Or What We Mistake For December) Vol. 2, I've tried to reflect those dual feelings. Click here to download this mix in its entirety . 01. Twin Shadow - Golden Light 02. Frightened Rabbit - Boxing Night 03. Laura Marling - Goodbye England (Covered In Snow) 04. Stars - The North [...]
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