Kiss the tower mushroom master...

In town today, I wandered into the latest HMV sale - they seem to have one a fortnight these days - I've been in before but not seen anything I wanted. Today however, I came a cross a few copies of "Kiss Symphony - Kiss Alive IV", a double CD of a live concert played by Kiss in Australia with a symphony orchestra. At £3.99, even for the one limited edition digipak copy, I'm afraid I could not resist...

It featurs much of my favourite Kiss album "Destroyer" from 1976, and, despite the presence of the orchestra and a half disc of Kiss "Unplugged", I can declare this 2CD set rocks...



On my way home I remembered that this Bell Tower (at Edinburgh's West End) has always been one of my favourites in the city. ...



I think it ought to be opened up to the public to allow us to climb to the top to experience the view....

Whenever we're in another city, we like to climb towers and I think there should be more opportunities in Edinburgh to do this...

The tower itself has a certain Venetian look about it....

This evening, after I'd created and consumed a culinary delight involving Portabella Mushrooms, Mozzarella Cheese, Shallots and Sweet Red Peppers, my nephew, Andy, came round with his musical chum Alan and a nice young girl, whose name now escapes me, to master onto CD, three tracks they'd been recording at the weekend with twins from Yorkshire, Heather and Elissa (no surnames forthcoming)...

The songs, "Goodbye", "Rather Blue" and "Welcome to Our World" sounded pretty good - certainly miles better than anything I was doing at age 19 - and Andy is looking to send them here and there with a view to getting a publishing deal...

Other than that, a good new series started on Channel Four tonight, called "The Closer" - about a left-field ex-CIA profiler lady who takes charge of a discredited murder squad in LA - ok, I know it sounds cliched, and it is, but it's entertaining fayre for late on a Tuesday evening...

I got a mention today (though it's dated 20/9) on my old Chum Jim Park's blog (there's a link in my, erm "Links" section). In his capacity as a Stand Up Comedian, he ruminates on my propensity for uploading pictures of, and talking about, the everyday minutae of my life...including my shopping and the inside of buses...

Excellent stuff Jim - I like to show how mundane my life can be - even if I'm supposed to be a musician and an artist...