Railtime...

Playlist
Various - Super 70's Rock
Various - Righteousness
Various - Sharp Shades and Fingersnaps
Various - 'Round Midnight
James Blood Ulmer - Music Speaks Louder Than Words
Frith - Eleventh Hour
AGF & Craig Armstrong - Orlando Soundtrack
Bi Kyo Ran - Live Vol 4 King Crimson Covers
Schlammpeitziger - Collected Simplesongs of my Temporary Past

More work on the setlists and lyric/chord sheets and e-mailing covers colleagues first thing...

Then, soundtracked by the likes of Queen, Free, Mott the Hoople and erm, Lynyrd Skynyrd, off to the podiatrist...

Chuffed that recent weightloss was noted - easier for Helen as she only sees me once every eight weeks or so...

Also noted I forgot that yesterday was the 7th anniversary of the big ankle break - starting to recede perhaps at last...

Back home for breakfast then some rehearsing of the covers I will be singing...

Over to Loanhead to drive mum, in her car, continuing with the 70's soundtrack, many of the artists on which mum recognised (Roxy, Reed, Cockney Rebel), to Paisley for a visit to schoolchum Pat who has just sold her big old house and moved to a groovy flat in the centre of town...

...which looks onto the draughty old abbey...

A chat and lunch then into Glasgow for Anne and I on the train, my first visit to Gilmour St Station since I was a lad of around 6 going down the coast on holiday...

Ten minutes and we were at Central Station...

To Fopp, where three Blue Note compilations comprising seven discs, were obtained for just nine quid, along with Ingmar Bergman's classic, "The Seventh Seal", which will no doubt languish on a shelf unwatched for a few years...

An uneventful visit to Missing then to the Tron and, on the recommendation of Count Brodski, I sought out a new to me shop, Monorail...

Good discoveries in their second hand section - an Ulmer disc for £5 going on Amazon for around £40, a 2CD set of string quartet based Fred Frith music, from Craig Armstrong & AGF the soundtrack from the play "Orlando", the premiere of which we attended back in 2010, a King Crimson covers album by a Japanese trio recorded live in 1977 and a collection by hitherto unknown krautrock revivalist Schlammpeitziger from Cologne...

By the time I emerged, it was getting dark...

A look around some art related places in the vicinity...

...before meeting up with Anne and heading to "Once Upon a Tart" for coffee and cake...

...and looking at my new CDs...

...while Anne relayed footie scores - 0-0 for Hearts against nearby Motherwell, another win for Queens, 2-0 against Ayr and, surprisingly, a defeat at home for Celtic at the hands of Inverness...

Back to the train and to Pat's...





...for more chat and a light tea before heading home...

After the car swap, back to ours for ripping, listening and, finally, tonight's "Merlin"...

A busy day...

Highlight of the Day : A new record shop...