Redshift - Ether
Encomiast - Laurentide
Matthew Florianz - Sprook
Various - Natural Progression
The Unwinding Hours - The Unwinding Hours
Motorhead - The World is Yours
Ian Hunter - When I'm President
Harold Land - Harold in the Land of Jazz
Sparks - Number One in Heaven
Sparks - Hello Young Lovers
Jordi Savalle - Jeanne D'Arc Batailles & Prisons
The Three Sounds - Introducing
The Three Sounds - Branching Out
Pink Floyd - A Foot in the Door
Up early and listening to new downloads whilst updating the CD List and, generally, looking at it, whilst sorting the information into various different listing scenarios...
This is how I waste my time...
Out into the cold around 9:15 and round to Anne's mum's to collect the camera and to take her into town to a chiropractor's appointment - saving her some considerable time which would normally have been spent sitting on a bus...
Back home and still very cold...
Final flowers in the garden kind of struggling...
Breakfast at home and a squirrel spotted out front...
I love squirrels...
Just before midday, off to Glasgow...
Parked near Byre's Rd just under an hour later...
Did not visit Fopp...
Enjoyed a Mexican snack for lunch with some perhaps sightly too hot sauce for the old internal combustion engine...
The Subway onto town...
This noted, as I walked towards the East End...
What once took place in these erstwhile homes?
To Mono and some discs partaken of - Jordi Savall, Doug Tielli, Sleepmakeswaves and the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra...
Did visit the other Fopp and two four CD sets of jazz joined the collection - one containing six albums featuring Harold Land and one containing eight LPs featuring The Three Sounds...
Yum...
Meanwhile the Exec Producer had also been making some judicious purchases...
To Roma Restaurant on Bath Street for a much enjoyed pre-theatre special before subwaying back to Byres Road and then driving back to the town centre - this is what you do in order to enjoy free (apart from Subway fares) parking all day...
To The Arches for tonight's Sparks gig, meeting up inside with Count Brodski and Lady Penelope...
This satisfactory initial view of the stage...
..was soon ruined by tall people in front of us...
..reducing our view to either nothing at all or a small square of stage between peoples "chatting with their chums" heads, inappropriate hats or much putting of hands above heads for inordinate lengths of time re picture taking and/or making probably never to be watched due to dreadful quality, video recordings...
My own pics, as you can tell from their quality, took merely a second each - but, yes, apologies to those behind us...
Having said that, most of those people too were chatting or making never-ending trips to the bar...
Yes, yet another public event ruined by the public...
This our eventual view...
...which was achieved whilst suffering much to-ing and fro-ing around us and the incessant commenting to each other of people with no idea of how to behave at a music performance (i.e. perhaps they might want to consider actually paying some attention to the music performance)...
This from Sparks' Facebook page tomorrow, of us tonight...
Sparks obviously enjoyed it and we kind of enjoyed it but not really - the rest of the audience ruined the night...
And the performance too, while it was great to hear tracks like "Here in Heaven" and "BC", just said to me really they've done enough now as a vocal and keyboards duo - get a band back or at least programme the music with rhythm machines - you are much better than the Pet Shop Boys...
Indeed, the song "Popularity", around two thirds of the way through the set, was a breath of fresh air, simply due to the use of a sequencer...
Not to worry...
Bought the rare CD "The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman" at the merch desk for just fifteen of your English pounds - almost £50 on Amazon (and one cheeky dealer offering it second hand there for over £400)...
A good trip home, soundtracked by two great Sparks albums..
After dropping A&P off, back to base to try out Meg's present from Penny...
A woolly bolt hole...
Much enjoyed...
..for a few seconds...
..but remains an option...
Today's haul partially listened to...
...whilst skimming the also-purchased-today Pink Floyd biography, written from the inside by drummer Nick Mason - looking forward to partaking of that in full...
A good day...
Highlight of the Day : Sparks, despite everything...
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