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A particularly disappointing month gone...
A day off today...
Up early and recreating to 2 CDs the likely (indeed actual) setlist from the Alice Cooper performance in Glasgow tonight...
Off down the road but, before heading to the West, handed in a pair of boots for repairs which may cost more than the boots did - but they are comfy...
Five pence pieces set aside for a goodly number of months were taken to the bank and exchanged for a crisp £20 note...
To The White Lady for breakfast - tasty porridge with maple syrup and a couple of slices of toast for the big man, while a sausage with brown sauce roll nourished the Exec Producer...
One last stop before we set off to Glasgow - a bag of "stuff" put together during the recent change around of the computer room was taken to the Cancer research charity shop...
The drive to Glasgow was soundtracked by the Coop...
To Byres Road and parked...
The Oxfam Music shop provided a disc of JS Bach Orchestral Suites arranged for Acoustic Guitar Quartet for just two of your English pounds, while Fopp provided a DVD for Annie and a Roberta Flack CD for me - her debut from 1969 - along with an anthology of the writings of William S Burroughs...
To a pattisserie for a tasty lunch...
...after which we bumped into Anne's step-niece, Rebecca, who studies English Lit at Glasgow University...
She opined the occurence as "random"...
Back to the car and, accompanied by Herr Bach, we drove to the Campanile Hotel by the SECC, where we were to spend the night tonight...
View from the room...
A walk into the town centre past these things...
...and, at Missing, Annie bought a "Dad's Army" DVD for her mum re the new DVD viewing facilities installed last night, along with a Lady Antebellum CD - your correspondent left the shop empty handed...
We never reached the main Fopp though...
Tower's old premises has been taken over by That's Entertainment, selling CDs, DVDs and games at ridiculously low prices - further hammering nails into the coffin of the CD format methinks...
Two Biffy Clyro discs were partaken of...
To The Lighthouse...
...and then, directly opposite, Bar Ten for drinks...
Then the walk through the much promised but just commenced rain...
...initially past our venue and on to Buddha Bar for considerably cheaper drinks...
..and, finally, to the original Ashoka in Elderslie Street...
Very tasty indeed and our third curry based evening meal in three days...
Then more walking through the rain back to the hotel to dump our purchases before walking over to the Armadillo to find the New York Dolls half way through their set...
Being the support act to Alice Cooper is an unenviable task - as soon as the Coop takes to the stage, you are forgotten...
This year's show was much less theatrical than the "Theater of Death" set we saw at the same venue two years ago - my description of which is the most viewed entry of the 2,500 on the blog...
It being Halloween, there were a goodly number of costumed audients in the hall...
A good set list - with standouts for me being "Halo of Flies" and "Muscle of Love", while Anne particularly enjoyed "We're All Clones"...
The snake performed very well indeed on "Is It My Body" and the 12 foot high monster, which took to the stage during "Feed My Frankenstein", was mightily impressive...
And we finally got to see Alice kill a chicken on stage - albeit a man in a chicken suit being impaled on a mike stand - for which Mr Cooper was inevitably seized and summarily beheaded - before returning for the classic set closing encores of "School's Out" and "Elected"...
All too soon it was over...
...and we emerged into the night - the rain thankfully having stopped...
However, it didn't stop Spiderman getting soaked feet...
Back to the hotel and lights out with the Coop's new, unplayed live (apart from one song) album in the cans...
A good day for a change...
Highlight of the day : Alice Cooper live...
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