John Gorka - Old Future's Gone
Tangerine Dream – Dream Sequence (Disc 1)
Barclay James Harvest – Another Arable Parable
The Bad Plus – These Are The Vistas
Various Composers – For A Quiet Evening
Various Composers – Your Hundred Best Tunes : The Top 20
My 500th Post...
Yesterday I walked to The Playhouse and procured two tickets for tonight’s performance of the totally politically incorrect Rik Mayall comedy “The New Statesman”, in which the loathsome righter than right wing Tory, Alan B’stard has defected to “New” Labour and ended up running it. It could almost be true...
Excellent stuff
During the day, I paid a visit to HMV and bought three classical discs, some acoustic guitar pieces on an album rather cheesily entitled “For a Quiet Evening”; a 2CD set of the top twenty classical pieces as voted for in 1994 by the listeners of Radio 2’s “Your Hundred Best Tunes” – around 1970 my dad bought me an LP of the top ten at that time. Seven of those ten were still in the top twenty in 1994 and are no doubt still there today...
Finally another two disc set, this time of Medieval Gregorian Chant by the Coro Gregoriano de Lisboa (which I’ve not heard yet)...
Back home before setting out for the Mayall play, my first The Bad Plus disc has arrived. And it’s every bit as good as the concert I attended two weeks ago...
Amazing covers of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Ten Spirit” and Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” sit alongside bewilderingly good original compositions by all three members of the band...
Finished off the night listening to weird jazz and updating this diary including, finally, adding pics for the last four days...
Highlight of the Day : The New Statesman
1 comment:
Was there on Saturday - saw your pics but not you. Good stuff though.
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