Christ I am turning into a dickhead. Euan and Bart, who you may all know from their frequent contributions to the comments section here at Song, by Toad, are both friends of mine and have both been treated shamefully by my good (good - ha!) self in recent weeks. I have forgotten to mention both [...]
Wednesday, 14 May, 2008
Categories: Edinburgh Live Listings, Personal Rambling . Tags: kays lavelle, second hand marching band . Author: Matthew . Comments: 14 Comments
If you thought The Last Shadow Puppets were a bit swingin’ camp-O-rama for me, try this lot. This is an album from the year I got to spend in Holland as part of my Master’s degree. I met a couple of really good blokes while I was there, Andy from Middlesbrough and Andreas from Sweden, [...]
Wednesday, 14 May, 2008
Categories: Album Reviews, Personal Rambling . Tags: weeping willows . Author: Matthew . Comments: 8 Comments
Despite the fact that Akismet has unilaterally decided to filter all DC’s comments to the spam dump, we are nevertheless looking forward to the next Waiting Room here at Toad Hall.
Mrs. Toad and I featured a truly hilarious Gourds cover of Snoop Dogg’s Gin & Juice when we participated in the recent Drunk Covers show. [...]
Wednesday, 14 May, 2008
Categories: General . Tags: waiting room, gourds . Author: Matthew . Comments: 4 Comments
What a brilliant burst of cod-spy thriller soundtrack lounge croon bombastic orchestrated melodramatic bedlam this is. The Arctic Monkeys last album was something of a damp squib really, although it contained a little bit of quite decent material, but it seemed like a band who just made an album without really thinking about why.
Listening to [...]
Wednesday, 14 May, 2008
Categories: Album Reviews . Tags: arctic monkeys, last shadow puppets . Author: Matthew . Comments: 7 Comments