It’s been a longish week, but believe me this weekend is going to be worse.  I am offering up my poor old Volvo for sale, which breaks my embittered little alcoholic heart, so it does.  I am going to miss that car, we’ve had some wonderful times pottering about in her and I am going to miss the silly old girl, really I am.

This is a joint podcast, seeing as how I was in the pub with Dylan and the poor whelp seemed to have nowhere else to go, I invited him back to the house to add his own particular brand of incoherent nonsense to this week’s podcast.  Because lazy racial stereotyping is something of a stock in trade around here, I find myself making several lame attempts to bring up Welshness and national identity and all that pish, but ultimately this is just two drunk people chattering about music.

More or less the usual, then.

Toadcast #64 – The Welshcast

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01. Billy Bragg & Kirsty MacColl – A New England (05.12)
02. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Miniature Kingdoms (14.54)
03. Manic Street Preachers – From Despair to Where (18.53)
04. M.J. Hibbett & the Validators – The Fight for History (27.46)
05. Broken Records – And They All Fell Into the Sea (35.50)
06. Drunk Country – The Rain That Almost Drove the Windows In (44.44)
07. Meursault – William Henry Miller (49.34)
08. Super Furry Animals – Into the Night (57.24)
09. Supergrass – Moving (65.15)

Right then, boys. Just leave me a pint of Brain’s Dark over b’there and a Clark’s Pie and we’ll have some proper music up b’yer quicker than Shane Williams can outrun the English!

I won’t lie to you, but, it’s all Max Boyce and Dame Shirl from now on…

Of course, it won’t be anything like that; but Matthew must have been expecting some such nonsense so I thought I’d humour him!

Okay, so I’ve been given the keys to Toad Hall for a couple of weeks, which I’m most grateful to his lordship for, but I’ll admit I’m a little out of my depth here guys. I’ve got a few ideas for posts – well, three - so we’re fine until Saturday; but feel free to chip in with any suggestions for posts, new music you’ve found, favourite recipes, anything really.

So to finish off my brief introduction in predictable, but no less grand for it, style. Here’s some classic Cool Cymru that his lordship would probably approve of.

Super Furry Animals – The Man Don’t Give A Fuck

60ft Dolls – Stay

Catatonia – International Velvet