Edinburgh Man Podcasts

I know I know that I shouldn’t… especially when there are at least two great looking gigs this Saturday night, but I can’t help myself. It’s Eurovision. Car crash television for sure. Forget about watching Doctor Who behind the sofa – this is the scary one. Terrifying song after terrifying song, terrifying presenter after terrifying presenter, terrifying satellite link-up after terrifying satellite link-up. It’s incredible.

Anyway, enough about that. Tonight’s podcast wasn’t live. Not because I didn’t try. Something has gone wrong in the Intertubes, and I wasn’t able to fix it. So tonight it’s just me, and a slightly cheaper microphone.

Edinburgh Man #131 by Edinburgh Man on Mixcloud

1. Book Group – “BOP” (Played courtesy of Book Group)
2. Les Savy Fav – “What Would Wolves Do?” (Played courtesy of Wichita Records / Music Alley)
3. The Spook School – “Something” (Played courtesy of The Spook School / Soft Power Records)
4. Mississippi Sheiks – “Still I’m Traveling On” (Played courtesy of archive.org)
5. Joshua Burnside – “Concubine” (Played courtesy of Joshua Burnside)
6. 24hours – “Columbo Stops By…” (Played courtesy of 24hours, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
7. Long hat pins – “Handful of heart” (Played courtesy of Long hat pins, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
8. Lost Tapes – “War in The Netherlands” (Played courtesy of EardrumsPop, Released under a Creative Commons licence)

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Poor Edinburgh Man Junior… Last he surprised us with a late night vomit. Lovely. As a result Edinburgh Man Senior’s plans to go to the Sparrow and the Workshop launch gig tonight have been cancelled. As some sort of conciliation we start the show off with a great track from their new album. There’s also a play of the new single by Adam Stafford, both on Song, by Toad records. They really need to stop putting out such great releases, otherwise this podcast will just end up consisting entirely of their music.

It’s also a pre-recorded roaming outside broadcast as I walk through the streets of Edinburgh attempting to buy a coffee from Brew Lab…

Edinburgh Man #130 by Edinburgh Man on Mixcloud

1. Sparrow and the Workshop – “Flower Bombs” (Played courtesy of Song by Toad)
2. cryptobebelem – “Second Story Window” (Played courtesy of cryptobebelem, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
3. Carb On Carb – “Smash” (Played courtesy of Carb On Carb, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
4. Hollowed Boy – “Sex With A Sad Girl” (Played courtesy of Hollowed Boy, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
5. Adam Stafford – “Please” (Played courtesy of Song by Toad / Adam Stafford)
6. Gorgon and the Destroyers – “I don’t care anymore” (Played courtesy of Gorgon and the Destroyers, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
7. NEW WIVES – “lucy (song about her)” (Played courtesy of NEW WIVES, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
8. Cancertron – “Seriously” (Played courtesy of Cancertron, Released under a Creative Commons licence)

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No proper podcast this week. @doctor_nic is away for a couple of days so it’s just Edinburgh Man Junior and Edinburgh Man Senior in the house. Apart from the fact I’m going to be run ragged by the time podcast hour comes around, there is also the chance that the younger of us may wake up during the recording, which could result in a rather curtailed episode.

So, rather than leave you with nothing I thought I’d bash 8 episodes of April’s “30 days of biking” Edinburgh Man Junior podcasts together. If you already listened to these, then you can probably skip this, but if you missed them prepare yourself for bad quality field recordings and rambling beyond belief.

Best of Edinburgh Man Junior April 2013 by Edinburgh Man on Mixcloud

1. Tiny Fireflies – “Snow” (Played courtesy of Tiny Fireflies, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
2. Townhouse Woods – “Matching Sweaters” (Played courtesy of Townhouse Woods, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
3. Sarah J Stanley – “The Gardener of Eden” (Played courtesy of Sarah J Stanley, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
4. The Sulkies – “Fuck Age Forever” (Played courtesy of The Sulkies, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
5. The Spook School – “You Don’t Know” (Played courtesy of The Spook School / Soft Power Records)
6. Plastic Animals – “Test” (Played courtesy of Plastic Animals, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
7. Entertainment For The Braindead – “Pirates” (Played courtesy of Aaahhh Records, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
8. Swearin’ – “Snag” (Played courtesy of Swearin’, Released under a Creative Commons licence)

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Oh, man. I spent too much money on Record Store Day. Such a sucker. On the plus side I have lots of cool new vinyl to listen to, so there’s that. The day itself was good fun – starting off in Avalanche, then passing by Coda on The Mound to check out their new vinyl room, and finally heading down to Stockbridge to catch Wounded Knee on the steps of Voxbox… And all that before lunchtime!

I also popped over to Vino Wine Shop in Morningside to pick up a four pack of the special edition microbrewed Song, by Toad beer. Mmmm. Only one bottle left – the Magic Eye Red Rye which I’m going to crack open while recording the podcast.

Music-wise, there’s a track from the upcoming EP by Edinburgh’s Book Group, a couple of tracks from Record Store Day purchases, and a great track by A Little Orchestra featuring Ballboy’s Gordon McIntyre.

Edinburgh Man #129 by Edinburgh Man on Mixcloud

1. Book Group – “Year Of The Cat” (Played courtesy of Book Group)
2. Extra Feeler – “Sidewalk Crawling” (Played courtesy of Extra Feeler)
3. A Little Orchestra – “East Coast” (Played courtesy of A Little Orchestra)
4. The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse – “Danger Danger” (Played courtesy of The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse)
5. Mad Nurse – “Violent Dreams” (Played courtesy of Mad Nurse)
6. Zed Penguin – “The Letters” (Played courtesy of Song by Toad)
7. Blind Willie McTell – “Statesboro Blues” (Played courtesy of archive.org)
8. Low – “Lordy” (Played courtesy of Low / archive.org)

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Another exciting early podcast. As I was recording this my throat was getting progressively croakier, but I soldiered on like a trouper. I’m sure it was only a couple of weeks ago I last had a sore throat. Kids, eh?

Anyway today’s podcast has more than a little Records Store Day theme. Look, I know most of the releases are overpriced and aimed at suckers. But I like vinyl, and I’m a bit of sucker, so I’m looking forward to it. There are also some official and unofficial releases from Scottish-based labels that I played on the podcast tonight, including two tracks from Song, by Toad’s ridiculous “Beer vs Records” releases, a track from the Adam Stafford cassette on Gerry Loves Records, and a self-released track by Randolph’s Leap (also on cassette – crazy).

Add in some bad chat about wind and broken record players, a brilliant track from the upcoming eagleowl album, and you have Edinburgh Man #128.

Edinburgh Man #128 by Edinburgh Man on Mixcloud

1. eagleowl – “not over” (Played courtesy of eagleowl)
2. Susan Hwang – “Everything is a Clue” (Played courtesy of Bushwick Book Club, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
3. Suzie Zuzek – “indie pop, grunge, pop, post punk, alternative – Sit in a tree” (Played courtesy of Suzie Zuzek, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
4. Zed Penguin – “This Town” (Played courtesy of Song by Toad)
5. Magic Eye – “Japan” (Played courtesy of Song by Toad)
6. Randolph’s Leap – “Light of the Moon” (Played courtesy of Randolph’s Leap)
7. Lisa Bouvier – “Every Year Until We Die” (Played courtesy of Cath ‘n’ Dad Records, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
8. Adam Stafford – “Zero Disruption” (Played courtesy of Gerry Loves Records)

Direct Download: Edinburgh Man #128

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Right. What’s been happening this week?

1) I’ve been doing a daily podcast at junior.edinburghman.com for #30daysofbiking. Initially I thought it would be an interesting daily podcast where I cycle to glamorous locations around in Edinburgh. In fact it’s normally me speaking into my phone somewhere along my commute.

2) Edinburgh Man Junior (the real one) has been waking up early all week. Teeth related I suspect, but that doesn’t make it any better. Anyway, this is the reason why today’s podcast is another early doors one. 7pm. I wonder if anyone listened…

3) My record player is still broken. It needs a new motor. This has got me down a wee bit. On the plus side I now own a Fisher Price wind-up record player from the 1970s. This is good.

Edinburgh Man #127 by Edinburgh Man on Mixcloud

1. Hot Dolphin – “Go Team USA” (Played courtesy of Hot Dolphin, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
2. Mark Wynn – “Radio Song” (Played courtesy of Mark Wynn)
3. Junk River – “Blood” (Played courtesy of Junk River, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
4. The Sulkies – “Art Is Free” (Played courtesy of The Sulkies, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
5. Nallo – “All Summer” (Played courtesy of Nallo)
6. Silent Spring Ensemble – “Cold Comfort” (Played courtesy of silent spring ensemble, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
7. Decent Lovers – “2Star” (Played courtesy of Decent Lovers, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
8. Toby Goodshank – “Minus Días” (Played courtesy of Toby Goodshank)

Direct Download: Edinburgh Man #127

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A “secret” “live” podcast this week!

Normally I do the podcast live. 8pm every Thursday (put it in your diaries). This week, however, I did something a bit different. Basically getting the live podcast ready requires a bit of faffing about.. preparing this and that, getting the technology working… that sort of thing. Today, and in fact all this week, has been pretty busy so I wasn’t able to get everything ready for tonight, so instead I thought I’d pre-record the show at some point during the evening “at my leisure”. In the end I realised that if I plugged in a single wire I could make still make the show live, so with about 3 minutes notice on twitter I did a “secret” “live” podcast. I’m not sure if it was any more relaxing than normal, certainly the requisite amount of inane chat is still present.

Edinburgh Man #126 by Edinburgh Man on Mixcloud

1. Sparrow and the Workshop – “The Glue That Binds Us” (Played courtesy of Song by Toad)
2. KEEL HER – “Too Busy (in YOUR Own World)” (Played courtesy of KEEL HER, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
3. Bad Librarian – “Interpersonal Relations” (Played courtesy of Bad Librarian, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
4. Nallo – “Kin” (Played courtesy of Nallo)
5. Songs For Walter – “Family Hold Back” (Played courtesy of Bleeding Gold Records)
6. The Paperback Throne – “Amma” (Played courtesy of The Paperback Throne / Iffy Folk Records)
7. Squanto – “To the Grid (Demo)” (Played courtesy of Squanto, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
8. Death Masks – “What I See” (Played courtesy of Death Masks)

Direct Download: Edinburgh Man #126

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Sniff, sniff, sniff…

Yet another cold thanks to Edinburgh Man Junior’s snail-like trail of snot he’s been leaving around the house. Just in time for a four day weekend too! Woohoo!

As ever, I planned not to speak much in an effort to save my throat. As ever, that didn’t quite pan out like I intended. Fuelled by some Drambuie (free samples welcome) and Hershey’s Kisses (hmm… maybe not) we get through the podcast. Afterwards, of course, I’m feeling a tad dodgy…

Edinburgh Man #125 by Edinburgh Man on Mixcloud

1. Les sueques – “Terrorista” (Played courtesy of Les sueques, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
2. Middleton Hall – “Belgian Onions” (Played courtesy of Middleton Hall, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
3. Wounded Knee – “Hares On The Mountain” (Played courtesy of Gerry Loves Records)
4. Sarah J Stanley – “The Gardener of Eden” (Played courtesy of Sarah J Stanley, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
5. Kristin Hersh – “Secret Codes” (Played courtesy of Kristin Hersh, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
6. entertainment for the braindead – “CAPS LOCK” (Played courtesy of entertainment for the braindead, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
7. Luke MacDonald – “Attention Spans” (Played courtesy of Luke MacDonald, Released under a Creative Commons licence)
8. Inuit – “Dalliance” (Played courtesy of Good Grief Records)

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