Toad on Fresh Air & Meursault Avalanche In-Store
A couple of bits of news for you. Firstly, I know this was mentioned in the comments on Monday, but I thought I’d give it a post of its own: Meursault are playing an in-store gig at Avalanche Records in Edinburgh this Saturday, 7th February. This is really nice for a couple of reasons: firstly, I really like small record shops and, secondly, because Avalanche have sold rather a lot of copies of the album, which is rather nice. It’ll be kicking off around closing time – about 5.30pm or so, and I might just be tempted to bring along a beer or two.
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Secondly, I am back on Fresh Air Radio again tonight. I have a one-and-a-half hour slot starting at 7.30pm, and will be joined by Dylan from Blueback Hotrod. I am looking to invite a different guest who is in one way or another associated with the Edinburgh music scene. Basically, it gets boring nattering away to myself in the studio, so I’d just rather have someone to chat to. It tends to make for a better show anyway, so do listen in from half seven on Thursdays for the next couple of months.
The Twilight Sad – Three Seconds of Dead Air
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Will you be Toadcasting the Fresh Air Radio, can you?
I’m going to Born To Be Wide which starts at 7.30 as well! mmmmmmmm….problem.
Nah, not allowed unfortunately. The Toadcast are probably not entirely legal, and Fresh Air has to stay on the right side of the law.
I would like to be a guest, despite the facts that I now live in Glasgow and have no tangible connection to the city’s music scene. This is my command.
I might bring along a bottle of buckie in a brown paper bag.
You’re Welsh, you can’t drink Buckie. What’s the Welsh equivalent?
Don’t know really. Diamond White?
Well, probably not proper brand-name Diamond White. More likely generic own-brand fizzy white ‘cider’ from Kwik-Save.
Oh I know!
It would be a two litre plastic bottle of ‘Bow!
Definitely White Lightning down South. Yech.
“You’re Welsh, you can’t drink Buckie. What’s the Welsh equivalent?”
to be a pendatic little shite….Dylan has more right to drink Buckie than the Scots!!!
Why is that Tom? i hear the masses say….
it is because that Buckie is made at the Buckfast Abbey in Devon…and thus is closer to the sheep shagging Welsh than the self neglecting Scots.
Cheers
i’ll come on your radio show!!!
Oh great.
is that oh great for me coming on your radio show….or oh great in anticipation of Dylan now being let loose on the good old buckie
You could counter that argument by raising the point that the monks at Buckfast Abbey are of a catholic benedictine order; and, where Scotland has a strong history of Catholicism, Wales is largely methodist and Catholicism is pretty much unheard of there.
So on theological grounds rather than geographical, Scotland should certainly drink more Buckie than Wales.
We are debating the drinking of nationally iconic brands of tramp’s piss on the basis of theological history now, are we?
What do the proddy neds drink in Scotland then?
Well based on ancient cultural divisions, which in turn manifested themselves in religious fault lines which split Scotland for centuries, and caused surprising amounts of internecine violence amongst the clans, splitting many families down the middle, this week they are mostly drinking… WKD Blue.
Can you get that on a T-Shirt?!
Here’s one for you:
If you were to mix WKD Blue with rosé wine, what colour do you think the resulting combination would be?
I’ve tried this and I know the answer.
The fluids or the vomit the following morning. I had an odd and very heavy night on layered Blue Curacao and Bailey’s shots when I was quite young, and the vomit the next morning was really weird-looking.
is it purple
No… not purple.
It goes – wait for it – completely clear.
How weird is that?!
That is very weird.
…any chance of this humble blogger getting to be your guest on Fresh Air? (very cheeky, but you’re no-one in this town until matthew’s sworn at you and told you to fuck off!)
“I’ve tried this and I know the answer.”
That’s that part that I find disturbing.
Ed, more than happy. I’ll send you an email.
Thank you, kind sir!