Comments on: Toadcast #18 – The Homecast http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/toadcast-18-the-homecast/ Independent music from Edinburgh, Scotland - with added gin and swearing. Wed, 23 May 2012 14:07:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Matt/Howlie http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2132 Matt/Howlie Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:38:11 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/13/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2132 Thank you so much for playing our music alongside such great bands, and thank you for your kind words and super-cooled podcast. We are getting ready to go out to L.A. at the end of this month and record an album with legendary producer/mad-genius Kim Fowley. If we survive, we'll make sure to get a copy of our first full length to you. It will be out in late summer-early fall. Hoping this comment finds you and all yours doing well, Matt/Howlie Thank you so much for playing our music alongside such great bands, and thank you for your kind words and super-cooled podcast.
We are getting ready to go out to L.A. at the end of this month and record an album with legendary producer/mad-genius Kim Fowley. If we survive, we’ll make sure to get a copy of our first full length to you. It will be out in late summer-early fall.

Hoping this comment finds you and all yours doing well,
Matt/Howlie

]]> By: brendan http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2134 brendan Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:31:10 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/13/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2134 Did the first one. Hope you check it out some time. http://therisingstorm.net/rock/podcast Did the first one. Hope you check it out some time. http://therisingstorm.net/rock/podcast

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2131 Matthew Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:20:50 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/13/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2131 Brendan thanks very much. My computer's been on the blink for so long now I am absolutely itching to do my next. Hopefully this weekend - fingers crossed. Let me know when you do yours too, as I really like the Rising Storm Mixtapes. Brendan thanks very much. My computer’s been on the blink for so long now I am absolutely itching to do my next. Hopefully this weekend – fingers crossed. Let me know when you do yours too, as I really like the Rising Storm Mixtapes.

]]> By: brendan http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2130 brendan Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:03:48 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/13/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2130 you've got a fine voice. and i'm sure you've heard it before but the drawings are fantastic. planning on doing a podcast and this is my first stop in research. kudos friend. you’ve got a fine voice. and i’m sure you’ve heard it before but the drawings are fantastic. planning on doing a podcast and this is my first stop in research. kudos friend.

]]> By: Jamila Fucking Dance http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2133 Jamila Fucking Dance Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:51:25 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/13/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2133 uni in London then i'm just back in Manchester for holidays. uni in London then i’m just back in Manchester for holidays.

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2136 Matthew Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:37:05 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/13/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2136 At uni in Manchester, is that right? Well next time I come down to visit my Granddad you can point me in the way of some fine underground gig. At uni in Manchester, is that right? Well next time I come down to visit my Granddad you can point me in the way of some fine underground gig.

]]> By: Jamila Fucking Dance http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2135 Jamila Fucking Dance Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:33:14 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/13/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2135 still at uni! and will be until i drink myself away. still at uni! and will be until i drink myself away.

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2137 Matthew Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:30:58 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/13/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2137 I had no idea the spelling had been made official as well. Jesus wept. It's weird, even when writing about Donny Hue & the Colors, who are an American band, I find it nigh on impossible to refrain from spelling Colours the English way, which is just stupid. That's not their name, Colors is. But I can barely force myself to write Colors, just like I can barely force myself to call a song Aluminum Baseball Bat out loud. I had no idea the spelling had been made official as well. Jesus wept. It’s weird, even when writing about Donny Hue & the Colors, who are an American band, I find it nigh on impossible to refrain from spelling Colours the English way, which is just stupid. That’s not their name, Colors is. But I can barely force myself to write Colors, just like I can barely force myself to call a song Aluminum Baseball Bat out loud.

]]> By: Campfires & Battlefields http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2138 Campfires & Battlefields Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:39:22 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/13/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2138 Well, I've gone through this bad boy twice now. Yesterday and then again on the train this morning (only got through the first half or so but I'll listen to the second half on the way home). It's got to be one of your best. Flashguns are superb, as are Howlies. I'll have you know, by the by, that the Howlies' pronunciation AND spelling of AluminUM (rather than aluminium) has been formally approved by means of a 1993 resolution of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC, the "Periodic Table of the Elements" People). They've also approved the North American Cesium (the Canadians do it too) as an acceptable alternative to the British Caesium. So put that in your pipe and smoke it! This whole US versus rest of the world bit reminds me of the classic Simpsons episode where the family travels to Australia and finds that the American embassy has installed this huge machine that causes the water to flush down the toilet counterclockwise, "the correct American way." Akron/Family is really quite good. "Love Is Simple" was uneven, but with incredibly high points. For example, "There's So Many Colors" has a tremendous refrain with a top-notch guitar bit that's very evocative of mid-70s Crazy Horse. Love that tune. The Forms' tune is great. I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the nod for Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, and sorry for the recent absences. Can't wait to see (and hear) your year-end lists. I'm a sucker for those things. Well, I’ve gone through this bad boy twice now. Yesterday and then again on the train this morning (only got through the first half or so but I’ll listen to the second half on the way home). It’s got to be one of your best.

Flashguns are superb, as are Howlies. I’ll have you know, by the by, that the Howlies’ pronunciation AND spelling of AluminUM (rather than aluminium) has been formally approved by means of a 1993 resolution of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC, the “Periodic Table of the Elements” People). They’ve also approved the North American Cesium (the Canadians do it too) as an acceptable alternative to the British Caesium. So put that in your pipe and smoke it!

This whole US versus rest of the world bit reminds me of the classic Simpsons episode where the family travels to Australia and finds that the American embassy has installed this huge machine that causes the water to flush down the toilet counterclockwise, “the correct American way.”

Akron/Family is really quite good. “Love Is Simple” was uneven, but with incredibly high points. For example, “There’s So Many Colors” has a tremendous refrain with a top-notch guitar bit that’s very evocative of mid-70s Crazy Horse. Love that tune.

The Forms’ tune is great. I’ll have to check that out. Thanks for the nod for Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, and sorry for the recent absences. Can’t wait to see (and hear) your year-end lists. I’m a sucker for those things.

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2139 Matthew Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:30:43 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2007/12/13/toadcast-18-the-homecast/#comment-2139 Thanks such a lot for the positive comments. Funnily enough, as well as ruining it all by posting Best of 2007 lists, I actually have a Christmas song to write about as well. It's a bit bloody depressing, but a great, great song, so I think it really has to go up. Thanks such a lot for the positive comments. Funnily enough, as well as ruining it all by posting Best of 2007 lists, I actually have a Christmas song to write about as well. It’s a bit bloody depressing, but a great, great song, so I think it really has to go up.

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