Various - Weekly Playlist No 24
Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together
Gentle Giant - The Missing Piece
Gentle Giant - Interview
Zemlinsky - String Quartets 1&2
..And You Will Know Us By the Trail of dead - Lost Songs
Gentle Giant - Live Playing the Fool
Up early and to work recording this week's podcast...
Out and into town - noting a record fair was taking place in Charlotte Square...
Good weather...
Rearranged the proposed venue for today's meet with Dr Prog from the Music Library to the Fair...
The doc was more interested in trying out possible new HiFi equipment than the goods on show...
Your correspondent partook of a disc of the first two quartets by Herr Zemlinsky, before we retired to a coffee shop around the corner...
The doc was peckish...
He demonstrated his third or fourth Sony Experia phone (due to various complaints) having eschewed his previous "greatest mobile phone in the world" for this smaller beast...
The world of progressive rock and various gadgetry was set to rights...
A quick visit to HMV and a 2CD disc of heavy music joined the fray before we bade each other farewell and I headed home...
Kitchen scenes...
...and some fruit in the back garden...
An afternoon of further work on the podcast, ripping, listening and generally wasting my time on the internet...
Count Brodski arrived around 5 and we watched the first half of Columbia v Greece before taking Anne to the Murrayfield Hotel for a holiday prep meet with Penny and Lynn, while Alan and I headed off Richtung Glasgow...
The beasts were about their business...
But, before that, we took a look at the recently burnt out Glasgow School of Art...
..and took advantage of hospitality normally reserved for students, where this sign intrigued...
A couple of beers for the count, a beer and a tomato juice for me...
..and some considerable amount of fun was had...
...before we headed back down to Sauchiehall Street, past the Heavy Crane Division...
...and to the venue for tonight's live rendition of their debut album "Marquee Moon" (1977) by Television...
This, the scene before...
This, the scene after...
An enjoyable evening of fairly ordinary New Wave when all is said and done - they did seem to make not very much go a long way but it was great to hear "Venus", "Prove It", "Little Johnny Jewel" and, of course, "Marquee Moon" played live, after having loved them for nearly 40 years...
And, it's worth remembering that, while now the music doesn't seem all that great for the most part, in 1977, at the very height of punk rock, it was ground-breaking and at the forefront of the coming New Wave explosion...
Good also to bump into old chum Dave Diaz of the Diaz Brothers, erstwhile stalwarts, like CBQ and James Jameson, of Out of the Bedroom from 2003-2005...
Still light as we emerged from the venue around 10:00...
Back to the car...
...and home to Crispycat Towers where the three musketeers enjoyed tonight's Italy v England game...
England played quite well but the Italians were better and more clinical in their finishing, ending up 2-1 winners, whilst hitting the post and the bar to boot...
Earlier, Uruguay had lost unexpectedly to group outsiders Costa Rica and so the next game, England v Uruguay, will be played in the knowledge that whoever loses is probably going home after just a week of the tournament...
A lift home for the Count around 1:15 and back home to bed with Gentle Giant on the cans...
Considerably better (IMHO) than, but not as trendy as, Television...
Highlight of the Day : Glasgow trip with the count...
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