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 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. And I at one point describe the Book of Ruth as being in the New Testament, which is also wrong. What a muppet.
Toadcast #10 – The Pink Podcast
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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)
Loved your rant about “special” protection.
I live in Virginia in the States. Last year, Republicans in the Virginia General Assembly enacted, by a veto-proof majority, one of the most homophobic and discriminatory laws ever contemplated by the twisted mind of man. This law, which they have the temerity to call “The Marriage Affirmation Act,” not only bans gay marriage and civil unions, but also declares null and void “any contract or other arrangement between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage.” In short, the State has eradicated what few recourses are left to gays and lesbians to protect their families. Wills can be declared invalid, as can any contracts formulated to share assets or medical benefits. Powers of attorney and child welfare/adoption arrangements could become a thing of the past. Henceforth, gays and lesbians in the state of Virginia will exist totally outside any law that might solidify their relationship.
And next Fall, having marginalized the gay community, these same dirty fuckers will undoubtedly campaign to the slack-jawed yokels (the children and grandchildren of other slack-jawed yokels who 50 years ago supported closing the Virginia public schools rather than face the horror of racial integration) by condemning gays and lesbians for their “alternative lifestyles,” conducted outside “the mainstream.”
I thought there was a law in the States preventing any state from declaring a civil union entered into in another state to be invalid? Is there not a high profile case currently ongoing about a lesbian couple who married and had a child in… ahh.. somewhere in New England, and one of the partners, having settled the divorce to allow visitation has suddenly moved to a new state and asked them to declare the marriage null and void. I was under the impression that once the marriage had been sanctified by a state in which it is legal, no-one else has the right to overturn it? Doesn’t help the homosexuals in Virginia, but it should at least protect the ones who move there.
That said, that is the first I’d heard about those laws. Fucking Stone Age, truly. I wish I had some way to make them understand the spirit of utter contempt for their idea of marriage in which my marriage was sanctified. But I am white, middle class and straight so the cunts will never get it. Burn them all.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Fucking Yes!
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