It is impossible to beat extra onions...

Playlist

Françoise Hardy - In Vogue

Françoise Hardy - Françoise Mon Amour

Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Stereo)

Alice Cooper - Pretties For You

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

Santana - Santana

The Skids - Scared To Dance

Wizzard - Introducing Eddy and the Falcons

Argent - Ring Of Hands

Pink Floyd - Animals

The Rezillos - Can't Stand the Rezillos

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Framed

Argent - In Deep

Yes - The Yes Album

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions Of The Emerald Beyond

Kansas - Leftoverture

Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food

Neu! - Die Zweite Neu!

Weather Report - Mr Gone

Billion Dollar Babies - Battle Axe

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Timeless Flight

Patti Smith - Horses

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Robert Fripp - Exposure

Lou Reed - Street Hassle

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

Hawkwind - P.X.R.5

Argent - Nexus

King Crimson - Red (40th Anniv)

Bruford - Feels Good To Me

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

David Bowie - Heroes

Focus - Focus III

Simple Minds - Real To Real Cacophony

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

Sparks - No 1 In Heaven

Golden Earring - Switch

Sparks - Propaganda

Alice Cooper - Love It To Death

Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri

The Tubes - Remote Control

Donna Summer - Bad Girls

The Move - Shazam

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks

Bryan Ferry - Another Time, Another Place

Michael Rother - Flammende Herzen (Remaster)

Gentle Giant - In a Glass House

Carole King - Tapestry

Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue

Chicago - Chicago 3

Golden Earring - Together

Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express

Genesis - Wind & Wuthering (1994 Definitive Edition Remaster)

Isaac Hayes - Black Moses

Roy Harper - Stormcock

Caravan - Blind Dog At St.Dunstans

Sparks - Kimono My House

UK - Danger Money

Gang Of Four - Entertainment!

Gentle Giant - Octopus

Gentle Giant - Three Friends

Agnes Obel - Aventine

Agnes Obel - Citizen Of Glass

Taylor Swift - Red (Deluxe Edition)

Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Deluxe Edition)

Taylor Swift - Reputation

Fehlfarben - Monarchie Und Alltag (Remaster)

Fehlfarben - 33 Tage In Ketten

Fehlfarben - Glut Und Asche

Fehlfarben - Popmusik und Hundezucht

Fehlfarben - Die Platte Des Himmlischen Friedens

Fehlfarben - Knietief im Dispo

Fehlfarben - Handbuch für die Welt

Fehlfarben - Glücksmaschinen

Fehlfarben - Xenophonie

Fehlfarben - Über... Menschen

Kamasi Washington - The Choice

The Divine Comedy - Foreverland

John Grant - John Grant With The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: Live In Concert

Another big playlist today - enjoying harking back...

And some new stuff too...

Out with the EP this evening for some cheeky drinks - but keeping a welcome clear head...

Tasty Italian nosh from Quattro Zero - including best pizza ever (pt 342)...

For future reference, Pizza Diavola with Extra Onions...

Back home, ripping and listening to purchases made today at Fopp...

The latest by Agnes Obel, already two years old but, of which, until very recently, I was not aware...

Wonderful voice...

The latest by The Divine Comedy, also two years old...

Wonderful lyrics...

John Grant- a 2CD live set from four years ago - we will see him at the Festival next month...

...and a 2CD best of by his old group, The Czars - the cover advised extra tracks and extended versions but every track is the same as the original LPs, all of which I have...

Oh well...

Lastly, the latest 2CD Magnum Opus from Kamasi Washington (with perhaps a smidgen too many vocal tracks)...

...and which has a, literally, hidden third disc - only judicious use of scissors could free it from the packaging...



Ludicrous...

Elsewhere, a flight to Germany next year for Udo Lindenberg was booked...

An itinerary was also agreed - we will visit Darmstadt, Erfurt, Leipzig and Kassel...

A car, in which we carry this out, was also booked...

Today's artwork is "Extra Onions"...

Highlight of the Day : Keeping a clear head...

Radio Dave and decimated trees...

Playlist

David Torn - Only Sky

David Byrne - The Catherine Wheel

Various Composers - The Romantic Age

Nina Hagen - Angstlos

Sainte-Colombe Le Fils - Les Six Suittes Pour Basses De Viole Seule

Eklund - Music For Orchestra, String Quartet

Vaarious - 101 Northern Soul Anthems

DJ Hell - Misch Masch

Paul Jones - Clean

Stevie Wonder - Talking Book

Caron - Twilight of the Middle Ages

Various - Covering The Covers

Dohnányi - Winterreigen, 6 Piano Pieces, 3 Singular Pieces

Capital Models - 2018-05-27

John Coltrane - Trane 90

Various - Karl Marx's 200th!

Slowly Rolling Camera - Slowly Rolling Camera

Dinosaur - Together, As One

Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino

Jane Siberry - When I Was A Boy

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

John Grant - Queen Of Denmark

Françoise Hardy - In Vogue

Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk

The Beatles - Revolver

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (40th Anniv)

Grand Funk Railroad - On Time

Françoise Hardy - Voila

David Bowie - Space Oddity

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Tomorrow Belongs To Me

Steve Hillage - L

The Paper Kites - On the Train Ride Home

Yello - Baby

Allan Holdsworth - Atavachron

King Crimson - 2018 Tour

Another big playlist today as, firstly, I had the last couple of hundred acquisitions on shuffle, then the initial set of LPs added to the prospective 1,000 fave albums, also on shuffle...

Radio Dave!

On the way down the hill, very disappointed to see tree decimation once again...

Nothing to report from the day but this wee monkey spotted on the way down from the terminus this evening...

...and a couple of wee chums at the feeding station...

Today's artwork, "Sparrow Under Nuts"...

Highlight of the Day : Music not heard for too long...

When is a bargain not a bargain...

Playlist

Lori Spee - Promises

Tori Amos - Tales Of A Librarian: A Tori Amos Collection

Various Artists - Covering The Covers

Brian Reitzell - Auto Music

Various Artists - 101 Northern Soul Anthems

Marcia Griffiths - Play Me Sweet And Nice

Various Artists - 100 Hits Presents Karaoke

Subsignal - La Muerta

Ravel - Arrangements for Wind Quintet

Tremonti - A Dying Machine

Curtis Mayfield - Give It Up: The Best Of The Curtom Years 1970-1977

Scott Walker - Scott 2

Taylor Swift - Fearless

King Crimson - The Elements Of King Crimson: 2018 Tour Box

Sonny Simmons 25th Century Orchestra - No Title: Jazz & Poetry On The Occasion Of The Clyfford Still Museum

Daniel Biro - 120 Onetwenty

Rocket Miner - Songs For An October Sky

Various Artists - Karl Marx's 200th!

Falco - Symphonic

Richard Barbieri - Variants.1

Atlantis Quartet - X

Scott Walker - Scott

Arovane & Porya Hatami - Organism

Hoffmeister - String Quartets

Tony Tixier - Life of Sensitive Creatures

Sainte-Colombe Le Fils - Les Six Suittes Pour Basses De Viole Seule

Travis & Fripp - Between The Silence

Various Composers - The Romantic Age

Tytingvåg Ensemble - Let Go Istrumentals

Front 242 - Live Code 5413356424225

Gouvy - Tal & Groethuysen play Gouvy

London Sinfonietta - Snapshots - Fiftieth Birthday Tributes For Oliver Knussen

Berit Alette Mienna - Arban

Greg Saunier​/​Mary Halvorson​/​Ron Miles - New American Songbooks, Volume 1

Carmen Villain - Infinite Avenue

Eklund - Music For Orchestra, String Quartet

Lou Reed - Rock'n'Roll Diary 1967-1980

Caron - Twilight of the Middle Ages

ORA - Refuge from the Flames

John Coltrane - Trane 90

A big playlist today as much wandering around was done this morning...

Including visits to art galleries...

...and Blackwell's Books, where these were partaken of with 75% off - over £70 worth of CDs for under £20...

Tasty...

In the evening, ripping and listening to the new acquisitions and watching "Holby City"...

Today's artwork is "Get Up Get Dressed Get Moving"...

Highlight of the Day : Bargains at Blackwells...

Taking full advantage of the feeding station...

Playlist

Françoise Hardy - Story 1964-65

Capital Models - 2018-06-24/2018-07-08

Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet

Devo - Something For Everybody

Herman Van Veen - Die Anziehungskraft der Erde

Herman Van Veen - Herman Van Veen I

Lori Spee - Promises

Herman van Veen - Vandaag Live

Some listening today to the Capital Models covers set...

In the evening - a new project -  a playlist of 1,000 of my favourite LPs...

At the feeding station, things were a little busy...

I also dug out all the master recordings of the three Out of the Bedroom compilations I recorded and produced between 2004 and 2006...

Old chum and OOTB co-founder, James Igoe, is looking to put them up on Bandcamp and to include the other tracks recorded but, until now, unheard by anyone other than the artists themselves (and me)...

Jim has his work cut out - as do I, I suppose, to now get the tracks to him in a form he can keep, work on and, eventually, upload...

Artwork of the day is "At the Feeding Station"...

"University Challenge" returned, replete with the usual smattering of weird geeks - the Exec Producer and your correspondent, neither too weird nor too geeky, chalked up 135 points - very satisfactory indeed...

Highlight of the Day : Finally getting music together (or starting to) for Mr Igoe...

The return of Rollerball, kind of...

Playlist

Slowly Rolling Camera - Dream A Life [Single]

Slowly Rolling Camera - Juniper [Single]

King Crimson - 2018 Tour

Slowly Rolling Camera - Into the Shadow

Jeffrey Skidmore: Ex Cathedra - Moon, Sun & All Things - Baroque Music From Latin America, Vol. 2

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - 100 Jaar Concertgebouworkest

Ravel - A Quatre Mains - The Abbott O'Gorman Duo

Bach, J S - Lionel Rogg : Bach - Exploring the World of Music

Françoise Hardy - Story 1964-65

The last morning of feeding Rory Custard...

He's a wee cutie but impossibly timid and shy...

The view of Crispycat Towers from his garden...

Into town for breakfast at Patisserie Florentin...

Pains au Raisin with lovely coffee...

Then, a walk about...

..and some purchases made...

We popped by Jane & Bobby's on the way home to water their garden...

Home and listening to my first purchase - an LP, by Lionel Rogg, of J S Bach's organ music, which my dad had when I was a boy - I remember playing it a lot after seeing the original "Rollerball", which used "Toccata and Fugue in in D Minor" over the opening scenes...

Also picked up this disc of Ravel's piano music for two hands, which contains one of the works we witnessed being performed, four weeks ago already, in Baden Baden...

...a disc of Latin American baroque music...

...and a 2CD set marking the 100th anniversary of the Concertgebouworkest of Amsterdam...

Tasty...

In the late afternoon, down to Keith and Maureen's, where nephew Craig and partner Arianne had made a rare appearance...

Hey hey, it's the Monkees...

After much good chat - including tales of upcoming new cats - conventionally for Craig and Arianne but involving a rather long road trip for Abby and Blair - and tasty nosh and drinks, it was time to head home...

Oh, and we watched the World Cup Final - France beat Croatia 4-2 - their first two goals were extremely questionable but, hey ho, that's football...

Today's artwork : "Back in the PF"...

Highlight of the Day : Finding my dad's old LP...