Brian Eno – Discreet Music
Field Music - Measure
Various – Cafe del Mar Vol 2
Sumner McKane – Something Very New England About This View
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Splinterheart
Al Stewart – Past Present and Future
Peter Gabriel – Hit
Django Bates – You Live and Learn (Apparently)
No-Man – Schoolyard Ghosts
Bob Marley – Singles Selecta
Various – Right On Vol 3
Keith Jarrett – The Impulse Years 1973-1974
Emerson Lake & Palmer – Emerson Lake & Palmer
Alice Cooper – Muscle of Love
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Sparks - Kimono My House
No gym this morning as up at a very late 8:20, to be greeted by our cortortionistic cat...
...and there was “stuff” to do...
Post the Great Tumbling Down Disaster of Friday the 13th, a cover has been purchased for the seldom used bike and it has been move to the garden – the cover required sorting...
Post the Great Obviously Not Perfectly Good Television Goes Tits Up Disaster of Tuesday the 10th, said dead TV and its large box had to be taken to the dump...
Post the Great Purchase Of A New Lawnmower In No Way A Disaster of 30th of June (since when it’s lain in its box on our living room floor and provided a strangely comfy spot for Meg the Black Cat), said lawnmower had to be taken from its box and put together to allow it, finally, to be used....
Post the Great Failure To Contact My Sisters Re A Possible 80th Birthday Present For My Mum, her birthday is 31 August, I had to call sister Pam to try and sort something out...
By the time all of these tasks, and the belated tidying out of, and sweeping the floor of the garage had been carried out, it was almost 1pm...
Shortly thereafter, as I enjoyed the opening scenes of "Live and Let Die", Annie was off for Hearts' first game of the season – a 1-1 draw with St Johnstone – meanwhile Queens were humped at home by Raith Rovers 3-1...
The Mighty Doonhamers are now bottom of the league after two games, the only team without a point...
As I said last week, the usual start...
I listened to tracks from CDs purchased 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years ago this week, then I worked on and, I think, finalised, the cover for the new LP, due out on my mum’s birthday...
The sleeves are to be put together by hand, with much cutting, folding and gluing...
Then, I played through a few of the songs on the album - I sounded rubbish in comparison with the recorded me...
In the evening, out with Lynn and Ross and over to the Kilted Pig to see erstwhile musical collaborator James Jamieson perform (under his own name, Jamie Frain), two cracking sets of cover versions from the last six (count 'em) decades, to a rowdy but appreciative crowd who, for me, had I been in Jamie’s shoes, would have represented an absolute nightmare...
It brought to mind my stints at the Beanscene during the Festival three or four years ago, with everyone just talking loudly to each other and granting my songs scant attention but clapping at the end of each...
Of course, Jamie’s material was well known to the audience and so, as the night went on and the drink took effect, quite a few of the songs made a connection and galvanised the football dads and neighbours and colleagues into a noisy singalong...
The Jam’s “That’s Entertainment”, Stereophonics’ “Dakota” and The Drifters’ “Saturday Night at the Movies” were all particularly successful...
As Jamie launched into Soft Cell's “Tainted Love”, one young-ish lady bounded to the front and proceeded to do the “Northern Soul Dance” in front of him – top stuff! (as featured in the collage above)...
Great to see Jamie again, it’s been tooooo long and, if he does this again, he has invited your correspondent to accompany him – although learning 40 cover versions may be a bit much for this curmudgeonly old “artist” who no longer enjoys playing live....
Lift home for Lynn and Ross and off to bed around 1am...
A good day...
Highlight of the Day : Jamie Frain, live in concert...
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