Edinburgh Man Podcasts

Another pre-recorded podcast tonight on account of Edinburgh Man Junior current avant-garde approach to sleeping. In fact it's the second of two attempts at recording today's show. First of all I thought it would be a great idea to record the podcast walking down the canal tow-path. This was without checking the weather, which would have shown me that there were twenty mile an hour winds at the ti...

Would you believe it? Edinburgh Man Junior has gone and brought MORE lurgie into the house. MORE! This shocking turn of events has resulted in yet enough week where your struggling host is fighting back the urge to cough up all manner of nastiness over the microphone. As a result, it's a pre-recorded podcast tonight. I knew my voice wouldn't be able to hold out for a continuous recording. That sai...

With hindsight I probably should have taken a picture of that chocolate cheesecake before I polished it off. But to be honest my brain wasn't planning that far ahead. On that plate there used to be a bazillion calorie slice of cheesecake which I ate while playing Withered Hand's "California" on the podcast. One of these things (or possibly both) made me come over all wobbly. Anyway, today's podcas...

The podcast returns from a short and unexpected break! Many apologies for the lack of show over the last two weeks. Edinburgh Man Junior brought some hideous flu-like lurgie back from nursery. He was ill for about 4 days then bounced back. I, however, spent the best part of the next week in bed, curled up in a foetal position, moaning. Even after the flu eventually passed I was left with an annoyi...

If you listened to the podcast last week you will have heard me recounting recent the issues we've had at Edinburgh Man Towers with our telephone line being crossed with the line from one of our neighbours. Well, last week we thought it was all fixed, but since then it's turned out that it's as broken as ever. So much so that the Internet is incredibly slow, and even more incredibly unreliable. He...

Contain your excitement. The podcast has returned. I'm sure every year a large proportion of the listeners think (or more likely hope) the podcast won't come back after the annual January hiatus. No such luck, I'm afraid. Here it is, and it's as rambling as ever. Prepare to be regaled with talk of telephony woes, migraines, broken headphones, and pooing in the pool. Sorry. Music-wise a new version...

Boxing Day 2013. I have a cold. Not just a regular cold. But one of those really annoying colds that you only ever seem to get at the Christmas holidays. Trouper that I am I've stocked up on drugs, menthol oils, lozenges, cups of tea and Toblerone. I reckon we should be able to make it through the two hour epic that is the BEST OF 2013 PART 2 no problem. It's a pretty exciting list too. Eight of t...

Time to crack out the port and cheese. It's the Thursday before Christmas which can only mean that tonight is the first of two shows counting down the top fifty tracks played on the podcast through 2013! As voted by the listeners. Or at least the friends and followers of the listeners. Anyway, it's a great list. And this year the top two places were only separated by a single voter! But that's get...

It's the last "proper" podcast of the year! And by that I mean that next week is the first of two shows featuring the results of the always exciting end of year poll. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. This week I'm beginning to feel a bit festive, helped in part by the fact Edinburgh's ballboy have just released a great Christmas EP, and in part because Edinburgh Man Junior keeps wandering up...

Taking a break from the never-ending washing of beer bottles to record tonight's podcast. I knew there was a reason I stopped making beer. Bottles, bottles and more bottles. It seemed like such I good idea when I started making this American-style "holiday" beer for Christmas. It's not the boiling of sticky liquids, or syphoning beer from bucket to bucket that's a pain. But washing 40 pint bottles...

More pre-recorded shenanigans from Edinburgh Man this week. It's been a pretty busy week in terms of gigs for a change. Tuesday was Low, tonight it's Euros Childs, and Friday it MAY be Shellac... If I have any energy left. So because of all this giggage (which to be honest would have been par for the course back when this podcast first started) I thought I'd do a 'live music' podcast. It also may...

Yet another exciting and professional pre-recorded podcast. With tonight's guest microphone stand: Michael Barrier's "Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age". After last week's rather rambling live podcast, I've decided to go back to making notes before doing the show. Notes! In any event the notes are somewhat secondary, and instead we end up with meandering stories about vomiti...

Ramble, ramble, ramble. I'm so sorry. I think I probably need to start doing a bit more preparation for these podcasts. What can I say? Many apologies. In other news you'll be pleased to know we're still eating the candy we stole from the neighbourhood kids last week on Halloween. The massive pumpkin still hasn't been carved (it'll soup by the weekend). In fact he's now been joined by a little fri...

A proper bedroom podcast for you tonight. It's Halloween, and we really were going to get into the spirit. Honest. We bought a pumpkin, and bags of sweeties for the neighbourhood guisers (that's what we call 'trick or treaters' in these parts), and everything. But then we realised that the doorbell ringing would wake up Edinburgh Man Junior... so tonight the front of the flat is in darkness, as we...

It's very special Friday night podcast! Well, perhaps not that special. Apologies for anyone who missed their fix of the podcast yesterday. On Thursday night I went through to Glasgow to see Swearin' and Waxahatchee. Obviously if I had planned it properly I would have pre-recorded the podcast in advance, but naturally that didn't happen. I also drove through to the gig last night in the car. What...

Apologies to any live devotees, it's yet another pre-recorded podcast. Interestingly, this one is recorded cross-legged on the floor in the living room. Well, actually the first half was me kneeling on the floor until I realised that I'd managed to lose most of the feeling in my legs. Enough of that rambling, perhaps a bit of garage rock vibe going on with this week's podcast? We start off with th...

Tonight! Just a quick time-out from the nail biting anticipation of finding out which missing episodes of Doctor Who have been found to record a podcast. Actually - I was just sitting on the sofa about ten minutes beforehand thinking "I know there was something else I was going to do tonight. Oh yeah, the live podcast!". So on this week's show your erstwhile podcaster is rather flustered as we ram...

A poptastic pre-recorded show from Edinburgh Man towers this week with special guests Nye and Adam Todd from Edinburgh's finest purveyors of shambling indie-pop The Spook School! We had some fun chat for just under an hour and listened to some top tunes. Both tracks from the Spook's most recent single are featured, including "I'll Be Honest" which is also on their new album "Dress Up" - out on For...

For the first time in ages I'm actually going out to a gig tonight! I know! The launch gig for RM Hubbert's new album, featuring a spoken word set by Aidan Moffat - should be a top night out. Anyway, as a result you have a pre-recorded podcast this week. It also seems to be a particular eclectic mix of music. Instrumental banjo, 80's inspired electro-pop, country, and a track from the always uncla...

The podcast returns after a brief (one week) hiatus. Apologies - last week I was in a bit of a funk so there was no show. Many many apologies for this. It doesn't happen very often (does it?). I should really record some spare shows to put out in the event of illness, technical issues, or general laziness. Anyway on today's show... some live recordings from Mogwai and Kimya Dawson. In fact, I go a...

Sea salt and cracked black pepper pretzels. Cheap gin and cheap tonic. Surely the two required ingredients for a top podcast? On today’s show I tried really hard not to ramble very much, but things didn’t turn out quite like I planned. Some great music though including the title track of the brilliant debut album from By Toutatis, a new track from Elizabeth Morris, and a fantastic tune from No Dit...

Well this is weird. The podcast is back! After three weeks off we return with loads of great new music. Well, mostly new music and one or two older tracks. In actual fact, while the podcast has been on a break I haven't. For the last three weeks the Edinburgh Man podcast has been appearing in the guise of a radio show on Edinburgh's Fresh Fringe streaming radio station as part of the Edinburgh Fri...

I do realise that many of my podcasts contain the words "I'm shattered", followed by some lame excuse about how I'm not going to a gig. Tonight is no exception. Remember all those podcasts I used to do where I'd review four or five gigs that I'd been to in the previous week? And now I'm just doing an early podcast so I can have a cup of tea and go to bed? On the plus side, I do really like both te...

I'm writing this blog post while at a gig... I know, I know. I should be looking at the band. It's Matt Norris supporting The Last Battle. He probably thinks I'm on Facebook or something. Anyway, it's terribly bad form so let's keep this brief. It was an early podcast tonight, mainly because I'm at this gig. Two gigs in a row too. Last night was The Spook School, Woog Riots and Finnmark! also at t...

I was actually a little bit nervous just as I sat down to record this podcast - the first live podcast in a month or so. Luckily I had the foresight to pour a nice glass of Dalwhinnie. DALWHINNIE! I'm sure at least once I referred to it as Drambiue during the show. Ah well, that's what happens when you drink. A mixture of newish and oldish stuff on the show tonight, oldish includes tracks from Big...