Crispycat Recordings: Into the last eight...

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Into the last eight...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Three 2007 EPs
Various - Music from Dawson's creek/The OC/Smallville etc
Various - Top 10 Singles and Albums 2006
Various - Now That's What We Call Music

Up just before seven and to the computer where I reworked a couple of the instrumental tracks for the 3 CBQ EPs I'm working on at present...

In all, the 15 tracks total around 85 minutes, so I blended tracks together and compiled them to fit onto one CD (79:32) for ease of listening purposes - and hey presto, a new album?

Sort of...

At 11:32, we left for Dumfries for the Scottish Cup tie between Queen of the South and Cowdenbeath. Queens had the chance to make it into the quarter finals for the first time for thirty years...

We drove down via the scenic A702 and stopped off in Biggar for lunch - a snack from the deli there...

As we neared Dumfries, the fog came down and it became very cold, almost freezing...

We parked up around 1:45 and went to the town centre. It's really rather run down and horrible if the truth be told - hard to believe such a place has such a romantically named football team...

We had a big coffee then headed out to the ground - I filled the club's coffers by purchasing a programme, a new scarf, two tickets for the half time draw (neither a winner, I'm afraid) and two entries..

We took our seats in the stand and enjoyed a rather good game. Very nerve wracking though, as I consider myself the ultimate hoodoo...

In the end Queens ran out 2-0 winners, with goals either side of half time, the first a penalty...

Anne was not so fortunate though, as Hearts' bid to defend last year's cup success bit the dust at Dr Prog's home town, Dunfermline - the latter scoring the only goal of the game, with their only clear cut chance of the game, in the last 30 seconds of the game...

Ouch...

We forewent the chance of a curry in Biggar on the way back and headed straight home, stopping off at the chippie for a tasty fish supper each...

Back home, I listened through to the new album length CD, while Anne watched the end of the celebrity ice dancing on ice TV programme thing...

Later on, new series of both "Law & Order" and "CSI : Miami", then "Sportscene" with the cup highlights...

Here're the highlights at Palmerston...

Mon the Queens...

Highlight of the Day : Seeing my team win....

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Crispycat Latest Release

Between 1980 and 1995, Sombre Reptiles released 35 LPs. At present, all of these albums are deleted. "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995" is an 81 Track Virtual 6CD/10LP Box Set covering this pre-Cloudland Blue Quartet period. The versions of the songs included in the Box Set are taken from eight sources, recorded between 1993 and 1996: The three long deleted volumes of "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles", originally released on cassette in 1993 and 1994 via Edinburgh Record Shop, Reptile Records - all but 3 of the 57 tracks from these three records are included; Further album tracks from the final four Sombre Reptiles records, "Galleryshard (1993), "Kernelcrux" (1994), "Bitter Sweet Covers" (1995) and "Starcrossfix" (1995); Previously unreleased re-recordings from 1996, just before Sombre Reptiles became Cloudland Blue Quartet.

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection

In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!