electrical language - unsigned music podcast

Saturday, June 09, 2007

podcast no 77 - turn off your radio: an appreciation of the tartanpodcast

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This week, Mark Hunter announced that after more than 2 years and the best part of 200 episodes (tartanpodcasts, Friday Happy Half hour Shows, Spotlight shows, Sleepy Sunday Shows and Mellow Monday Shows), he is bringing down the curtain on the tartanpodcast. This is the first podcast I listened to, 2 years ago, and it was the inspiration for the electrical language podcast. I have played many bands on this podcast that I first heard on the tartanpodcast. So this week's podcast is my appreciation of the tartanpodcast, in which I play 10 songs by 11 artists, all first heard on the tartanpodcast. I could have played 20. Or 30.

Here are links to two things you must read:

First, the BBC technology article about the tartanpodcast, posted on 5 June 2005. This is what started it all for me.

Second, Mark Hunter's blog post announcing the end of the tartanpodcast. Read all the comments.

The music:

1. Turn Off Your Radio (Turn Me On Instead) by Dropkick

2. My Heart Sinks by Hotrod Cadets

3. After All by The Hazey Janes

4. You (Always On My Mind) by Brackenridge morphing into the version by Evangeline

5. Sun Splits The Sky by Gum

6. Call Centre Blues by The Boy Lacks Patience

7. It Angers Me So by Finniston

8. Yeah, You Can Be My Muse by Amplifico

9. Interference by Electrum

10. Beggarstown by Hollow Horse

Contributions (read by me and audio) by:

Alastair Taylor (Dropkick)
Alastair Bishop (Hotrod Cadets)
Raymond Weir (Gum)
Paul and Judy Hutchinson (Total Podcastrophe)
Mark Hunter (but he doesn't know that!)

Moral support by Grant Mason and Linda Mills: thanks guys.

And thanks to Mark Hunter

6 Comments:

Mark - tartanstories.com said...: blooming good job on this, thanks for playing some of my faves. Much appreciated.; June 09, 2007 9:53 PM
Anonymous said...: superb, well done gabor. i would hope that someone could continue the show to keep the scottish music flag flying the podcast world. Its a shame to let that go completely. Although of course no one could ever quite fill mark's shoes! best wishes, donna (amplifico) x; June 11, 2007 3:24 PM
Grant - Three From Leith said...: Great show, Gabor. It was great to hear the songs again, some of which I'd forgotten all about. What's weird is that the Brackenridge track really gets me every time - I think it's the Hammond organ with the Leslie cabinet sound; reminds me of my late French penpal, who played the organ and that sound is just 100% tied to him in my memory. Sadness at the loss of the tartanpodcast and sadness remembering him and the great musical promise that was lost. I managed to hold the tears back on the bus, though (thankfully).; June 11, 2007 6:31 PM
Raymond said...: Great show, Gabor ... a fitting tribute to Mr. Hunter. It somehow felt right to close it with Kenny Little's epic track.; June 15, 2007 7:29 PM
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