Yes - Contemporary Commerciality Jukebox Playlist
Le Poeme Harmonique - Aux Marches du Palais (Various Composers)
Rather aptly I chose a Yes playlist on the jukebox this morning. Apt because, on looking back at the entry for our 23rd Wedding Anniversary (14 Oct), I see that that’s the very day this playlist was compiled...
Apt, because today is the 27th anniversary of Capital Models gig at the Netherbow Theatre, just up from St Mary St, on the Royal Mile...
You can read a bit about the band here - this website has been up since 2002 and I've still to update the band history beyond 1980 - I am lazy....
Anyway, at the after gig party in my flat in St Mary’s St, Anne and I officially "became an item"...
I shared the flat with fellow band members, James Jamieson and Gus Bolton and a college friend, Dave McKee (Anne & I’s first date had been late 1979 but it seemed nothing would come of it - especially since the aforementioned Dave McKee insisted on playing gooseberry)....
In hindsight, it seems we used to have a party at the flat every week (and sometimes during the week) though I’m sure this can’t really have been the case...
Good times though...
The band’s name was suggested by Jamie and was shared by a shop on the corner of Jeffrey St and the High St at the time. It's long since closed. As has the band...
And so tonight, we went out to celebrate...
We started just after five with a visit to Henderson’s in Hanover St, a haunt of ours over the years and, here, we shared a bottle of Spanish organic white wine...
So of course, by the time we left, I was a wee bit the worse for wear...
We jumped on a bus up to George IV Bridge and walked down Chamber St to the Jazz Bar where Anne partook of a G&T while I enjoyed half a Litre of Tyskie, a particularly tasty and quite potent, Polish lager...
We walked over the road to Blackwells Book Shop (formerly James Thin) for a browse to kill the five minutes or so till our restaurant reservation time of 7:30...
Of course I couldn’t resist two classical CDs (for £3 each) of music which I had never heard before – on the Alpha label – one of 15th Century French Songs and one of popular music of Rome during the early 17th Century...
Earlier in the day, I was to be seen wandering around FOPP with a big pile of CDs in my hand by such luminaries as Uriah Heep (not the classic line-up though, I have all them) Barclay James Harvest, Todd Rundgren etc etc but ended up putting them all back and opting for the 2CD re-recorded retrospective set by Joni Mitchell, “Travelogue” for a fiver...
We may venture to Glasgow on Sunday, so no doubt, there will be a re-think....
We dined at Suruchi, a specialist Indian Restaurant opposite the Festival Theatre. The food was brilliant – especially the huge fiery red chilli served up with the starters – and the service was very friendly indeed – we passed on any sweet but they brought a large bowl of ice cream to the table, having asked us why we were out tonight...
A nice touch...
We left around 9:30 or so and I suggested returning to the Jazz Bar, where young sax player Fraser Campbell was making a return, but we erred on the side of caution, walked in the rain to Princes St and caught a No 26 home to Crispycat Towers....
There must have been something in that Cobra Indian beer I had at the restaurant, because I was soon snoring on the settee while Anne watched tonight’s “Coronation St”...
Ah yes, romance is not dead...
A good day...
Highlight of the Day : A lovely night out
2 comments:
You know what...I think I was at the Capital Models gig in the Netherbow and the after gig party in St Mary's st with Pam. did you say 27 years ago? I can't be that old can I? Seem to remember I though it was all v exciting. I was probably 16.
I took two photos of the audience that night, so there's documentary evidence somewhere...
Yes...somewhere...
I can't believe you're 43!
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