Edinburgh Man Podcasts

An earlier than normal podcast this week... Thing 2 woke up this morning at the terrifying time of 4am. Which I suppose is somewhat excusable for a 7-month-old. His brother, Edinburgh Man Junior, woke up an hour later at 5am. Just as we were getting back to sleep. This is less excusable. All of which has resulted in the live podcast being brought forward an hour due to extreme tiredness on the par...

Last night's podcast was a rambling shambolic mess, and I was so shattered afterwards that I didn't even have the energy to upload it! So it's a Friday morning update, for which I apologise. Yesterday was "World Book Day" and for some strange reason, Edinburgh Man Junior's school is allowing pupils to eschew their school uniform and dress as their favourite character from literature (or just their...

Just a couple of days ago I found myself wondering how long I'd been doing this podcast thing, so I decided to try and figure it out. And would you belive it? The podcast is seven years on this Saturday. Seven years! There's nothing like a birthday to make you wallow in nostalgia, so that's exactly what we're doing on tonight's show. I look back at every birthday the podcast has ever had, and play...

Some poor technical planning this week has prevented a live podcast. So instead I'm recording this early on a Saturday morning while I try to recover from a intensive week of school holiday fun with Edinburgh Man Junior. We managed to do soft play, the zoo and the Lego Batman Movie over three days and now I just want to sleep. But no, it's the weekend, so there are still two more days of craziness...

I'm all full of adrenaline and talking 100 miles per hour on today's show. I tried to post a link to the live streaming page on Facebook earlier this evening only to discover that the show's website had been redirected to a "domain parking" page. For a few minutes, I was totally terrified that I'd let the domain expire and was about to get blackmailed thousands of pounds to get it back. In the end...

It's the first live podcast in ages! Actually, it's the first podcast in ages... well, in a month. But it feels like a year or two since the last live one. I find myself wondering, did I used to need so many wires to do a live show? Anyway, we got through it and it was quite enjoyable. People listened. One person tweeted at me. Once. So all in all, I consider it a success. Same time next week? Rat...

It's Hogmanay, so that means I've just managed to scrape together the infamous Edinburgh Man best of the year show at the last possible minute. As with last year, the tracks have been chosen by myself. It's not because I don't trust the public to vote for the right answers (although if 2016 has taught us anything...) it's because I left it too late to do anything else. Also, in what is quickly bec...

Edinburgh Man Junior has a new obsession - Super Smash Brothers Melee on the Nintendo GameCube. You see, his dad has worked in video games for quite some time, and as a result has amassed an array of video games consoles from years gone by. For some unknown reason all this retro hardware is very attractive for small children, and at the weekend Edinburgh Man Junior asked to play "video games”. We...

Listeners to last week's show will recall that I recorded it in the car outside Edinburgh Man Junior's school while he was on stage for the first performance of his nativity play. I say first performance, it seems like that's all they've been doing at school for the last couple of weeks. Endless rehearsals and dress rehearsals for audiences of other years in the school. At least I got to see it my...

I've finally managed to find the time to record a podcast! As I wait in the car outside Edinburgh Man Junior's school while he takes part in his primary school nativity play. I know what you're thinking - surely I should be in there watching him. Well, maybe. Although I do have tickets for tomorrow's performance. Hopefully by then they'll have perfected their lines. Anyway, tonight's podcast is re...

Good morning, and welcome to the weekend! Time for a coffee? I've been finding it increasingly difficult to record a podcast every week. There's something about juggling two small people that seems to take up a bunch of time. Anyway, this morning in an act of quality parenting I plopped Edinburgh Man Junior down in front of Transformers, and Thing 2 is being subdued with a white noise generator ap...

A late podcast, due to 1) illness and 2) an ill-advised halloween costume building exercise that consumed way too much of my spare time. But there's some great music to return with, include a track from the wonderful Belly of Paris and a live version of Jeff Lewis's Leonard Cohen inspired Chelsea Hotel song. Belly of Paris - "Boys" (Played courtesy of Belly of Paris) Tenineight - "All My Heroes Ar...

At Edinburgh Man Towers we are currently trying to get used to something that we've never had to experience before - school holidays. Just when we were starting to get used to this crazy new routine, a spanner is thrown in the form of the October break. One week (and a day) of child juggling excitement. To get away from all this, Thing 2 and I made our escape yesterday morning, armed with a baby c...

The cover photo has no relevance to this week's podcast whatsoever. It was basically the only photo I've taken in the last week, so it's won out by default. It depicts Edinburgh Man Junior standing in front of a large outdoor screen hidden away beside a set of steps deep in Edinburgh's old town. The key takeaway here is that I've had virtually no time to put together this show. That's basically th...

Last week I got an email from Steve Palmer - he's just released a great podcast called "Down's With The Kids" which you should check. Steve pointed me at an article in the online version if the I newspaper which listed this show. Yes this show. Edinburgh Man. As one of "the podcasts you should be listening to". I mean, what? In their defence, they did refer to it as "shambolic". And just to prove...

Blurg. I'm so sleep deprived today. Dr Nic and I thought we were being sensible by going to bed super early last night. Like 9.30pm or something. But after Thing 2's first nighttime waking at 1.30am I didn't get back to sleep. I tried my trusty Murakami audio book but it didn't do anything. Eventually, I fell asleep at 6.25am. Only to be woken up 5 minutes later by Edinburgh Man Junior jumping int...

The fourth show in our exciting week of nonstop podcasts! Tonight's show was originally scheduled for early August, just before the final release from one of my favourite record labels - Soft Power Records. We start with a track from that release by Edinburgh's Dora Maar. There are two other tracks from recent Soft Power releases, and a load of other great music too. One more show to go! See you t...

ANOTHER podcast! Also, good news everyone - much more sleep was had last night, especially by myself. In fact, partly because I went to bed early, I had a normal (ish) amount of sleep. This, coupled with the fact that (at last) I've figured out how to make the office coffee machine produce a decent espresso, I'm feeling pretty good. The tracks for today's show were chosen back in July, and to be h...

It only feels like yesterday that I recorded a podcast... how time flies. Today the sleep deprivation really takes over. The effects of Mum and Dad watching the Olympics through the night while feeding Thing 2 during the first two weeks of his life seemed to be kicking in. Judging by the noises that he makes I can only imagine that he's dreaming of being a championship shot putter. Grunts and groa...

Oh hello. It's been a while, hasn't it? Guess what, tonight the podcast returns from paternity leave. So basically I'm somewhat sleep deprived and the whole thing is slightly more shambolic than normal. The good news, however, is that I compiled this playlist of songs ages ago, so at least I didn't have to do much prep for the show. It appears I have music for 4 other shows ready to go to. So why...

I've discovered a problem with recording these shows in advance. Yes, by and large it means that the it's easier to produce a regular show, but I really should write the blog post at the same time as I record it. Because I've no idea what rambling nonsense I talked about this week. Judging by the photo it must have been something about shoes. Or walking. Or odours? I dunno. I tell you what, I'm no...

Legs, legs and legs... IKEA legs as far as the eye can see. I've been building desks today. Loads of them. Did you know there are 20 screws per IKEA desk? That seems rather excessive. And why does my phone keep capitalising IKEA? On today's show - mostly new music with a couple of notable exceptions. You remember I made that "audiophile" podcast a few weeks ago? And you remember that I planned to...

The podcast returns! Apologies for the absence. First of all, we went away for a long weekend in the middle of June. I probably should have mentioned this because we intentionally hid from the Internet and tried to chill out for 5 days. And then we came back amid all this brexit referendum nonsense. On the day of the referendum I couldn't face making a podcast, and the week after I still wasn't in...

A special (ish) audiophile (ish) episode of the podcast! Basically for some anal reason I've recently been re-ripping all my CDs at the best quality bitrate I can (while still maintaining an acceptable size). I've also been going through backup disks attempting to find the original versions of many many music downloads to go back to the versions before iTunes Match crummyfied them. As I was doing...

I must admit I was a bit disingenuous in this week's podcast - I said I put the playlist together while riding through the rainy streets of Edinburgh on the bus. That's not quite true. I chose most of the tracks a week ago but it wasn't until today that I actually downloaded all the tracks thanks to the surprising reliable free bus WiFi! On today's show a recent release from Colour Me Wednesday, a...