Crispycat Recordings: Every night, before I sleep...

Monday, December 10, 2007

Every night, before I sleep...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Callingstill
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Doveloveshawk
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ampersand
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Anotherhappyday
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Deeperdown
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Ersatzreal
Peter Gabriel – Play (DVD)
Girls Aloud – Chemistry Bonus Xmas Album
Yes – Yessongs
Dexter Gordon – One Flight Up

Listening to me today – my song output over the last decade...

To FOPP at lunchtime whilst Xmas shopping and I went a wee bit mad...

Started with finding the special edition of Girls Aloud’s “Chemistry” album from 2005 for a fiver – it has an 8 song bonus EP including their versions of Xmas classics by Slade and Wizzard – you know the ones I mean...

Then two live albums – the first was the re-mastered version of Yes’ 1973 triple No 1 album “Yessongs”, the second was a 3CD set of Dream Theater live in New York back in 2001 – again a fiver each...

Upstairs, in the jazz section, I grabbed two £3 Blue Notes – Art Blakey Quintet’s “A Night at Birdland Vol 1” and Dexter Gordon’s “One Flight Up”...

Tasty...

And, finally, for eight quid a Peter Gabriel DVD with around twenty promotional videos plus extras...

A few history books were snaffled too, joining the pile of unread stuff back at Crispycat Towers...

Of course, it wasn’t all just self satisfaction and some actual Xmas presents were bought too...

Back home, my annual Xmas cold was taking its toll and I fell asleep watching Gabriel while Anne kept fit. Consequently I was castigated for not igniting the oven at eight...

Two episodes of “Coronation St” and Joan Rivers and Patrick Kielty starred in “Live at the Apollo” before I fell asleep again watching Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Gardens in 1973...

Woke around 2 and stumbled off to bed...

Highlight of the Day : FOPP frenzy...

2 comments:

Norman Lamont said...: I thought Fopp had closed down?

Obviously they're still viable while you're around!; 2:02 pm
Cloudland Blue Quartet said...: Ah Norman, Norman - the name was bought by HMV but, to their credit, they are running it just like the FOPP of old - same keen pricing, same fast turning over cheap stock. Cockburn St has gone but Rose St, two Glasgow stores, Nottingham and London Covent Garden all live on...; 8:18 pm

Crispycat Latest Release

David Reilly AKA Cloudland Blue Quartet, created his first soundscape, "The Drone Effect" back in December 1977. 46 years later, he finally gave two live soundscape performances, in Edinburgh on 4 November 2023 and in Newcastle on 18 January 2024, playing the 40 minute piece available here on Bandcamp as "Live Suite 2023/24". On 30 August 2024 he premiered a new 40 minute suite for 2024/25 at Fopp in Edinburgh and this piece was performed again at the Switched On Electronic Music Festival in Whitby, Yorkshire on 9 November 2024. This album, "Live Suite 2024/25" was created specifically to be performed at these last two events and, like "Live Suite 2023/24", may well be performed again in the future. Free to Stream/Name Your Price to Download, the download bundle contains the studio mix of the live performance version of "Live Suite 2024/25"

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!