Love Parade – Half the Civilised World
Yes – The Word is Live
Brian Eno – Before and After Science
Rex the Dog – The Rex the Dog Show
Tangerine Dream – Ultima Thule
Jackie McLean – Jacknife
Scarlatti – Keyboard Sonatas
Various – 50 Years of Island Records
Prefuse 73 – It Happened and It Still Happens
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Soundingfall
Eric Bibb - ?
Deep Purple – Burn
AC/DC – Back in Black
David Gilmour – Live in Gdansk
Art Pepper – Smack Up
Nathan Davis – Jazz 65-76
Hugh Masekela - ?
Gil Scott –Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Angles
BEF – Music of Quality and Distinction
Associates – Greatest Hits
Up 7:15 despite the late night...
Opened the day’s listening with Count Brodski and my’s 1984 LP “Half the Civilised World”, it being 25 years ago this weekend since we performed it live at the Meadows Festival...
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Then took Anne to an appointment at 10:30 before heading into town to meet with Dr Prog at today’s fair – I’d texted Count Brodski but no response...
A quick visit to FOPP pre fair – nothing took my fancy...
At the fair however, I bought my first LP for probably over 20 years – Jackie McLean’s “Jacknife”, over which I’d swithered back in February...
Also picked up a nice Tangerine Dream 2CD compilation containing some rare early works...
The Doc shelled too much money out for various prog DVDs before we returned to the Cloudland Blue mobile and headed up to park at the Saturday Place...
We walked along to Beetlejuice, the coffee shop which, now over ten years ago, was Reptile Records and enjoyed a tasty lunch and a chat before I took the Progmeister home...
A storm looked to be brewing - and rain commenced shortly after...
Back at Crispycat Towers, I listened to the new LP...
...in the company of Meg the Black Cat, while the Exec Producer went for a snooze...
Then spent some considerable time ripping recent CDs for the jukeboxes...
Was led to the BBC I-Player by blogger Sid Smith (see links) to watch the 90 minute story of the Island Label...
Then got ready to go out for the evening – we were off for dinner to the abode of our solicitor during our days as Reptile Records, Mr Alan McLaren and his lovely wife (and expert cook) Eileen...
Being a bit early uptown, we popped into Henderson’s for a quick coffee...
Despite this we still arrived slightly early...
Alan was out picking up a CD he was getting on test for a local HiFi seller pal...
Alan is Mr HiFi, even more so than our German chum Jorg...
He has thousands of LPs – including many recent releases I didn’t think had ever been out on LP...
But before we listened to any LPs, we enjoyed a superb Caribbean based dinner of seared tuna salad and two extra hot and delicious curry dishes with “peas and rice” (actually kidney beans, coconut milk and rice) and plantain, rounded off with a delicious tiramisu based desert...
Mmm, mmmm...
Much wine was consumed by the quartet – including, almost unbelievably, a bottle which, at 54 years old, was older than the oldest person at the table – erm that’d be your correspondent...
The rest of the evening, until well after 2am, was spent listening to groovy LPs...
...and mucking about on Alan’s collection of excellent musical instruments and accompanying gadgets – bass solos were blasting out at midnight...
The Exec Producer finally called time around 2:15 and it was into a taxi and off home...
An extremely enjoyable day...
Highlight of the Day : Spending an evening with my Doppelganger...
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