Charitable chap...

Albums of the Day :-
Alice Cooper - Top 100 Alice Cooper Tracks
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Doveloveshawk
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Callingstill (Disc 1)
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Callingstill (Disc 2)

Another beautiful sunny day in Edinburgh...



This evening, we watched the first half of the UEFA Cup Final between Seville and Middlesborough – pretty boring stuff.

At half time, while switching channels, we came across a programme about how lives have been influenced by food – this week’s episode was on “Punk Svengali” Malcolm McLaren. Very entertaining – much better than the football...

After this, while Anne watched the end of the match (4-0 Seville) I went upstairs and finished off the printing of the covers for the big “Deeperdown” project and then put the remainder of the CDs together....

I continued through my back catalogue while I worked...

Here's what I've been working on over the last few weeks...

CBQ fan, John Yuille has organised a golf day for Maggie’s Cancer Centres (http://www.maggiescentres.org/) There are to be 20 teams of four, with each team paying a massive £1,000 to take part....

As part of the day, every player gets a goody bag full of various items – one of which is going to be, at John’s request, a special Maggie’s Limited Edition of CBQ’s “Deeperdown”...

So I’m doing my bit to raise £20,000 for the charity – which can’t be bad...

Here’s the special text which appears on the cover of the CD:-

“The chances are you will never have heard of the Cloudland Blue Quartet.

It's not even a quartet.

It's one man, David Reilly who, as singer, player and producer, has had a hand in over 200 releases in the independent music scene over the last 25 years.

Your host for today, John Yuille, is a big fan of CBQ music and approached David to provide these special edition copies of his 2005 song based album "Deeperdown" for inclusion in your bag of goodies.

John knows you'd probably have preferred to find a copy of "Now That's What I Call Music 63" in there, but there you go.

All profits from the provision of these CDs have been kindly donated to Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres by David's record label, Crispycat Recordings.

Find out more about Crispycat and Cloudland Blue Quartet at www.crispycat.co.uk .

Enjoy your day.”

Ha! Bet you wish you could have one - but you need to pay £250 to get one!!

Finally finished off all the CDs, and here's Meg the Black Cat making sure they're all ok...



Then she cheekily started walking all over them - don't tell the golfers....

Ended the day by updating the diary and then looking back at what I was doing a year ago - it's like reading someone else's blog - someone else who is very similar to me...

Highlight of the Day : Doing my bit for Cha-ri-dee...