Toadcast #116 – The Dead Calmcast
It’s been a very, very long time since we had a nice simple podcast of me just chattering about music without extraneous distractions of various drunken people babbling to one another over the top of it.
Last week was Ruth, Michael and Dylan, the week before that was Vic and Peej, then me and Mrs. Toad and then there was the one from Homegame, which was nuts, so this one is just calm and sensible and plain vanilla and basically just me playing some songs, wondering how to pronounce names like Borcherdt, and talking pish like usual.
Next week will be the Mumford & Sons Toad Session, which is nice.
Toadcast #116 – The Dead Calmcast
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01. The Van Allen Belt – The Way You Look (02:14)
02. Songdog – Gene Autry’s Ghost (08.50)
03. Over the Wall – Settle Down (16.56)
04. Deathpodal – Squirrel and the Fox (20.55)
05. Brian Borcherdt – While I was Asleep (28.27)
06. Emit Bloch – Dorothy (34.34)
07. David Thomas Broughton – Perfect Louse (40.49)
08. Mat Riviere – FYH (43.09)
09. Member of the Wedding – New Century (51.37)
10. The Sequins – Offside & Beautiful (57.09)
B-o-r-i-n-g.
Actually, it was quite good.
Who was at the door by the way? Presumably even if it was Jimmy Tarbuck with a hatful of hilarious anecdotes, he still wasn’t going to get on this podcast.
It was Neil turning up to fold inlay posters. I didn’t realise how much background noise it generated until I listened back.
Neil Fouldes?
Neil Armstrong.
Saw David Thomas Broughton supporting Shearwater the other week. First time I’d seen him, but he seemed in quite good humour. I liked his quirky approach – gurgling water, scraping buttons on the mike stand, generally messing about and looping the sounds.
I seem to have seen a lot of one-man-tape-loop bands over the past few weeks (Adam Stafford, Wounded Knee), it’s fascinating to watch (from my non-musical point of view, at least).
Yeah, I find the sense of wonder is still intact with myself – I watch with a sense of increasing admiration at the way the songs build up. I assume it’s not quite so magical when you actually know how it works, but I’ll happily stay ignorant for a while yet.
You have to be a very special performer to pull it off with success.
There are more people doing it than there are very special performers.
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