Sunday, November 30, 2014

Return of the skin...

Playlist
Capital Models - Live 29 November 2014
The Butterfield Blues Band - East West
Various - Songs of the Week 2014

November away...


Beard away too, back to normal, up early...


...listening to last night with plenty of coffee...


Out late, for brunch...



Our first destination, in Corstorphine, was closed, on to Haymarket...


Our second destination was, once we took our order to the bar, facing a huge backlog of orders...

On to Broughton Street - no parking and few options...

We ended up at Morrisons supermarket in North Edinburgh...


 ...for a surpringly tasty effort at a very reasonable price...

Only the constant beeping of the check outs let it down and, even then, so what...

Home and two episodes of "Babylon" were enjoyed...

Then to Anne's mum's with Anne to allow the ladies to head to Tynecastle to witness the Jam Tarts getting humped by the 'tic in the cup 4-0 - the usual story- man sent off after 10 mins, penalty that wasn't a penalty to make it 2-0 early in the second half - all over - yesterday Queens went through 4-1 against Highland League leaders Brora Rangers - the first ever encounter between the teams...

Next Saturday Queens visit Tynecastle - I've not yet decided if I'll attend...

Back home for me, for more work on last night...


Then, later...


..to Loanhead to visit my mum...


The light was fading as I made my way over...

 

 

I played her some of the recording of the gig - "who's that singing, son?"

Erm...

Sister Sheila and Senior Wilson were also in attendance, the latter suggesting we get a young female singer in...

Ahem...

Back to Anne's mum's around 6 to take Anne home...

In the evening, more work on the tapes...

And some telly no doubt - can't recall...

To bed after watching the weekend's Scottish Cup highlights...

Highlight of the Day : Recordings from last night turning out not too bad...

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Weekly Playlist No 48

Welcome to the Cloudland Blue Weekly Playlist No 48...


This week, we have three playlists - a triple serving as Mr Quartet spent much of the week rehearsing hard with Keith Apter and Andy Wilson for a very successful "interpretations" night, in honour of the late great Mr Jamieson Frain...


His bandmates did him proud I think...




Over the last seven days, light also entered the CBQ camera thus...


Three 40 or so minute sets of classic (and not so classic) songs, comprise the titles "interpreted" by the latest line up of Capital Models on 29 November in Edinburgh in aid of the British Heart Foundation...

It's party time...

Kind of...

Using the button over to the right, you can join the almost 1,300 or so other Mixcloud followers of these (usually slightly more) eclectic weekly musical selections...

If you're interested in knowing about any of the tracks (in case there're are a couple you've never heard before), contact me...

Press play and away we go...







Playlist (a)
Dakota by Stereophonics
A Hard Rains a Gonna Fall by Bryan Ferry
Light My Fire by The Doors
Let's Stick Together by Bryan Ferry
Human (Interpretation) by Cloudland Blue Quartet
Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash
Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash
Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen
Sweet Jane (Live) by Lou Reed
Caroline by Status Quo
Cracklin' Rosie by Neil Diamond
Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town by Kenny Rogers

Playlist (b)
Stuck in the Middle With You by Stealer's Wheel
That's Entertainment by The Jam
Candy by Paolo Nutini
Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Ballad of John & Yoko by The Beatles
(Marie's the Name) of His Latest Flame by Elvis Presley
Mrs Robinson by Simon & Garfunkel
Your Song by Elton John
Waiting For the Man by The Velvet Underground
Open Your Eyes by Snow Patrol
Brown Eyed Girl b yVan Morrison

Playlist (c)
Human by The Killers
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Rocking in the Free World by Neil Young
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Say Hello Wave Goodbye by Soft Cell
Starman by David Bowie
Perfect Day by Lou Reed
Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell
Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley
Daydream Believer by The Monkees
Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond
Blue Suede Shoes by Elvis Presley

Hope you enjoy this week's selection and will pop by again next week for another playlist from Mr CBQ...

A night of remembering to remember...

Playlist
Various - Capital Models Covers : The Originals
Metcalfe - Scorching bay
Metcalfe - The Inner Line
Metcalfe - The Inner Line ii
The Jackson 5 - The Motown Years
Ten Years After - Ssssh
The Butterfield Blues Band - East-West
Isaac Hayes - Live At The Sahara Tahoe
Isaac Hayes - The Very Best Of Isaac Hayes
Bryan Ferry - Olympia (Alternative Mixes)
The Butterfield Blues Band - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

A strange, very enjoyable day...

To the grocery store first thing for breakfast and lunch provisions...

This collection of sparrows entertained...




Spent most of the day waiting to perform - on the laptop mucking about with music...

At one point, something at the window caught my eye...

What's this...


It's our wee chum the squirrel (or possibly one of his/her chums)...



I am a fan of squirrels...


Decided not to rehearse today, I reckoned 14 hours in the last seven days was probably enough...

A trip to Holland was organised before I packed the stuff up ready to go...


To The Kilted Pig at 7:30 for the British Heart Foundation Fund Raiser in memory of my very much missed friend and musical compadre, Jamie Frain...

Load in around 8...

At 8:30, the Turkish Barbers did their stuff...

Second from right is artist chum Pete Swanson, who gave a lovely card of his painting "Moonflower" to Anne...


Jamie's best mate Joe subjected himself to a "number zero" for the cause...



Initially maintaining a very jaunty minimal mohican...


A raffle took place between sets one and two...


Chum Lynn managed to bag a bottle of Drambuie...


A tidy stage is a happy stage...

Although we were happy tonight, the stage was not tidy - wires everywhere...


At our first break, beards became moustaches...

Flamboyance was attempted by your correspondent...


Senior Wilson maintained a vigil "backstage" throughout the evening...


Thanks to so many friends for coming along to support the night, which raised over £3,000 for the cause...

Lynn and her sister Joan...


Brother in law Keith, sister in law Maureen and chum Ishbel...


Pure Bears Paul Reynolds and George Coleman, Robert Hind, brother of US Resident Capital Model Nicky Hind, and back to rude health CMs drummer and stand up extraordinaire Mr Jim Park...


Creek mainman, Mr Craig Sutherland...


..and producer of Creek drones, atmospheres, bleeps - and top photographer - Stuart Cobley...


First set - courtesy Mr Sutherland...


A rare shot of original CMs Angus Bolton and, a costume-changed Mr CBQ, with Jim's successor, Mr Keith Apter....


Jamie's mum and dad were along - great to see them again - they understood my outlandish facial hair was for charity...



Brother in Law Bobby - also with facial input for the night and raiser of a further handsome sum still to boost the total...


Keep on rockin' in the free world...


Starman singalong...




Keith and chum Rod, husband to Ishbel...


Great too to see an unpictured John and Ali from Impossible Songs along and boogie-ing...

I will never get used to people dancing to music I play...




It's not often I'll be seen in green...



...but the evening was supposed to have a Mexican theme - my T Shirt from the 1970 World Cup was the only Mexican thing I saw in the venue all night...



Nephew Andy's songs went down a treat...



The auction raised much of the cash on the night...


...and I think everyone had a great time...



This autographed poster signed by the scorers of the Exec Producer's beloved Hearts' 5-1 defeat of arch rivals Hibs in the cup final a couple of years back contributed too to the total... 


A great night and, post performance, time for some chat with people not seen often enough...

Pack up, before taking Joe and Mr Reynolds into town, finally home around 2 am...

Last picture of the much admired outlandish moustache - and proposed third set but actually encore, outfit...

Cheer up Dave!


...which was cut down to this...


...before, finally, back to basics and, with the beard gone, I realise I've still got a long way to go...


Getting there though - here's a comparison with how I looked at my last three appearances at the Pig of Kiltedness in April and December 2012 and in December 2013...
Meanwhile, this happened during "Rocking in the Free World"...


Aftermath...



To bed at 2:30 - I think we did Jamie proud but how I wish he could have been with us...

Highlight of the Day : Performing for Jamie...