Edinburgh Man Podcasts

Surprise! It's a new Edinburgh Man Podcast. The last year has been rather crazy at Edinburgh Man Towers. We had the attic converted, which involved a lot of banging, drilling and sawing. None of this is especially conducive to recording audio. Then today, I finally had some free t...

Apologies for the somewhat variable release schedule for the podcast. January has been pretty busy, and unfortunately that busyness spilled over into February and the school holidays. But today, at long last, I have a few hours to myself to record a podcast and play the playlist t...

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...

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 throa...

Aye, the nights are fair drawing in up here in Edinburgh - sunset is something crazy like half past three in the afternoon. The photo accompanying today's show was taken while me and Thing 2 walked home from school today. Regular listeners will no doubt remember than Friday is a h...

Urgh, I have a cold. That's the excuse I'm going for as to why the show has been delayed for a week or two. It's absolutely not because I was spending all my free time catching up on three seasons of Doctor Who before the 60th anniversery specials started. No it's not that at all....

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 g...

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...

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 h...

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 er...

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 @edin...

It's been a bit of a week at Edinburgh Man Towers. The kids were off school for three of their four and a half days last week due to a strike, which was as hectic as you would imagine. Then, the fifteen-year-old fridge freezer decided to slowly fail. The result of this meant some u...

An unexpected COVID jag this week has thrown the already shambolic podcast schedule into a state of flux. My Fitbit tells me I was a bit under the weather for the two days afterwards. Although to be honest, I'm not sure I needed a watch to tell me that.

As a result the podcast is a couple of days later than plan...

After an impromptu week off, the podcast returns. Obviously it wasn't really a week off for your earstwhile host. Life reared its ugly head and prevented the recording of a show. But we return this week, refreshed (sort of) and with loads...

Apologies for being a bit later than normal. I went and ordered myself an Analogue Pocket portable games console a while ago. Like eight or nine months ago. It's a hardware clone of the Gameboy and Gameboy Advance, with a whole loads of bells and whistles to boot. Anyway, to my surprise it arrived this week and ...

Last week I said that there probably wasn't going to be a show this week, and here we are. In the end I found six great tracks (mostly from recent releases) and I wanted to record and upload the show as quickly as I could! With hindsight, I should have waited at least an hour, bec...

As regular listeners may remember, I've been cataloguing and archiving old episodes of the show. Making old episodes available again in the feed, and uploading shows and shownotes to archive.org. As I've been cutting and pasting things like tracklists and band links, I've noticed so many tracks that I've complet...

Right. Okay. A second attempt at recording this podcast!

This week we've been on our summer holidays. The first few days were spent "glamping" near Glenshee. The next week or so was spent in a static caravan jus...

My plan for today was to build a deck. Not like a Pokemon deck, or a MTG deck, but a wooden construction out in the back garden for sitting on and enjoying the... weather? Unfortunately the Edinburgh Fringe must be starting soon because it's wet. Very wet. Chucking it down with rain...