This is my annual World of Song, by Toad Records podcast, where I prattle on a bit about the stuff we have coming up in the new year.  I play a couple of things we released towards the tail end of the year, and some stuff by some of the new bands we’re going to be working with for the first time in 2011.

I also prattle on at immensely tedious length about the ins and outs of running a record label, which may or may not actually interest you at all, but it’s there whether you like it or not.

We’ve got plans for some changes for the new year as well, with a new imprint for the label being launched, and a partnership with the Brothers Grimm for the creation of new lines of merch to go with every release.  It’s going to be a bit exhausting, I think, but immense fun nevertheless.

Direct download: Toadcast #155 – Song, by Toad Records 2011

01. King Post Kitsch – Eggshells (00.21)
02. Animal Magic Tricks – Heavenly Bodies (06.31)
03. The Savings and Loan – The Virgin’s Lullaby (18.45)
04. Inspector Tapehead – Sugar on Your Sheets (22.00)
05. Rob St. John & the Braindead Collective – The Whites of Our Eyes (28.11)
06. Loch Lomond – Elephants and Little Girls (41.36)
07. Trips and Falls – This is All Going to End Badly (52.37)
08. Jesus H. Foxx – Plans (Alt. Version Demo) (54.59)
09. Meursault – Another (61.34)
10. Lach – I Want to Be With You (65.56)
11. Yusuf Azak – Lay Me Down (Demo) (76.49)

I am taking the day to sleep off a hangover (yes, it’s five pm and I only just got out of bed), and will return with the Song, by Toad Records New Year’s podcast tomorrow, when my head hurts a little less.  Hopefully a lot less, actually.

So while you are waiting for me to get my head out of my arse, and brimming with the intention of making yourself a better person in the new year, I have something to which I would appreciate you giving a little bit of attention.

Acid Ted, also known as Ctel, doesn’t comment on here all that much, to a large extent because he and I like very different kinds of music.  We know each other because of JC over at the Vinyl Villain, and apart from liking his writing, I think we also have a certain mutual respect that long term music bloggers end up developing because so many people who do this give up the ghost within a year or two.

Anyhow, Ctel’s young lad died of brain cancer a couple of years back, and this year he is hosting an exclusive mix by Error Operator to help raise funds to support research into childhood brain tumours.  I am not going to say anything about losing a child, because I don’t think it’s something I could even come close to either comprehending or doing justice, but Ctel did write about the experience at the time, and it makes for pretty bloody sobering reading.

So I would very much appreciate it if you would take the time to pop over to Acid Ted and make a donation, in return for which he will email you this exlusive mix.  I don’t have to say things like ‘it’s for a good cause’ do I?

Winter Echoes Vol.2 Mixtape by ErrorOperator