The Smiths in the rain...

Playlist
Morrow’s Memory – Moving Forward
Empty Yard Experiment - Empty Yard Experiment
Barclay James Harvest – High Voltage
Pallas – XXV
Von Hertzen Brothers – Stars Aligned
Horrors - Skying
Nosound – The Northern Religion of Things
Mobley/Cohn/Coltrane/Sims – Tenor Conclave
Wes Montgomery – Boss Guitar
Memories of Machines – Warm Winter
Wooden Shjips – West
Mott – Drive On
Mott – Shouting and Pointing
Amplifier – The Octopus
Matthew Shipp – Art of the Improviser
Mostly Autumn – Go Well Diamond Heart
Yes – Union Live
Blue Moon – Matrix Spheres

Ha! That title should get a few wrong hits...

A big Happy Birthday, as always on the 10th of August, to me old mucker The Count of Brodski and to lady, Margaret the H...

This evening, early evening, 5:15 to be exact, we settled down at The Stand comedy club for a 75 minute set from one of our comedy heroes, Stewart Lee...



Every year at the festival, we make a point of seeing Richard Herring and Stewart Lee and this year is no exception...

"Flickwerk : Work in Progress" was the title but it seemed fairly well formed to me and hung together nicely as he tied it all up at the end...

Now, he'd told us all at the beginning that, at the end, he'd walk through the audience to the back of the room to try and sell as many of the DVDs he has left (almost his entire stock was destroyed in the fire on Monday night at the Sony Distribution Centre during "the riots")...

So why, oh why, did a young man who'd been sitting in the front row for the previous 73 minutes, decide, at that very point, to get up to go to the toilet?

Oh dear...

Mind you, how we laughed a Mr Lee's inevitable put down of the hapless idiot...

Quite, quite brilliant comedy once again - he never disappoints...

Outside, we met up with Sid and Debbie, up from Whitley Bay for a couple of days' sightseeing (in the rain), Fopp visiting (surprisingly no CDs purchased) and comedy show watching...

We walked down Broughton Street to the Barony Bar and enjoyed a few tasty Ginger Beers and a good natter about this, that and, indeed, the next thing, before bidding them farewell as they strode off into the wet (and, by this time, late) evening...



We will see them again soon we hope...

For our own part, we drove home through the (now hardly stopped for several days) rain...

Beans on toast then some downloading of last night's discovery, Martin Peters...

Excellent stuff for any fan of T Dream/Klaus Schulze...

Highlight of the Day : Stewart Lee and meeting up with the Smiths...