Friday, Some Gigs, and the Radio
Christ on a bike, is it that time already? So much to impart and so little time in which to do it! First up, a raging hangover and an incomplete Toad Session may have prevented me getting my gig listings sorted this week, but there are loads of things happening this weekend which you will enjoy, so I figured I might as well do a quick preview for you now, before the fives and the radio show.
Tonight:
- The Ides of Toad present: The Pineapple Chunk, Brown Brogues and Zed Penguin at Henry’s Cellar Bar.
- Sparrow & the Workshop and Bwani Junction at the National Museum of Scotland.
- Lach and Catherine Brogan doing spoken word performances at Neu Reekie, at the Scottish Book Trust.
- Rod Jones & the Birthday Suit at the Electric Circus.
Tomorrow:
- The Ides of Toad present: Louis Barabbbas & the Bedlam Six, Skeleton Bob and Lee Patterson at the Third Door.
- PAWS, Edinburgh School for the Deaf, Sebastian Dangerfield and Broken Records solo acoustic at the Wee Red Bar.
- Michael Kiwanuka at the Electric Circus (I think this is sold out, but it’s feasible there are tickets on the door if you’re really determined).
Anyhow, as per usual El, Brian and myself will be back on Fresh Air at half three, and this week El is picking the entire playlist so it should actually be some fun to listen to for a change. There might even be enjoyable music. And possibly some remixes. In fact, probably some remixes. But I’ll fill in the playlist at the bottom of the page as we go along so
On air from 3:30pm UK time – listen live here.
And in the meantime, Friday is de-lurking day on Song, by Toad of course, so come out of the woodwork and say hello by answering, as frivolously as you please, the following five silly questions:
1. Any festivals you’re looking forward to this year?
2. Suggest a movie mashup of two films you’d like to see combined into one.
3. Give us a good colloquialism you’ve been enjoying recently.
4. If you make a piece of toast for a snack, what do you spread on it?
5. Instead of ‘this vehicle is reversing’ what should we be teaching our vans to say?
Playlist for our Fresh Air radio show this afternoon, as chosen entirely by Miss El Parks.
1. Selector Dub Narcotic – Distorted Cymbals
2. Y’All is Fantasy Island – With Handclaps
3. Dum Dum Girls – Play With Fire
4. El Mato a un Policia Motorizado – Un Million de Euros
5. Louis Barabbas & the Bedlam Six – Away in a Manger
6. Brown Brogues – Don’t Touch My Hair
7. Dead Rabbits – I Think I Know
8. Mount Kimbie – Maybes
9. Bull Moose Jackson – Big Ten Inch Record
10. The Coasters – Down in Mexico
11. Mongrels – Massive C*nt
12. Plastic Animals – Ghosts (Demo)
13. Franz Ferdinand – Lucid Dreams
1. None
2. Tyrannosaur and the Muppets
3. Fud
4. Peanut butter and marmite
5. Teaching? get out of the fucking way you numbskull cunts!
1. Latitude again. May try and take in Wickerman. Eye ‘o the Dug looks braw but unlikely, sadly…
2. Love Actually Vs Predators. Basically, mediocre actors delivering a mawkish script get massacred by tooled up space monsters. Let’s have a sequel with the cast of Valentine’s Day?
3. Chocolate fireguard
4. Nutella. Yes, I’m a big bairn.
5. “Get out of the way or I’ll run you over you feckless idiot!”
1. Insider. I’ve wanted to go for the last two years and never managed it. And Awaygame obviously.
2. Predator and Sex and the City.
3. Missing out on something ‘by a bawhair’ is a good one. But pretty much anything Scottish involving baws.
(Translation for our non-Scottish chums: baws=balls, as in testicles, so a bawhair is a pube, a bawsack is a scrotum and… well, you get the picture.)
4. Just butter would do me actually, although I do like Marmite. I also love cheese on toast and have been known to go through toast and honey and toast and jam phases too. Also, bananas on toast and strawberries on toast are most tasty. Toast, in short, is brilliant.
5. “I apologise for inconveniencing you, unfortunately my driver is a clueless imbecile.” repeated over and over in that nice polite voice they have.
I promised myself I’d be first this week. I failed.
And I ended up more or less repeating Stu’s movie suggestion. Balls.
Right, how about Neds and Ladies in Lavender? It was worth the Three-post Mentalism.
1. National ATP, and let’s see if I can get to Eye ‘O the Dog too.
2. Inception and Primer, then let’s see who’s confused.
3. Wean.
4. Butter and marmalade does me fine.
5. Backing the fuck up in my best American twang.
1. No
2. Alien Loves Predator
3. Fuck up
4. Butter.
5. I don’t know, but they should have the voice of Optimus Prime.
1. Nope.
2. Tremors and any insipid romcom.
3. Hearing Ibrox described as “The Big Hoose” that “must stay open” by that guy on the BBC just never gets old.
4. Butter. Just butter. But why does it always taste better in a hotel?
5. “Get that Daily Record and Irn Bru off my dashboard”
1. I think Retreat.
2. Avatar and one where all the blue natives all get killed at the end instead of winning through against the odds in some feel good love-in.
3. It’s not really recent, but I’ve always chuckled at the use of “wide-on” to describe an aroused lady.
4. Jam. Or marmalade. And sometimes honey. But mainly jam.
5. “In case the while light, beeping and windscreen less façade wasn’t enough of a hint, you should be aware I’m going backwards.”
Muptup, that would make people’s heads explode. I like the idea of an Alien vs Predator romcom though.
Sorry, one last truly special one. I fucking love Mongrels.
1. Might be heading to this http://www.soundwavecroatia.com/
2. Die Hard and The Goonies
3. Having a whore of a time
4. Margarine
5. Teach them to recite the highway code, it might help some of those white van man pricks
1. Haven’t really looked yet. Something low-key but not as ‘child-friendly’ as Deer Shed that we went to last year.
2. Bone Collector and anything with Keira Knightley in it.
3. I’ve been getting used to Fud as well.
4. Just butter. Honey, Marmalade and Marmite are too sticky, Jam is too sweet.
5. I think “EXCOOOD BEEF!” Like Pam Doove from the League of Gentlemen.
The Goonies would have solved the Die Hard problems in a fun and family-friendly way we could all enjoy. Good call.
1. Most likely to be Retreat as it’s Child Friendly
2. Groundhog Day and the Back to The Future trilogy. Just to see if a film could be made that’s even more confusing than Eternal sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
3. Everytime I think of Glasgow I imagine an eleven year old kid going ‘State of you!’
4. Peanut butter. And cheese too, if I’m in a ‘well, I might die tomorrow anyway’ mood
5. For sheer incongruous contrast, a HIgh Grant (or something similar) actor going ‘I’m Frightfully sorry, could you please move?’
Great minds Matthew, great minds.
And I’d forgotten about Retreat, determined to make it this year.
1. Just Edinburgh…preferably free
2. Apocalypse Now and Annie Hall
3. ‘A fit of the head staggers’ (Ulsterism)
4. Marmite all the way
5. ‘It was all downhill after Astral Weeks’
1. Nor’easter in VT.
2. Pulp Fiction and Monsters, Inc.,or any Pixar animated film.
3. Thingy. Very useful in many situations.
4. Half with orange marmalade, the other half with butter and Marmite.
5. Have a musical recording of “Get Back” playing louldly.
1. That T in the Park line-up looks incredible! I want to see everything, I just don’t know how I’ll manage it without things clashing.
Ahem.
2. High School Musical remade in the style of Battle Royale.
3. Be-jaysus
4. Cheese and Worcester sauce.
5. Run for your lives, Ian’s driving!
“That T in the Park line-up looks incredible!”
Is this sarcasm or have they actually managed a decent lineup for a change?
1. Not really.
2. Philadelphia meets Good Burger, with Kenan and Kel both contracting AIDS from one of those huge genetically-modified Mondo burgers, being sacked and going to court to sue for wrongful dismissal, then inevitably dying… much like their careers since.
3. Fud, as in, “you’re a fud”
4. Butter and maybe some kinda gamey pate.
5. “Warning, about to undertake, speed, then cut in a few car lengths up”
I like fud.
1. No
2. The Life Of David Gale, and The Little Mermaid.
3. “Keys!”
4. Marmalade.
5. [Pause] “Oops! Sorry!”
1. Any festivals you’re looking forward to this year?
Awaygame and maybe End of the road
2. Suggest a movie mashup of two films you’d like to see combined into one. The Idiots (by Lars von Trier) and Carry on Matron
3. Give us a good colloquialism you’ve been enjoying recently.
Yer ken whit a meen?
4. If you make a piece of toast for a snack, what do you spread on it? Jam or marmite dependent on the time of day (jam am , marmite pm)
5. Instead of ‘this vehicle is reversing’ what should we be teaching our vans to say? Absolutely nothing they should be silent at all times. Are we all that stupid that we need to be warned not to stand too close to a vehicle??
We are presuming the gig tomorrow at the 3rd door is a 7 or 8 ‘o’ clock kick off? as the Skinny had it down as a late show? See you there
1. High Sierra
2. Highlander and Blade Runner….. Enough said.
3. Dinks
4. Butter and honey combo?
5. I’M DRIVIN’ HERE!
What is Marmite, now I wanna have some.
1. Not looked at a lot, but fancy Doune the rabbit hole. Although my job doesn’t really give me weekends off.
2. {insert summit that makes you laugh here Ive got nothing}
3. Cuntybaws or bawjaws!!
4. Why on earth would ya only have one slice????? I usually go one slice peanutbutter and one of marmite but sometimes have one jam and one honey or one peanut butter and one sweet. God I love toast!!!
5. Exterminate!!!!!!
1. Awaygame
2. The Phantom Menace and Aliens – purely to see Jar Jar Binks being ripped to shreds
3. Class
4. Butter
5. Get the fuck out of the way, get the fuck out of the way, get the fuck out of the way, etc
1. V festival…it’s a party where you don’t miss anything
2. The Alamo and Caberet
3. Give your head a shake
4. Doner meat
5. Yoohoo
1. End Of The Road, though I’ll doubt I’ll be able to afford it
2. Terminator 2 and Karate Kid
3. You’ll make good company for the lanterns…..someones gran said that to me recently
4.mushroom pate
5. “please keep neil pennycook, ben fletcher, sam malibu and scott longmuir the fuck away from me”
1. Yes.
2. The Passion of the Christ and Barnyard Frenzy.
3. “My finger smells like chocolatey cheese.”
4. Peanut Butter. Duh.
5. Turn off your muthafucking lights!