Blueback Toadrod Night at the Bowery
After rather unfortunately having to cancel a fully-blown Toad Night, it looks like Saturday will be replete with quality musical entertainments after all. Ruth, Dylan from Blueback Hotrod and myself have been concocting a really nice evening of musical fun, with four (at least) acoustic sets in the bar, DJing (ie choosing some songs for the stereo, nothing fancy) from some of Edinburgh’s finest music snobs, and a generally convivial atmosphere at the Bowery all round.
Musically we have acoustic sets from two Toad Records bands, one of which is a secret and one of which will be Meursault at about 7pm, on their way through to Glasgow to play at the Arches. We have the recently (and mercifully) renamed Team Turnip making an appearance under his new moniker of Mammoth, and Thomas Western, who has recently moved up here and will I think be making his official Edinburgh debut. His music is gentle and folky, but sounds very promising indeed, so this should be a nice new treat for everyone. Ruth has booked him to play a full set at the Bowery in November, in case anyone was considering a sort of try before you buy approach.
So please come along. It’ll be free entry, and the sets will be relatively short and interspersed throughout the night, so it won’t be like going for a pint in a library where fun and conversation are frowned upon. And the Bowery closes pretty early anyway so if you really want to get shitfaced and shag whoever the hell you’re prepared to make do with at 3am when you’re so drunk you can’t even pick your own nose without poking yourself in the eye then there’ll be plenty of time for that afterwards.
Team Turnip – Wendy House
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I’m not sure I approve of the word “Toadrod”.
I am now going to stop thinking about it.
Team Mammoth/Mammoth Turnip rock.
I am not sure Mammoth Turnip sounds any better than Toadrod.
i’m not sure that Mammoth sounds better than anything.
Toadrod gets me hot!
What is the collective noun for a group of “Edinburgh’s finest music snobs”?
twats, cunts, bawbags
i’m so proud!
It’s actually Mammoeth, with an “e” because first Van Halen was called Mammoth and then Mammoth were called Mammoth and I’m inspired by the Dutch haulage firm Mammoet after a couple of road trips. Whether or not that makes a real difference to anyone is debatable but there we go – that’s what it is.
Should be fun.
The best collective noun in the world ever is that which applies to beavers:
a twat of beavers.
A cuent of Mammoeths.
I was just thinking about ‘parliament of owls’ as one of the best collective nouns, then I remembered ‘murder of crows’ was pretty cool too.
So I had a wee google and stumbled upon this list.
They must be maing some of that shit up! Seriously, a ‘bouquet of pheasants’? Or a ‘hedge of herons’?!
I love a ‘walk of snipes’ though.
Top, top Googling!
I reckon people make a lot of these up or at least maybe they’re just common parlance in certain places – there seems to be quite a few that overlap.
All you have to do is pick a word that has something to do with the noun and behold the collective noun, so:
a snob of musos
a sweetcorn of shits
a bone of hard-ons
a milk of breasts or maybe a nipple of breasts – there must be a better one for boobs.
Never encountered the word cuent before – will investigate.
A giggle of schoolgirls.
A cushion of breasts?
Cushion is good.
A plump of breasts? I suppose it depends on the breasts in question.
If it was a collection of humble breasts then maybe it could be a sting of breasts.
I don’t like the way Dylan is drawn to the collective noun for schoolgirls.
A grope of breasts? Does that even work?
It does if you do it with a cheeky smile and a sly wink, Dav.
Sometimes.
As far as i can tell, anything works. I guess it would be the collective noun for breasts which were particularly toothsome, on display and within reach.
It might only be of use when entering the playboy mansion.
A fondling of breasts.
Nice.