The Tubes - Young and Rich
Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself
Various - Glasgow Trip MP3s
Pet Shop Boys - Electric
Apse - Climb Up
Pet Shop Boys - Openers (Playlist)
Kansas - Longest (Playlist)
Kansas - Power
Man - Greasy Truckers Party
Hawkwind - Greasy Truckers Party
A good night's sleep and up around six...
By 10:15 we had driven to Glasgow and were enjoying baked eggs with bacon at Avenue G on Byres Road...
Then, almost inevitably, to Fopp....
...where even Anne was tempted, buying a couple of books for holiday reading..
Meanwhile, the new Pet Shop Boys was acquired along with taking a chance on a disc by now no more US shoe gazers, Apse...
Also in the carrier as we left were the three films in Wim Wenders' acclaimed early 70's road movie trilogy "Alice in the Cities", "Wrong Move" and "Kings of the Road"...
Blistering heat as we wandered around this excellent slice of Glasgow...
At the Oxfam shop, the triple set of original recordings from the Greasy Truckers Party in February 1972 was snapped up...
It includes an entire disc of Hawkwind, featuring the original recording of "Silver Machine", which was overdubbed with a new Lemmy vocal and flew into the top five in the summer of that year...
Leaving Glasgow at 12:30 we drove down the M74 (including a bit of a wait in a roadworks inspired traffic jam) to Dumfries...
We were not the only visitors...
The decimated by administration Heart of Midlothian squad was here for a pre season friendly...
...against last year's (2nd Division) League and (Ramsdens Championship) Cup winners, the mighty Doonhamers of Queen of the South...
We were in plenty of time to get a good seat...
...just behind the directors' box, featuring big Jim Thomson, the good looking chap on the phone...
Hard to believe it's over five years since he rose like the proverbial salmon and slammed home an equalising header in the twelfth minute of the second half at Hampden, to equalise against the now no more Glasgow Rangers in the 2008 Cup Final...
I'm sure Dougie the Doonhamer also remembers that sunny day...
This was the fist game on the newly laid "best in the country" artificial pitch which was installed over the summer...
Queens were the dominant side and could have won by three or four but alas, with the loss of last year's highest scorer in Britain, Nicky Clark, to The Rangers, our finishing was a little off...
Nonetheless, despite the loss of two or three key players and the management team which led them to such a successful season last time out, I feel reasonably confident of them once again holding their own in the First Division after their year away...
A very entertaining 0-0 draw then - which left the Jam Tart aficionado Exec Producer depressed at the thought that this was now the best Hearts could expect to field for the foreseeable future - a tough season and, with a 15 point deduction to contend with from the outset, possible relegation, lie ahead for the Tynecastle faithful I fear...
A tasty curry before heading back up the road...
...to the sound of a very much back on form Pet Shop Boys after last year's worst album of their career (IMHO) "Elysium"...
"Electric" is top notch and faith has been restored...
Also on the soundsystem, Apse turned out to be reasonable - an interesting sound (I only bought the disc having spotted the use of mellotrons and Moogs)...
Home to Meg the Black Cat and a swiftly delivered, last required to complete ownership of the studio discography, Kansas album...
At nine, a bleak and dark "Wallander" (the original Swedish version)...
Some ripping and listening and an eventual post midnight turn in...
Another good day...
Football is so much better than golf...
Highlight of the Day : Queens v Hearts...
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