A music blog, record label, video channel and podcast show based in Edinburgh.  With lots of gin and swearing.

If you want to submit music to the blog or the label, please don't send me a message on Soundcloud itself as I do not check them.  A Soundcloud link is great, but please email the link to toad at songbytoad.com.

the #1 dj trio from Belgium // 2x DJ World Champions - IDA 2017 & DMC 2012

Cocktail Size was one of the premiere Hip Hop genius organizations functioning in Europe BACK IN THE DAY. Operating out of Stuttgart, Belgium, Cocktail Size (affectionately called “The Size” by its devoted and massive fan base) brought their unique and flavorful approach to popular music to the masses of disaffected and disillusioned Hip Hop and dance lovers across the globe. An international venture, The Size was comprised of a mysterious Canadian bass player named Zeb the Ham and an Egyptian synthesizer and electronics wizard named Bicky B, along with backup musicians, sometimes including dancers. Together they put on one of the MOST EXCITING, EXHILARATING LIVE PERFORMANCES this side of the mother fucking Rhine. The Size’s plan for world domination was hatched in the days when Zeb and Bicky were both posted in Germany as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Unit. Using the skills and the knowledge acquired during those crucial years, the two of them discovered the secret formula that would allow them to create music that fuses emotion, rhythm, technical proficiency, and political ideology into a perfect and immutable whole. The Size had a passionate interest and were deeply involved in the environmental and societal issues confounding the human race. They stopped at nothing to undermine the mores and values of today’s corrupt and archaic world order. They destroyed weak music and its pathetic practitioners. THEN was the time that the Size unleashed their Master Plan but their INFLUENCE can be heard to THIS DAY.

Image credits: Fred F.

Minor Sore is a folk and rock-inspired three piece from Leuven, Belgium. The band formed in 2011, when Michiel van Oudheusden urged his girlfriend Elisa Vanderveken to stop wasting her voice by endlessly rehearsing existing medleys in the shower, and instead sing several songs he had been working on since his teen years. With Minor Sore, vocal melodies build on bare and basic guitar chords. A third musician (Philip D) often provides additional instrumentation, such as electric and slide guitar, which gives the music a light country-esque touch. The dark poetry and artwork of Michiel’ sister Katrijn serve as one of the band’s major inspirations.

Erik Fisher, the Hated, Desmond Outcast and the Transplanted Heroes, Cowboy X, The Incredible E, etc. etc.

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