William Fitzsimmons - Goodnight
Johnny Bennett – The Violet Hush
Amy LaVere -Anchors and Anvils
The Mountain Movers – We Have Walked in Hell...
The Blakes – The Blakes
Van Tramp – Van Tramp
Flare Acoustic Arts League – Cut
aMute – Infernal Heights for a Drama
Crosby Loggins – We All Go Home
Bella – No One Will Know
Matt Eaton – Finish Your Chips
Sherwood – A Different Light
Up at 8:30 and more listening, the William Fitzsimmons album is particularly good...
Out at 10 leaving Chris behind with an agreement to meet later at Vinyl Exchange...
I checked out and walked up into town round the back of the Arndale Centre past the Manchester Wheel and into HMV where I bought box sets by Depeche Mode and Simon & Garfunkel...
Emerging at the other side of the centre, I found FOPP and had a quick look round resulting in the purchase of a 3CD+DVD box set by Scandanavian free jazzers, The Thing, along with a DVD of James promo videos - £10 the lot...
At Vinyl Exchange they granted me £3 credit re yesterday’s overcharging and I partook of a further nine CDs, by which time Chris joined me...
We breakfasted late at Debenhams in their restaurant – very reasonable at just £2.99 for a selection of breakfast oriented foodstuffs...
We took a trip on the Big Wheel, enjoying spectacular views of the city...
Walked around the Northern Quarter, taking in a few bookstores, before stopping in at the Night and Day café/music venue in Oldham Street for a well earned drink and rest before wending our weary way to the station...
Sustenance was once again purchased and it was adios Manchester...
Cock up with the train, as our seats were booked in Carriage F but the guard advised there wasn’t a Carriage F and that it would be one of three which would join the train at Preston...
We just managed to get a couple of seats which were booked from Preston to Edinburgh but it wasn’t very relaxing given the crammed nature of the frankly miserable three coaches...
On alighting at Preston (and losing our seats), we were advised no other carriages were to be attached and that, in fact, the back coach was Carriage F!!
Very annoying but we at least finally got to our booked seats and enjoyed a peaceful remainder of our journey, apart from the ubiquitous noisy mobile phone conversations – which I was once again able to block with use of CD walkman and headphones to further dip into purchases, finding them, in the main, to be good...
Anne was at the station to meet us but we’d inadvertently thrown our tickets away with a bag of rubbish and the jobsmith (for want of a worse phrase) on the gate wouldn’t let us out...
We had to go back and persuade the inspector on the empty train to let us back on – we rummaged through the rubbish in the toilet and finally found the tickets...
To the Doric for an end of trip drink before Chris headed back to Fife...
Anne and I took the airport bus to Corstorphine before climbing the hill to Crispycat Towers where last night’s “Big Bandg Theory” and “My Name is Earl” entertained...
Ended the day with some ripping of new CDs to the hard drive...
Looking forward to a return in the late summer...
Highlight of the Day : Hanging out in Manchester...
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