Support the Lifeboats This Saturday
This Saturday Mrs. Toad is in charge of collecting for the lifeboats in Stockbridge, and any help we can get with the collection would be hugely appreciated. We will repay you all with beer and food throughout the afternoon, so it should be sociable and plenty of fun, but an hour or so of your time would be much appreciated.
The RNLI is a charitable body and hence rely entirely on public donations. This is a fucking scandalous tax dodge by the government, if you ask me, but that doesn’t change the fact that the support of the public is absolutely crucial to what they do. A lot of the readers of this site were up in Anstruther recently, which has a lifeboat station of its own, and was once home to a considerable fishing fleet. Pittenweem appears to be more of a working harbour than Anstruther these days, but in general those communities who hosted us have given their fair share and it might be nice if we respected their commitment by showing a little willing of our own, as a way of repaying their hospitality.
The first collections will go out at about ten in the morning, no-one need do more than an hour, and whilst we are starting with tea and cakes we will finish up with scran and bevvies in the evening, and quite possibly some antisocially loud music at night time. So if you can possibly help and fancy coming round, please get in touch. Giving a few quid would also be a big help, but actually participating and helping out is much harder to do where charity is concerned, so we’d really appreciate it if you could come round and lend a hand.
The Divine Comedy – A Seafood Song
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And, erm, I hope it’s not too tasteless, but this is the obvious song to choose:
British Sea Power – Fear of Drowning
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What about REM – Nightswimming
BTW i’ll be along to help, that is if we not walking around Fife…..
Standing in the sun (hopefully) in Stockbridge, actually.
Broughty Ferry, where i’m from, has a lifeboat station as well. they do a great job and most of them drink in our old local. deserve all the support they can get. will be along if i can.
My Dad was a on the lifeboat crew in Fishguard in West Wales.
It’s pretty amazing what they do. They crew a top of the line Trent-class lifeboat, equipped with state-of-the-art technology, with only two full-time crew – the cox and the mechanic. The rest of the crew are all volunteers with full-time jobs elsewhere.
I’ll be there on Saturday. I feel a photo opportunity coming on!
Sure, I’m up for that!
ed
Back to the soundtrack, how about Fisherman’s Blues?
Not forgetting The Restless Waves or Deep Waters from Ocean Songs by Dirty Three, although pretty much any titles that album would do!
I feel a Toadcast coming on!
Alright, we have a deal. Anyone who comes along to help can pick a song for the accompanying Toadcast, and then introduce it with me. We’ll publish at the end of the day.
How’s that for a plan?
(I may need an mp3 of your chosen song, so bring one along if you can.)
Strictly nautical-themed tracks for the Toadcast?
Shouldn’t be too hard to think of something..
Oh, and thanks Ed, Tom and Dylan for volunteering. Good lads – we will do our best to make it worth your while.
And they all fell into the sea
Whiskeytown – Luxury Liner (Ryan Adams does Gram Parsons…rocking)
‘In the Navy’ by the Village People.
Are you coming to help, Bart?
If so that gets onto the playlist.
where’s my thanks?? cock.
only joking.
How about Don’t Pay The Ferryman by Chris De Burgh.
Or that song from Titanic that that funny looking old bint warbles her way through?..
I’m going for Willy Mason – If The Ocean Gets Rough
I’m not sure that I can devote a whole day to it, but I’ll try and call by at some point.
Anything by Billy Ocean.
Wait til the lads from The Stormy Seas get wind of this.
nice lads?
JESUS CHRIST!!!
This seems like a lovely nautical event, I’ll try to swing by but have promised my services elsewhere so I’m not sure for how long.
I’ve got a fucking boxset of “Felix and the Fleemonger” he’s this three fingered accordanist who plays beautiful sea shanties.
How about lowering the tone with Frigging In The Rigging by the Sex Pistols…
I just to Google for ‘Titanic song’ because I couldn’t remember the name of the minging tart who sang it.
Celine fucking Dion.
I think I must have put a mental block on it like some traumatic childhood memory.
She’s got a face like a Routemaster bus.
Kris Drever – Braw Sailin On The Sea.
James Yorkston – Sir Patrick Spense
Ute Lemper – Little Water Song
Waterboys – this is the sea
hate to say it and i’ve never heard it but:
snow patrol – lifeboats……
in fact there are loads of fucking Waterboys songs about the sea
I think I’ve got the theme from Jaws on a CD somewhere.
I’m Always Here by Jimi Jamison.
The Irish Rover by The Pogues?
Nah, too obvious.
Ocean Colour Scene – The Riverboat Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utkMQJeiK50
Sloop John B. by The Beach Boys?
Nah, too obvious.
the theme from Portland Bill.
Waterloo by Abba?
Lighthouse Family – Oceandrive
Ooh! Ooh!
Good serious one..
Shipbuilding by Elvis Costello..
Rod Stewart – We are Sailing
I think I’ve gone to far.
Sorry.
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the aeroplane over the sea,
Arab Strap – The Long Sea,
Dreams by the Sea – John Martin
i would really like to help actually. is it something you can just turn up and pitch in at any part or do we have to be there all day?
No, just swing by whenever you fancy. You can shake the tin for an hour – more if you’re up for it – swing by the house, have tea and cake (or beer if you fancy), record your intro bit and then bugger off.
Matthew, you could even bring your little Tascam fella out onto the street and record random punters’ suggestions as they drop money into the tins!
Having to work on saturday – but will try and pop over during my lunch hour to pop something in my tin and say hello – good cause indeed.
fuck the public’s choices Dylan….
im just doing it for the cake.
There will be no public’s choices. Anyone who can pop along for an hour or so to help get tea, cake and the chance to introduce their song on the podcast, should they so choose. That is all.
There will be beer also. I will need one, it seems.
(In other words, well said, Chutters.)
is this happening on the main street of stockbridge? is there going to be nautically themed dress going on?
Yes it is, and no there fucking isn’t. There’s just going to be a bunch of scruffy indie kids shaking tins at people as they walk past.
super.
should i bring roddy to try and get money from people who are a sucker for a baby?
Yes, please do. I’ve never met the wee bastard either, so that would also be nice. It would be heartwarming to be confident that he isn’t going to grow up to be like his Dad.
British Sea Power – Fear Of Drowning
Echo and the Bunnymen – Rescue
Robert Wyatt – Shipbuilding
Madonna -Rescue Me
Erasure -Ship Of Fools
Julian Cope -Not Raving But Drowning
Brian Eno -The Big Ship
Jim O’Rourke -Ghost Ship In A Storm
The Cure -the Drowning Man
La’s -Liberty Ship
Charlatans -Here Comes a Soul Saver
Patti Smith Group -Citizen Ship
Abba -S.O.S
The Doors -the Crystal Ship
Aaliyah -Rock The Boat
Orbital -Waving Not Drowning
k.d.lang -Save Me
Palace -Ohio River Boat Song
Galaxie 500 – Tugboat
Jimmy Cliff -Many Rivers To Cross
I could go on and on…there’s a Morrissey one that migth seem in bad taste, though…
Now, you see, I’m not sure that songs about rivers, lakes, ponds etc. should really be allowed; as, technically, search and rescue operations on the UK’s inland waterways fall under the remit of regional police forces, and not the RNLI.
We really should try and maintain a little bit of focus here, folks!
O.K. so no Palace…the rest could count, though.
Wonder what the likelihood of Matthew allowing Madonna or Erasure on a podcast is, though ; ) …
Madonna has been on at least once. Erasure could well have been, because I like some of their stuff, but I’m not sure if I’ve played them yet.
Another one that’s been mentioned that definitely wouldn’t count is Ocean Drive by The Lighthouse Family. That’s because Ocean Drive would be the name of a street, on the land, and surely the authorities there would be the local traffic police or possibly parking attendants.
Oh, and it’s shite.
who died and made you the boss Dylan ha ha
There have to be rules, Tom. For without rules there is no order, and where there is no order, there is anarchy.
And you wouldn’t want that, would you?
to be pedantic, i think you’re misusing the term anarchy.
God, I hate it when people get pedantic.
Lighthouses, however, Dylan, are indeed very relevant so that Lighthouse Family song would qualify under the relevance rule.
Its major stumbling block, as you suggest, would be the ‘no songs on my podcast which make me want to puncture my eardrums with knitting needles, stamp on cute fluffy kittens and kick a few kids in the head just to make them cry’ rule.
heh heh! Glad Madonna and erasure would be okay. I keep thinking of Waterboys songs, then realise that it’s at risk of getting over-egged, so I might go with ‘the Drowning Man’ by The Cure, unless that was felt to be inappropriate.
Could I come for the early bit nearer ten? Ed
It’s alright Dylan, both of my suggestions were pretty facetious and poorly thought out.
I’m only kidding Tim.
I can’t criticise anyone for poorly thought out comments on here!
Although let’s not put Lighthouse Family on there..
Ed – no worries at all. The first people will go out at about ten or so, do an hour (more if you can be arsed/fancy it) and then hand over to the others.
Tim – I disagree with Dylan. He embodies the sort of sober thoughtfulness and general profundity of utterance which makes this website a haven for the internet’s intellectuals and the true home of insightful debate.
Except when he’s being a fucking smart-arse, that is.
How about Dignity by Deacon Blue?
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