Edinburgh Man Podcasts

Well, as experiments go this one didn't work. Firstly, let me apologise for the lack of podcasts for two weeks. I managed to sprain my neck, which doesn't sound too bad except that it resulted in the worst headache I've ever had emanating from my neck and extending around my head non-stop for 10 days. Painkillers did nothing. All told it was pretty grim. And I missed lots of really interesting gig...

Podcast Number 231, or "Edinburgh Man and Edinburgh Man Junior's Alternative Record Store Day". For yes - Edinburgh Man Junior makes his proper podcasting debut on this week's show. In celebration of Record Store Day here is a special behind the scenes insight into how the two Edinburgh Men spend this annual event. Once upon a time it used to be about queuing in the cold at 7am to buy wacky colour...

Apologies yet again for a late podcast. I'm addicted to "Meetup" at the moment, and last night - Thursday night - when I normally record the show I ended up at a "digital media" meetup. I thought it would mostly be about podcasting, but in the end it was more work-related than fun-filled. So I spent an hour this morning putting together the playlist for this week's show while sitting in Artisan Ro...

I like to try and do podcasts on Thursday nights, but yesterday was a crazy busy day so I wasn't able to put together a playlist in time. Instead I collated the playlist this morning in Brew Lab while enjoying a (free) coffee. Actually, I suspect I drank too many free coffees this morning because within a couple a minutes of starting this show I had a blazing headache. I struggled to the end like...

Ahh... It was a lovely sunny Good Friday morning as I recorded this week's podcast. Slightly confused chat including me embarrassingly saying that the band "Leggy" were from LA rather than Cincinnati. So many apologies to them. I've just realised that because it's the morning I haven't had my coffee yet - so that's the defence I'm going with. Other music includes the new single "Kickstart" from Ed...

Well this is confusing. I thought I was being clever on tonight's show - clever and lazy. One of the tracks I intended to play I was just going to stream from the artist's Bandcamp page, but when I went to the page during the show they'd taken the track down! Not only that, they'd taken down all their tracks! From then on I went a bit off-piste and played some random stuff instead. This week's sho...

Remember last week when I said I'd played the last single by The Last Battle? Well, I didn't. It was the second last. Here's the last one on tonight's show, and it's a belter. The single that is, not the show. The show is... well... you know... mildly acceptable. Also featured are new tracks from The Second Hand Marching Band & Benni Hemm Hemm, Little Big Bangs, and more. In fact, one of the t...

On the ball as ever. I recorded this podcast earlier on this evening and then totally forgot about it. Here we are, as I'm locking up the house and getting ready for bed I think - "I'm sure there was something else I was going to do tonight"... Oh yeah, upload a podcast. On tonight's show new singles from Storm the Palace and The Last Battle. Tracks from new albums by Witching Waves and Great Thun...

A lunchtime recorded podcast this week, and another one featuring Edinburgh Man Junior as the cover star. He's starting to get big enough to actually be useful now. Here he is shuffling snow. As I record this episode, with the sun streaming through the window in the middle of the day, it's hard to believe there was even just a light dusting of snow a few days ago. That said, it's still damn cold.....

Aw man. I think this is only the second time in the history of the podcast that I recorded a show and it didn't actually record and I had to record the whole thing again. It was already a technological juggling act because I played all the music tracks "as live" from cassette! I know, I know. Be prepared to experience wobbly music and non-Dolby hiss. The Son(s) - "If I Hear You Talk Apostrophes Ag...

In a change from the usual yearly routine Edinburgh Man is not taking a break for the month of January, although you'd be forgiven for not realising this since there wasn't a show last week. Never mind, we kick the year off today with chat about retro technology and a track from a new cassette by Baker Island. Also on the show tracks from Jo Mango (with RM Hubbert), "Not" Spot Collins, and Plastic...

It's the Edinburgh Man Best of 2015 show! If you listened to the show throughout 2015 you'll know that I had some issues with the regularity of the show in terms of duration, content and release dates. Normally at the end of the year I produce two shows comprising a listener voted top 50 tracks of the year. This year, I just didn't have the time to devote to putting such a show together. However,...

It's almost Christmas... which can only mean one thing. No more Lego Advent Calendar! Hooray. Hopefully this will mean longer sleeps, and it will definitely mean a reduction in the amount of Lego construction that Edinburgh Man Junior requests at some ungodly hour every morning. The last regular podcast of the year. Next week will be a 2015 round-up. Not the normal top 50 show voted by listeners b...

Isn't this podcast a week late? Yes. Yes it is. You know how I had a cold and sore throat two weeks ago? Well less than 24 hours after getting better I came down with the lurgie all over again! Crazy. As ever I lay the blame squarely at the feet of Edinburgh Man Junior who is responsible for a new ailment back home from nursery as frequently as he brings home artwork consisting of glitter and crep...

Blurgh. I'm choked with the cold this week, and my throat feels like someone is poking needles in it. So basically exactly how you want to feel when you're recording a podcast. On today's eclectic show there are three tracks by artists who were featured last week (you can blame a combination of illness and laziness for that), a Christmassy (although perhaps not festive) tune, and a 1980's pop song...

I'm sorry. I bet you thought you were going to get away without having to suffer a podcast again this week, but unlucky. Here it is. And after the attempted slickness of last time, we're back to the regular "as-live" nonsense. But at least there some decent music, including great new tracks from Townhouse Woods, The Belly of Paris, Trust Fund and more. Townhouse Woods - "The Sweetest Treat" (Playe...

Surprise! It's a podcast! Apologies for not producing a podcast for the last couple of weeks. Real work has been somewhat manic, especially on Thursdays, so the weekly rambling music fest has suffered somewhat. No matter, here it is. And it's "properly" edited, so maybe... just maybe... a bit less mumbly and shambolic than normal. Maybe. This is because I've been addicted to listening to professio...

Well this is a bit strange. I haven't recorded a podcast during the hours of daylight for a while, and certainly not during the actual day. Turns out it's just as shambolic during the afternoon as it is in the evening. I blame it on the fact I'm recording this on an empty stomach. Which reminds me... I need to put the tea on... Lush Purr - "Rut" (Played courtesy of Song by Toad Records, Released u...

It's school vacation week here in Edinburgh. Which means very little for me since Edinburgh Man Junior is still at nursery, although for everyone else who I work with it means 5 days of child wrangling. So basically I'm on my own in work for a week. As such I spent much of the day "working" in Artisan Roast. This was mostly nice and chilled out. Except for the time about 20 people tried to squeeze...

Another hastily prepared podcast. Actually, I quite like doing this on the hoof. I can't believe I used to spend hours finely crafting the show only to incompetently bumble my way though it anyway. I reckon this "as live recording" is as good as any other - although I do tend to babble about my new phone way more than anyone (myself included) is likely to be interested in. The thing is, and to par...

Too much coffeeeeeee!!!! I seem to be speaking at a bazillion miles an hour tonight in the first podcast for a few months. The reason? I may have partaken in a late afternoon single-origin double-espresso. Oh dear. Well we'll know for next time won't we? I've made a decision too - and it's not just the caffeine talking. The podcast is coming back! Weekly. Not live. And of arbitrary length - hopefu...

Ah, the calm before the storm. I spent lunchtime working today in Princes Street Gardens before the craziness of the Edinburgh Festival starts tomorrow. Is it always this insane? I think it's stepped up a notch this year, especially in terms of the corporate and advertising nonsense. There are advertising structures EVERYWHERE. And all for terrible looking shows. I hate those posters that are paro...

Oh hello podcast listeners! Apologies that it's being so long since the last show. Blah, blah work, blah blah chronic pain... Anyway, podcast 211 is here now, so let's not say any more about it. That picture there is a bit of the cover of John Darnielle's book "Wolf in White Van". Is it any good? I haven't read it yet, but he's talking about it at the Edinburgh Book Festival this year so I thought...

What does that tin sign say that you can buy in every tourist trap place in the world..? "Do stupid things faster and with more energy"? I think that's what's happened here. I've foolishly increased my caffeine intake recently, and for the last few days I've had two long blacks each morning in place of my usual one. This seems fine while I'm working during the day, but by the time the evening come...

Here's a tip for any would-be professional podcasters - if you make a playlist more than three weeks ago it's always a good idea to listen to it again before you record the show - just in case you've gone off any of the tracks. As perhaps happened on this week's show. I feel awful about it - I've never done that before. Many apologies - especially for the artist in question. I normally only ever p...