Toadcast #128 – The Glastocast
So, erm, yes, this podcast should really have happened on Sunday, but it was so unspeakably bakingly hot (alright, in all honesty it was only about 28 degrees, but it felt much fucking hotter, okay) that there was basically no fucking chance it was going to happen.
I’ve also been adjusting to not having a day job, which in its own way made this easier. I’d write posts when I could during the day, but at the moment my only job is Song, by Toad so I have focussed entirely on the important jobs, not on the day to day business of posting on the site.
Also, this is late and it may be (early) Thursday, but there will still be a podcast on the weekend, but I thought this was an opportunity which should not be passed up. It’s Glastonbury for fuck’s sake, and it really did need its own podcast pretty sharpish, even if just to wonder why on Earth Glastonbury needs its own podcast when there are so many better festivals out there!
Toadcast #128 – The Glastocast
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01. Radiohead – Idioteque (06.55)
02. Flaming Lips – God Walks Among Us Now (19.26)
03. Eels – Looking Up (24.06)
04. The Avett Brothers – Murder in the City (39.57)
05. The National – England (42.57)
06. The Books – A Cold Freezin’ Night (57.02)
07. Devendra Banhart – The Charles C Leary (70.57)
08. Broken Social Scene – 7/4 (shoreline) (73.34)
09. Wild Nothing – Your Rabbit Feet (81.06)
10. LCD Soundsystem – All Your Friends (96.59)
I do like a long one…
So many thing made me nod my head frantically in this podcast; Drunk Girls being wank, old Flaming Lips being best, Avett Brothers having some amazing songs but a lot of wank ones, to name a few.
Yet the football rant Neil went on I oddly agree with most. I love playing football and did so for many years at a high level but I barely watch football at all. It probably is the mentality of most football folk. Grahame Le Saux getting called a poof cos he reads The Guardian pretty much sums it up.
I am also glad to be your Pop Barometer.
Incase any of your Toad Spawn missed it, here is the Meursault set. Sounds fucking great. Fearne Cotton spelled their name right and everything today;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2010/artists/meursault/
Huw Stephens just called me Song of Toad. Song ‘of’ fucking Toad? That even sounds massively wrong. At what point am I allowed to get just a little bit irritated by this?
He is Welsh. What do you expect.
Just hope that it does not inspire one of your bands to make a Metal Machine Music type album full of Toad croaks. Literally Song of Toad.
Hi,
You have a new fan! This podcast has kept me sane through all the insanity of work.
I especially loved the discussion around sport and allegiance! I’m a huge tennis fan (OK, I realise I’m asking to be ripped apart) and often get curious looks about why I care so much.
I used to live in Austria and I was there for the Euro Cup in ’08. I asked a similar question- why wouldn’t the Austrians support the Germans? (Especially when the Austrian team was so spectacularly awful!) They all vehemently explained that their entire identity as Austrians was shaped around not being German. The most sedate of Austrians, completely eschewing any patriotism; were the first the bust out an Austrian flag for the Germany vs. Austria match: why? Because to be Austrian meant not being German.
How utterly strange.
Ahem.
Huw Stephens is a cock because he’s a cock, not because he’s Welsh.
well Ian that’s idea!
Dylan: Tho the fact that Huw Stephens is Welsh doesn’t help him at all in the cock stakes
anyway the numpties that went and watched the football missed one of the best bands of the weekend…..Holy Fuck!
Erm, he did make us DIY label of the week, chaps, steady on!
Unless he really did mean Song of Toad of course, in which case he might have been talking about an obscure Brooklyn thrashcore label I haven’t heard about yet.
I’m not judging Huw Stephens solely on his lack of care and attention, I’m also taking into account his ridiculous defence of Mike & The Mechanics.
Come on you bunch of wolves. Huw is one of the good guys!
We have history.
The first cut is the deepest.
Dylan: i think Huw would call you a huffy stalker
And he did make us DIY label of the week.
Besides, unfriending Dylan on Facebook is an entirely understandable course of action for any discerning gentleman.
No.
I unfriended him!
This sounds like a who dumped who story.
Of course you did Dylan. Awww. Are you okay?
Haha. Dylan the stakler. Injunction imminent.
No.
What happened was he put a Facebook update about being at some industry schmooze-fest and cosying up to Mike & The Mechanics and that he though Mike & The Mechanics were really good.
Obviously I corrected him on this mistaken assumption on a comment under his post, and he deleted it!
So I thought, fuck you and the mechanics, and ditched him!
He was one of those really dull people that updated about how much they liked toast and shit like that anyway. He was hanging by a thread over being ditched for unreasonable Facebook-feed spam anyway.
Dylan got dumped by Huuuuwwww, Dylan got dumped by Huuuwww!
Dylan that is just typical stalker behaviour……
‘Listen to me, i’m right!!!!!!!!!’
‘I love you Huw’
‘I’m Welsh also’
you screaming fucking nutter
Huw, Pugh, Barley, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub.
*Dylan walks away slowly, sad, dejected as he is not in Huw’s list*
(Mike Rutherford is Grub)
you missed ‘of Toad’ off that list
Nah, that is Dibble. Dibble, of Toad.
Dylan – why did you add him in the 1st place if you were not, indeed, stalking?
No mention of Frightened Rabbit, didn’t you like/see it? saying that having a slot on the last day at 12 noon is bloody tricky. And dragging a hangover to a bar before lunch on 4 hours sleep should result in at least one free pint.
Thankfully it was worth the effort and I enjoyed the set.
I thought Craig Finns happy exploits in The Hold Steady reminded me too much of ‘The Childcatcher’ all a bit too cheesy and maybe forced. Didn’t stop me singing along though.
i thought Frabbit set was pretty good, tho they need to sort out the guitars, never load enough.
Did anyone catch Mike & The Mechanics?
Dylan your pal Huw is doing the intro stuff over at Latitude in a couple of weeks. maybe you can blag a ticket or at least ask him for a slot for Meersalt.
Or beg for his friendship back!