Hello, more Toadcastery. I’ve, erm, focussed on Dadrock for this one. Not too much of it on the playlist, fortunately, although there’s a couple of well-known names on there. In my defence though, I couldn’t bring myself to feature Coldplay, so I was forced into the compromise of playing an almighty butchering [...]
Tuesday, 8 July, 2008
Categories: Podcast . Tags: toadcast . Author: Matthew . Comments: 7 Comments
There’s not much of a unifying theme to this podcast, but there are a healthy number of breaking tracks in the playlist, so I guess calling it the Newcast will suffice for want of anything more inspired.
There’s new tracks from the impending singles by Kid Canaveral and The Left Outsides, a good few new bands [...]
Thursday, 19 June, 2008
Categories: Podcast . Tags: cinerama, david cronenburgs wife, eagleowl, futureheads, kid canaveral, king creosote, left outsides, les enfant bastard, lucksmiths, porlolo, rob st john, sparrow and the workshop, toadcast, uhersky brod, ukrainians . Author: Matthew . Comments: 6 Comments
Hello and welcome back to the Toad Sessions. I was a little drunk when I noticed that Alela Diane was playing in Edinburgh as part of the Triptych Festival, so the idea of emailing her label and inviting her to do a Toad Session didn’t seem quite so preposterous. In the morning, I thought [...]
Saturday, 31 May, 2008
Categories: Podcast, Toad Sessions . Tags: alela diane, mariee sioux, toad session . Author: Matthew . Comments: 10 Comments
The missus and I got pished and did a podcast! Huzzah! It was a lovely Summery day on Wednesday and we sat out and had a meal in the back garden and then when it got chilly we came inside and did a podcast.
There’s not much of a theme this week because I [...]
Friday, 9 May, 2008
Categories: Podcast . Tags: toadcast . Author: Matthew . Comments: 17 Comments
The 28th Toadcast is all about the Fence Collective. People who read this site regularly must know them, I assume, but I’ve been intending to do this post for a while as they might be my favourite label in music at the moment.
After Kenny Anderson’s last band fell apart about ten years ago or [...]
Wednesday, 16 April, 2008
Categories: Podcast . . Author: Matthew . Comments: 26 Comments
Well finally, finally we’ve found the time to finish these. This is the Broken Records interview from the session I recorded with them a few weeks back. It’s taken ages to get these finished, partly because we’re lacking a little for good footage, partly because getting everything into the right format has taken [...]
Saturday, 12 April, 2008
Categories: Podcast, Toad Sessions . Tags: broken records, toad session . Author: Matthew . Comments: 11 Comments