Seen and heard, unfortunately...

Playlist
David Gates & Bread - Essentials
Various Composers - The Glory of the Baroque (2CD)
Blancmange - Best of
Roberta Flack - Softly With These Songs
Spiritualised - Amazing Grace

Must’ve been zonked after yesterday’s eventful day as I didn’t waken until 9:45 – possibly a recent times record (excluding times when I’ve gotten up and then returned to bed)...

After a homemade breakfast, while Anne surfed the net re football, I joined the Yes site, Yesnet and posted the setlist and a review of the Anderson Wakeman gig – along the same lines as I wrote here yesterday...

Other than that? Just buggered about all day on the computer doing nothing in particular apart from transferring all the new discs to the Jukebox...

Out of ten, I’d rate them as follows:-

Susumu Yokota – Grinning Cat 8/10
Various Composers - The Glory of the Baroque 8/10
Blancmange - Best of 7/10
Gallagher and Lyle – Breakaway 6/10
Kronos Quartet – Nuevo 4/10
David Gates & Bread – Essentials 3/10
Roberta Flack - Softly With These Songs 2/10
Spiritualised - Amazing Grace 1/10

I’d forgotten how good Blancmange were...

In the afternoon, round to Anne’s mum’s....

Both sister-in-law Jane and partner-not-in-law Maureen celebrate their birthdays this Tuesday so it was a birthday tea. As usual, the kids got to blow out the candles. Niece Kitty and nephew Ollie were particularly badly behaved today but that’s just kids I suppose...

Now, back in my day...seen and not heard and all that...

Anyway, back home I found a poll on the Yes website re tracks fans would like to hear played live were there to be a tour in 2007 – which I’m pretty sure there won’t be...

The top 15 songs (in reverse order) are currently as follows:-

Homeworld from The Ladder
Siberian Khatru from Close to the Edge
Perpetual Change from The Yes Album
Starship Trooper from The Yes Album
Machine Messiah from Drama
South Side of the Sky from Fragile
The Gates of Delirium from Relayer
Sound Chaser from Relayer
And You And I from Close to the Edge
Parallels from Going for the One
Heart of the Sunrise from Fragile
Awaken from Going for the One
On the Silent Wings of Freedom from Tormato
Close to the Edge from Close to the Edge
To Be Over from Relayer

So that set includes all of both "Close to the Edge" and "Relayer" – two great albums which you should all buy at the next opportunity – they have them both in FOPP right now for a fiver each...

...and it’d make a good setlist so I ended the day by programming it into the Jukebox...

Highlight of the Day : A birthday tea