Friday, July 03, 2009

Freeloaders...

Playlist
Schubert – Complete trios
Schubert – Late Piano Sonatas
Grieg – Complete Chamber Music
Janacek – Complete Piano Works
Schumann – Complete Concertos
Ibert – Complete Chamber Music
Handel – Italian Cantatas
Grieg – Complete Lyric Pieces
Rachmaninov – Complete operas
Debussy – Orchestral works
Poulenc – Camber Music, Piano Music
Ravel – Complete Orchestral Works

Some of my latest classical purchases, including those from yesterday, provided today’s soundtrack in shuffleplay mode...

Off to Fife around midday for a meet relating to a possible large deal for “The Man” – went well...

In the evening, having returned home and watched Andy Murray, rather predictably, lose to Andy Roddick in the Wimbledon semi-final, we headed back into town, initially to Thomson’s Bar...



Then, over the road to McKirdy’s Steakhouse to cash in on one of two large denomination vouchers received by me from the staff of “The Man” (and “The Man” himself) on the occasion of my fiftieth birthday, already two months ago...

A slap up feed ensued, mainly comprising sirloins, curly fries, onions, pepper sauce etc etc...

Tasty...

The wine which accompanied the meal, along with the imbibing earlier and the continued taking of strong painkillers, resulted in the following snaps of...


The Exec Producer...



The bus home...



The Moon....



Meg the Black Cat...



An enjoyable day...

Highlight of the Day : Out with Anne...
PS revised moon pic for Sid and John...

5 comments:

Sid Smith said...

Woah there Mr. CBQ,

that moon pic is Hipgnosis material! Lighten up the foreground and touch and you've got a great album cover.

Maybe we could together with all our blog chums and start a new thread: covers for albums never made.

Great stuff as ever!

impossible songs said...

The moon picture is indeed a belter, worthy of any decent prog rock five CD package, get hawking! The albums never made and variations on that theme was a major event on Facebook a few months ago, I thought it wood never end.

Cloudland Blue Quartet said...

Cheers for the compliments guys - John what were you doing surfing when "Torchwood" was on??

Have posted a revised version too per Sid's suggestion - may have taken a way something of the mystique though...

impossible songs said...

Torchwod? we use Sky plus, Ali's watching it right now...linked to record them all.

Cloudland Blue Quartet said...

Forgot you guys live in the 21st Century - we still use video...