Rheostatics – Discography on Shuffleplay
Various - Rock & Pop Jukebox Shuffleplay including music by:-
Sloan, Bryan Ferry, Goodbye Mr Mackenzie, Nina Hagen, The Whitest Boy Alive, Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Coldplay, Natalie Merchant, Genesis, Brian Eno and Duffy
Pet Shop Boys – Disco 4
Dream Theater – Systematic Chaos
Made my way up to Ripping Records at lunchtime, a shop I seldom visit these days but where count Brodski and I bought many of our first punk rock singles back in 1976/77...
The same guy owns the shop and, though neither of us knows the other’s name, we know each other from my initially being his customer and then a fellow record shop owner...
I was on a mission to purchase tickets for the Lucy Kaplansky gig coming up in December, almost a year to the day since we saw her last – and two tickets were procured with no problem – the man mentioned they had just arrived...
I asked him how things were going and he advised he was doing fine, enjoying life and still liked working in a record shop – he said he burned CDs at home from his record collection and played the music in the shop – so many of his customers had no idea what was playing...
Rap was banned in his shop as was the use of mobile phones by customers, or the touching of his gig blackboard, which lists probably over a hundred upcoming gigs for which he sells tickets, painstakingly written out in chalk...
His opinion on Glasvegas, the so-called “next big thing” was scathing so I asked what he’d discovered recently and he said Richard Hawley, apparently a former member of the group Pulp – so perhaps one to watch out for...
Tonight, we drove to Falkirk to see Queen of the South take their team, The Bairns (or Falkirk FC) on in the CIS Cup (The Scottish League Cup)...
In the first half QoS were rather disappointing, although we thought they had a penalty in the first minute but it turned out to be just outside the box...
We couldn’t tell as we were so far away from the action - there are only two stands at Falkirk and all the Queens fans were stuck behind the goal...
We paid £15 each to get in and a rather insulting £4 just to park the car...
Falkirk went ahead on the half hour with an expertly executed volley from Neil McCann and it stayed that way till the break...
Queens were (not literally) a different team in the second half and eventually equalised with an exciting goal involving a courageous diving header being subsequently deftly flicked over the goalie by our No 9 Stuart “Keano” Kean – it took an agonising time to land in the net...
However, with around 15 minutes left, Falkirk sprang the QoS offside trap and one Stevie Lovell scored the winner...
Rather annoyingly, on the way home, the radio confirmed that TV pictures clearly showed the goal was offside...
Queens in their red away strip. Falkirk clearly offside...
It took almost an hour to get home as we firstly went a circuitous route around Falkirk due to Police stupidly closing off roads we wanted to drive along and ended right back at the stadium in a traffic jam – then, the M9 was closed between Falkirk and Edinburgh so there must have been a pretty nasty accident – we saw fire engines on their way to the scene...
Put the defeat of Queens into perspective...
Back home, wrote up more of the diary, took my sleeping pills and went to bed...
A reasonable day...
Highlight of the day : Queens’ goal hitting the net...
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