Crispycat Recordings: An empty life...

Thursday, February 08, 2007

An empty life...

Playlist
Anger 77 - Keine Angst
Dio - Live in New York
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Best of 1990-1995
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Best of 1996-2006
Various - Pitchfork's Best 100 Tracks of 2006
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Deeperdown

To Out of the Bedroom tonight with Mr James Jamieson, purely in audient mode, though we have been asked to play a 30 minute showcase in March, for which rehearsals will begin on Monday - a joint set of three or four songs each probably...

Good chat with Jim Igoe, co-founder of the club, no longer involved but still a very interested party, and John Barclay, committee member and Impossible Song-ster....

The standard tonight was much better than we've experienced of late - a couple of guys even tried some quasi prog rock on their guitars - and there was some amazing picking to be witnessed from some of the performers...

Every act was male - it seems there's a dearth of new female talent coming along to OOTB at present...

The exception was tonight's excellent showcase, the very talented guitarist and lyricist, Emily Scott, whom I recorded around this time last year for the fourth OOTB compilation CD...

Just six songs, flawlessly and subtly executed...

Despite Emily's brilliance, I'm afraid Jamie and my's stand out track of the night was No 99 in the Pitchfork top 100 tracks of 2006, The Divine Comedy's "A Lady of a Certain Age" from the album "Victory for the Common Muse" which we listened to on repeat mode in the car as we travelled to and from the club...

I've never much liked the Divine Comedy but there's something rather special about this track...

It's a story, told with warmth and wit, of the loneliness of an aging English aristocrat "lady of a certain age" whose grown-up children are rare visitors, whose husband left her home to his mistress, and who has finally had to give up lounging around the French Riviera and settle into a small flat....

A no doubt fun but, ultimately, empty life...

I've to load it onto Jamie's memory stick for Monday night...

The stick contains three new recordings he's been working on recently - he needs to get another CD out...

Looking forward to playing again...

Highlight of the Day : A good OOTB

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