Track Listing 1. King Creosote – Curtain Craft 2. King Creosote – It Means Nothing 3. King Creosote – Nothing Rings True 4. King Creosote – Coast On By 5. Pictish Trail – You Covered The Earth With Your Thumb 6. Pictish Trail – Going Gone 7. Pictish Trail – Ribbon 8. Pictish Trail – Words Fail Me Now 9. Player Piano – Mercy 10. Player Piano – Anything At All 11. Player Piano – Mad Dog 12. Player Piano - Backwards Invention 13. King Creosote/Player Piano/Pictish Trail - La De Da 14. King Creosote/Player Piano/Pictish Trail - [...]
Track Listing 1. Hey Now Baby (Lone Pigeon/Aliens cover) 2. Afraid not boys n gals - you'll have to wait to hear this one 3. All I Own 4. Sequels 5. I Don't Know Where to Begin 6. It's Not Too Beautiful (Beta Band cover) 7. You Covered the Earth With Your Thumb 8. Winter Home Disco apologies if the track listing is all wrong, I tried my [...]
Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By **Podcast Show Notes and a Mini Post are in the post before this one*** Brooke Waggoner, " Live For The Sounds " Website Myspace Brooke! Watchit!!! King Kong is right behind you ... Iron and Wine, " Belated Promise Ring " Website Myspace [...]
Well, after a bit of a lull last week there's all sorts of crap going on in and around Edinburgh this week, so choose wisely because trying to attend everything could just be the end of you. As well as the usual recommendations there are a couple of half-recommendations this week; gigs I feel I should want to go to, but am actually not that fussed about. Crystal Antlers (I mean, come on, they have Crystal in their name, they have to be good, almost as guaranteed as having Fuck in your name last year, or Bear the [...]
I love Homegame. Have I mentioned that before? For the uninitiated, the Fence Collective 's Homegame Festival is held once a year in the small fishing village of Anstruther in Fife (well, it used to be a fishing village but it seems to be largely touristy now - neighbour Pittenweem seems to be more of a working harbour). A huge pile of Fence Records acts, bolstered by friends and neighbours, get together and play lots of gigs in the town halls, school halls and beer halls of the town, and about six hundred or so lucky punters [...]
This Toad Session has been a wee while coming, but frankly I think it's fucking superb. The videos have turned out wonderfully, Neil and Gav have done an amazing job with the sound, Fee and Dylan have taken some great photos. I'm happy as a pig in shit, quite frankly. Johnny Lynch (Mr. Pictish Trail) had plenty of time to kill, so we drank some beer, took our time and talked a monumental amount of shite. The podcast is really strong this time around, I think. We talk a lot but I think it's pretty decent stuff for the most [...]
Fifteen of the 1,800 acts playing at the SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST music convention/festival/party in Austin, Texas this week are Scottish - and only about half of that lot are decent. So let's dwell on the good stuff. Camera Obscura's new album, My Maudlin Career, is a beauty and could quite possibly be the one that takes the twee Glaswegians out of the underground. Twin Atlantic , [...]
So we will be flying in less than 24 hours to Austin. I have spent much of the last few evenings planning the events and shows that we want to go to, and courtesy of my very good friend Kate H, we will now be attending the Showcasing Scotland afternoon event on the Friday. It is at the British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30, 512 San Jacinto. It features five up and coming Scottish bands including My
Yes, that is the new Toad t-shirt, which can be purchased here , and bears the inspiring and uplifting slogan 'Up yours, Eagletits.' Well there's been some good live music recently, and last night was another excellent Limbo night. All three bands were really good and even though it was a late one, there wasn't an excessive amount of drunkenness, so apart from being rather tired I actually feel pretty reasonable this morning. Quick question for you all, in advance of the Friday Fives - even though it's now woefully late, would you appreciate a live review [...]
Sorry this has been so late coming, but we have spent the day recording the sixth Toad Session with the Pictish Trail. And now I am off to London to see some friends and speak to people about getting Meursault onto some bills down South. We're also going to be talking to Pure Groove and Rough Trade about stocking the record, which should hopefully go alright. So yes, I'm going to be sitting on a train down to London as you read this, leafing through magazines and trying to find people who might be interested in reviewing future [...]
Well here we go. The new year is yet to quite take hold or take off, but I promise you that things will kick back into gear this weekend. There are some fine love shows appearing on the calendar, slowly but surely, and eventually 2009 will get going. No rush though. This Toadcast is a bit of a mix. I've got some of this year's favourites, I look back at some of last year's favourites, and I also poke away at a couple of the bands I hope will make their mark in 2009. In that [...]
6. Barton Carroll - The Lost One I know nothing about Barton Carroll, I wasn't looking forward to this album at all, and then when it landed in my lap I still refused to quite get it for ages; maybe it's because it's stylistically quite unadventurous. The big difference, though, is that absolutely every single song on this album, despite flirting with cliche rather frequently, is compelling. They all have you perking up when they come on in their turn, thinking 'oh good, this song'. Barton Carroll - Those [...]
Here is the official beginning of Christmas List season, here at Song, by Toad. If you want to get involved and write your own list, then please do. Go here for more details. The more of you that contribute to that the better the results we will get, so don't be shy. This is the first quarter of my Festive Fifty for 2008. I will also be preparing a list of my twenty favourite albums, but I might just neglect singles and EPs this time around. If you disagree with anything then do [...]
Part 1: 1-10 Part 2: 11-23 Part 3: 24-36 Part 4: 37-50 Here is the official beginning of Christmas List season, here at Song, by Toad. If you want to get involved and write your own list, then please do. Go here for more details . The more of you that contribute to that the better the results we will get, so don't be shy. This is the first quarter of my Festive Fifty for 2008. [...]
Gak. Too much beer. Once more I stagger into work feeling fuzzy-headed and furry-tongued after a night of beer and song. It's so fucking hard to concentrate on anything when you really just want to curl up on the floor under your desk and catch up on another six hours of sleep. Tonight, however, instead of sleep, there will be podcasting and then a trip to the Withered Hand, Ish Marquez and Stanley Brinks gig at about eleven. And tomorrow we all get up nice and early and spend the whole day putting together [...]
As you can see I have complied with Mrs. Toad's request to stop featuring cutesy Edinburgh pictures on these little posts and put up some pictures of radgy wee neds instead. This is something I think she feels is more representative of a kind of Edinburgh life that tends to be ignored ( for more such pictures, go here, it's hilarious ). I play football regularly in Craigmillar, often against teams from there or alternatively from lovely places like Craigour, Niddrie and other delightful Edinburgh tourist spots. I've actually been threatened with being knifed something like three [...]
I am away, so this is a phantom post which I VERY KINDLY wrote before leaving, just to make sure you all remain up to date during my absence. Wouldn't want you needlessly wasting your money on shit gigs now, would we. I may not be there in person, but fucked if I'm having you degenerate lot misbehave in my absence. There are good gigs out there and if I catch any of you wasting your money on aural effluvium like Newton Faulkner then there will be serious repercussions. Or Kate fucking Nash. Unspeakable. [...]
I bumped into Bart of Eagleowl and Kays Lavelle fame the other day. We were both hanging out in one of the achingly cool vintage vinyl record stores where you tend to find hip cats like us... Okay, it was Tesco's... but anyway, I promised I'd post a reminder about the fabulous Retreat festival Bart's involved in that's coming up this week. The Retreat festival has everything going for it: All the shows take place over a series of nights throughout August, and in one centrally-located venue; St. John's Church hall on the corner [...]
Well well, this is rather good. Johnny Lynch has spent so long slaving away at the Fence Records coalface that it seemed he might keep his own musical endeavours on the backburner forever. Well he's pulled his finger out and spat something out at last, and the results are bloody excellent. This record is [...]
< Day One Day Three > I awoke with a considerable hangover on Saturday, but a bloody great greasy breakfast saw to that. Tattie scones - anyone outside Scotland know them? Magic for mopping up the egg yolk and bacon grease from your plate as you swill the last of your coffee. I did some husbandly things in [...]
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