Scarlett Johansson is making an album of Tom Waits covers, as I am sure you are all aware (I am not linking to it - download it illegally by all means, but I will be really pissed off if any of you actually part with any wedge for this garbage). I haven’t really mentioned it [...]
I’m sorry there’s a bit too much plugging going on at the moment and not enough actual music talk. I promise no more plugs for the rest of the week after this, but I thought I might remind you of my second show on Fresh Air, Edinburgh’s student radio station will be on tonight [...]
Bill has very kindly allowed me back on Blogfresh to talk about Modernaire and the whole intellectual property issue. After seeing the enormous length to which that particular discussion unravelled I think Bill was placing enormous confidence in his editing abilities, to be able to get the inevitable rant down to a couple of minutes [...]
[After unfairly raising my expectations with the saucy title, Mrs. Toad has lapsed into something of a furious rant about mobile phones. She walks it the way she talks it too - I can never get the old bat on the bloody phone when I need her. Anyway, she's erm, gone a bit [...]
No, I’m not dead, just insanely busy. We recorded the Alela Diane & Mariee Sioux Toad Session today, and it’s been a pretty bloody hectic weekend, so I am bloody exhausted.
Also, when I requested my slot on Fresh Air, Edinburgh’s student radio station, I looked at a couple of months of my diary and [...]
I realised, when I saw that they were playing in Edinburgh, that I have been relatively quiet on the subject of all things Paris Motel for the last little while. I guess this kind of happens in a field where news, as much as anything, seems to be paramount. When I do take [...]
