This is Toad Session #39 with Breakfast Muff, recorded on the 9th December 2016 in our warehouse recording space down in Leith - The Happiness Hotel. These guys have been our pals for a few years, since before the fantastic David Cameron's Eton

Toadcast #327 - Tim the Mute & Kim Gray Toad Session

Apr 28th, 2017 1h 14m

Tim the Mute and Kim Gray came over from Vancouver to tour in late Autumn and early Winter of 2016 and played a show for us at The Happiness Hotel on the 27th November. We managed to make time to squeeze in a wee Toad Session beforehand. Tim ru

Toadcast #326 - Lomond Campbell Toad Session

Jan 10th, 2017 1h 15m

Recorded on the 18th November 2016 before a warehouse show with Kwaing Creosite this gorgeous session shows two things: one, that Ziggy and his Pumpkinseed collaborators are superbly talented and two, that strings sound absolutely fucking gorge

Toadcast #325 - Storm the Palace Toad Session

Nov 16th, 2016

This was recorded at the Happiness Hotel back in early Summer 2016 on a gloriously sunny day in Leith. Storm the Palace were up in Edinburgh to record at Chamber Studio which happens to be just down the road from us so they took the opportunity

Toadcast #323 - The Arctic Circle

Oct 21st, 2016 1h 3m

Mrs. Toad and I, as you possibly know, went on something of an epic road trip at the end of July this year. We took the ferry to Amsterdam and drove up through Germany to Denmark, through Sweden via the Volvo Museum, and into Norway, where we w

Toadcast #323 - The Saharacast

Oct 11th, 2016 1h 10m

Firstly, NO I shall not be launching into a long-winded plea for acceptance over how long it has been since the last podcast. Other shit distracted me, as is always the case when someone doesn't do something. A lot of other shit, in this case.

Toadcast #322 - Rocky Votolato Toad Session

Sep 29th, 2016 1h 2m

Technically speaking, recording is banned from our living room, but erm, Mrs. Toad was away and Rocky was by himself so why the fuck not, eh? This was an odd mismatch. Originally the session was prepared for Chantal Acda, who was headlining the

Toadcast #321 - Red Hook

Jan 7th, 2016 1h 7m

Well as you probably know, Mrs. Toad and I spent the last quarter of 2015 living in Brooklyn - in Red Hook to be precise - and it was fucking amazing.Red Hook itself is a fucking brilliant neighbourhood. Still pretty industrial, but with loads

Toadcast #320 - The Lithpcast

Sep 18th, 2015 1h 3m

The Lithpcast is named after the rather impressive lisp I have developed since my dentist yanked my front-left incisor out of my mouth the other day and replaced it with empty space and stitches. There will be a new tooth bunged in there at som

Toadcast #319 - The Jailcast

Aug 20th, 2015 58m 34s

So Mrs. Toad and I are back from Rust2Romania (just) and before I throw myself into the second half of the Pale Imitation Festival I thought I might take the time to reflect on the rather epic adventure we just experienced.We have some of the

Toadcast #318 - The Palecast Vol.3

Jul 31st, 2015 1h 7m

Hiya folks, once again in advance of the glorious Pale Imitation Festival we have a podcast exploring all the weird and wonderful bands who will be playing in Edinburgh during August for your wild and enthusiastic entertainment.Because you're

Toadcast #317 - The Swisscast

Jun 25th, 2015 59m 54s

This is what is becoming the annual Rust2Rome podcast. Not so much intentionally as such, it's just that sitting in the car with tapes is pretty much the only music I've been listening to recently that's all, so that's what the podcast is from.

Toadcast #316 - The Sweepcast

May 12th, 2015 1h 4m

What a weird, monumentally depressing and yet slightly hopeful few days we've had. A majority elected Tory government basically labels whatever percent of the imbecilic British people who voted for them as rapacious, bullying, socially vindicti

Toadcast #315 - The Cherryblossomcast

Apr 24th, 2015 1h

Fuck me, sorry, I seem to have managed to not do one of these for about two months. That totally took me aback, I have to confess.Ah well, I suppose it was inevitable. Due to slightly ambitious scheduling we ended up with four or five releases

Toadcast #314 - The Motorwaycast

Feb 11th, 2015 1h 5m

I am going to be spending an awful lot of time on motorways in the immediate future (this is after a Manchester round trip last week as well) so I figured calling this the Motorwaycast made some sense. So many white lines, so many headlights.I

Toadcast #313 - The Outofdatecast

Jan 22nd, 2015 1h 1m

So many of the songs on this week's podcast should really have been played at the very least six months ago that, honestly, it's just a little bit embarrassing. Some of these came from emails which got utterly buried in my inbox, some from thin

Toadcast #312 - The Resolvecast

Jan 14th, 2015 1h 10m

So, with the first podcast of the year I suppose I should be doing New Year's Resolutions, right? I guess I do have some, sort of, for a change.Firstly, I didn't exactly keep on top of the label admin well enough last year - particularly the a

Toadcast #311 - Virgin of the Birds Toad Session

Dec 19th, 2014 1h 30m

Virgin of the Birds Toad Session from Song, by Toad on Vimeo. Photos – Flickr Video - Vimeo - YouTube Session tracks - Soundcloud – zip download (right click – save as) Interview podcast – mp3 – iTunes – Mixcloud (playlist at bottom of page) V

Toadcast #310 - The Tipcast

Nov 27th, 2014 1h 16m

Alright alright, so the name of this might have absolutely hee-haw relation to the actual content of the podcast. It's just that I went to the tip today in Bette, as I usually do, and they spat the dummy and tried to charge me commercial rates

Toadcast #309 - The Edincast

Nov 14th, 2014 1h 3m

I can't really believe I've not done an Edincast before. I mean, I live here, I work here, I run a label here and I go out to gigs here all the time. How has this not happened yet? I've done numerous Scottish ones, label ones, and even Manches

Toadcast #308 - Broken Records Toad Session v2

Nov 4th, 2014 1h 19m

So this is the second Broken Records Toad Session. We actually packed a band with four guitarists and a full drum kit into our living room and decided that, fuck it, of course it would sound fine. And you know what, somewhat magically it does.

Toadcast #307 - The Joecast

Oct 22nd, 2014 1h 2m

Yep, not gin anymore, these days I drink coffee with my podcasts. Nostalgia really isn't what it used to be, is it. I remember when I was wild, rude, inebriated, etc. etc...Mind you, seeing as I am driving through to Glasgow once I finish thi

Toadcast #306 - The Crumbscast

Oct 9th, 2014 1h 6m

This is called the Crumbscast for no better reasons than that I like the name and that it starts with a song called Crumbs, the new single by Jonnie Common. Given I've had to try and think up unique names for all of these bastard things anythin

Toadcast #305 - The Indycast

Sep 18th, 2014 1h 29m

This podcast is not really all that referendumy, I thin... actually, I suppose it is kind of. I'm sorry to do this to you, but it's more or less unavoidable at this stage because if you're in Scotland it's impossible to think of anything else.

Toadcast #304 - The Nearlycast

Aug 28th, 2014 1h 1m

So, here we are on August 28th and I have neeeeearly made it through another Pale Imitation Festival. Nearly. We still have tonight's awesome show with eagleowl, Ian Humberstone and Smackvan, and then the closing party on Saturday with PAWS, H