It’s time for some video fun here on Song, by Toad.  It seems that as well as allowing more and more people to record their own music, the relative affordability of digital equipment has also allowed more and more bands and other enterprises to make surprisingly good videos on their own as well, be it music videos, live sessions, video blogs or whatever else.

Above we have the official (*ahem*!) video for Trips and Falls‘ moment of genius ‘And in Real Life He Wears Corduroy Pants”.  This is from their debut album on Song, by Toad Records ‘He Was Such a Quiet Boy’, which can be bought here and which I absolutely love.  But then, I would say that, wouldn’t I.

When we first saw Bombadil play live it was at Pickathon in 2008, and they were brilliant.  For the most part they played songs from their debut album A Buzz, A Buzz but there was one standout which I had never heard before: Marriage, which ended up on their second record, Tarpits and Canyonlands, which was released last year.  Below is a live session with Scott Avett from the Avett Brothers, who were label-mates of Bombadil’s during their years on the wonderful Ramseur Records, before they left recently to sign to Columbia.

Below we have the official Silver Columns video for their new single Cavalier.  I am really looking forward to hearing this album, because far from being a disco-pop novelty act, their new stuff really sounds like it’s going to be a varied, excellent record.  And a video with Johnny Pictish acting all cool like a pop star is always worth a good chortle.

When we started the Toad Sessions I think I might have had something like this video below in mind, if only we lived somewhere as cool as that.  It’s by Adam Arcuragi, and it just looks so incredibly lush, the sound is good and I envy anyone actually being there.  How dare their lives be so brilliant!

It’ll be back to music and the sharing of illegally pirated copyright material next, but for now I thought a wee visual interlude was in order.  Enjoy!