Edinburgh Man Podcasts

Tonight the podcast may jump the shark. On last week's show, for very little reason, I played some great tracks that have been featured on the podcast over the last almost 5 years. I was going to do something similar today because I quite enjoyed making it up as I went along, and entertaining suggestions from listeners on Twitter. However I accidentally sorted the playlist consisting of everything...

After last week's show in which I played a track by Schwervon someone tweeted at me to say (admitting they hadn't listened for a while) that they really enjoyed it and were keen hear more... A quick glance at my "previous podcasts" playlist in iTunes suggest they're one of the most played artists on the show! Anyway, this got me thinking. I've played a lot of things on the show over the last 5is y...

Halloween is here, so that means processed cakes are now available only in orange - such as this mildly disgusting "fiendish fancy". Luckily some vanilla rooibos tea with almond milk will wash the taste away... is there anything more middle class than that? Anyway, in celebration of halloween the show starts with "Swamp Thing" by Schwervon! from their brilliant 2003 album Poseur. They played a gre...

Look at that view! That's the view from my new office window. Pretty nice... I mean, aside from the tops of the buildings. You can see Calton Hill and everything. I am, however, pretty wiped tonight. Mainly because the last few days have involved carrying lots of boxes and computer equipment upstairs from our old ground floor office to the new one somewhere up in the roof. Anyway, the view is nice...

Regular listeners will remember that my MacBook recently died. Well in the last week my iPhone has started to head in a similar way. Damn you Apple. Despite my best coaxing it's proving impossible to copy music onto it. So that's my new music player right there. Retro listening. I can, however, fit about three time as much music on it, so it's not all bad. I've been dealing with a sick child today...

Incredibility I went to a gig this week. Alec from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah played at Matthew from Song, by Toad's house on Friday night. And it was a great gig. That's the photo I accidentally took on the bus through town on the way back home. Soaking wet and fortified by Icelandic white beer. No, I don't know either. On today's podcast most of the tracks seem to be a few years old, including THA...

Cassette Store Day! What's that all about then? I'm not entirely sure but I seem to have finished the day having bought more cassettes that I had done in the previous year. It's a special outside broadcast podcast as the Edinburgh Man family make the trek from the south west of Edinburgh to Stockbridge in the north to purchase some crazy limited cassettes from Vox Box Records. Experimental recordi...

A friend of mine used this phrase on his Facebook page recently and I'm going to shamelessly appropriate it - I've reached a feeling of Zen with regards to Thursday's Scottish independence referendum. I've got friends on both sides of the debate, as I'm sure most of us in Scotland have, and most of them seem to have the best interests of the country at heart. The most incredible thing is to have w...

Oh hello. It's another slightly randomly scheduled podcast. I write this sitting in the garden as Edinburgh Man Junior runs around the vegetable beds. Don't worry though, he's not in this indie-pop biased edition of the show - I recorded it over lunchtime this afternoon as I was working from home. Well I was supposed to be working from home, but after finishing it I decided I needed some caffeine...

What's with the milk bottles I hear you cry. I've been making milk. From nuts! It's crazy, I know. I never knew such a thing was even possible, and now I'm addicted to it. I guess it's the same part of me that likes making beer or wine or bread or any number of things that are easier and cheaper to get from a shop. Cashew is my current favourite. That and almond. Don't try sunflower though. That's...

So Edinburgh Man Junior is doing this thing at the moment where he won't stay in his bed if he's awake. As you can imagine this is playing havoc with the live podcasting schedule. The early evening routine basically involves me reading Julia Donaldson books in a whispery voice until he falls asleep. By which time my voice is wrecked and I need to fortify my throat with red bush tea and copious amo...

As with many of these live podcasts, this one almost didn't happen. Not that it probably would have mattered - no-one tweeted at me, so I don't know if it was even working. Anyway Edinburgh Man Junior got his first bike today. Or rather it's almost a bike. It has wheels a seat and handle bars, but not much else. But getting him off it and into bed this evening was a bit of a challenge. Luckily he...

I'm still under the weather this week, but like the trouper that I am I've done gone and made one of these podcast shows for you, albeit with a bit less chat than normal. I couldn't resist putting that picture up there. I know that it's two weeks in a row a train themed image has been used for the podcast artwork, but last weekend we took Edinburgh Man Junior to the steam railway at Bo'ness. I was...

The podcast is back on home turf this week after a couple of weeks in Toronto. And guess what? It's not a live one. For a number of reasons. Firstly I'm a wee bit ill, in some pain, and doped up on antibiotics which seem to be affecting my stomach in undesirable ways. You didn't need to know that, did you? Also Edinburgh Man Junior is undergoing some "sleep training" which sounds far more regiment...

The second of two podcasts recorded in Toronto, featuring an all Torontonian playlist, and more rambling chat from the palatial waterfront Airbnb condo that is the Edinburgh Man family home for the last two weeks. Edinburgh Man Junior is improving, and we even managed to do touristy things for the last few days. We went up the CN Tower and Edinburgh Man Junior was fascinated by the glass floor. So...

Greetings from sunny Toronto! It's actually been really sunny. Despite the fact that nearly every day the weather has said that it's going to rain. Perhaps these Ontarians are a pessimistic bunch? If only this really mattered - most of the time has been spent indoors looking after a sick Edinburgh Man Junior. In terms of this week's music it's all from Toronto bands or artists, and it's a rather e...

I should have recorded this podcast on a tram shouldn't I? I missed a trick there. Unfortunately the thought didn't occur to me until halfway through the podcast. Never mind. There were some grumblings from various sources about last week's (early morning) podcast that seemed to suggest it contained a bit too much rambling and uninteresting chat. So this week I try desperately not to talk as much....

Last night I realised that tonight is the launch gig for the Bastard Mountain album. Oh, and tomorrow night it's Moon Hop with Withered Hand and Meursault amongst others. So basically I could either wait until the weekend or do the podcast earlier. And when I say early I mean early. It's a morning podcast this week on Edinburgh Man, recorded at 9.30am. Of course, thanks to Edinburgh Man Junior I w...

A couple of years ago I used to be addicted to this little puzzle. And when I say addicted I mean I used to play it every day for about 12 months. For some time it's been hidden away behind a pile of junk, but unfortunately today I found it. I'm a fan of Rubik's Cubes, but they have a method to their madness. This thing, as far as I can tell, is pretty much pot luck. Anyway, you'll be glad to know...

It's the first podcast for a couple of weeks and I'm in a foul mood. We don't really get to the bottom of this during the podcast - it's either because of the ongoing rubbish internet at Edinburgh Man Towers... or maybe because I was swizzed out of free cake at Brew Lab... or perhaps it's just the continued existence of the UKIP. Who knows? Anyway, no matter. There no sensible justification for it...

So the good news is that I've dumped the ISP that gave me so much grief when I was doing last week's live podcast. The bad news is that it doesn't change over until next week... and I'm not even in the country next Thursday so that won't be a live one then either. Also - an apology. Last week on the show I spent quite a bit of time talking about bodily fluids. Specifically with references to the t...

So for the last 5 days Edinburgh Man Junior has been toilet training. I promise I shall really try not to talk to much about bodily functions. Honest. Anyway, I tell you this in case the normally high-quality audio of the podcast is punctuated with the sound of a overworked washing machine on spin cycle. Other exciting things that happened this week include the annual wallet emptying event that is...

I'm totally utterly jet-lagged. I've just got back from a two day work trip to the US. Basically I had almost enough time to adjust to the heat and the timezone before getting back home. And since then I've been largely cold, broken and passing out rather than falling asleep. Anyway, as a result last night's podcast didn't happen at the normally scheduled time. So instead we have a daytime special...

Another podcast, another series of technical cock-ups. This week on the podcast I thought I'd attempt to do a live show, however the new Internet at Edinburgh Man towers is of a lower quality than it used to be, so it was a non-advertised live show. I'm not even sure if it worked for the full 45 minutes, or if anyone listened this week. I really should figure out how I can find out that informatio...

That moody photo there is tonight's atmospheric podcasting station. It feels strange to be starting the podcast when it's (almost) still light outside. Hooray for daylight saving time. I must apologies yet again for 1) a croaky throat and coughing which resulted in more music and less chat, and 2) it not being a live podcast again. This week the lack of liveliness has nothing to do with Edinburgh...