A music podcast about iconic Irish albums. Each episode takes a deep dive into the making of an album with one of its creators.

Audience Warning: This episode contains references to child sexual abuse.

Released in 1992, Another Day, Another Riot was Toasted Heretic’s third album. It was released by Liquid Records, a subsidiary of Solid Records.

Toasted Heretic were from Galway and they preceded Another Day, Another Riot with two cassette-only albums, Songs For Swinging Celibates (1988) and Charm and Arrogance (1989). These albums were followed in 1990 by The SMUG EP, which included ‘They Didn’t Teach Music In My School’ a song about child sex abuse in Ireland. Toasted Heretic’s cassettes were distributed through book and record shops and via mailorder – a cottage industry both physically and geographically outside the Irish Music Industry.

Toasted Heretic were: Julian Gough on vocals, Declan Collins and Breffni O'Rourke on guitars, Neil Farrell on drums and Aengus McMahon on bass. Q magazine once declared them, “powerful articulate and original”, while Mother Records described them as - too original.

In this episode I discuss the album with Toast Heretic’s singer and lyricist Julian Gough. Our conversation includes a chat about all of Toasted Heretic’s recordings, a discussion about the nature of fame, and the oddity of looking back and re-evaluating art. A novelist, Julian resides in Berlin and is also the author of the successful children’s book series, Rabbit & Bear.

Produced by Paul McDermott for Learn & Sing Productions.
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THKW EP02 - Another Day, Another Riot by Toasted Heretic

Originally broadcast on Songs To Learn And Sing on 103.2 Dublin City FM. In 2005 Toasted Heretic released Now In New Nostalgia Flavour which compiled their first two cassette albums (Songs For Swinging Celibates and Charm and Arrogance). The band played a gig in Dublin to promote the release and I spoke to Julian before he took to the stage in Whelan's. Julian chats about how Toasted Heretic recorded and released those first two albums from the band's hometown of Galway. The move to a record label for the third album, touring France, and eventually calling it a day. Julian also introduces 'Galway Bay' and 'LSD (Isn't What It Used To Be)'.
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From the Archives - Julian Gough of Toasted Heretic (2005)

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