Huelgas Ensemble – Lamentations de la Renaissance
Various – Jukebox Picks
Rush – Fly By Night
Scottish Guitar Quartet – Landmarks
Paul Motion Trio – At the Village Vanguard
eRikm & Fennesz – Contrasts Donaueshingen 2003
Schubert – Music for Piano Four Hands
Up at 7 today and spent some considerable time converting eleven recent acquisitions to MP3 – not live or classical albums though - I need a couple more jukeboxes I think for classical stuff and live stuff...
To make room on my current jukebox, I cleared classical, compilations & live albums to the PC hard disk for future saving to DVD...
Checked out my Myspace page and added a few "friends" - I even downloaded one new friend's album - but haven't listened just yet...
At 10:25 I left the house for my podietrist appointment, leaving Anne ill in bed...
By 10:50 I was driving into town to meet up with Dr Prog...
As I walked from the car to the Music Library, I took a few pics before the camera battery died. It was a lovely cold morning...
I was late in arriving but it was fine as Phil (Dr Prog) was even later...
In the meantime I bumped into Eric, former workmate of Mr Alan Brodie, and jazz afficionado...
We swapped tales and recommendations and chatted about music software - he's just bought a laptop and some programmes and is eager to get working - we may do something together at some point and should at least share a few pints in the company of Mr Brodie if nothing else...
I borrowed seven CDs, all jazz, other than one rare disc by electronica fiend, Fennesz...
Phil and I walked back to the Queens Hall and had a light lunch at a little place opposite the venue, called "Wheels", run by some arab guys - very tasty...
The reason Phil took me all the way there was to pick up a CD player he has in for repair - ironically though, by the time we'd set the worlds of music and e-bay to rights, it was 1:10 and we went outside to find the repair shop had closed at 1:00...
So we walked back to the car, taking in a few charity shops on the way - there're loads of them up that way - but found nothing to add to what we'd borrowed from the library...
I gave Phil a lift home, stopping off at Falko Conditorei for two slices of lovely German cake, one apricot and one Schwabian apple - to give Anne a treat on my return...
After coffee and cake, I thought about working on some music but fell asleep on the settee, only to wake to find Queen of the South were winning 4-0 against Partick Thistle with 8 minutes to go....
A nervous 10 minutes later, QoS were victorious, 4-3...
Hearts managed a 0-0 draw away to Rangers...
Then to the PC to continue clearing out the jukebox – 2.5 gigs freed up in all before I added the new acquisitions...
It's Anne's birthday on Monday so, tonight, we went out with her best friend, Lynn and her partner Ross - to McKirdie's steakhouse...
Of course I forgot what kind of steak I like best and ordered a fillet when I meant sirloin - and, as I have mine rare, it was almost raw in the middle...
Haggis started the meal for me and my steak was accompanied by mustard mash and onion rings along with regular sauteed onions and mushrooms - all very tasty (even the raw meat)...
A little caramel cake finished me off...
Pre and post this enjoyable meal, we had a few drinks in Thomson's bar opposite the restaurant, where we bumped into Alan McLaren, our Solicitor from our Record Shop days - he looks like my doppelganger...
He advised he's formed a band and says he'll let me hear some of their stuff and that I'm welcome along to any rehearsals...
Sounds like fun - vocals, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards/decks...
A night bus home (almost missed by Anne and Lynn as they wandered ahead chatting) and tucked up by 1:45...
Another good day...
Highlight of the Day : Anne's birthday meal and new music prospects..
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