Strategy and direction...

Playlist
Jason Lytle - Dept of Disappearance
Various - Jump Blue

Another good day, weather-wise...

...and light-wise...

To HMV at lunchtime - and nothing has changed from earlier in the week - other than the "closing down everything must go" and "(up to) 50% off" signs in the windows...

Nothing that is, except that it is busier than I've seen it in years - which, ok, isn't illustrated that well in this pic...

The vultures were out in abundance, although this particular carcass-picker found nothing which enticed...

Of course I know the stock so well now that, if there actually was 50% off anything, I might be tempted...

This is, sadly, how my mind works...

Their second hand CDs and DVDs are now just £1.40 a pop...

However, something else was happening, presumably on the instigation of the administrators that as much as possible might be clawed back for creditors...

Notwithstanding the fortunes of companies who foolishly put their cash into a zombie high street retailer like HMV, it was a little disingenuous to have "closing down everything must go/up to 50% off" signs up everywhere, while the two gentlemen (black shirt and pink shirt) to the left of the lady on the escalator with the red coat, were removing "2 for £10" stickers from discs (which have been on sale re that offer since well before Xmas) and replacing them with £15 price tags and a blue cross, indicating 25% off...

In my book, that's actually a 125% price increase from £5 a disc to £11.25...

In the evening, three little envelopes from my new music retailer of choice, Amazon's market place (although we'll see how the surviving Fopp pans out)...

A five disc box of the Emerson Quartet's rendition of Shostakovich's complete works for string quartet and two Blue Note compilations, one mostly from the 1940's and one from the 1960s...

Tasty...

This afternoon, a call from chum Jamie re tonight's Capital Models session at Keith's, in which Jamie had advised he was incapacitated re playing so, instead, Keith and I made our way to Jamie's, where a general discussion on strategy and direction took place...

There are three projects in the offing...

Recording a few of our covers for a, hopefully, help-with-gig-obtaining disc...

Recording, hopefully with the participation of our erstwhile guitarist Mr Bolton, and with more precision and work than the covers, the erstwhile New Wave repertoire of the band...

Writing and recording new material with the goal of playing our original material (old and new) in a live setting later in the year...

As ever though, with men in their fifties, time to do all of this is limited by various other commitments - but we have agreed to persevere...

Home around 9:30 and the day rounded off with some Tivo'd TV and some t'interweb surfing...

Highlight of the Day : Capital Models strategising and little packs of music behind the door...