Edinburgh Man Podcasts

Keeping with the theme, I’m also trying out a pair of varifocal glasses. So while I have some sort of notes for today’s show, I can’t really read them very well, so this is very much off the cuff.

Unless otherwise noted, all tracks are released under Creative Commons licences. See links for more details.

It’s Hogmanay! The detritus of Christmas surrounds us. The last few crackers are left unpulled, a few lonely boxes of chocolates are still to be eaten, and we soon must deal with the looming bells of the New Year. All of which means that it is time for the Edinburgh Man end of year show 2023! The 25 tracks, as picked by your erstwhile host as being the best of all the music (or at least all the creative commons music) played on the show over the last twelve(ish) months.

Hopefully you enjoyed listening to the podcast this year, and hopefully one or two of your favourites are featured in today’s show. Have a great New Year and I’ll see you in 2024.

[00:02:03] 25. Fog Lake – pedestal
[00:05:37] 24. Dating – Supercollider
[00:09:25] 23. War Fighters – Burdens Piled Feat Rafif Taufani
[00:14:29] 22. The Westerwaves – Penguin Pop
[00:17:42] 21. Vietnam II – Cargo (I Search Through the Night)
[00:20:48] 20. Modernheads – Old Crush New Year
[00:25:10] 19. Jeff Rosenstock – DOUBT
[00:30:01] 18. OOPF! – pennies
[00:33:42] 17. Comprador – Better Luck Next Time
[00:37:55] 16. keep it together – Power Lines
[00:41:36] 15. Osmiini – Sueño Escatológico
[00:44:40] 14. mmmarkos! – Motion
[00:47:48] 13. Brorlab – Shitty Oven
[00:49:37] 12. Wine Pride – Nostalgia
[00:52:50] 11. Cuties – Say Something Sweet
[00:57:10] 10. Drizzly – We’re on a Date!
[00:59:48] 09. WONDERFLU – Green Planet
[01:02:32] 08. Pine Point – Say It Again
[01:06:35] 07. The Cosmonautopolitans – Strained
[01:09:50] 06. Tossing Seed – The Flower Still Remains
[01:13:48] 05. Shiv and the Carvers – Heart in a Jar
[01:16:52] 04. Collate – Erika’s Trip
[01:20:07] 03. Grrrl Gang – A Fight Breaks Out At a Karaoke Bar
[01:22:53] 02. Hard Femme – Jenny Rambling
[01:27:24] 01. Final Passion – Perpetual Motion

Unless otherwise noted, all tracks are released under Creative Commons licences. See links for more details.

I’m hiding away as I record this week’s show – ostensibly the Christmas episode of the podcast. I’ve gone and left it too late and I now need to record the episode on the Saturday before Christmas, i.e. the first day the kids are off school. They are already at each other’s throats and starting to get very annoyed by my continued asking when they are going back to school.

Anyway, many thanks for listening to the return of the show over the last few months. I’m sort of getting used to doing these again, and for the most part they are weekly-ish. Hopefully next week (sometime between Christmas and New Year) I’ll be able to squeeze in a best of 2023 show. But until then, Merry Christmas!

[00:48] Slughole – Buried in the Snow (…My Mind)

Unless otherwise noted, all tracks are released under Creative Commons licences. See links for more details.

On today’s show jangly shambling Christmas music from Sheffield, punk from Spain, shoegaze from Australia, and some brilliant downtempo surf rock from Columbus, Ohio’s Vietnam II on netlabel blocSonic.

Unless otherwise noted, all tracks are released under Creative Commons licences. See links for more details.

On today’s show, mostly new tracks from releases that have been featured over the last few months. In one case it’s because the track is a wee bit festive, and in other cases it’s because they are great tracks that I wanted to play! There’s also a new track from a fantastic new album “Lost Dogs” by keep it together on Seattle’s friend’s house records.

Unless otherwise noted, all tracks are released under Creative Commons licences. See links for more details.

It’s the three hundredth podcast! Except it’s not, because I’ve always been fast and loose with the numbering. It’s probably more like number 350, but let’s pretend for a moment and bask in having reached this numeric milestone.

In keeping with previous significant numbered episodes, very little extra work has gone into this one. Although this time, it’s a double length show. A mixure of both new releases and classic podcast favs. All creative commons licensed. Some even on vinyl.

I had hoped for this to be a live show, but I’ve not quite got the live server running, so it’s prerecorded. Also, I used a creaky old iPad and some creaky old iPad softare, so the audio quality is… meh. Many apologies for that. I’ve had to run some extra compression in it too to even out the volume. So it’s probably going to sound like a badly tuned FM radio. But what else would you expect!

[00:38] The Westerwaves – Penguin Pop
[06:54] Keel Her – Riot Grrrl
[11:27] Grrrl Gang – A Fight Breaks Out At A Karaoke Bar
[14:41] Trust Fund – Cut me out
[20:26] Home Front – Nation
[23:55] Radiator Hospital – Fireworks
[28:41] Low Pines – Heavy Hander
[32:32] North Bloom – Rockstar, baby
[37:48] Schwervon – Truth Teller
[41:33] Pine Point – Say it Again
[46:29] Townhouse Woods – Cricket Hymn, Part I
[51:00] mmmarkos – Motion
[57:34] Swearin’ – Kenosha

Unless otherwise noted, all tracks are released under Creative Commons licences. See links for more details.

I was showing my work colleague some new photo management software I’ve been using, and I shared an album with him. “Why would someone have so many photos of coffee?” I mean, it’s probably a legitimate question. But my feeling is – why not? I’m sure about 50% of the images that I use for this podcast are coffee related, and if they aren’t then it’s time to up my game.

I’m feeling nicely caffeinated as I write this due to a new coffee grinder, which is much easier on this old man’s arm than the hand crank version. However not sufficiently caffeinated for this to be a live podcast. I’ve been experimenting with doing live shows again, and have even set up a site at live.edinburghman.com. However after spending half an hour fighting with and losing to streaming software, it just a normal pre-recorded show. Good music though!

[00:22] Bris – Errautsiko dira hiriak

Unless otherwise noted, all tracks are released under Creative Commons licences. See links for more details.

Apologies for the lack of podcast last week. The all new Edinburgh Man Towers is still, very slowly, being decorated and upgraded since we moved in over a year ago. Last week it was the turn of the Dining Room / Office / Music Listening Room to be rewired. The biggest room in the house, and room with the most stuff. All of which had to be cleared out for the work.

Of course, while the room was empty we thought it would be a good time to lay a new floor. By ourselves. So that was last weekend’s fun, and I’m still not really recovered. I’d love to say that you can’t tell, and that this week’s show is the pinnacle of professionalism, but you know…

[00:32] Final Passion – Perpetual Motion

Unless otherwise noted, all tracks are released under Creative Commons licences. See links for more details.

One of the most important things when it comes to making a podcast is planning. Planning. Not something that this show has much of. But not this time, this time the show was actually planned. Anticipating the fact that this week was the Edinburgh schools October holidays, your erstwhile host recorded the show last week, so all I had to do was write these notes and upload the show. The final point was touch and go for a while, but once the kids were occupied with playing videos games I managed to squeeze in just enough time to scribble this nonsense and hit publish.

On today’s show, indie folk from Rhode Island and Chile, indie-rock from Indonesia, post-punk from Edinburgh, and more.

Track 1 is not released under a CC licence and is included with kind permission of PK Bats.

[00:50] PK Bats – I Witnessed a Drowning

Tracks 2-6 are released under Creative Commons licences. See links for more details.

Back in the cupboard for today’s podcast. It’s still a wee bit cramped in here, but the acoustics are hopefully better. Let me know if it sounds good, bad or indifferent. You can get in touch with the show on social media via Mastodon (it’s pretty much only Mastodon now) at @[email protected]

On today’s show it’s another genre spanning world tour with anarcho hardcore punk from Arkansas, shoegaze from Brighton in the UK, post-punk from Indonesia, and art-rock from Oregon.

[00:51] DryerFire – Brainrot

All tracks released under Creative Commons licences. See links for more details.