The Toadcasts stumble from one clusterfuck to the next, each one more incoherent than the last.  This, I think it’s fair to say, makes the Homegame one look good by comparison.  Not that the songs aren’t good, just that the instances of people talking over one another and two conversations going on at once and so on and so forth are notably worse on this.

However, the music is excellent, and surprisingly up to the minute by my standards.  We even managed to sneak the new National song in there, which they only released on Thursday – how’s that for happening and newsworthy and so on and so forth.

We have some new Sam Amidon as well, a track by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti which dropped through my letterbox while I was away in Austin, and some splendid stuff by Harlem and Clogs.  If only it wasn’t for the pish chat, this would be a great podcast, actually.

Toadcast #115 – The Messcast

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1. Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou – Ruth Drink My Whisky (05.12)
2. The National – Blood Buzz Ohio (13.40)
3. Loch Lomond – Spine (MMIX) (25.50)
4. Sam Amidon – Way Go Lily (29.43)
5. Harlem – Friendly Ghost (34.49)
6. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round and Round (44.02)
7. Ghostkeeper – By Morning (49.10)
8. Love is All – Bigger Bolder (53.57)
9. Grand Champeen – Broken Records (62.16)
10. Clogs – Last Song (68.24)

Well in all the chatter about the Beeb this week I was strongly considering ignoring it completely in this podcast and giving everyone a welcome break from the wailing and gnashing of teeth… but naah, that was never going to happen, was it.

So there’s a lot of railing against the Beeb and the threat to 6Music and yaddah yaddah you know the script don’t you.  Sadly, and somewhat ironically, we spend so much time talking about the state of the Beeb and the loss their support of small bands will represent, that we actually forgot to talk much about the small bands we ourselves put on the bloody podcast.

Toadcast #111 – The Beebcast

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01. Ballboy – All the Records on the Radio are Shite (03.21)
02. Love is All – Bigger Bolder (13.02)
03. Fredrik – Vinterbarn (15.53)
04. Exrays – Everything Goes (27.16)
05. Phil Ochs – Automation Song (34.33)
06. Ghostkeeper – By Morning (37.26)
07. The Light Footwork – Carlsbad Irrigation Project (47.54)
08. Mondrian – Rise and Fall of a Golden Boy Seen by a Porn Star Using No Sextoy (50.21)
09. The Leaf Library – Losing Places (ISAN Remix) (63.00)