Edinburgh Man Podcasts

I've managed to put my back out, crouching down and rummaging in boxes in the small storage space in the loft. Normally I record the podcast kneeling on the floor of a cupboard, but I decided that probably wasn't the best thing for my back. So I went out for a morning constitutional and recorded the show on the move instead. Expect dream-pop and post-punk riot grrrl music. Was any of this better f...

Surprise! It's a new Edinburgh Man Podcast. The last year has been rather crazy at Edinburgh Man Towers. We had the attic converted, which involved a lot of banging, drilling and sawing. None of this is especially conducive to recording audio. Then today, I finally had some free time and relative quiet, so I thought I would record a podcast. But then I decided I should probably put a coat of paint...

Apologies for the somewhat variable release schedule for the podcast. January has been pretty busy, and unfortunately that busyness spilled over into February and the school holidays. But today, at long last, I have a few hours to myself to record a podcast and play the playlist that has been sitting and waiting since the first week of the year. Keeping with the theme, I'm also trying out a pair o...

It's Hogmanay! The detritus of Christmas surrounds us. The last few crackers are left unpulled, a few lonely boxes of chocolates are still to be eaten, and we soon must deal with the looming bells of the New Year. All of which means that it is time for the Edinburgh Man end of year show 2023! The 25 tracks, as picked by your erstwhile host as being the best of all the music (or at least all the cr...

I'm hiding away as I record this week's show - ostensibly the Christmas episode of the podcast. I've gone and left it too late and I now need to record the episode on the Saturday before Christmas, i.e. the first day the kids are off school. They are already at each other's throats and starting to get very annoyed by my continued asking when they are going back to school. Anyway, many thanks for l...

Aye, the nights are fair drawing in up here in Edinburgh - sunset is something crazy like half past three in the afternoon. The photo accompanying today's show was taken while me and Thing 2 walked home from school today. Regular listeners will no doubt remember than Friday is a half day for the schools in Edinburgh, so even though this photo was taken at 12.30pm, the fuzzy lukewarm glare just abo...

Urgh, I have a cold. That's the excuse I'm going for as to why the show has been delayed for a week or two. It's absolutely not because I was spending all my free time catching up on three seasons of Doctor Who before the 60th anniversery specials started. No it's not that at all. On today's show, mostly new tracks from releases that have been featured over the last few months. In one case it's be...

It's the three hundredth podcast! Except it's not, because I've always been fast and loose with the numbering. It's probably more like number 350, but let's pretend for a moment and bask in having reached this numeric milestone. In keeping with previous significant numbered episodes, very little extra work has gone into this one. Although this time, it's a double length show. A mixure of both new...

I was showing my work colleague some new photo management software I've been using, and I shared an album with him. "Why would someone have so many photos of coffee?" I mean, it's probably a legitimate question. But my feeling is - why not? I'm sure about 50% of the images that I use for this podcast are coffee related, and if they aren't then it's time to up my game. I'm feeling nicely caffeinate...

Apologies for the lack of podcast last week. The all new Edinburgh Man Towers is still, very slowly, being decorated and upgraded since we moved in over a year ago. Last week it was the turn of the Dining Room / Office / Music Listening Room to be rewired. The biggest room in the house, and room with the most stuff. All of which had to be cleared out for the work. Of course, while the room was emp...

One of the most important things when it comes to making a podcast is planning. Planning. Not something that this show has much of. But not this time, this time the show was actually planned. Anticipating the fact that this week was the Edinburgh schools October holidays, your erstwhile host recorded the show last week, so all I had to do was write these notes and upload the show. The final point...

Back in the cupboard for today's podcast. It's still a wee bit cramped in here, but the acoustics are hopefully better. Let me know if it sounds good, bad or indifferent. You can get in touch with the show on social media via Mastodon (it's pretty much only Mastodon now) at @edinburgh_man@mastodon.scot On today's show it's another genre spanning world tour with anarcho hardcore punk from Arkansas,...

It's been a bit of a week at Edinburgh Man Towers. The kids were off school for three of their four and a half days last week due to a strike, which was as hectic as you would imagine. Then, the fifteen-year-old fridge freezer decided to slowly fail. The result of this meant some unplanned remodelling in the kitchen to accommodate a new fridge freezer - an appliance that seems to have grown consid...

An unexpected COVID jag this week has thrown the already shambolic podcast schedule into a state of flux. My Fitbit tells me I was a bit under the weather for the two days afterwards. Although to be honest, I'm not sure I needed a watch to tell me that. As a result the podcast is a couple of days later than planned, however there is some great music on offer, including two top jangle indie-pop tra...

After an impromptu week off, the podcast returns. Obviously it wasn't really a week off for your earstwhile host. Life reared its ugly head and prevented the recording of a show. But we return this week, refreshed (sort of) and with loads of great new music. I'm also in a bit of pain this week. The summer has involved lots of hard landscaping in the garden at the new Edinburgh Man Towers. However,...

Apologies for being a bit later than normal. I went and ordered myself an Analogue Pocket portable games console a while ago. Like eight or nine months ago. It's a hardware clone of the Gameboy and Gameboy Advance, with a whole loads of bells and whistles to boot. Anyway, to my surprise it arrived this week and I've been spending my free time tinkering with it ever since. So despite the fact I pre...

Last week I said that there probably wasn't going to be a show this week, and here we are. In the end I found six great tracks (mostly from recent releases) and I wanted to record and upload the show as quickly as I could! With hindsight, I should have waited at least an hour, because during most of the show I'm on edge waiting for Thing 2's delivery of yet another giant Lego kit. Thankfully it tu...

As regular listeners may remember, I've been cataloguing and archiving old episodes of the show. Making old episodes available again in the feed, and uploading shows and shownotes to archive.org. As I've been cutting and pasting things like tracklists and band links, I've noticed so many tracks that I've completely forgotten about. Many of which are fantastic. I suspect long-time listeners may als...

Right. Okay. A second attempt at recording this podcast! This week we've been on our summer holidays. The first few days were spent "glamping" near Glenshee. The next week or so was spent in a static caravan just north of Inverness. I first recorded this podcast while at the glamping site and unfortunately, it was way windier than I noticed at the time. I guess I should have realised, being on the...

My plan for today was to build a deck. Not like a Pokemon deck, or a MTG deck, but a wooden construction out in the back garden for sitting on and enjoying the... weather? Unfortunately the Edinburgh Fringe must be starting soon because it's wet. Very wet. Chucking it down with rain. So I've tried to stash these 5 metre long pieces of wood under the partial shade of a hedge with the intention to r...

The school holidays in Scotland are still dragging on - we're about two thirds of the way through now I reckon. I'm not going to check in case I'm wrong. Let's just say (hope) that we are nearer the end than the start and leave it at that. The kids, in their child-like innocence, expressed a desire to go camping this summer. So rather than commit to a whole week of nature, we're going away for a f...

I'm almost getting the hang of this podcast lark. Although I do get distracted looking out of the window at some baby birds for a chunk of this show. Most of the last week, at least in terms podcast stuff, has been spent pulling old episodes out of the archive and uploading them to the feed. At the time of recording all of the shows back to 2015 should now be available in podcast apps, and over th...

The school summer holidays continue in Scotland, and last week we took a trip up to Dundee to take the kids to see the Discovery. I forgot how cool it is to walk around on a ship that’s been to the Antarctic, and the kids had fun too, aside from the somewhat tiring 90 minute train journey and missed connections. However this week I can relax as the kids are in summer club and I’m in the house by m...

A proper podcast! It's been a while. This time I figured out (or at least I think I figured out) how to do it live. However, what I couldn't do was figured out how to 1) promote the show or 2) receive messages during the show. So, I've no idea if anyone listened, although to be honest, that's just as well. This was very much a test. Next time, I shall be more prepared. No, really. Regicide - "Jusq...

Christmas Eve! We have survived 24 days of 24 podcasts. Now all that remains is to survive the Christmas holidays. This final show of 2018 also doubles up as my best of the year. My 10 favourite tracks played (or maybe not played) on the show throughout 2018. Thanks for listening and thanks for making it to the end. Hope you all have a great Christmas, and see you in 2019. The Map Dept. - "Midnigh...