The Demon Drink...why oh why oh why...

I really should not drink.

At all.

Tonight Anne and I attended a gig by our chums Impossible Songs. We met with Jamie Frain (James Jamieson) beforehand and, all in all, I ended up drinking five pints of Stella/Budweiser Budvar....

I start to gibber incoherently after one pint so you can imagine what I was like by the end of the night....

Tonight, Impossible Songs were the best I’ve seen them. The acoustics of the venue suited their sound perfectly. I tried to tell them they reminded me of Young Marble Giants but no one in the assembled company seemed to know who they were.

You can read about them here http://www.appelstein.com/ymg/. I have their album "Colossal Youth" on vinyl.

Norman Lamont was also at the gig tonight and kindly gave Anne and I a lift home – he let us hear his new EP – very tuneful and well produced – Norman puts a lot of work into his recordings.

Partly due to being so drunk, I agreed to do a gig at the same venue (The Roxy Art House) this Thursday along with Impossible Songs, Norman and Jamie. I was supposed to be reviewing Out of the Bedroom that night so will have to postpone this...

Jamie and I agreed that we will share a slot in a song-about fashion so now we need to get together this week to rehearse – we haven’t played together since last September and I haven’t played his songs since last July...

So do come along – here’s a map of how to get there

Where is The Roxy Art House? Why here it is...click to enlarge...


Prior to the gig tonight I’d bought a 10CD box set of Dvorak’s Complete String Quartets – my initial delve into them finds them to be very tuneful and I’m looking forward to listening to them all.

At the gig, apart from far too many drinks, I also bought two Impossible Songs CDs – turns out I recorded a few of the songs on one of them. At the time of writing I’m listening to “(WIP) Sneakin’ Out at the Front” – it definitely sounds like Young Marble Giants.... This is a definite advantage as far as I’m concerned.

At lunchtime today I stumbled a cross a rally at the Mound in Edinburgh. It was against the Mullahs in Iran.. I took some photos but can't show you as I must have inadvertently wiped the camera when I became inebriated later on...

I really should not drink.

At all.