Edinburgh Man Podcasts

We're back! Not only that but summer seems to have arrived in Edinburgh. Like REAL summer. Hot and sunny and generally rather wonderful. So wonderful that I couldn't really face being cooped up inside recording a podcast. As a result it's one of those no doubt intensely irritatingly, badly recorded ones that I do from the streets and canals of the city. I also left you with a bit of a cliffhanger...

A pre-recorded podcast tonight! Doctor Nic is leaving the Edinburgh Men (Senior and Junior) for a while, so preparations are afoot every evening this week. As a result, instead of the regular live show there's a pre-recorded one from atop a very sunny Calton Hill in Edinburgh. It's also the last podcast for a couple of weeks on account of summer holidays, so luckily there's some decent music in he...

A Friday night podcast. How confusing. And how rock-and-roll. I forgot that last night was Leith Late, where shops and pubs all along Leith Walk have special events and in-stores. Actually, perhaps saying "I forgot" is somewhat incorrect. As has happened for the last three years I didn't realise until a flood of twitter and Facebook messages about it on the day itself. Anyway, rather than do the p...

THE LAZY EDINBURGH MAN MID-YEAR REQUEST SHOW! Look at all those wires! That's the sort of nonsense needed to do the lazy Edinburgh Man mid-year request show. Yep, for the second year in a row I've been really busy at the start of June. So much so that I wasn't able to do ANY preparation for tonight's show. So I turned the playlist over to the twittering listeners - and (thankfully) they came up wi...

The irrelevant photo accompanying this week's podcast is because I've been continuing to walk to work for the last month. 7 miles round-trip each day in an effort to be less fat. By-and-large this is working, although it has resulted in the destruction of two pairs of Converse, which to be fair were already passed their best. Anyway, I am now using "proper" "grown-up" walking shoes as I go to work...

What...? WHAT...!? I'm starting off the podcast by playing some Disco (or DIYSCO to be more precise). What is going on here? Yep, it's an upcoming release on Soft Power Records from Dublin's Tieranniesaur. I couldn't help it. When I first heard the track I was like, "Hmm, not sure that it really fits into the podcast" But after about the sixth listen I figured the decision had been made. Perhaps t...

I know I know that I shouldn't... especially when there are at least two great looking gigs this Saturday night, but I can't help myself. It's Eurovision. Car crash television for sure. Forget about watching Doctor Who behind the sofa - this is the scary one. Terrifying song after terrifying song, terrifying presenter after terrifying presenter, terrifying satellite link-up after terrifying satell...

Poor Edinburgh Man Junior... Last he surprised us with a late night vomit. Lovely. As a result Edinburgh Man Senior's plans to go to the Sparrow and the Workshop launch gig tonight have been cancelled. As some sort of conciliation we start the show off with a great track from their new album. There's also a play of the new single by Adam Stafford, both on Song, by Toad records. They really need to...

Oh, man. I spent too much money on Record Store Day. Such a sucker. On the plus side I have lots of cool new vinyl to listen to, so there's that. The day itself was good fun - starting off in Avalanche, then passing by Coda on The Mound to check out their new vinyl room, and finally heading down to Stockbridge to catch Wounded Knee on the steps of Voxbox... And all that before lunchtime! I also po...

Another exciting early podcast. As I was recording this my throat was getting progressively croakier, but I soldiered on like a trouper. I'm sure it was only a couple of weeks ago I last had a sore throat. Kids, eh? Anyway today's podcast has more than a little Records Store Day theme. Look, I know most of the releases are overpriced and aimed at suckers. But I like vinyl, and I'm a bit of sucker,...

Right. What's been happening this week? 1) I've been doing a daily podcast at junior.edinburghman.com for #30daysofbiking. Initially I thought it would be an interesting daily podcast where I cycle to glamorous locations around in Edinburgh. In fact it's normally me speaking into my phone somewhere along my commute. 2) Edinburgh Man Junior (the real one) has been waking up early all week. Teeth re...

A "secret" "live" podcast this week! Normally I do the podcast live. 8pm every Thursday (put it in your diaries). This week, however, I did something a bit different. Basically getting the live podcast ready requires a bit of faffing about.. preparing this and that, getting the technology working... that sort of thing. Today, and in fact all this week, has been pretty busy so I wasn't able to get...

Sniff, sniff, sniff... Yet another cold thanks to Edinburgh Man Junior's snail-like trail of snot he's been leaving around the house. Just in time for a four day weekend too! Woohoo! As ever, I planned not to speak much in an effort to save my throat. As ever, that didn't quite pan out like I intended. Fuelled by some Drambuie (free samples welcome) and Hershey's Kisses (hmm... maybe not) we get t...

It's one of those weeks where I feel like I'm just fighting off tiredness. There's been a lot of those of the last year of so. To be fair, today I actually am fighting off tiredness. For the purposes of work I had to go down to London yesterday. Partly because of a general aversion to the extortionate cost, but also a general aversion to all airports we went down on the train. The 5.40am train. Th...

Thursday again! The weeks just fly by don't they? You know, I think I've missed the three year anniversary of the podcast. It was sometime towards the end of February if my memory is correct... which it rarely is. Anyway, last year I think we figured out it the podcast came into being on the same day that Stu Lewis started The Tidal Wave of Indifference blog. As if that wasn't enough of a weird co...

The plan was to do this one live for the first time in a couple of weeks, albeit an hour earlier than normal. Basically over the last week or so Edinburgh Man Junior has been waking up in the evenings... and waking up with a certain amount of volume. As if by some sixth sense exactly 9pm too. Obviously Doctor Nic would be around, but like I say he's a bit loud. I mean really loud. So, hopefully he...

I've used that photo before haven't I? Ah well. So another pre-recorded podcast this week. Basically my Thursday night was gearing up to be a night of craziness, so I recorded this early on. In the end it was fortuitous that I did because Edinburgh Man Junior (who normally doesn't make a sound all night) kicked off big style at the normal podcasting hour of 9pm. Eventually he settled down about 40...

Oops. So I forgot that I was going out tonight. Pictish Trail and eagleowl at The Caves, no less. Unfortunately it clashed with the normal podcast time, so some rescheduling was required. I did try asking the bands via the medium of twitter if they'd be up for moving it, but sadly they weren't. So instead there's a prerecorded edition of the show this week. Even more excitingly I did one of those...

So... that experiment doing the podcast on a Tuesday night didn't last very long. We're back! On a Thursday! This feels more normal anyway. Oh, and it's Valentine's Day too. As such this week's podcast is guaranteed 100% romance free. There's even a track about a penis, so what more can you ask for. I've also got a sore throat and cough - in fact, that's why the podcast didn't happen on Tuesday ni...

And... we're back in the room. February 2013 already. Crazy. Another year and still no jet pacs, etc, etc. After taking my now annual "holiday", at least from the world of podcasting and by-and-large social media, you'd think I'd be all refreshed. Well, you'd be wrong. Hopefully the paracetamol will kick in early on during the podcast and we can all enjoy some top new tunes. Scotland's finest Rand...

I have my party hat on, which can mean only one thing... It's the best tracks of 2012! Numbers 25 down to (that all important) number one. Hooray! For the first three weeks of December the listeners to the Edinburgh Man Podcast have voted in their hundreds (yes, really) for their favourite three tracks that were played on the show throughout 2012. This isn't meant to be a definitive best of the ye...

That time of year again. It's the first half of the best tracks from 2012 as played on the podcast, and as voted by the listeners. Again I thought I'd have to combine the results of the poll with my own list, but in the end hundreds and hundreds of votes were came in. So with the exception of a few equal placed entries somewhere in the forties where I made a casting vote, this is basically your po...

Last Friday I went to the Song, by Toad Christmas party at Summerhall in Edinburgh. It consisted of a brilliant line-up of bands and artists from the record label. As well as being the launch gig for the new EP by King Post Kitsch, there were also sets by newly the signed (announced on the night no less) Adam Stafford and Sparrow and the Workshop. It was a top evening, and much (Song, by Toad) bee...

WITH DAVID MACGREGOR FROM KID CANAVERAL The nights are fair drawing in. On this cold, damp December evening the podcast is brightened up with a visit by David MacGregor from Edinburgh's Kid Canaveral. Not only has he brought his sparkling wit, but also two tracks from their upcoming album, "Now That You Are A Dancer", which comes out in March on Fence Records. The Canaveral's new single "Low Winte...

It's an early doors podcast! 11 o'clock in the AM. Can you believe it? As if that wasn't already crazy enough, I've just finished cooking a chilli. Mad. Anyway, today is a day off. Or at least, a day off work. It's not really a day off. I had a spare hour today and thought it might be fun to sneak in a daytime podcast. I've also got the gasman coming to fix the boiler (I'm writing this before the...