Crispycat Recordings: A drive in the country...and blisters...

Sunday, July 10, 2005

A drive in the country...and blisters...

We took a drive down to Innerleithen today and then on to Peebles. We'd never been to Innerleithen before, though our old chum George Coleman lives there. We didn't see him...

It's amazing to see such wonderfully beautiful countryside within less than an hour's drive from Crispycat Towers....

Back home we relaxed in the garden then I headed to Jamie's to rehearse for Thursday's gig. We ran through around 20 songs from our combined canons, then chose our set and the running order (we'll be playing for a total of 50 minutes) then rehearsed the chosen songs.

It sounded good - but my fingers are now bloomin' sore by the way...

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Between 1980 and 1995, Sombre Reptiles released 35 LPs. At present, all of these albums are deleted. "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995" is an 81 Track Virtual 6CD/10LP Box Set covering this pre-Cloudland Blue Quartet period. The versions of the songs included in the Box Set are taken from eight sources, recorded between 1993 and 1996: The three long deleted volumes of "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles", originally released on cassette in 1993 and 1994 via Edinburgh Record Shop, Reptile Records - all but 3 of the 57 tracks from these three records are included; Further album tracks from the final four Sombre Reptiles records, "Galleryshard (1993), "Kernelcrux" (1994), "Bitter Sweet Covers" (1995) and "Starcrossfix" (1995); Previously unreleased re-recordings from 1996, just before Sombre Reptiles became Cloudland Blue Quartet.

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