David Bowie – Space Oddity
David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World
David Bowie – Hunky Dory
David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie – Aladdin Sane
David Bowie – Pin Ups
David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
Roxy Music – Roxy Music
Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music - Stranded
Roxy Music – Country Life
Roxy Music - Siren
James Jamieson - Precious
John Coltrane – Coltrane’s Sound
Thelonius Monk Quartet with John Coltrane – At Carnegie Hall
The Flower Kings – Space Revolver
Gallagher & Lyle – Breakaway
Genesis – Invisible Touch
Golden Earring – Seven Tears
Grobschnitt – Ballermann
Trace – Trace
Various – DJ Dave’s Part Bus Disc 1
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapto
Deep Purple – Rarities
Lucy Kaplansky – Over the Hills
No-Man – Together We’re Stranger
ELO –Secret Messages
Various – Super 70’s Reggae
Up at 4:44 as I was unable to sleep – probably coming off the pills too soon...
To the back room with Meg the Black Cat to select more CDs to be added to the jukebox. From G to M I found there were around 200 titles which, in my opinion, deserve to be included...
Downstairs and read the headlines on teletext – all this time listening to the golden years of David Bowie and Roxy Music...
At seven I succumbed to tiredness and returned to bed, snoozing on and off before rising for good around 10:15...
The postie had brought a recent e-bay purchase (total cost less than £3) - Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane's long lost Carnegie Hall Concert from November 29 1957, a couple of days short of exactly 50 years ago...
Leona Lewis in 50 years anyone?
No, thought not...
Then, a phone call to Germany to my Godson, Ansem, whose 7th birthday it was last week...
He was glad to hear from me and we could just about understand one another – he was off to play in a football tournament today apparently..
I was advised by his dad, Jorg, that the boy was rather upset last week and was asking to come to Scotland to see me - saying he was "homesick for Scotland" - which is weird because he's never been here other than in his mother's tummy...
Then, to Tesco for provisions with John Coltrane on the headphones – followed by a lovely lunch of rye bread with Gouda and German Smoked and Peppered Salami in honour of the wee man...
“Football Focus” would have had us believe the world as we know it has come to an end and “the future of English Football hangs in the balance” all because of the team’s failure to qualify for Euro 2008....
To make matters worse, England have slipped a place in the rankings after the conclusion of the campaign (as have Scotland) and so will be seeded in the second spot of their qualifying group for the World Cup in 2010 – the days of “easy” groups may be over...
I spent the afternoon CD ripping whilst keeping one eye on the footie scores – Queen of the South were away to Peterhead in the Scottish Cup. Having already been dumped out of the other two cups in their respective first rounds, the omens weren’t good – but, in the end, they ran out 5-0 winners, with two goals in the last minute...
Whilst surfing around during the ripping session I came a cross this site via Pitchfork. It’s a studio in Illinois where touring bands stop off and record off the cuff four song sessions which are then made freely available for download – what a great idea...
In the early evening it was “Strictly Come Dancing”, with Aleesha streets ahead of the pack - then, we taped “Robin Hood” while I went to pick up Lynn and Ross who were coming round tonight for dinner...
The menu?
Anne’s home made pakoras and special chilli sauce
Anne’s home made Chicken Tikka Massala with nan bread
Luxury vanilla ice cream...
Very tasty indeed – much Indian beer and Chilean wine was also consumed and the night was topped off with coffee, mints and a wee G&T...
Many topics were discussed including children, fashion, the genie being out of the bottle re most of the world’s problems including Global Warming and, as ever Ross entertained with his stories of prison life – he is a warder - before they set off into the night around 3am to walk home...
A good day...
Highlight of the Day : A visit from Lynn and Ross
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