Toadcast #62 – The Pictish Trail Toad Session
This Toad Session has been a wee while coming, but frankly I think it’s fucking superb. The videos have turned out wonderfully, Neil and Gav have done an amazing job with the sound, Fee and Dylan have taken some great photos. I’m happy as a pig in shit, quite frankly. Johnny Lynch (Mr. Pictish Trail) had plenty of time to kill, so we drank some beer, took our time and talked a monumental amount of shite. The podcast is really strong this time around, I think. We talk a lot but I think it’s pretty decent stuff for the most part, not random blather, so I really think it should be an enjoyable listen. Hopefully, anyway.
Johnny picked really nice songs, too. He’s recorded a couple of unreleased ones, and a Lone Pigeon cover, as well as his Top of the Pops hit single Winter Home Disco. It makes for a really nice mix. As per usual the songs are all available for downloading, hotlinking and sharing around, the videos can be watched below, on our YouTube (yeuch) page or our Vimeo page, and the photos are all to be seen as a slideshow here or on the general Song, by Toad Flickr page here. Go to Blueback Hotrod for more of Dylan’s live music photography. And enjoy the podcast – it can be played below, and the tracklisting is at the bottom of the page. I’m really proud of this, people, so I hope you enjoy it.
Toadcast #62 – The Pictish Trail Toad Session
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The Pictish Trail – Winter Home Disco (Toad Session)
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The Pictish Trail – I Will Pour it Down (Toad Session)
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The Pictish Trail – You Covered the Earth With Your Thumb (Toad Session)
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The Pictish Trail – Won’t You Take Me Back (Lone Pigeon Cover) (Toad Session)
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And now the videos, starting with the overall session video, and then the ones we made for the individual songs:
01. The Pictish Trail – Winter Home Disco (06.04)
02. Bonnie Prince Billy – Today I Started Celebrating Again (17.33)
03. Adam Beattie – Bank Street (22.12)
04. The Pictish Trail – I Will Pour It Down (34.37)
05. Judson Claiborne – Song For Dreaming (38.30)
06. Amadou & Mariam – Sabali (43.35)
07. Why? – The Song of the Sad Assassin (48.51)
08. The Pictish Trail – You Covered the Earth With Your Thumb (62.31)
09. Preston School of Industry – Walk of a Gurl (69.03)
10. The Pictish Trail – Won’t You Take Me Back (Lone Pigeon Cover) (76.42)
Thanks folks, hope you enjoyed that.
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oh i can’t wait
Superb, quality stuff Matthew! Thanks!
Cheers Merz, thanks. It’s been a heck of a lot of work, but I am really, really pleased with the results.
Yeah these are great Matthew. Good work by Neil too, the recordings sound really good.
thanks tim.
this really is quite quite special..well done folks
Really really good.
(sorry, couldn’t resist it)
The bit where the lettuce is taken out of the fridge to make room for beer really is a classic bit of documentary film-making.
Wow, great session! Love the Judson Claiborne track, too. You are awesome, Mr. Toad.
This is brilliant, cheers guys.
Also, Matthew seems to be holding a gregs and a beer. You know how to live.
That’s very true, Dav, Matthew’s hot his hands on a beer, a pie, and two compliant and subservient young men, so he’s very pleased with himself.
Although; add some baby oil, gardening equipment and skimpy lycra swimwear, and that’s pretty much just a normal night in for him.
very nice indeed….cheers
Curses for not being able to listen to these at work! Looking forward to a gander, particularly the LP cover – not heard Pictish do that before. Thank you in advance, Mr Toad (I will of course come back and reprimand you in the unlikely event that these are shite).
You know what this needs, Matthew? A link back to the Friday Five we helped you pick at the end of the session, when you were rushing to head off to London.
Just to bring everything full circle.
I know this might be a silly comment to make but I listened to every one of the 1200+ songs on the SXSW torrent and out of that I picked about 20 highlights. I Don’t Know Where To Begin was one of them. You’ve outdone yourself again Matt.
1200+ songs……..really?
well done PT and T of TH
Woah . . . I think Pictish Trail is my favourite artist. This is brilliant. And he can play when he’s drunk. I need to learn how to do that.
lovely, lovely, truly lovely…..thank you very much for all the hard work and for sharing
p x
greetings from america!
this was a lot of fun to do. these vids look great. even my humungous jowel looks good.
i love u, baby.
j x
truly great – quite possibly the best! – posting by the veritable toad. please try to get KC on next!
jesus!!! what a fat wee out of tune idiot!! KCs little lap dog, both without any talent whatsoever. Does KC have such a pile of shit on his label to make him sound better?
No, he has them on his label because they’re very good. Any more questions?