Sunday, March 17, 2024

CRISPYCAT RECORDINGS issue the work of musician, broadcaster and abstract artist, DAVID REILLY.

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Tickets £5 from the club, from the band or on the night. 

Featuring songs by Elvis Presley, Etta James, Johnny Cash, The Spencer Davis Group, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, The Monkees, Simon & Garfunkel, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Kenny Rogers, Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell, The Eagles, Carly Simon, David Bowie, Elton John, Lou Reed, The Osmonds, Roxy Music, Stealers Wheel, The Beatles, Bryan Ferry, Bob Dylan, Status Quo, Glen Campbell, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, The Undertones, The Jam, Bruce Springsteen, The Proclaimers, Neil Young, Killers, Stereophonics, Paulo Nutini, Far From Saints - all the greats, all the hits! 

A Sunday afternoon of Top Pop Music for a fiver, with access to excellent bar prices...

CRISPYCAT RECORDINGS ON BANDCAMP

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DIARY

This main page contains Cloudland Blue : A Diary, with daily entries since 5 March 2005 (scroll down for the latest entries).

As of 5 March 2024 it moved into its 20th year of drivel.  At that point, that was 6,941 days in, although there were actually 7,351 entries to date. 

At present, there are 148 "picture only" entries, across five periods:-

2022 (91): 18 April - 10 May (23); 13 - 17 June (5); 6 July - 5 September (62)

2023 (58): 21 September - 15 October (25); 18 October - 19 November (33)

It is always the intention to update those days with the relevant text but doing so is, of course, subject to opportunity (and, indeed, memory!)...

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Choosing art over music can be the right thing to do...

Playlist
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2024 Vol 5
Joe Gibbs & The Professionals - African Dub All-Mighty: Chapter 3
Lindstrøm - Six Cups Of Rebel
Brian Eno - All I Remember (Single)
Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well
Various Artists - Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story (OST)
Various Artists - The Sound of Cologne Vol 4
Anna Meredith - The End We Start From
Brian Eno - Eno (OST)
Cloudland Blue Quartet & Sombre Reptiles - Decades
Mari Samuelsen - Mari
Joy Division - Still (Collectors' Edition)

I did not rise until 9am...

I could have done so a couple of hours earlier but, instead, snoozed listening to week 5 of this year's podcasts, without recalling a single item I'd played just 6 weeks ago...

Hmmm...

Rehearsed the third set for the upcoming gigs...

Around 11:30, into town with Annie, to meet up with Malcolm at Fopp...

As ever, he was late...

I bought 3 CDS - inevitably, I already had the Prins Thomas disc...


I'm sure I can swap it - there are a couple of other things here I definitely don't have...

Took a pic of the back of this £38 reggae box to ensure I already had the content...


 I did...

Malcolm arrived and we enjoyed Coffees/Tea and chat at Cafe Nero, followed by beers and a Diet Irn Bru for the driver (having accidently already bought a pint - subsequently donated to Malcolm) and more chat, at the Fox and Faun...


We will work on a new thing "Global Herding" (I think)...

A surprise this morning was notification that Malcolm's and my band Call Me Clive's version of Sombre Reptiles' "Poppies", from my anthology, "Rubinmusik 1977-2017", had been purchased from Bandcamp by one Fritha Lewin...


Fritha joined Call Me Clive around 1988 at the age of 15 and played Sax with us for just a few weeks...

She chose art over music and is now a successful graphic designer/artist in that London...




Enjoyable e-mail exchanges were made and, hopefully, we can keep in touch...

Home with sandwiches from Sainsbury for lunch...

In Dingwall, Hearts went down 2-1 to Ross County while in an evening televised match, Queens went ahead against league leaders Falkirk, only to end up being thrashed 4-1 - although that score line mightily flattered the away side...

Oh well...

Fish fingers and beans for tea (bacon roll for Anne)...


Ripping and listening in the evening...

And rehearsed the fourth set for the upcoming gigs...

And the first in the 3rd series of "Astrid" enjoyed...

Saturday over - rehearsing tomorrow...

Highlight of the Day : Call Me Clive reunions...

Today's New Music:-

Friday, March 15, 2024

All the fun of the fair, well, some of it anyway...

Playlist
Alice Cooper - The Alice Cooper Group Live 1971-1973
Alice Cooper - Live ACG Classics 1978-2018
Faust - Faust IV
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Piano, Construction & Algerian Radio
Gary Husband - Songs of Love & Solace
Magic Tusk - Beyond the Crescent Moon
Celer - Cursory Asperses
Goose - Chateau Sessions pt II
Labrinth - The Kitchen (OST)
Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi - Speak, Moment
Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well
Abdullah Ibrahim - Tintinyana
Aleksi Perälä - CHILDREN OF LIGHT 2
Raspberries - Raspberries
Haydn - String Quartets Op 71 & 74
Lindsay Quartet - String Quartets: Wiren, Tchaikovsky, Wood, Barber
Brahms - Double Concerto, Piano Quartet
Prokofiev - Works for Piano 1908-1938
Pain Of Salvation - Ashes (EP)
Beethoven - The Masterworks
Various Artists - The Sound Of Cologne 2
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2024 Vol 11

Up pre 7 and doing the New Music Friday trawl as ever...


Post the Coop, which had soundtracked overnight, played "Faust IV", bought 50 years ago tomorrow for 45p (around £6.50 in today's money)...


I remember thinking it was a bit weird...

Now?  Perfectly normal...

Then, to creating a piece from yesterday's piano recording...

And, lo, it was good...

...and included in the subsequently compiled, recorded and uploaded podcast this morning...

Anne arrived back from her morning of Zumba, coffe and cake...

"Leverage" enjoyed...

These, a forgotten order, arrived...



Managed to rip one before hobbling off down the hill and onto the bus into town...


...soundtracked by the podcast and Tweeting about the new piece...


To The Newsroom at 5pm for 69th birthday celebration with chum Bernardo...


Also in attendance, CK, Raymondo, Wenders...



...and Janine...


There was, inevitably, some rubbish work talk...


...and some taking of pictures and posting them to our Whatapp group...


The party of six were later joined by Wendy's as yet unpictured daughter, Pamela...


...for tasty food, courtesy Bernardo...


A short walk to Picardy Place...


...for an evening of fairground games and alcoholic Slush Puppies...










Pamela finally made it into a pic...


I feigned surprise at how hard it was to actually win any of the games - it was after all, an indoor version of "The Shows"...


But, of course, ultra competitive Raymondo managed to get enough win stamps to claim a small duck...


...which he donated to Janine...


Time to call it a night...


One last picture session...




...and out...


Bernie and I chummed Christine and Janine to Waverley for their train, then took a bus along to Corstorphine to end the night at The White Lady, where more beers were enjoyed...



Out around midnight...


Bernie set off on the walk home while the Exec Producer very kindly picked me up and took me back up the hill...


I was, rather surprisingly, not the worse for wear...

Bed beckoned...

Highlight of the Day : Bernie's birthday celebrations...

Today's New Music:-