The Toadcast - The Weekly Podcast From Song, By Toad

More errant podcastery from your favourite slippery green amphibian.  This week I find myself yelling abuse at JC who writes a terrible blog called The Vinyl Villain and is currently stranded in Toronto for a few months, far away from his Glasgow home.  JC was pretty much the first blogger to take any interest in Song, by Toad in it's formative days and as I such I always feel rather grateful for the encouragement Jim showed me back when I was starting out. As such I thought I'd play a few songs from his favourite groups, a couple of things he's brought us in the last few months and some songs about missing folk, seeing as he'll presumably be pining like a teenager for the lovely Mrs. Villain.  Well, that or masturbating himself into a zinc-deficient coma, of course. Either way, hope you're enjoying yourself JC. Here's some bloody songs for ya! Toadcast #5 - Distant Villainy 1. Belly - Trust In Me (01.54) 2. Maximo Park - Girls Who Play Guitars (08.30) 3. The Doledrums - Midweek Dreamer (12.50) 4. Wayl

I’m in America at the moment at my brother’s wedding, but I very kindly recorded this before I went away.  I’ve thrown in some stuff about weddings and some summery happy tunes too.Also, he’s getting married on Cape Cod, and I worked there as a waiter for two Summers when I was a student - with my everso English accent the tips were quite splendid - so I’ve thrown on a few songs that remind me of my Summers on Cape Cod, although not all are obviously related.  All in all it’s a cheerful, happy mix with a nice atmosphere to it, so you should like this one. By the time you hear it though I could very easily have sworn myself into exile and ruined my relationship with my new in-laws forever.  Wish me luck, Toadlings, wish me luck.  Toadcast #4 - Summery Songs and Wedding Bells 1. Billy Bragg - The Marriage (0.46)2. Tom Waits - Better Off Without a Wife (5.10)3. Clem Snide - Happy Birthday (9.38)4. Gomez - Make No Sound (13.36)5. Dave Matthews Band - Two Step (19.56)6. Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (26

It's all gone a bit American this week, Toadlings. I have no intention of putting out a series of strictly themed podcasts, but it's still early days and there are so many massive chunks of my music collection I want to poke about in that this may happen a couple of times before things settle down. So I started with a couple of vaguely American-sounding tracks this week and before you know it I ended up with a podcast with a definite Americana theme. I'm quite happy with how it's all turned out though, I must confess - a nice combination of classics and small, small bands, so the playlist is working quite well by itself. And actually handling the microphone is getting easier as well. I am quite liking this podcasting business, I'd say! 1. The Band - The Weight (02.16) 2. Hem - Half Acre (09.18) 3. Elvis Perkins - While You Were Sleeping (12.38) 4. Cherry Ghost - Mathematics (20.27) 5. The Holy Modal Rounders - Hey Hey Baby (25.30) 6. Night Jar - Sweet Annie Lee (28.30) 7. Caramel Jack - Lincoln Jackson

Yes, another one. Mwah hah haaa. Lock up the kids, Campfires & Battlefields, because the Song, by Toad musical cuss-o-rama is back on air for more blethering, swearing, slurring and first class tunery. Actually, I don't think this one is anything like as good as the first, if I'm honest. It's a bit over-long at fifteen songs so I think in future I'm going to limit myself to ten or twelve at the most, not least because my shitbox of a computer starts having a panic once I've stuffed that many audio files into a single project. So, fifteen songs then, with a bit of an emphasis on late 80s jangly indie guitar and containing one of the most brilliant ever drunken fuck-ups about three-quarters of the way through. Beware the horrors of letting your children turn into indie kids, people! So a bit too long, and occasionally too much inconsequential chatter, but we live and learn and the next one will be better, I promise. Toadcast #2, the 80s English Indie One 1. My Teenage Stride - Terror Bends (01.0

Bugger me, what fun! How about a podcast! By Me! With mandatory exclamation marks! Lots of them!! Sorry about this chaps, but in truly characteristic all-or-nothing fashion, instead of getting my miserable arse in gear to record a meagre intro for the splendid Contrast Podcast I have, on my first outing, gone right out and recorded an entire podcast of my own. Bloody typical. I tell you what, if I don't finally get off my lazy, disorganised and generally fucking useless arse come the next Contrast Podcast time then I deserve to be tarred and feathered, so please hold me to that, I bloody deserve it. And you've got to tell me what you think too, because believe me this is far more personal than blogging - shit, my own actual voice! The shield of a computer screen and four thousand miles' distance is some insulation believe me, whereas all you lot listening to me talk idiotically to myself in the middle of my own living room, well quite frankly it scares the shit out of me. So let me know - good? bad?