Playlist
CBQ – Nine New Songs
Wetton/Downes – Glasgow Set List
The Bad Plus – Give
Hank Mobley - Poppin'
Tina Brooks - True Blue
Johnny Griffin - The Congregation
Bartok - Solo Piano Works
Yes - Fragile
Various - Out Of The Blue
Isaac Hayes - The Man
Various - Chilled Out Euphoria
Brad Mehldau - Largo
John Gorka - Old Futures Gone
Various - Lennon & McCartney Jazz Collection
Various - Block Rockin' Breaks
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Up and out to Arnold Clark. Car fixed and back home. Only another 90 minutes of my life gone...
On the way back, I stopped off at Patisserie Florentin and bought some of their croissants, surely the best in Edinburgh, and at home made some lovely coffee to go with them...
Anne went out to buy more paint – the stuff we got yesterday wasn’t quite neutral enough and luckily we found a tin of the paint we used on the living room a few years ago, which is exactly the colour we want...
I sorted out all the CDs we have in the car – 60 odd...
Anne returned and started painting while I bought some CDs on e-bay from a chap in Barcelona – the last studio CD by The Bad Plus which I don’t have and three CDs by their bassist, Reid Anderson...
Tasty (I hope)...
Listened again to the proposed live sets by CBQ and Jamie’s– still need to get some bass lines down on the latter...
Spoke with nephew Andy last night – he can’t make the gig on 30 June...
Wrote and sent a June Newsletter re upcoming gigs for CBQ and James Jamieson and recordings by CBQ, JJ and Ian Sclater...
Ran through the CBQ proposed set for next Friday, speeding up “I Rearranged the House” and “The End of Everything” to try and give some pace to the set – which is difficult with such miserabilistic songs – although I guess that is the sound of CBQ. My old chum Mitch Mitchell once commented at a CBQ gig, “Dave Reilly makes Busted sound like Joy Division”...
A good line, which I’ve since used myself to good effect...
Portugal v Mexico – quite an exciting game...but I am a bit footballed out and gave up watching at half time...
Drove Anne into town to meet up with her friend Debbie. They were going to a dinner at Harvey Nichols during which the feature of each course was chocolate....
Popped into the French Institute on the way back home to catch a little of Fete de la Musique – every year the French at home and around the world celebrate the longest day with a festival of music...
Today was a pretty miserable longest day – wind and rain in Edinburgh...
Back home in time for Holland v Argentina – billed as the game of the group stages – again I ended up only watching the first half. Skill levels were very high and I can see both teams going far. It ended in a goalless draw. “No goals but plenty of action” as the old saying goes...
Ran through an extended set of sixteen songs, adding the remainder of my nine new songs to the set – tried to record it for analysis but the computer stopped after 28 seconds....
Maybe it was trying to tell me something...
Back into town around midnight to take Debbie home and bring Anne back to Crispycat Towers. They were both a bit tipsy and provided tales of much chocolate related food and of very expensive wine...
The decorating is now finished and the new carpet will be laid on Saturday – then the fun of trying to fit all my stuff back in, in a tidy and pleasing on the eye fashion, will begin. And so it’s off to Ikea tomorrow with sofa beds and storage on our minds...
Highlight of the Day : Croissants
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