Edinburgh Man Podcasts

Today I bunked off work in the afternoon and went to the degree show at ECA. I moaned during the podcast that it wasn't as good as the last couple of years... but as I think about it now I reckon I was a bit unfair. There was lots of interesting work on display - I'll have to pop back before the show finishes this weekend. Anyway, this photo was taken from the balcony in the main hall. That chap d...

The podcast returns after a short vacation to New York City! Today's rambling tales cover such subject matter as lactose intolerant sickness and the playgrounds of NYC. Also, many apologies if you attempted to listen to this show live. Dodgy internet issues plagued the show, and the web connection seemed to give out halfway through. Hopefully the recording will be fine. I must sort this out before...

Ahem. Look, in my defence I did say that the last podcast was going to be the last REGULARLY SCHEDULED podcast for a while. And it is, what? 9 or 10 days since the last one? So that's irregular. Otherwise this is basically what you've come to expect. Rambling and music. This time the rambling is from my new standing desk contraption - aka a chest of drawers with a half open drawer and strategicall...

So this year I went off to Record Store Day with the express intention of buying one record at the most. It's not because of some fashionable stand against the concept, more just a lack of enthusiasm for the whole thing. So I bought one record, and spent more time in the Library reading books to Edinburgh Man Junior than I spent in any record shops. How times have changed. Unfortunately, when I go...

Let's make this quick. I'm under the weather AGAIN! How many illnesses must Edinburgh Man Junior bring into this house before my immunse system shutsdown completely. My throat is sore again this week so it's very much a light on chat show. No really. Honestly. Dog Legs - "Holiday" (Played courtesy of Soft Power Records) Storm the Palace - "Popular Science" (Played courtesy of Storm the Palace) Hen...

So last night I went to see Tigercats, Plastic Animals, and Fever Dream at Henry's Cellar Bar. It was the first standing up gig I've been at all year! I was going to go out again tonight and see Stanley Brinks and Freschard, but more than 14 hours of standing yesterday seems to have had an adverse reaction on this old man’s back. However, earlier on today, before I'd decided to spend this evening...

On tonight's podcast: 1) I use a flimsy looking iPad stand - let's hope it doesn't fall over halfway through with "hilarious" consequences. 2) Edinburgh Man Junior sings random lyrics to "The Farmers in the Dell" loudly from the other room. No doubt this isn't picked up by the microphone and you probably assume it's all in my head. 3) I have notes! On paper! And I manage to get even more confused...

Time for another exciting edition of the Edinburgh Man Podcast! And again, it's not a live show. I've done something to the live server so that it won't stream for more than 5 minutes. I will fix it at some point, but not tonight because, as always, I've left it all to the last minute. Actually, I haven't left everything to the last minute. I did a whole load of preparation for tonight's show, inc...

Oh, hello. Apologies for the lack of podcasts for the last two weeks. For the first week I came down with an unpleasant dose of tonsillitis, so I thought it best to postpone. And this time last week we were off to the sick kids hospital with Edinburgh Man Junior, so podcasting wasn't really at the forefront of our minds. Anyway, the good news is that everyone is healthy again so normal service can...

No live podcast tonight I'm afraid. But there is this one... this one was recorded last night. Dr Nic was out last night and Edinburgh Man Junior seemed to be rather soundly asleep, so I thought I'd record the podcast 24 hours early. It also seems like Dr Nic and I haven't had a night in for ages, so if I did a pre-record then we'd have Thursday evening to ourselves. I realise that sounds romantic...

It's happening. I'm getting addicted to coffee again. Look! I've got a full card of stamps from Artisan Roast so the next one is free! This is how they get you... Earlier on this week the soundtrack to my morning coffee in Artisan was Django Reinhardt, and as a result I felt compelled to play some on the podcast. If you're not aware of the "78rpm and Cylinder Music Collection" at archive.org I sug...

Hmmm... The podcast is about to start in 5 minutes and it looks like Bandcamp's website is down for maintenance. Not a problem for music but I sort of rely on it for the information about the bands and tracks I play on the show. In fact, I 100% rely on it and if it doesn't come back then the chat is going to be pretty thin on the ground. I suppose it's not as bad as the bands who rely on it for ac...

Hopefully the torrential rain outside the window at Edinburgh Man towers doesn't get picked up by the microphone on this week's Tuesday night podcast. It's been snowy, cold, sunny (for a short while at least), sleety and rainy today. I was supposed to pick up the scooter today from a garage out in the wilds of East Lothian. I decided not to bother. Last time that sort of thing happened it wouldn't...

The second podcast of the week! I'm not totally convinced I've got this thirty minute podcast thing sorted out - it feels so weird. It's also a bit strange because it's the second podcast using my DIY standing podcasting station - which is basically a collection of boxes stacked randomly. At any point the show may abruptly end because I've knocked something over in some sort of podcast jenga. Anyw...

Ahahahah. I'm already regretting this two podcasts a week lark and I haven't even started the first one. Hopefully you didn't listen live, and instead went to see Deerhoof in Glasgow. In a spectacular babysitting fail I'm unable to go and see one of my favourite ever bands. Organisational disaster. Never mind, there's a packed musically eclectic podcast for you today including multiple tracks from...

Back when I started this podcast I made it 30 minutes long. Partially because I had no idea what I was doing, but mostly because I thought that 30 minutes was a good length of time for a new music podcast. Over the years it hass grown in size to 45-60 minutes in length for a variety of reasons. However, recently I've been listening to lots more podcast during my commute, and I still think there is...

What a day. Today was the day I tried (and loved using) a standing desk. I know, I'm about two years too late to this fad, but now, as I sit (SIT!) at my normally podcasting console I wish I had a standing desk for that too. That said, I'm a bit shattered. I guess standing up for most of the day probably contributed to that somewhat. In fact, I'm really looking forward to lying down. On the podcas...

It's the first rambling podcast of the year... and I'm not ready for it. Firstly I couldn't even find the cables that would allow me to broadcast live. And secondly I had at least four, maybe five, abortive attempts at starting the show. We got there in the end though. I also have a new years resolution - if I don't have anything interesting to say I'm just going to play some music. How did I get...

It's the end of year podcast - the last one of 2014. As such I'm tucking into an array of left over Christmas food and drink, including a nice red ale and the remnants of a cheese selection. All the good cheeses have gone mind you, and I'm stuck with Wensleydale and Cranberry. There's also a gingerbread house... although that's been kicking around for a couple of weeks so I suspect it's not a grea...

I have port (both store bought and home made) and a thumb piano. This can only mean it's the first part of the annual Edinburgh Man end-of-year poll results show. Throughout the month of December listeners to the podcast have been voting for their five favourites tracks from 2014 that were played on the show. These votes have been counted and crunched and the resulting list will be played over two...

Ah, the last regular podcast of the year. And the good news for me is that I can now drink again. To celebrate I've cracked open the Aldi Tawny Port (which is rather nice) and pulled together the most chilled out, and slightly festive playlist that I could managed. In fact, I was tidying up this week and found some homemade white "port" lurking at the back of a cupboard in a demijohn. I haven't ta...

I don't know why I'm bothering to do this podcast - it won't be as riveting as Serial, right? You've been listening to Serial haven't you? No? Well, stop reading this nonsense and go and listen to it right now. For some reason I thought there were only ten episodes of Serial so I held of starting it until they'd all been released. And this week I listened to them all while walking to and from work...

Regular listeners will remember that my MacBook died recently and I've been having to use an antiquated computer instead. Well, the good news is that thanks to potentially counterfeit spare parts from eBay it's back up and running! So today's image is the Mac as it went under the knife... or the screwdriver... So it's working - albeit with a bit more sellotape than is probably to be recommended. M...

Tonight I've managed to cobble up an alternative computer for broadcasting the podcast live - the result of which means I'm podcasting with a massive screen in front of me. It feels almost professional, if it wasn't for the fact I've fiddled with the microphone settings and can't get it back to the way it used to be. I spend the whole podcast sitting very still because every little bump seems to m...

Another new podcast and another new cup. Perhaps I should always make the photos for the podcast a picture of my current hot drink in my most recently purchased mug. This mug is from Edinburgh's fantastic Artisan Roast. Coffee of distinction for sure. On today's podcast I'm a bit grumpy. There are many contribution factors from technology with in-built obsolescence to peeing toddlers. What fun. Mu...