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4TH UNSIGNED PODCAST UP and a good job we got it out the way as you're about to be snowflurried into submission with the approaching onslaught of new podcasts from artists, labels and festivals. So this week we included tracks from At The Lake, Pablo Eskimo, Countryside, Freight, Belone, Shah, Adventure Club, Miss The Occupier, Blacktop and more.

1-Jun_06

The Hedrons Cometh!
..and my do they rock! they’ve just popped in the studio to talk through their new album and play a spot of fantasy band. the resultant podcast will be up shortly. word.
27-Apr-06

TRANSGRESSIVE/LADYFUZZ PODCAST

we may not get sick pay or a pension scheme here at iCast, but we do get to cram 5 spangly chatterboxes into a studio and record it for a days’ work. yes, the dust has just setteld after the departure of the lovely Liz and Matt from Ladyfuzz gamely escorted by toby and tim from transgressive records. a pleasant morning was spent eating grapes, spilling tea, chatting and playing music, and it’s all been recorded for the next transgressive/ladyfuzz podcast. more details soon…

21-Apr-06

…freelance hellrasier podcast…the kitchen sessions…being put together as we speak. ostensibly to give roy and his buddies a chance to tell you about his new album, Waiting For Clearance, the kitchen conversation often ends up straying into, frankly, disturbing territory. as the lovely limbed Cilla once said - there’s a lorra lorra laughs in there, and a fair few snips of tracks from the album. should be up in the next week.
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27-Mar-06
ok, ok, we admit it, we’re pretty rubbish at posting from drinkathons, invariably because the local hospitality renders us unable to type, but this time we had an excuse that even the darkest of overlords couldn’t sniff at. we landed and came home almost immediately due to outside circumstances. funny thing is, we still managed to catch some bloody marvellous bands and get a couple of podcasts prepared. so now you want to know which bands, eh? gadge - OK, OK here they are:

you say party! we say die!
protokoll
get cape. wear cape. fly.
magenta lane
love is all
cities
dustins bar mitzvah
serena maneesh

there’s more actually, but will save them for another day.
suffice to say that on top of that tears were shed at mogwai, hands raised at snow patrol, and glasses thrown at the excellent ladyfuzz show…….

more to follow…..
6-Mar-06
SNOW PATROL PODCAST IMMINENT! - yup, you read correctly! we here at iCast managed to hunt gary lightbody down like the overly talented dog that he is and forced him into a small room with the producer of snow patrol’s forthcoming album, mr garret lee. once heavily sedated in order to calm his overwhelming enthusiasm, gary and garret talked us through the forthcoming album, eyes open, track by track. download it and you’ll hear gary and garret’s thoughts on the creation of eyes open, along with snippets of every new track on the album. plus some interesting tidbits about recording with martha wainwright, tom’s keyboard skills and the inherent elusiveness of paul. it’ll be going up exclusively on the patrol site before being generally released a few days later for all to enjoy. and you will……

20-Feb-06
It’s the Bella Union podcast! we’ve only just dried our eyes after making this one - partly due to the hugely emotive music it contains, but also due to some of the marvellous comments Simon Raymonde, founder of Bella Union, makes about the nature of being an indie label, the joy of finding truly original bands and being able to put them out and a real sense of him actually giving a shit about the music and the bands on his label. you may not have heard of every band on the label, but by the end of 2006 you will have, so you might as well get in before Q magazine ruins it for all of us….you’ll hear the dirty 3, mazarin, devics, howling bells, fionn regan, the dears, new signings and hotly tipped my latest novel and many more. plus us having a good old spout about music, bands, gigs, and idiots. hurrah!

14-Feb-06
bugger me blind if it ain’t the SKINT podcast! we’re operating on more cylinders than a dyson in a sandstorm here, and, it would appear, borrowing turns of phrase from the great holy moly website. never mind, all of this will be forgotten once you wrap your lugs round the first ever SKINT RECORDS PODCAST. so good, it merits capitals. it was a pleasure to put this one together, as it becomes very easy to forget just how much of a contribution a label has made to the scene once it’s been around for a while. compiling the 10th anniversary podcast reminded us all about the delights of cardboard boxing on beaches to Fatboy Slim, staring hollow eyed at strangers to Alter Ego and mouthing along to words that don’t exist in the extensive lyrics of X-Press 2’s Lazy…. and just to remind you where skint are heading this year, there’s some stoaters in the form of Goose, Ralfe Band and Lucky Jim in there. we’ll be in our rave cave….
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12-Feb-06
well the Bella Union podcast is fast approaching, so back the heavy goods truck right to the warehouse door, as this one’s a big load and needs express delivery. suffice to say, before the trucking/convoy allegories expand and sully everything iCast has ever done, is pleases us to announce that we spent a very pleasant few hours shooting the breeze with mr Simon Raymonde - ex Cocteau Twin and more importantly for our purposes, the founder and guiding moon of Bella Union records. home to such lights in a dark musical hallway as Howling Bells, Dirty Three, Mazarin, Devics, the marvellous and stupidly unique My Latest Novel and many more. a perfectly good chat about the founding of the label and its acts enhanced my blasts of still warm musical perfection. out next week. natch.

10-Feb-06
The latest Transgressive Records podcast is up and it’s a cracker, even if i say so myself. This time it features the unique interviewing techniques of Messrs Toby and Tim geeking all over Regina Spektor - who takes it all in very good faith it has to be said. It’s also got great new tracks from Ladyfuzz, Battle, Good Books, Rumblestrips, The Young Knives, Burningpilot, The Noisettes and Jeremy Warmsley. SO worth it!

2-Feb-06
yeah well, we got to MIDEM and it was just Toooooooo dull to clog your lives up with, so we hit the bar and reported nothing. you would have done the same. anyways,. we just spent the day with toby and tim from the increasingly brilliant transgressive label. they’re reocrded another ‘unique’ podcast featuring their own vocal doodlings and a rather good interview with regina spektor. it’ll be up next week. if you can wait……

21-Jan-06
good grief, er, charlie brown. if it ain’t the beginning of the jaunts accross the water season already, and icast has packed its sneaky peepers wrap around glasses, loosely tied linen suits and a shit load of cologne and is ready to hit the somewhat tawdry sites of cannes for the MIDEM music conference. whilst we’re there we’ll be sticking up the new domino podcast for your ears and picking up some sweaty euro chat for your perusal. we’ll be posting a blog on our myspace page if you want to be at turns appalled and delighted by the loose moralled exploits of the music business fraternity. www.myspace.com/icast

12-Jan-06
it may well be 26 degress outside and frankly, the icast team have a beach party to get to (rave on full mooners!) but we thought it only polite to send you a little sunshine whilst we have ours, so the wichita records end of year special is now up on the icast site and very tasty it is too. Crackly transatlantic chats with The Bronx, Espers and Saul Williams and a nice cosy one with The Cribs after their NME tour show at the Brixton Academy. Oh - and ther best music Wichita has offered you in 2005. Enjoy.!
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1-Jan-06
well, i mean, how many times CAN you braid your niece’s hair, spike your mother’s drink and lie barefaced to your neighbours before deciding to hit the hard drive and deliver a christmas present somebody might actually want? not content with layering our hearts with goose fat we decided to haul our newly bulked up booty to the studio and hatch a Mylo podcast. It’s now live and living at www.icast.uk.com or in itunes. marvel at Mylo enjoying a relaxed chat with Gill over a few shandies and some shared memories. oh - and we’ll throw in some pre season friendly plays of what you can expect from Breastfed Records in 2006, including tracks from Ran Shani, Dada Life and Linus Loves….tasty… www.icast.uk.com

14-Dec-05

well we’ve been pleasantly shooting the various breezes with Joby from the Bronx and The Drips, Saul Williams, Greg from Espers and imminently - Kid 606. And what nice relaxed breezes they’ve been. Every man jack of them good fellows. You can hear the fruits of this , erm, labour next week sometime when it’s all cut into a spangly christmas podcast and delivered down your cyber chimney. or something….

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13-Dec-05

we’ve never been ones for the grass or even astroturf to grow under our feet, so decided to cram a whole load of podcasts into these last few weeeks of the year. just think, when you unwrap your spangly new mp3 player under the tree, you can then hastily dump the lovely folk that bought you it and bugger off to your room to get downloading all the latest music podcasts from icast. i mean, they’re not even showing a bond movie this year, so what else where you gonna do?
anyway - in the next week we’ll be putting up podcasts from domino and skint records.
domino? you say - yeah, home to Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Test icicles, The TV Personalities, Sons and Daughters, Archie Bronson Outfit and the frankly stunning third album from Clearlake.
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innit!

The Skint podcast will also contain cuts culled from the last ten years of skint recordings, as well as brand new releases from alloy mental, the ralfe band, goose and lucky jim. and just what, exactly have skint been tickling our ears with these past ten years? errrrr fatboy slim, midfield general, alter ego, dave clarke, x-press 2, cut la roc and the lo fi allstars. get in!
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25-Nov-05

now i’ve been told that I take a good photo…..but the one gracing the pages of this month’s Dazed and Confused mag gives the impression that I had been present at the taking of the photograph, but had left the scene only frames earlier, leaving merely an eery vacant willo - the - gill image behind. no-one, it seems, is safe from the bad photo days that seem so common. jordan… still, nice to see folk are getting their heads around the fun that can be had with podcasting. and how interesting it is to listen to the whole roster of acts on one label,getting a real sense of the ethos behind it. so cheers guys, even though my pals have been giving me pelters…..

and farewell Besty, hopefully your son will have the dignity to bow out of the limelight for a while….

and Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey? you know where the door is…..

24 - Nov - 05

Fuck me Paris is great, Luton isn’t…..bit spangly, but my goodness do those parisians know how to entertain you!
we’re all currently high on lard and tannin.
we’ve just been over there making friends and seeing mylo ’support’ moby. support??? what is moby, the world’s shittest football team? anyway, suffice to say that we’re away to buy a kidney from keith and get our moustaches waxed…..
will advise of our conduct shortly…..and yeah, the new Groenland records podcast went up today as well. I have to say Sweet Death are one of my new favourite bands….see if you agree

16-Nov-05

is it just us, or is the whole world permanently on myspace nowadays? and in which case, how does anyone get any work done? luckily we tread the fine line between application and dossing, so we just want to let you know we’ve put together the Groenland records podcast and it’s sounding mighty fine. flicking brilliant tunes form the likes of Sweet Death, Merz, Pet, Lunz and Sol Seppy. to name but a few…..should be up by the end of the week……
11-Nov-05

well well well. what a horrible day it’s been. well, I’m sure it has for the poor buggers who have to work in little ticky tacky boxes (thank you Weeds) for minimum wage. but not here at iCast towers. we’re delighted at our drowned in sound front page feature today, and indeed at the fact that we do not have to work for a domineering cock with serious oedipal issues and an overriding stench of sturgeon about them. apologies for a previous life flashback there. and deepest sympathies to anyone still caught in that horrible 1980’s work time warp. pull up a beanbag and enjoy the fruits of our realtively easy going labours. yes - the new wichita podcast is what i mean. what did you think????
09-NOV-05

busy busy here at icast towers ( a bit like fawlty, only with less physical humour). here’s some upcoming podcasts to listen out for. just tell your itunes podcast directory you want icast or go to our site to subscribe. www.icast.uk.com. innit. anyways….

Wichita Records EXCLUSIVE (that’s capital letters to you) Euros Childs solo album and chat with the ex Gorky’s frontman plus Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! album sneak previews.

Something In Construction podcast featuring exclusive session tracks and backstage chat with the very eloquent Guy from Christian Silva, and music from the startling Akira the Don, The Silent League, Lazarus, 69 Corp and a special Bloc Party mix.

and as if that’s not enough………

Transgressive records podcast fronted by the disarming men behind the label, Toby and Tim. Expect the likes of Larrikin Love, Regina Spektor, The Young Knives, Ladyfuzz and Jeremy Warmsley to at turns surprise and soothe you. A bit like a kitten’s tongue.

great, innit?

i spent yesterday asking ponderously obvious questions to poor old mylo yesterday as part of an epk to ‘introduce’ him to the US types. we ploughed gamely on through the evolution of the band etc but it actually turned into a pleasant way to spend an afternoon, and some good chat too. the best of which you’ll be able to hear on the next breastfed records podcast, up in a few weeks.