Soft Machine – Seven
Sparks – BBC Session
Girls Aloud – The Promise & Other Singles
Schumann – Murray Perahia Plays Schumann
Locke – The Broken Consort
Neal Morse – Lifeline
Various – 31 Best Albums of 2008 So Far On Shuffleplay
The Sleepy Jackson – Personality
The Bad Plus – For All I Care
Hawkwind – Out of the Shadows (DVD)
Up at 5:48 – listening to Soft Machine then listening to Sparks on the Mark Lamarr show last night – extensive interview, albeit with the rather annoying Mr Lamarr, and five songs plus an online exclusive...
Heads up for this came from Count Brodski...
Then to the Girls Aloud website to see their new single’s video – their player features almost every video they’ve done...
Of course I have the majority on DVD...
A good start to the day though...
Wandered downstairs and took all the CDs off the living room shelf to “have a look” at the last 100 acquisitions laid out on the dining room table...
Took some pictures, including Meg the Black Cat getting in on the act, then put all the CDs back again...
Tried to save some kind of flying beast from the marauding spiders outside the living room window...
A leisurely breakfast of boiled egg and toast, coffee and juice whilst listening to Neal Morse and watching everything outside being blown about in the wind and rain...
Decided to venture out to investigate a possible new printer – against the advice of Meg the Black Cat who, weather wise, was going nowhere today...
When it came to it though, after much hemming and hawing I decided I didn’t really need a new printer – not a reason which is usually at the forefront of my mind when considering buying stuff...
Back home, Anne had prepared some lovely lentil soup for lunch as we watched Rangers beat Hamilton, coming from behind...
I got wrapped up against the elements again to go into town on the bus as Anne went off to Tynecastle for the game against Aberdeen (a 1-1 draw, while Queens defeated Ross County 2-0 away in Dingwall to remain top of the league for the third week in a row)...
In FOPP (of course), I bought the new Bad Plus album, along with another Iain M Banks SF book (which I probably won’t read), a CD/DVD by Australian band The The Sleepy Jackson and a DVD of Hawkwind live in 2002 – total cost £21, with the Bad Plus costing £14 – this is how I justify a large cost for a single CD, by buying other stuff to bring the average price down...
I am mad...
In another shop, I bought two new watches and some paint brushes and acrylic paints for the upcoming artistic creation scenario...
Then it was time to go home – the stormy conditions and total outgoes thus far making it unattractive to stay in the proximity of shops...
On the bus home I started the book – promising...
Back home I enjoyed the Sleepy Jackson then settled down for the highlight – the new Bad Plus...
My mantra is, of course, that there’s no place for vocals in jazz...
Eight of the twelve tracks feature vocalist Wendy Lewis who, like the Bad Plus hails from Minneapolis...
She’s the singer in the band Redstart, which has shared members with Bad Plus drummer Dave King’s band Happy Apple...
She is not a standard jazz vocalist in the annoying (for me) style of a Cleo Laine, a Billie Holiday or an Ella Fitzgerald – she is, essentially, a pop/rock vocalist and her contributions to this album add rather than detract from proceedings...
Highlights thus far for me include a version of the Bee Gees’ “How Deep is Your Love” (coincidentally the recently purchased Neal Morse album also sports a cover of a Gibbs Brothers work)....
My favourite though, is not, as expected, either the Pink Floyd song or the Yes song but a Flaming Lips number, “Feeling Yourself Disintegrate” from their album “The Soft Bulletin” – which, thus far, I don’t own...
After “Merlin” which this week actually, finally, showed some promise, it was off over to Fife to visit chum Chris for an entertaining evening involving a Kraftwerk DVD, a compilation of all Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson’s “Dangerous Brothers” sketches and their Comic Strip film regarding Peter Cook’s murderous Mr Jolly...
Entertainment at its violent, slapstick best...
A takeaway from the local Indian emporium sustained us and we headed home around 1 am, the wind and rain having finally ceased...
An enjoyable day...
Highlight of the Day : New Bad Plus / The Dangerous Brothers
2 comments:
Thanks for the reminder about the Dangerous Bros. They were pretty funny at the time and as I recall unlike anything I'd seen before (apart from Python and Milligan) - now they've all become mainstream and safe and rich. The dream of millions I suppose.
Yeah Syrus is on the prowl but we've no idea when or where the next siting will be, your garden is a possibility. He has something of an outlaw fan club.
Great to hear Syrus has been spotted - c'mon the wee man!!
The Dangerous Brothers DVD was apparently acquired from Play.com by chum Chris...
I found much of it relates back to the brilliance of Laurel and Hardy and their often off-screen comic events (exploding kitchens etc), where imagination takes hold...
Lovely...
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