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Toadcast #76 – The Presscast

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I recently did an interview with Billy from The Scotsman's Under the Radar blog (amongst other venerable organs) which took the form of an interesting chat about the current tension between bloggers and professional journalists. He has played off my opinions against those of his friend Mike Diver, who is ...

Toadcast #75 – The Bone Idlecast

songbytoad@hotmail.co.uk (Mr Toad)

Well, we are nearing the end of our time in Puglia. We're spending a couple of days in or near Napoli before we fly back on Sunday, presumably troughing like total pigs, rather than paying all that much attention to culture and all that bobbins. Mrs. Toad is doing Sudoku and ...

Toadcast #74 – The Poolcast

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Mrs. Toad and I might be gallivanting about the Italian countryside, but we are still thinking of you, our loyal Toadlings. We may be relaxing by the pool, but we understand that life might not be quite so easy for those of you at home. Actually, fuck ...

Toadcast #73 – The Holiday Podcast

songbytoad@hotmail.co.uk (Mr Toad)

This is not so much the holiday podcast as the pre-holiday podcast because, for all we are away now, I recorded this on Thursday night before going away, as we prepared ourselves for the unspeakable burden of doing absolutely fuck all for two weeks. I am taking a pile of books ...

Toadcast #72 – The Slowcast

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This is called the Slowcast because there are so many songs and, more commonly, whole albums out there which I took ages and ages to get into, and for no really obvious reason. There are several reasons, I guess: how familiar a sound is, your emotional state at the time, what ...

Toadcast #71 – The Tough Lovecast

songbytoad@hotmail.co.uk (Mr Toad)

Oh dear god almighty I have a hangover. Fucking bastard music people. Last night there was gigging and drinking and wandering the streets of a most balmy and pleasant Edinburgh with an assortment of miscreants and other ne'er-do-wells. We saw Honeytrap and Meursault play at Sneaky Pete's - I was ...

Toadcast #70 – The Snobcast

songbytoad@hotmail.co.uk (Mr Toad)

This week I am piling on the music snobbery. Oh, okay, I'm not really - if anything I'm undermining it with some truly guilty pleasures. There's not much modern fluffy pop music which I happen to enjoy despite my snobbery because... well, because I just don't think there's anything I ...

Toadcast #69 – The Fifecast

songbytoad@hotmail.co.uk (Mr Toad)

My Homegame review is pretty brief, but it is here, and there is a wee video thingy as well for you to enjoy. This is of course the accompanying podcast, with songs either from the bands I saw there, or from EPs and bits and pieces I acquired at the ...

Toadcast #68 – The Leprecast

songbytoad@hotmail.co.uk (Mr Toad)

Me and the missus are rambling away together on this one. It's largely new music, bookended by a couple of more well-known things. We Invent a new term - a weird combination of food and sex called culiniungus. We offend the Irish and the Scots. In fact, we are as ...

Toadcast #67 – The Wuzzlecast

songbytoad@hotmail.co.uk (Mr Toad)

This podcast is sort of like the Clustercast should have been. I haven't actually listened to it yet, so I don't know if it's any good, but it sort of felt better, somehow. It isn't anything like that incoherent and garbled anyway, which is a relief. We spent the day collecting ...