Chance meeting...

Playlist
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd – Wish You were Here
Pink Floyd – Animals
Weather Report – Mysterious Traveller
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Deeperdown

Reading List
John Harris – The Making of a Masterpiece : The Dark Side of the Moon

Started reading the Pink Floyd book I bought on Saturday – as always with these things it made me want to listen again to the back catalogue, so a couple of albums made it onto the playlist...



Sid Smith’s excellent review of Weather Report’s “Mysterious Traveller” lead me to add this to the playlist and to recheck whether or not I’d yet collected all releases by the great triumvirate of jazz fusion, Weather Report, Return to Forever and the Mahavishnu Orchestra...

The result?
Weather Report 10/16
Return to Forever 5/8
Mahavishnu Orchestra 7/9
Total 22/33

Two thirds of the way there...

In the evening I drove round to Jamie’s to pick him up and we headed into town for the Out of the Bedroom Megamike...

In an amazing case of chance, Craig and Pete from Macclesfield/Stockport/Manchester, whom Anne and I went out on the town with during our trip in July to see the Blue Nile, turned up at exactly the same venue but to see the free comedy show in the basement rather than the music show on the 1st floor...

To celebrate their step dad’s 60th, they were visiting Edinburgh for a long weekend with the birthday boy and their mum to take in some shows at the festival...

A quick chat and a game of pool with Jamie then it was upstairs to the OOTB night...

Quite cleverly, the committee had split the evening into four hour long slots, each comprising 10 performers whose slot was chosen at random by picking a number from 1-10...

Jamie and I both chose the second hour and, since no one really knew when they might be called to the stage, a sizeable audience was guaranteed for all...

Jamie sang “The Morning After” while I plumped for “20/20 Vision”, once again playing unaided by printed music/lyrics...



Other notable performances on the night came from, Ian Sclater, Norman Lamont, Confushian, Spamborskee, John Lamb and Steven Carey...

Special mention for me must go to Lisa Paton, while Freeloadin' Frank, Tommy Mackay and Jim Bryce all (intentionally) brought much laughter into the room...

We left around midnight and sped home through the darkness...

Highlight of the Day : Playing one song...