Crispycat Recordings: Hopefully not pointless...

Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Hopefully not pointless...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twenty Four Paintings
Various - Motown Chartbusters Vol 6
Isaac Hayes - Black Moses
Various - Trojan Seventies Box Set
Various - Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration
Average White Band - The Very Best of
Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist and Yell
Uriah Heep - Salisbury
Grand Funk - Shinin' On
King Crimson - Lizard
Golden Earring - Moontan
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Rod Stewart - Smiler

Happy New Year!

Up just before six and, breaking with convention, not listening to Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies...

I continued to try and bring the various podcasts I've been posting up (daily playlists for December plus 10 podasts featuring 10 of my "acquisitions of the year") up to date...

Meg the Black Cat was helping - although, in reality I think she may just have been trying to get me to give her some food...

Eventually, she settled down...

Her patch seems to be taking an age to grow back this time...

I've decided to abandon the daily playlist project (quelle surprise!) but am planning maybe a weekly catch up, presenting the best tracks I've been listening to in the previous seven days...

We'll see - like many of the things I do, it's all a bit pointless if no-one is listening...

The New Year's Day staple of the concert from Vienna entertained for ninety minutes and then, with Meg conked out in front of the fire...

...we headed to brother in law Keith and Maureen's place for a New Year's Day get together with chums Rod and Ishbel and step niece Abby...

We'd taken Anne's mum along too - good food, good drink, good company - including some rounds of the game "Who on Earth?" where, in order to determine your designated by chance identity as quickly as possible, you have to ask your assembled cohorts questions which they can only answer "yes" or "no"...

Good fun...

Later on we were joined by Rod and Ishbel's son Gary and nephew Craig and girlfriend Arianne...

The Exec Producer reckoned I may have been partaking of a little too much of the old Vino Rosso...

Cheeky monkey!

Home later than expected after an enjoyable first day of the year...

Highlight of the day : Family get together...

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Crispycat Latest Release

Between 1980 and 1995, Sombre Reptiles released 35 LPs. At present, all of these albums are deleted. "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995" is an 81 Track Virtual 6CD/10LP Box Set covering this pre-Cloudland Blue Quartet period. The versions of the songs included in the Box Set are taken from eight sources, recorded between 1993 and 1996: The three long deleted volumes of "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles", originally released on cassette in 1993 and 1994 via Edinburgh Record Shop, Reptile Records - all but 3 of the 57 tracks from these three records are included; Further album tracks from the final four Sombre Reptiles records, "Galleryshard (1993), "Kernelcrux" (1994), "Bitter Sweet Covers" (1995) and "Starcrossfix" (1995); Previously unreleased re-recordings from 1996, just before Sombre Reptiles became Cloudland Blue Quartet.

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection

In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!