Toadcast #16 – The Birthday Podcast
Morning you ‘orrible lot. My wench is away being important once more. She said to me the other day when she was trying to skive off work due to a hangover: ‘I can’t go into work in a bad state, I handle money.’ Haha, what bollocks. I love it when financial people get all delusional like that, so don’t worry I set her straight. I calmly pointed out to her that if I fucked up my last job someone might have found a small metal implant buried in their spinal column. This means dead or paralysed. She stopped, fortunately.
‘I handle money though.’ Yeah well, I handle my penis and every last little sperm is a potential human life, so don’t gimme that. The frustration’s setting in again, can’t you tell? This podcast has some news and some current things, and then explores the randomiser on my music library, doffing my cap to the recent Contrast Podcast episode which I was too slow to participate in. Gah.
It is also my birthday on Monday, thirty-two since you ask, and we will be down in London to celebrate the occasion with our Southern friends, so there’s a couple of birthday thingies in there too, most screamingly obviously the first track of course. Enjoy Toadlings, enjoy.
Toadcast #16 – The Birthday Podcast
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01. Clem Snide – Happy Birthday (02.18)
02. The Courteeners – Acrylic (08.56)
03. Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong – Sleazy Hughes (12.46)
04. Cloud Atlas – Cigarettes & Apricots (15.54)
05. Arab Strap – There is No Ending (24.04)
06. Malcolm Middleton – The Devil & the Angel (29.32)
07. Down the Tiny Steps – Photosynth (37.29)
08. Eef Barzelay – Make Another Tree (42.19)
09. Loch Lomond – Northern, Knees, Trees & Lights (51.35)
10. The Pogues – Bolero Del Perro Listo (59.23)
11. Crash Test Dummies – Sonnet #3 (The Cold is Here) (66.52)
12. Ben Folds – You’ve Got to Learn to Live With What You Are (68.44)
13. Cold War Kids – Hair Down (81.39)
14. The Hold Steady – The Party Pit (90.22)
15. Tom Waits – Diamonds & Gold (94.11)
16. Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra – Monsieur Le Charmant (100.18)
Happy Birthday from Canada
cheers for the generous shout out Mr. Toad & the correct pronunciation (finally) of Mr Stevens’ name.
Top marks for: Loch Lomand, Tom Waits, Crash Test Dummies (guilty pleasure #436) & Arab Strap.
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re: Clem Snide, I am reliably informed by me ol’ mukka Brendan Fitzpatrick (ex-bassist a la CS) that they were “dissolved” with no discussion following Eef’s move to Nashville & a slight rush to the ego, where he is now plopping about small clubs with a bunch of jobbing back up players.
Eef’s ‘official’ version is that he thought the distance between him & the New York bands made the ‘band’ thing impossible to time manage, plus now he is a father, the cost of touring was greatly reduced if he went on his own & the return, naturally, was greater.
There are no hard feelings from the ex-members, but a slightly pissed off feeling of the now lack of monies coming in for a planned European tour, which quickly became, as circumstances dictated, an Eef solo trek + occasional accompaniment.
There IS an original(well, pre-cull) line up album in the vault (record company/deal wrangle & band cull has it gathering dust for a year), which was recorded in a house with all band members in seperate rooms, upstairs & down, PLUS an Eef B. penned soundtrack to the movie “Rocket Science”.
The last I heard there is also another record in the can which was supposed to be under the moniker Clem Snide, but is now being released as the next Eef B. solo effort. There’s also, according to Eef in interviews recently, an album demoed & ready for studio with members of the Nashville players he’s been strutting out with.
There may well be an avalanche of new material in the next year. Then again, if Eef’s ever present beef with them there recording types continues (money, basically, creative control, etc.) to scupper any deals it all may well be lost for ever/some time or released as a tour only thing at some stage. So, who knows?
Lecture over.
DC
Happy Birthday, for Monday, Mr. Toad.
Ed
oops. Happy Birthday, for Monday, Mr. T. from us at The Waiting Room.
DC
hsppy natal day dear toad. looking forward to yer rantings on the podcast. : )
Happy birthday from a Dutch listener!
Thanks you bunch of softies. I’ve had a wee sniffle to myself at your kindness, sat here at my desk at work.
That’s not at all true actually, but you did better that my bloody family, that’s for sure. Mrs. Toad only remembered it was my birthday at all at about 7pm, so she sent me a congratulatory, erm, text.
Still, we partied quite hard enough on the weekend. It was great fun and I apologise for neglecting you so terribly.
This was one of your more fun Toadcasts. Happy Belated! At least someone’s worse at birthdays than your family.
I am always suspicious of those punctual types anyway China, so don’t worry, this makes me feel much better.
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