Not dawn...

Playlist
King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
Various – Zunior Monthly Samplers
Wintersleep – Welcome to the Night Sky
Various – Rheostatics Secret Sessions
Various – Zunior V4:24 December ’09 Sampler
Pet Shop Boys – Christmas
Neal Morse – Cover to Cover
Various – Stax 50th Anniversary
Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels
Eels – Hombre Lobo
King Crimson – Cadence and Cascade

Watched Dr Who again – this time without my red wine and fatigue induced blackouts...

Very good indeed – looking forward to next week’s conclusion...

Continued to sample the new King Crimson albums – the remastering is exceptional...

I'm listening to this as I type...



Of course, when you buy a new version of an album you already own, you do tend to listen to it more carefully and, perhaps precisely for that reason, you hear things not previously heard...

In these cases though, there is a palpable difference in the LPs...

I am loving them...

An e-mail reminded me of the annual Boxing Day half price sale at www.zunior.com and I logged in and partook of six albums – three by Great Lake Swimmers, a Rheostatics tribute compilation, an album by platinum-sellers-in-Canada, Wintersleep and a new discovery, Royal Wood...

This last was noted whilst trawling through the twenty or so free 10 track samplers I have received on a monthly basis since signing up to the mailing list...

Total outlay? Around £15...

A further free album landed in the inbox from Zunior, a festive compilation, and this soundtracked the arrival of Mum and Sister Pam for a Boxing Day feast, prior to their heading into town for the annual Panto...

Meg the Black Cat sang along...





Presents were exchanged...



The Exec Producer had once again excelled herself on the culinary arts front, while your correspondent had been sitting around downloading new Canadian music...

A very tasty lasagne hit the spot...





...followed by a tart lemon tort....

Pet Shop Boys’ Christmas EP also entertained, along with selections from the 54 album MP3 DVD prepared for Pam...

All too soon, our visitors were off into the night and the remainder of the day was spent watching TV...

A very long and looked-like-it-was-written-and–directed-by-someone-on-drugs “Pirates of the Caribbean – Edge of the World”, was followed by “Match of the Day”...

Whilst watching the latter I perused the new Eels album and a Great Lake Swimmers disc recently borrowed from the library...

Another happy day...

Highlight of the Day : A visit from the family...