Yippee Kay Yule - out now!

Yes, we have a double A-side Christmas single with Jonnie Common and eagleowl featuring two songs based around the plot of The Greatest Christmas Story Ever Told (TM) (Die Hard, obvs) and yes we’re releasing it as a hand-made snow globe containing Lego John McClane. Of course we are. And because we have all (except Canada) […]

The Happiness Hotel, Leith LinksLeithUK

You know the drill: music, buggering about and eventual alcoholic armageddon. Music from Plastic Animals, assisted by Fun Coordinators Bart of Darkness and DJ Spanjo. No, I have no idea what to expect either. Plastic Animals: https://songbytoadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pictures-from-the-blackout https://plasticanimals.bandcamp.com/

Sessions

36 Storm the Palace

This was recorded at the Happiness Hotel back in early Summer 2016 on a gloriously sunny day in Leith. Storm the Palace were up in Edinburgh to record at Chamber Studio which happens to be just down the road from us so they took the opportunity to pop in and record a Toad Session while […]

324 The Arctic Circle

Mrs. Toad and I, as you possibly know, went on something of an epic road trip at the end of July this year. We took the ferry to Amsterdam and drove up through Germany to Denmark, through Sweden via the Volvo Museum, and into Norway, where we went all the way up the West Coast […]