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