I have to provide a track. I was intending to record something with Jamie and Andy this weekend but circumstances have put paid to this plan and so I’ve been searching for a suitable track featuring the three of us.
I’ve decided on the live version of “Very Small” from the Café Royal gig we did last June. It’s a good recording and one which has Andy’s piano to the fore. I edit the wav. file and burn it to CD for delivery to OOTB.
Here’s the cover of this limited edition of one...
After posting it through the door of OOTB soundman extraordinaire, Dave O’Hara, I head to the library to return the CDs I borrowed an unbelievable three weeks ago, during the Prog Rock shenanigans with Dr Prog...
Then, on the way back home, I stop off at Patisserie Florentine for the ubiquitous Saturday croissants...
After breakfast, it’s into the car and off up to Perth for the mighty Queen of the South’s first game of the season in the Bells Scottish First Division. I’m thinking of supporting them more actively this season by attending as many of their away games as possible...
Today they play St Johnstone. The Saints were relegated around three years ago and have underachieved since. This season though they have a virtually brand new squad and a new manager so it’ll be a tough game...
We arrive around 11, park up for a few hours and take a wander around the town with its beautiful old buildings...
The pedestrianised centre is home today to the monthly Farmers’ Market and down by the river, a wedding party is having its photo shoot while the sun dodges in and out of the clouds overhead, but it’s warm and sunny for the most part...here's the background which will appear in the wedding photos...
After a small lunch at Café Biba we sit and watch the antics of some rubbish hockey players warming up for a game in the large park north of the town centre. The rain starts just as we head for the car. We avoid the worst of it.
It’s 1.45.
At around 2.30 we drive past the park again...we have spent 45 minutes driving around and seeing parts of Perth not previously explored. This despite having asked a friendly policeman for directions to the ground...
Finally we get to the game with 15 minutes to spare and pay the ridiculous price of £16 each to get in...maybe my idea of watching more games this season needs to be reviewed...
Queens end up being thrashed 4-0.
Despite a let off in the first minute with the Saints centre forward ballooning a certain goal over the bar, Queens had the upper hand for the first half hour. But a blunder then let the previously ballooning centre forward through to slot easily past the keeper.
The mighty Doonhamers held their own until another shocker let the same player in for his second and it was all over. A sending off early in the second half followed by two more goals in quick succession finished them off, the fourth goal leaving the QoS centre half needing stitches and reducing the team to nine men for ten minutes....
Despite this, they held out for the last thirty minutes. mainly due to some excellent goalkeeping, but it could easily have been 7-0...oh dear - I am a hoodoo - I have seldom witnessed Queens winning a game other than when they were hot favourites (e.g. the Bells Challenge Cup Final in October 2002 v Brechin City) or there was nothing at stake (e.g. last game of the 2001/02 season when they'd already won the 2nd Division and were playing relegated Morton)....
To cap the trip off, we got lost again on the way back to Edinburgh, although this did give us the opportunity to drive through Auchterarder and several places in Fife we’d never seen before...it appears some roads in this area of Scotland aren't on the road atlas we use...
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