Kraftwerk - The Mix
Dream Theater - Dream Theater
65daysofstatic - Wild Light
The Physics House Band - Horizons/Rapture
Up nice and early...
Breakfast at home - bread from yesterday...
Into the loft, with a view to bringing down some books - though I don't know why as I have nowhere to put them and will most likely not read them...
Looking through all sorts of stuff - including twenty or so year old correspondence from people who bought my tapes from the Reptile Records shops...
I noted one correspondent lived in Gleimstrasse, Berlin which seemed to somehow ring a bell...
I checked the blog and found that Gleimstrasse was where we stayed on our visit to Germany's capital last year...
How spooky is that...
Some tidying too, with one black bag of stuff to go to the dump...
Managed to put the initial version of the next CBQ album (2014?) onto the iPod - five tracks of very very slow music totalling a massive 4.5 hours....
But much more than that is planned and these are very early days...
A text from Jamie re Capital Models - we are to repeat last year's excellent covers gig at The Kilted Pig on Saturday 28 December...
Yaroo...
Better get practising as we haven't played since February - and nephew Andy is joining on keyboards...
Plus, Kat McKenzie's album's now out and she wants to play a gig in Edinburgh in late October I think - so drummer Keith and I will be involved in that too...
Anne and Meg were relaxing downstairs waiting on me burning some Dream Theater and 65daysofstatic for the car...
When asked which of these Anne would like to soundtrack the drive to my mum's, she advised either as one was probably as bad as the other...
Hmmm...
To mum's via a curtains and home furnishing emporium...
...built on a spot where I played as a boy...
Mum was once again in good spirits and was less severe than she looks here...
Home and more mucking about before heading into town to meet up with Prog Rock Willie...
A tasty meal at Vittoria's on George IV Bridge before walking round to Victoria St's Liquid Rooms for a gig featuring The Physics House Band - seen here during their in front of the early attendees soundcheck...
They were amazing - brilliant musicianship from three young guys from Bristol...
So good in fact that I had to break my vow and buy their EP for a fiver...
Meeting them post gig, they advised influences included King Crimson and the Mahavishnu Orchestra...
There is hope...
Next up, Sydney's Sleepmakeswaves, onto whom Willie's son in Oz had turned us via the wonders of Dropbox...
They too rocked most excellently...
Last up with a short 60 minute set due to unforeseen venue curfew was the mighty 65daysofstatic...
This was my third live experience in their company but the first actual gig - the previous two being (a) their soundtracking of a modern ballet/play at the Fringe a few years ago and (b) their last year live soundtrack to "Silent Running" in Glasgow...
Superb set - playing music I'd heard for the first time while driving to and from my mum's this afternoon...
Great night...
Home via bus around 11 or so re the curfew...
A quick rip to the iPod of the Physics House Band and off to bed with that in my slightly more deaf than usual ears...
Man that was a loud gig...
Highlight of the Day : Math rock....
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