However, late morning, while Anne was checking the latest news on Heart of Midlothian FC, I took the opportunity to play through a few songs...
Chance Meeting (Roxy Music cover)
The Time of Our Lives
Where Are You
The End of Everything
Skylines Full of Cranes
I Thought You'd Stay
The Crocodile Song
Baby Please
A Place For You
Down to the Beach
Forgive and Forget
...which made for an interesting wee set of songs...
Then, back to the computer and, after writing yesterday’s entry, I Googled “Wizzard Edinburgh 1974” and stumbled across a brilliant site for historical album reviews. Take a look at this http://starling.rinet.ru/music/index.htm....
Though he writes like an American, he is Russian and lives in Moscow – and he does have an encyclopaedic knowledge of music..
I especially like this article, http://starling.rinet.ru/music/essay1.htm “Music: Where the hell is it heading to today?” in which he very succinctly argues that, like its forebears, classical and jazz, rock is dead...
I find it hard to disagree his points, especially his argument that, rather than being a revolutionary movement, punk rock was in fact a backward, though logical, step for popular music following the death of Prog Rock. While Prog, far from having been killed off by punk, actually just died out naturally because it had nowhere left to go...
[for the record I was an afficionado of both Prog and Punk at the time - as witnessed a few posts ago by my purchases of both the Sex Pistols' "Never Mind the Bollocks" and Yes' "Going For the One" back in 1977, in which year both reached the No 1 spot in the UK album charts]
Reading the reviews led me to listen to Prog Rock for most of the afternoon while I monitored the scores at Tynecastle (Hearts v Aberdeen) and Dens Park (Dundee v Queen of the South)...
Aaargh Hearts beaten by an own goal and a cruelly deflected winner with four minutes left...suffice to say, Anne is not pleased, although, by her own account, it appears the JT's played like a pub team throughout the second half - albeit a very expensive pub team...
But Hurrah!! QoS win away from home at Dundee, who, last season were in the SPL. QoS went ahead in the first minute then behind 2-1 early in the second half but, amazingly, scored twice to win. The first away win of the season...
Perhaps this is the turning point. The team above QoS, Stranraer (coincidentally local rivals) were thumped 5-0 at home to Clyde so a real six pointer for the mighty Doonhamers today!!!
Next week it’s a home game against bottom of the table Brechin City...
In the evening we set the video correctly (after last week’s debacle) and drove over to Fairmilehead at the foot of the Pentland Hills for a meal with my sister, Sheila, and her husband Andrew – in celebration of yesterday having been Sheila’s 50th birthday...
A good time was had by all as we shared a bottle of fizzy wine and partook of the fine fayre of the establishment, which I must say was delivered up in quite massive portions...
Here are the protagonists....
The birthday girl...
The man in her life...
The author of this on-line diary....
The lovely Anne...
The mother of invention, without whom...
A very enjoyable evening..
Highlight of the Day : Dundee 2 Queen of the South 3
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