Toadcast #34 – The Portland Podcast
This is the podcast to accompany all the Portland and Pickathon things I’ve been slowly but surely writing up over the course of the last couple of weeks. With all the video to edit it may take a while to get it all sorted, but just follow this Pickathon search and you’ll find it all. My full review of the festival is here.
This is a musical journey through our trip, from the Shaky Hands and The Builders & the Butchers who got us out there, to Eef Barzelay who we saw in Portland, several bands from the Pickathon Festival and even a song from Ray Rude’s Gameboy pop outfit Operation Mission.
It’s rather shorter than usual, but that is part of a new strategy: shorter podcasts more often. I am going to try and go for once a week, and make them a maximum of an hour long. I can’t promise anything, but I am going to try, and I think this might be a better approach for all of us, frankly.
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Toadcast #34 – The Portland Podcast
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01. The Shaky Hands – A New Parade (2.20)
02. The Builders & the Butchers – When It Rains (08.47)
03. Eef Barzelay – Numerology (12.21)
04. Operation Mission – Aqueous (19.30)
05. Lackthereof – Choir Practise (23.22)
06. Langhorne Slim – Restless (31.20)
07. Bombadil – Cavalier’s Har Hum (40.47)
08. Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers – Beloved, We Have Expired (43.26)
09. Oz St. Fossils – Jeweller’s Daughter (53.54)
10. Loch Lomond – Tic (59.49)
11. The Cave Singers – Cold Eye (66.34)
you don’t know The Violent Femmes? Fucking hell. You need to burn your indie collection NOW. All that Blur has warped your aural radar.
Mate, I got no music at all from my peers until I moved to the UK in 1993. The most I got was a cousin who would post me a mix tape from time to time, so my broader musical awareness, beyond my Dad’s Dylan and the Band and Waits and so on, only started at age 17.
I came across this on You Tube, one of the famous Black Cab Sessions with Langhorne Slim and Johnny Flynn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8QnOroDyNQ
Pretty good stuff I reckon, for a cab.
Nice one. I was thinking of doing collaborative Toad Sessions in future, should it be an option. Might be hard to organise, but what do you reckon?
errrm, whats “uncollaborative” about the current ones exactly? Hmmm?
I don’t see YOU playing any banjos.
I made sure I remembered to plug in my iPod last night to charge it up and download this to listen to on the bus this morning.
I forgot to make sure I remembered to pick up my iPod this morning before I left.
Cock.
I did remember my lunch though, leftovers of an Indian rice pilaf thing I made last night. Very nice.
But, still… The Violent Femmes? Blister In The Sun? No? Ubiquitous punk folk that has soundtracked countless indie films (not to mention Grosse Point Blank)? All since 1993, m’lad…