"The Apple of Your Eye pt 2" from "Splinterheart" (2010)
Playlist
UK - 2012 Setlist
UK - Night After Night
Charles Mingus - Ah Um
The Mars Volta - Octahedron
Various - Rock & Pop on Shuffleplay
Took ages to get to sleep and I woke at 5 - snoozed till 6:45 then, up for a tasty breakfast...
Checked out and onto the street towards St Pancras...
..and Kings Cross...
Picadilly Line...
...to Covent Garden...
...not yet set up...
Blue, blue sky above the National Opera House...
Walked towards Trafalgar Square...
...past the National Portrait Gallery...
...to St Martins in the Field...
...to check on today's lunchtime recital...
...enjoying Trafalgar Square...
..and the sculptures around the church - Odyssey by Robert Koenig...
Back through Leicester Square - still only 8:30 am...
...and into Soho but too early for the record shops...
...so continued up to Oxford Street and spent an hour in HMV from 9 till 10 - buying nothing...
...then, back into Berwick Street...
..to Sister Ray...
..and Reckless Records...
...in both of which, a haul was collected...
Unlike at Fopp - which did not entice...
...back to St Martins...
...for the Liszt and the Chopin...
I managed not to snore but must admit to dropping off a couple of times, despite the superbness of the music...
Back out into the sun but did not venture into the National Gallery...
...instead, made my way back to Covent Garden...
...now fully set up...
...and a gift for the Exec Producer was procured from this French lady...
Deciding against the Tate Modern, as I was running out of time, I took a walk through the environs...
...ending up back at Fopp where a couple of discs and Charles Mingus' autobiography this time enticed...
A rest in the gardens of this Soho church...
Before heading back to Kings Cross from Picadilly...
Back on board at 5:30...
Leaving London...
Reading and listening to Mr Mingus...
First stop, Peterborough...
Then, a change at York and my connection was half an hour late...
Eventually back underway, having to move seats to avoid a very annoying drunken Geordie using his mobile in the "quiet carriage" and smoking in the toilets...
Such small things can ruin a journey...
Darlington...
Durham - on the wrong side to view the cathedral thanks to the drunken oaf...
Newcastle...
Happily, said oaf alighted here, giving everyone some long longed for peace at last...
On into the night...
...and Morpeth - a further delay due to a beer can being stuck in one of the doors...
Onward as the sun was setting...
To Berwick Upon Tweed...
Over the river into Scotland...
Second last stop, Dunbar...
..and, finally, into Edinburgh only around fifteen minutes late...
Picked up by the Exec Producer and very glad to be home after an enjoyable 40 hours or so away...
Seemed a lot longer...
Highlight of the Day : Wandering in London...
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