Toadcast #69 – The Fifecast
My Homegame review is pretty brief, but it is here, and there is a wee video thingy as well for you to enjoy. This is of course the accompanying podcast, with songs either from the bands I saw there, or from EPs and bits and pieces I acquired at the merch table up in Fife.
I should really have included some interviews and shit in this podcast, shouldn’t I, but then I wasn’t actually as well prepared or as organised as I should have been, really. Inasmuch as I kind of think I would prefer my video to have turned out a bit more like Milo’s, I would also have preferred my podcast to turn out a little more like DC’s Homegame show over at the Waiting Room. I’m not saying that I dislike the stuff that I’ve done this year, just that to my eyes it lacks a little bit of fizz and personality, unfortunately. Oh well, it’s all a learning process, and by the time Wickerman comes around I reckon I should be able to produce something a lot better.
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01. The Phantom Band – Island (03.00)
02. The Hand – Happa Yori (15.02)
03. King Creosote – Nothing Rings True (19.52)
04. James Yorkston & Adrian Crowley – Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grieviance (25.42)
05. Jake Flowers – One For the Ditch (30.07)
06. Love.Stop.Repeat – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33.25)
07. Viking Moses – Clown School (39.03)
08. Inspector Tapehead – A Fillet of Banjo (46.14)
09. Animal Magic Tricks – Smallish Hooves (51.26)
10. Jonnie Common – Taken Out (57.16)
What is the point of having minions if not to distribute the workload? Get other people to listen to the stuff for you (possibly a vaguely offensive suggestion, and not very fair to the bands, but hey!)
The Phantom band = very samey, no? [About 8 minutes later they're just annoying as fuck. I'm being a hater today.]
What? Not glued to our computer screens? Do you not know the kind of people that use the internet? o_O <—– (Illustrating the point; yet another internet user who sticks disgusting smileys everywhere.)
I’d never heard of Inspector Tapehead before, but they sound pretty good. BANJO. The banjo is the key.
I also really appreciated the gratuitous swearing. You seriously talk to your cat with that mouth? Small wonder he sounds displeased.
EH?
I don’t have minions, Voldermania. Although there has been talk of having a word with some of the schools nearby and potentially taking a media studies kid on work placement for the Summer.
Not a bad idea I would have thought – they could chip in with the publicity stuff for the label, the video editing and shooting, write a couple of posts a week, stuff like that. It would actually be quite a good placement for someone I would have thought.
And in terms of glue and things, no, I tend to steer clear of the computer over the weekend.
…Yeah, that was a weird comment. I’m going to chalk it up to being completely and utterly mental.
The work experience sounds like a good idea – actually letting the kids do stuff sounds like serious forward thinking. (I remember my own work experience. Very extended lunch hours.) Good on you.