A lack of potatoes...

Playlist
Dido – No Angel
Grand Funk Railroad – Survival
Muse – Absolution
Thin Lizzy – Don’t Believe a Word (single)
Simple Minds – Sons and Fascination
Golden Earring – Moontan
Sparks – Sparks
Bonnie Prince Billy – Greatest Palace Music
Sparks – Gratuitous Sax and Violins
Lucy Kaplansky – Ten Year Night
Uriah Heep – The Magician’s Birthday
Yello – You Gotta Say Yes to Another excess
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Delilah
King Crimson – Discipline
Alex Harvey – Considering the Situation (Disc 1)
Joe Henderson – In’n’Out
The Nits – Alankomaat
Cloudland Blue Quartet – The Acoustic Ersatzreal
King Crimson – Deception of the Thrush

On Sunday, Jamie and I had agreed to go along to Out of the Bedroom tonight. Anne decided she’d come along too...

As ever Jamie was not going to be able to get on the board – if it was left up to him, with his family commitments etc, he’d never play again. So when we arrived around 7, Anne added Jamie’s name to the board....

Our plan had been to dine at the Mexican Restaurant next door but we couldn’t get a table so we went up to the Baked Potato Shop in Cockburn St - they’d run out of potatoes – we went back down towards Holyrood to Bene’s Chip Shop – which we used to frequent 25 years ago when I had a flat in St Mary’s St – Anne had read recently that Benny (probably bot his real name) had retired – none of that mattered though as we were thwarted once again – the new owners were away on holiday and the place was closed...

We ended up down at The Tun (on the top floor of which we’d visited Stuart Cobley’s photographic exhibition a few weeks ago)...

While the service left a little to be desired, and the music was rather loud, the food was tasty and hit the spot...

And so we finally returned to OOTB just as the first act of the evening was starting. We discovered CBQ was to play at 10:20 with James Jamieson in the slot directly after that...

A long night ensued – some acts were good – notably Jill Hepburn again - some weren’t so good, but that’s the nature of OOTB...

I played the three songs from “Ersatzreal” which I intend to play in the Fringe sets, “I Still Write You Letters”, “Starting to Worry” and “The End of Everything” – three slow songs of course – next time at OOTB, I’ll surprise people by playing three fast ones...

Ian Sclater was in the room tonight and was very interested in the chorus chord sequence for “End of Everything” – I showed him the chords but couldn’t name them – other than they were something to do with “D”...

Jamie, who had finally arrived around 9:15, played “The Morning After”, “Welcome to the World” and “Trash Can Secrets”, to which Anne and I bopped along – putting Jamie off his stride a little when we caught his eye...

No matter – it was a good set – as was “Big” Jim Whyte’s – who rounded the night off after one song from Andy Thomson – also excellent...

After chatting with Jamie for a while outside the venue we drove home – a long night, but probably just about worth it in the end...

Highlight of the Day : Jamie’s set at OOTB