RIGHT – lifeboat helpers, thank you very much for volunteering, we need as many bodies as we can get. Tomorrow Mrs. Toad cooks roast lamb, as it’s nice and Springy these days, and we get in a gallon of red wine and after pestering the good people of Stockbridge for their spare cash we shall eat and drink and record a podcast and make merry. Our house (email if you don’t know where that is) between 10am and 4pm please!
In other news it is the eagleowl EP launch tonight, at the Roxy Room. Hairy bollocks that EP is good, and my review will appear here next week (when it’s actually available to buy, as per usual), but if you want to get your sweaty little palms on one then tonight is the time to do it.
Last weekend while Mrs. Toad and I turned her fortnight stranded in the States (Pittsburgh, poor girl) into a romantic weekend in Paris she suggested that I do a Friday Five based around travel disasters – we’ve all had them. Unfortunately I got the email far too late to actually do it, but it was a good idea, so I thought we might just use the idea this week.
The Friday Fives are all about taking the opportunity to waste a good day’s work by fannying about talking bawshank on the internet remember, so don’t worry about the comments section on this site being the usual old cronies, this is a de-lurking amnesty so please introduce yourselves and say hello. No nasty, gory pictures of shredded limbs this week either – I actually got complaints about that you know, not harsh ones, but complaints nevertheless. Which is a good thing really, it was quite nasty, but then that was the point.
1. Favourite boat-based work of fiction, novel or movie or poem or whatever.
2. What’s the best you have made of a travel disaster?
3. What’s the most needless travel disaster you have brought entirely on yourself?
4. Most hair-raising or barely-functional form of transport you have taken.
5. Crappest place you have travelled to either on holiday or for business.
These songs are from the eccentric but nevertheless enjoyable compilation CD released about six or seven years ago called ‘Biba – Champagne & Novocaine‘. I don’t really care what it was about but it had some skinny girl’s naked arse on the outside (and no-one wants to see a skinny girl’s arse really, do they) and an oddly good mix of tunes on the inside.
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The Kinks – Celluloid Heroes
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Sparks – This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us
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Tiny Tim – Tiptoe Thru’ the Tulips
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Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band – Cherchez la Femme
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Stop it. Stop it. Just fucking stop it. Don’t panic, this is emphatically NOT about paedophilia. Before you get your knickers in a twist have a quick look at the tracklisting, and in particular the band names, and hopefully you will see why the podcast has the name it does.
