Hello Kitty...

Playlist
Grand Funk Railroad – Bosnia
Various – Zunior Compilation 2010 v5:03
Alice Cooper – School’s Out
Various - Sid Smith's Podcast from the Yellow Room XIV
Stomu Yamashta - Go

Another 7:30 rise and, today, compiling a list of all artists by whom I have every original studio album released to date...

There are 89...

I’ve split them according to the decade in which their first album appeared...

1960’s
1963 The Beatles 11
1964 Simon & Garfunkel 5
1967 David Bowie 27
1967 Pink Floyd 13
1967 The Velvet Underground 4
1968 The Move 4
1969 Alice Cooper 25
1969 Yes 19
1969 Genesis 15
1969 Grand Funk Railroad 13
1969 King Crimson 13
1969 The Frost 3

1970’s
1970 Uriah Heep 21
1970 Gentle Giant 11
1970 Emerson Lake & Palmer 9
1970 Syd Barrett 2
1971 Electric Light Orchestra 11
1971 Kraftwerk 11
1971 Mahavishnu Orchestra 6
1972 Roxy Music 8
1972 Neu! 3
1973 Brian Eno 25
1973 Bryan Ferry 12
1973 Fripp & Eno 4
1973 Cockney Rebel 2
1973 Hatfield and the North 2
1973 Wizzard 2
1974 Rush 18
1974 Harmonia 2
1974 Mick Ronson 2
1975 The Tubes 8
1975 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel 4
1977 Peter Gabriel 11
1978 Magazine 4
1978 UK 2
1978 Richard Wright 2
1979 Robert Fripp 14
1979 The Cure 13
1979 Joy Division 2

1980s
1980 Fehlfarben 8
1980 M 2
1981 New Order 8
1982 Asia 9
1982 Icehouse 7
1982 Laurie Anderson 5
1982 Talk Talk 5
1982 Don Henley 4
1983 Marillion 15
1983 The Blue Nile 4
1983 Patrick Moraz & Bill Bruford 2
1984 David Sylvian 9
1984 Roger Hodgson 3
1984 Roger Waters 3
1985 Suzanne Vega 7
1986 Pet Shop Boys 10
1986 It Bites 4
1987 Rheostatics 11
1987 Earthworks 5
1988 Madredeus 11
1988 Morrissey 9
1989 Goodbye Mr Mackenzie 3

1990’s
1990 Jellyfish 2
1991 The Beyond 2
1991 Jack Frost 2
1993 Radiohead 7
1994 Lucy Kaplansky 6
1995 Dar Williams 7
1996 Eels 8
1996 Fiona Apple 3
1997 Grandaddy 5
1998 Alice Peacock 4
1999 Happy Apple 5
1999 Muse 5

2000’s
2000 Coldplay 5
2000 Tom McRae 4
2000 Transatlantic 3
2000 Dido 3
2001 The Bad Plus 6
2001 Elbow 4
2002 Secret Machines 4
2003 Neal Morse 6
2003 Girls Aloud 5
2003 Dave Gahan 2
2004 The Killers 4
2005 Icon 3
2005 City and Colour 2
2005 Nine Horses 2
2005 The Violet Archers 2
2006 The Whitest Boy Alive 2

I've not included anyone who has only released one album to date...

To the gym at 9 for another hour of exercise – I figure I’m covering around 30 miles a week – it’s a start...

Home for breakfast then out to mum’s to set up her Tivo, glad of having sorted ours yesterday as a kind of dry run...

Easy peasy – successfully set up and a happy mum...





Back home and an hour to kill before heading to Jane and Bobby’s for niece Kitty’s annual birthday party...

I quickly put together a "Best of Eels" collection for Bobby and a disc containing all the pictures and films I'd taken at Kitty's last four birthdays...

The latter was well received by the Kitmeister...







Meanwhile, Ollie read his "Shoot" annual - I suscribed to this self-same magazine in the late 60's/early 70's...



An excellent meal, as always at Jane and Bobby's, was provided to the gathered throng...



...post which, the cake was presented, including a fairly pyrotechnical addition to the normal candles....





Kitty and Ollie were let loose with the camera – here’s Kitty’s portrait of your correspondent...



...and here is the result of Ollie’s discovery of the self-timing facility...



The evening ended with some Abba and Queen on Singstar – Kitty was very disappointed that I beat her on “Dancing Queen”...



...the grown ups tried to explain that I actually am a singer and therefore really ought to be good at Singstar – which I thought was quite good...

Kitty and Ollie then demolished “Bohemian Rhapsody” with some considerable gusto...



All too soon it was time to return home for “Dancing on Ice” and blogging and another weekend headed to a close...

Highlight of the Day : Kitty’s birthday...