I just grabbed a copy of Audio Antihero 's great new (and massive) charity compilation . It features 36 tracks, including Me And The Horse I Rode In On's brilliant Fredricton , a brand new Benjamin Shaw track , this lovely Thirty Pounds of Bone track and 33 other tunes. And all proceeds go to help raise money for The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths . Jaimie is calling it a double album… but I think it would more accurate to call it a triple (if not quadruple) album. Swing by [...]
Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr - Blueback Hotrod Free mp3 downloads: zip file (right click - save as) The more I read about Johny Lamb from Thirty Pounds of Bone before this session, the more nervous I became. The internet seemed to be full of all sorts of tales of him being reclusive, antisocial and very, very hard on interviewers. Now, the press can be a little unreliable at the best of times, and [...]
Having stowed out Bar Bloc last month for the first ever Barmellodie gig, the awesome Al from Armellodie Records returns to the scene of the crime tonight to do it all again. This time round he's roped in two of my favourite bands on his label, The Scottish Enlightenment and 30lbs of bone, plus a wee band called Randolph's Leap who you might have heard of. It all kicks off about 10-ish, with Al and my partner in crime, Halina from Glasgow Podcart spinning tunes right through until the wee hours of the morning. Not only do you [...]
It might seem a bit of an odd choice for me to be choosing Thirty Pounds of Bone, aka multi-instrumentalist, Johny Lamb, as one of my tips for 2011. For one, his latest album, 'Method' came out last year, plus he doesn't sound particularly Scottish, but ever since Al from Armellodie sent his album over [...]
Genre: Folk, Sea Shanties Label: Armellodie Records I found myself playing this album again and again, so I decide to post it, even if it's not free. TPoB is Johny Lamb from Britain, playing folk music that lives on the sea and not in the woods. So you will find lot of elegiac accordeon tunes as well as banjo and the feel of living near the sea, with salty damp air and the fishy smell from the hab... -- [ This is the summary, read [...]
Photo by Stephen Burch It might seem a bit of an odd choice for me to be choosing 30lbs of Bones, aka multi-instrumentalist, Johny Lamb, as one of my tips for 2011. For one his latest album, 'Method' came out last year, plus he doesn't sound particularly Scottish, but ever since Al from Armellodie sent his album over to me a few months back it's slowly worked it's magic on me. It's the kind of album that will undoubtedly grow in popularity as word of mouth [...]
I spent this week's podcast - well the post anyway, not the podcast itself - apologising for taking a bit too long this year to crank my brain into action in 2011, but it looks like the Edinburgh gig machine is having much the same problem. There's a battle of the bands type thing at Maggie's Chambers on Saturday 15th, but that's really all I could find. Bands playing at this include Supermarionation , Steel Rose , Fireproof Match , Deco Arcade and Augustalia . If you're in Glasgow there [...]
This is 'alternative folk music' clearly enough, if you want to call it something, but there are times when just for atmosphere that sounds like very much the wrong term to describe this album. There's actually an air of early nineties indie to it at times, although that's possibly in the vocal, possibly in the [...]
Welcome to the start of this year's Song, by Toad Festive Fifty, where I list, in order, my favourite fifty songs of the year. As with the albums of the year, I have had to exclude Song, by Toad Records bands from this list. Partly this is to stop me inevitably wounding the pride of whichever bands fared less well than their label mates, and partly to stop the label collectively dominating this list too much. I don't think the concept of objectivity is possible, or even all that relevant, when it comes to discussing what music you [...]
16. Cotton Jones - Tall Hours in the Glowstream This album may peter out slightly, but there is something I find utterly compelling about the first two thirds of it. The sound has a wonderfully naive and pretty core, with a shimmering, enigmatic veneer and for some reason this has consistently fascinated me since I first heard it. In many ways it's just a lovely, dreamy pop album, but the way it's been put together is bloody ace. Cotton Jones - Sail of the Silver Morning [...]
In the new year Song, by Toad will be putting on more live shows. In many ways this is in reaction to our friends Bart and Euan seeming to drop out of regular promotion, and the closure of far too many good venues in Edinburgh over the latter half of 2010. So, after Euan spoke so consistently well of Colvin at the Wee Red Bar, I have had a word, and we have booked Saturday nights in January and February for Toad nights. I think I am going to call them the Ides of Toad, simply because I [...]
On the drive back from Glasgow yesterday, after the second of Yusuf Azak's three album launch gigs, the snow started absolutely horsing it down, to the extent that all the traffic slowed to a sensible single file at about thirty miles an hour, and all you could see was little red tail-lights in the white. It was, if I am being entirely honest, pretty cool. Although of course that's easy to say when you're no more than twenty miles from home and in no actual danger. Anyway, this morning it's all turned icy outside and Mrs. [...]
Thirty Pounds Of Bone I want to start this post by apologising to Phil at Elba Sessions, for almost a year he's been raving about Thirty Pounds Of Bone, did I pay any attention to him, did I bollocks. Along comes Al from Armellodie and suddenly I find myself raving about him. Phil you were right all along and I'm sorry. If you fancy finding out what he was getting all excited about then you're in luck as you can download his song Crack Shandy in the Harbour taken from his forthcoming album Method, for free here [...]
This is 'alternative folk music' clearly enough, if you want to call it something, but there are times when just for atmosphere that sounds like very much the wrong term to describe this album. There's actually an air of early nineties indie to it at times, although that's possibly in the vocal, possibly in the actual song structures themselves. The style and emphasis of Johny Lamb's voice add to that impression as well as just the timbre of it, but don't ask me to pin it down any better than that though, because I don't think I could. [...]
Would you care to introduce yourself? Peenko when you call me, you can call me Al. Super Adventure Club - My Other Brain (from the album Avoid Zombies out now) What inspired you to start your own label? Vonda [...]
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