Inconsequential misinterpretation...

Playlist
Herbie Hancock – The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions
Hank Mobley – The Turnaround
UK – The Best of UK (CD-R)

The review of my three song set last week at Out of the Bedroom arrived in my inbox yesterday...

“OOTB old-schooler CBQ headed off proceedings with a dreamy number recalling how he "fell for [her] blue eyes across the room"...

Then "The End of Everything", which raises the tempo a bit, and promptly sends me spiralling into melancholic 'if only I’d known then what I know now' desperation. Ah, you can’t beat a bit of misery, I always say.

The third song transports us to a continental cafe; sipping coffee and watching the world go by under the setting sun. It was quite beautiful.”

Many thanks to Lindsay Sugden for that...

Of course "Blue Eyes Across the Room" is about not realising you've been killed in a car crash while in the third song, "Starting to Worry", the protaganist isn't actualy in a continental cafe, rather they are in a mental institution having their conciousness altered by drugs, machines and hypnotherapy after "losing" their partner...

But that possibly didn't come across on the night and I certainly can't blame Lindsay for not knowing what goes on in my head - I'm just grateful someone took the time to listen and write a review...

And I'm sure I have no idea what her songs might be about but it doesn't take away from the fact she's one of my favourite fellow performers...

Today, I gave a listen to Hank Mobley’s album “The Turnaround”, half the album was recorded exactly 45 years ago (7 March 1963) – and it still sounds fresh...

Following on from Anne’s, shall we say, observation, that she’s not been able to have a takeaway on a Friday all year, I booked a table at Indian Restaurant, Zest...



At five we headed up to the South Bridge to the Jazz Bar only to find it not quite ready to open, so we popped next door to Biblo for a drink (mmm, Magners), returning to the Jazz Bar around six to find the promised live “funky” music hadn’t started yet – the background music was fine for us though and the atmosphere was good – a bottle of Erdinger Weissbier proved popular with your correspondent...

Due to the rain, we bussed it back down to the town centre and, still a little early for the table, visited nearby Lord Bodo’s – a charming wee hostelry which very kindly provided a half of Blanc for me while Anne enjoyed her third G&T of the evening...

Then to Zest and the food was excellent – we shared starters of vegetable pakora and chicken kebab followed by a fiery lamb dish for me, complete with two very large red chillis, and a Lamb Karai for Anne – some spicy potatoes on the side, rice and a chapati each – very tasty indeed – and a bottle of red wine slipped down nicely...

A good couple of hours later we emerged onto the street, having now avoided the worst of the rain, and made our way on foot along Thistle Street to the West End of Princes Street where we caught the bus home...

OK, perhaps not a wild night out but very enjoyable indeed and home in time to catch Al Murray before calling it a night...

A good day...

Highlight of the Day : A night out with Anne