Crispycat Recordings: One chicken goes a long way...

Monday, February 20, 2006

One chicken goes a long way...

One chicken continues to feed us – following yesterday’s salad, another today, along with some soup made by boiling the bones and adding stuff – tastes better than it sounds – and sandwiches tomorrow for Anne’s lunch…

I had intended going along to the Queen’s Hall to listen to some String Quartets but, in the end, passed on the opportunity....

Instead, I met up with Jamie at OOTB’s February Acoustica, the main reason being to check out what will be the new venue for OOTB from 20 April…

It looks like being a good move…

On display tonight were Spamboorskie, who we missed, The Angel Conversations, a four piece band, the guitarist and singer of whom usually perform acoustically at OOTB, Rob Sproul-Cran and the Jones Brothers - Graeme Mearns and Nobody Jones...

Of the three acts we saw, the Jones Brothers were the best – they are both seasoned performers and excellent guitarists – and a couple of well chosen covers added to their set…

The mix for Angel Conversations was a wee bit dodgy but, in the end, their songs made it through – they overcame a recent arm injury to their bass player by providing her with a keyboard. To be honest though, I preferred them as an acoustic two piece…

Mr Sproul-Cran is a bit of an aquired taste, with his very quiet guitar playing (mostly) and his very high falsetto vocals (mostly). His best song was a piece entitled “Japan”. His second best was a cover of Free’s “All Right Now”….

I gave Jamie copies of the Ian Sclater CD and the Skylines disc. I think we’ve made the IS CD too loud as it distorts in places but this is easily sorted. I’ll be interested in hearing JJ’s opinion…

Back home by 11:30 and Anne was watching the SPL highlights – back to old form here as the programme spent the first 50 minutes on the Rangers and Celtic games while giving 3 minutes of highlights of the Hearts match with a couple of minutes chat thereafter…

By watching this, I accidentally missed Alice Cooper appearing on the Graham Norton show “The Bigger Picture”…

Oh well..

To bed with an Albinoni Oboe Concerto on the headphones….having spent the day with the great UK (John Wetton, Allan Holdsworth, Bill Bruford, Eddie Jobson and, on their 2nd and final LP Terry Bozzio) providing my soundtrack…

Highlight of the Day : Albinoni Oboe Concerto

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