Zappa at the Brits...

Cloudland Blue Quartet – Track of the Day
“Overload” from “Doveloveshawk” (1999)

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Starlightnight Souvenir Set
Charts and Maps - Dead Horses
Rheostatics – Static Journey
Haydn – The Creation
Boccherini – Complete Cello Sonatas
Schoenberg Berg Webern – String Quartets
Ed Sheerin – Lego Song (Brits)
Adele – Rollin’ In the Deep (Brits)
Roundabout – Yes Medley (YouTube)
Dweezil Zappa – Return of the Son of...

Some more work on the live set this morning, once again aided and abetted by Meg the Black Cat...



To the dentist and “discharged” re the ex-tooth hole with the chat being that it ought now to be left to heal itself...

Fair enough...

A couple of pics taken in Charlotte Square post dental let go...









Having checked my CD list, I returned to the St Columba’s Hospice shop today and purchased Haydn’s “The Creation”...

While waiting to pay, the two elderly lady volunteers were trying valiantly to find the disc for a potential DVD purchase – to no avail though and the sale was lost...

While they were searching through all the DVDs, I noticed a copy of Peter Greenaway’s “The Draughtsman’s Contract”, which Anne and I saw upon its release back in 1982 (after having seen some of Greenaway’s earlier, even more experimental work the year before)...

Said DVD now nestles nicely amongst the myriad attendees of a watch slot here at Crispycat Towers...

Sorted the Berlin trip by reverting to Easyjet out of Glasgow and adding another day to the trip...

Airfares now stand at double the original price plus an extra day’s accommodation – we await formal confirmation of Ryanair’s cancellation of the original flight with, hopefully, the offer of at least some of our money back...

Out this evening...





...for dinner this evening with chums Keith and Stewart at The Bonham as guests of a large Edinburgh based company– very tasty indeed...

A fund manager’s coincidental praise of Ryanair as a business rankled somewhat...

Little wonder the company is cash rich...

Home to find a rain sodden package handed in by neighbour Pietro who’d found it being blown around in the street apparently...

It contained the three awaited selections from Amazon, a 2CD live set by Dweezil Zappa, a 4CD box of Boccherini and another 4CD set, this time of string quartets by the New Viennese School (i.e. Schoenberg, Berg & Webern)...

Other music sampled this evening included the amazingly as-ordinary-as-someone-from-the-Out-of-the-Bedroom-songwriters-night-who’s-not-really-that-good-so-why-on-earth-is-he-so-popular Ed Sheerin and the looks-like-someone’s-mum-singing-at-a-wedding Adele from the Brits last night – along with a medley of the new Yes singer’s old Yes covers band...

Zappa blew them all out the water...

Imagine Dweezil Zappa at The Brits...

It’ll never happen...

Highlight of the Day : Sorting the Berlin trip...