Toadcast #215 – The Kingcast
Welcome to Toadcast number 215. This is called the Kingcast because I have been on a bit of run promoting gigs recently, with three in the last eight days or so. Given almost none of my friends or music associates came to these gigs and that the list of attending guests on the Facebook event pages made for pretty grisly reading, I was grimly expecting the gigs to be absolutely awful – barely attended wastelands of funlessness – but every single one was brilliant.
The people who came were almost all people I didn’t know, with a few welcome exceptions, and the gigs themselves were absolutely immense fun. There was probably more dancing this weekend that at anything Toad-related in history.
So today I have been looking through the forthcoming gigs and getting my ticket links live and stuff like that, and realising that we have some absolute stonkers coming up. So with a bit of luck, and rather depending on whereabouts in the world you’re listening from, I might well see you there.
Dancing! At a Toad gig! I know!
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01. Withered Hand – Heart Heart (00.26)
02. Willy Mason – Restless Fugitive (07.57)
03. Robert George Saull – One Sugar Day (16.47)
04. Narrow Sparrow – Joe Meeks Dream (22.59)
05. The Dirty Three – Sometimes I Forget You’ve Gone (28.41)
06. Jad Fair, Hifiklub & KPT Michigan (32.20)
07. Jonnie Common – I’ll Be Back (38.17)
08. Shudderpulps – Time (45.10)
09. Honeyblood – No Spare Key (48.33)
10. The Soft Walls – Black Cat (54.06)
Dancing???
There was even some restrained moshing at the Wee Red last night. Who said Edinburgh was rubbish for live music??
Will hopefully get along to a few of the next gigs.
Hello. I’ll come and dance.
The next one is Adam Stafford, So Many Wizards and LeThug at Henry’s on the 9th. Just, you know, in case you were wondering.
You need only take a quick look at.. your Facebook inbox to see how many venues are ptntiug on bands or declaring themselves the new venue for live music in Hull’ whilst failing to list the bands or giving them any real long term support. I couldn’t agree with this more! I get something every few days now and just hit the not attending’ button.Gigs don’t need to be free. I personally like paying to go somewhere and be pleasantly surprised by the acts (sometimes the supports more than the main). Besides, a few quid on the door is worth it for the venue itself most of the time