get it right up ye, Drop.io
as you can see, we use drop.io for our filehosting here. its quick, simple and pretty cheap.
but now they’ve been bought out by the whores at facebook. good for them! but i wouldn’t mind having my premium account fee returned. some how i think that will be a drop too far.
i’ll be shifting the files over to a new host soon. if you have any suggestions, let me know
More from the Reverend
So Reverend Dan got wind of our post about his excellent show ‘Music For Nimrods’ (on KXLU radio) and decided to do a tribute to Scotland!
After threatening to play McCartney’s Mull of Kintyre for a full hour he let loose some amazing vintage Scottish tracks from the likes of Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Rezillos, Johnny and the self abusers, The Valves and more! That’s right, in one 40 minute set a Los Angelean DJ played more credible Scottish music than our own commercial stations play in a month…
The Walkmen
One of my favourite gigs ever was The Walkmen’s first (I think) Glasgow gig at King Tuts in 2004. If i remember rightly they were lumped in with the post Strokes shit tsunami of the time, usually enough to put me off but The Walkmen had a lure I couldn’t deny. ‘The Rat’ was doing the rounds on MTV2 and that channel XFM used to do, and on the strength of that i bought the album Bows+Arrows, and 2 briefs for the Tuts gig. The two very last tickets available, how’s that for luck? The gig was a belter, and i can still see Hamilton Leithouser atop the monitors bellowing ‘yooooo got a nerve…’
They have a new album coming out, Lisbon, and it sounds terrific. Check ‘Angela Surf City’ below, and ‘The Rat’ in lo-fi b&w serenity.
The Walkmen play the Academy with The Black Keys on October 28
Reverend Dan’s Music For Nimrods
A few posts below is a piece about Pete Myers AKA The Mad Daddy. Whilst i was researching it I came across a reference to Music For Nimrods, hosted by a character called Reverend Dan. Not sure why, but my interest was piqued enough to make the effort to tune in. His three hour show goes out on the Los Angeles station KXLU at 3am on Saturday (which after a few weeks of missing the first hour i realised is 11AM Glasgow time) so i had to rouse early and take my place hunched over the PC in my underwear. Not for the first time i hear you say, but let’s press on; The Reverend’s show fucking rocked. He was spinning The Blasters, The Cramps, Lou Reed and The Nerves, all the good shit you never hear on radio (bar one show of course) AND he sounds like those crazy DJs you only see in films. The kind that can grate, but on the whole are fucking awesome. Anyways thanks to VLC player not only am I now able to record the show auto-magically but i can save it and share with you bums. Here’s the show from August 28th, check back often for updates, bitchez