Reacquainting...

Playlist
Haydn - Complete String Quartets (Disc 1/21)
Various - Best of 2006 (Jukebox Playlist)
Various - Top Ten Albums of 2003 (Jukebox Playlist)
Various - Top Ten Albums of 2004 (Jukebox Playlist)
Haydn - Compete String Quartets (Disc 2/21)

No delivery of any goodies today so I set out on a journey through Mr Joseph Haydn's String Quartets, very kindly loaned to me by Dr Prog...

Lovely...

Elsewhere, we took the train to Linlithgow (after a couple of drinks in town with chums Kris, Tracey, Claire and Michelle) to meet up with Ken and Rose, friends who, it turns out, we had not seen since 2002....

I worked with Ken in the early 80's, while Rose is the twin sister of my old chum Alan Brodie's ex-wife Carmen (she's remarried and lives in Perth Australia with new husband and kids)...

Rose and Ken met at a party one night back in 1984 in Marchmont, the student quarter of Edinburgh, when Alan and I, in our then incarnation of Love Parade, were playing a gig in the flat of a couple of other work coleagues, Dave Wilkinson and Andy Spencely...

I think it may have been the last performance by Love Parade - we used backing tapes, slides and super 8 film and played some nice poppy tunes - a bit like what the Pet Shop Boys did a few years later on a rather grander scale...

We played almost our entire set as the soundcheck and everything was fine - but when it came to the performance, the flat was so crowded with revellers, we had to open the windows...

Two songs in, the police arrived and shut us down....

Anyway, back to the present and it was great to catch up with Ken and Rose again. They have their own business which is doing well and two kids, 19 and 16 who we both remember vaguely as babies and then young teenagers last time we met....

Time flies - especially re kids growing up - I don't know where the years went as my nephews, Andy, Alastair and Craig grew up...

What with the drugs'n'all, and the couple of pints beforehand, I'm afraid to say I was rather the worse for wear by the time we caught the train back to town and then a bus to Crispycat Towers....

A very enjoyable evening nonetheless and we agreed to meet up again at Xmas..

Highlight of the Day : Meeting up with old friends