Yes – Commercial Countdown (Jukebox Playlist)
Deep Purple - Anthology
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Various – Very Best Euphoric Breakdown Dance
Sex Pistols – Spunk
Various – World’s Greatest Trance
Various – Tighten Up
To the podiatrist at 9:45 and, with usual nice lady Helen off on maternity leave, I was introduced to Lynne who will be “doing my feet” for the foreseeable future...
Very nice...
Then, leaving Anne to take the car home, I caught the bus uptown for the grand re-opening of FOPP. One of the two Edinburgh branches has been bought over by HMV...
Nothing has changed though, and I wandered around for over an hour with various items in my hand at various times, most of which I put back before plumping for three CDs and four books one of which came with a free CD....
A call to chum Craig who’s up in Edinburgh for the weekend with his family and we arranged to meet on Tuesday as he’s busy festivalling...
Then I walked to Cockburn St and visited an exhibition by John Stezaker at the Stills Photographic Gallery and, at the Collective Gallery on the other side of the street, an exhibition based around comic books...
The second FOPP branch has been turned into a fire sale shop for a tartan gift shop on Princes St which recently suffered a massive fire...
Up onto the High St and the last Saturday of the Fringe saw the place still packed and still full of people wanting to give me flyers...
Then on to Richer Sounds and, on the way back, I picked up some printable CDs for the upcoming releases and a scart adapter to allow us to tape from the Freeview box again...
Back home and Anne was engrossed in the footie – a thumping 5-0 defeat away at Celic awaited Hearts while the MIGHTY Queen of the South, notched up their first win of the season (1-0 v Livingston) to go 5th in the table – I’d be happy with that come next May...
Decided to load the Grand Piano programme webmeister and fellow Creeker, Craig gave me at the big Creek reunion a couple of weeks ago...
Of course I botched it up and now find I can’t access my Cubase system...
Maybe this is a sign that “Ersatzreal” is ready for release...
In the evening, out to the Playhouse to see the Trisha Brown Dance Company performing to pieces by Laurie Anderson, John Cage and Monteverdi...
“Set and Reset” to the music of Laurie Anderson and danced on a set design by Robert Rauschenberg was superb....
From the programme...
“The loose, lush movement of Set and Reset is mesmerising. Transparent cloths hang in the wings allowing the audience a view of dancers both off and on stage. The stage is bare and dark except for a large geometric sculpture hanging overhead on which a collage of black and white film clips are projected. An innovative work of real beauty.”
Quite...
Then “Present Tense” danced to the music of John Cage, during which we lost a few members of the audience...
Again from the programme...
“Raucous, relentlessly athletic, aerial partnering in which Brown’s dancers seem to ride and tumble almost suspended in space. John Cage‘s visceral score provides fitting accompaniment to this inspiring work.”
Oh yes...
And, finally, the Monteverdi piece, “Canto/Pianto”, a UK premiere...
“Canto/Pianto is an excerpt drawn from Trisha Brown’s acclaimed choreography of her own response to Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo. Brown achieved total integration of music, text and movement, creating what one reviewer from The Daily Telegraph called ‘as close to the perfect dance opera as I have ever seen.’ “...
Indeed...
And we had ice cream at half time...
Home of course in time for “Match of the Day”....
Highlight of the Day : FOPP back in my life...
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