Toadcast #88 – The Manchester Podcast
Right, given we’ve come down to Manchester for the Meursault gig, I thought I might make a podcast based around the two years I spent living here. As I mentioned on this week’s Friday Five, however, those were really not very happy times so basically this podcast is just a great big hour-long whinge about how shit my life was a couple of times a few years ago.
Nah, not really. I mean, I do describe why life was tough then but it really isn’t just a great big moan, I promise. For some reason the music in my life at those times seems to have really stuck in my head and become incredibly strongly associated with the period in question. Partly, I suppose, because the emotional succour you get from music when things are a bit rough is something you’re grateful enough for for it to really form an important connection.
The other aspect is that on both those occasions I had so little music with me that the stuff I did have got played over and over again, so a really small amount of stuff really dominated my listening habits at that point, and became incredibly strongly intertwined with all of my memories of the time. So, er, yes. Here you go: The Manchester Podcast.
Toadcast #88 – The Manchester Podcast
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01. Pearl Jam – Dissident (03.16)
02. The Newcranes – Box of Shadows (08.53)
03. James – Say Something (17.17)
04. The Lemonheads – Into Your Arms (20.30)
05. Blur – Clover Over Dover (27.00)
06. Yo La Tengo – On Our Way to Fall (39.47)
07. Moby – Southside (41.31)
08. Calexico – Removed (48.10)
09. Jolene – Constantinople (51.46)
10. The Magnetic Fields – Yeah! Oh, Yeah! (57.57)
Tutrn your fucking phone off, you pill!
Honestly, it sounds dead simple but it isn’t. I have pressed the off button on this fucking thing until I am blue in the face, but the bastard won’t turn off. Eventually I threw the bastard thing into the next room.
Take the battery out you FOOL
It’s an iPhone. They don’t let you do that. And honestly, the off button just doesn’t work.
thanks matthew for pointing me in the general direction of micah p hinson – have spent many happy hours with the gospel of progress already – a classic the magnetic fields song there btw (would be great to see performed live) – the cover of tmf’s ‘deep sea diving boots’ by melbourne band the lucksmiths is a good one to check out – cheers from west oz
deep sea diving suit – not boots it seems
the off button does work numpty…hold it down for about 3 secs then a message comes up of the screen saying confirming you want to turn it off
fucking simples!
I know exactly what to do, Chutters, I am telling you that it simply does not work. I can hold that damn thing down for ten minutes and the message has simply ceased to appear. I have successfully turned the phone off in the past.
Cheers zenm – will check out the Lucksmiths.
they are skittery wee buggers those iphones. try shutting it down by holding home button and off button at same time for about 10 secs and then turn it on again and see if the off button works after that…..if not, nae luck!
Paulene, you’re a genius, thank you.
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