Saturday, February 28, 2015

Back in that London...

Playlist
Sleepmakeswaves - Love Of Cartography
Lonely Robot - Please Come Home
Boris Blank - Electrified
Max Richter - Retrospective (3) 24 Postcards in Full Colour
Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus
Farin Urlaub Racing Team - Faszination Weltraum
Yes - Heaven & Earth
And One - Achtung 80!
Justin Rutledge - Daredevil
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep
Uriah Heep - Live at Koko, London 2014
Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer 2014
John Lemke - People Do
Boris Blank - Avant Garden
Big Elf - Into the Maelstrom
IQ - The Road Of Bones
Mogwai - Rave Tapes
Max Richter - Retrospective (1) The Blue Notebooks
Bryan Ferry - Avonmore
Trevor Rabin - Jacaranda
Pineapple Thief - Magnolia
Peter Hammill - ...All That Might Have Been...
Motorhead - Aftershock Tour Edition
Neal Smith - Killsmith And The Greenfire Empire
Enchant - The Great Divide
Opeth - Pale Communion
Haken - Restoration
Max Richter - Retrospective (4) Infra
Neal Morse - Songs From November
GoGo - Penguin Fanfares
Dieter Meier - Out Of Chaos
GoGo Penguin V 2.0
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
OK Go - Hungry Ghosts
Neal Morse - The Grand Experiment

February away...


Off to that London, with the iPhone on shuffleplay, hence the rather long playlist...

On the airport bus at 5:15 am, neither of us feeling 100% - if anything the EP is now worse than me...


Met up with brother in law Bobby and nephew Olly in the departure lounge - they were heading down to see West Ham take on Crystal Palace - the Cloudland Blue trip was for a piano recital tomorrow lunchtime and a gig in the very final tour of prog rock band UK tomorrow night...

On to the plane to London City around 40 minutes or so after Bob and Olly's flight to Gatwick had left...



A pleasant flight, with unexpected complimentary breakfast croissants and juice...


Not a full flight by any means...


Landed after a particularly hairy approach - onto the DLR and towards Canning Town...


...for a switch to the Jubilee Line...


...to London Bridge to find Bob and Olly approaching from North of the river...


Into Borough Market...



...and out the other side...


...to the Breakfast Club for our real breakfast...


Fried egg light shades impressed...


...as did the apple juice for the boy...


...and the coffees...


...but we went a little OTT and into lunch necessity removal mode re the breakfast...


Huevos Rancheros - probably a little too much if I'm honest...


Luckily we'd arrived just in time to beat the queue which was in full swing as we left...


...for a wander round the market, the Exec Producer replenishing her spice supplies...



..and Olly partaking of various pieces of free cheese...





On the way out a rather large white chocolate cookie was partaken of by the young West Ham fan...


Out past Southwark Cathedral...


...and over the bridge...


...noting the Shard once again...


..and some strange filming...


Past Monument...


...we bade farewell to the footy fans and headed towards Covent Garden, Soho etc...


Shoes and CDs were eschewed for the time being and we were too early re our arrival at the apartment...


...so went for a seat and a drink at a bar on Marchmont Street...


On the way back, we stopped in at Judd Books, where a couple of purchases were made...


Anne preferred to take to her bed for the remainder of the afternoon, so I headed back down to Soho for my second visit of the day to the various music shops...


Arrived at Piccadilly Circus just after three...


An hour and a half later, I returned having finally regained my CD buying mojo - and having noted re texts from Anne that West Ham had been beaten by Crystal Palace 3-1, Hearts had beaten Cowdenbeath 10-0 at Tynecastle, while QoS couldn't even manage one goal away at Dumbarton...


Back to Russell Square...


...and noted the purchases, City & Colour...


...Petrels...


...and Lee Scratch Perry - total outlay just eight of your English pounds...


Meanwhile, a not very well Anne had had her spirits lifted by the news from Tynecastle...


Having recharged her batteries, she was able to venture out in the evening and we enjoyed a few drinks at a nearby pub...


...before rounding off the day at a local Indian restaurant, established before either of us was born...

All told, a good day, despite lurgi presence...

Highlight of the Day : Back in that London...

Friday, February 27, 2015

Mopery to the nth degree...

Playlist
Tangerine Dream Sorcerer
Tangerine Dream Sorcerer 2014
Quaoar The River and the Soul
Tangerine Dream Canyon Cazuma
Tangerine Dream Mala Kunia
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Souvenir XIII (01/03/2007)
Schicke Führs Fröhling - Symphonic Pictures

Another day of extreme mopery...



Other than newly downloaded music from Tangerine Dream, the only highlights were a Chinese takeaway this evening and "The Musketeers"...

Hoping for an upturn in both  of our ongoing lurgi states over the weekend as we head to London...

Highlight of the Day : Musketeers...

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Thursday afternoon...

Playlist
Various - February & March Playlists
Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon
Brian Eno - Lux

A Thursday evening spent listening to Thursday afternoon, my first CD - purchased 30 years ago come October...


...after yet another day confined to quarters...


Anne managed to venture out to see Prokofiev's "Romeo & Juliet" with chum Teresa...

My own entertainment mainly comprised watching all the backed up on the Tivo episodes of nonsense series "Supernatural" - I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter that I am starting to watch it at season nine...

All fifteen February Album podcasts are now up on Mixcloud garnering pretty much zero interest...

Oh well...

On Anne's return, "This Week" was enjoyed...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Vanilla slice...

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

A certain lack of spontaneity...

Playlist
Adrian Belew - Belew Prints: The Acoustic Adrian Belew Volume Two
Adrian Belew - Mr. Music Head
Adrian Belew - Inner Revolution
Adrian Belew - Here
Adrian Belew - The Acoustic Adrian Belew
Caravan - Canterbury Tales - The Best Of Caravan
California Guitar Trio - California Guitar Trio With Tony Levin & Pat Mastelotto
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven On Earth
Can - Sacrilege
Cheap Trick - The Very Best Of Cheap Trick
The Church - Conception
UK - Night After Night 2012
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
The Rolling Stones - Rolled Gold
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
The Mothers of Invention - We're Only in It for the Money
Yes - Talk
Radiohead - The Bends
Moby - Last Night
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black
Genesis - Duke
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
David Gilmour - On An Island
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
Big Elf - Into the Maelstrom
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Kiss - Destroyer
Radiohead - The Bends
The Tubes - Remote Control
Alex Machacek - 24 Tales
Fennesz - Venice

Once more ensconced in the house under the influence of the lurgi...

More music listening and a smidgen of tidying...



Adding missing albums to iTunes is even more boring than it sounds...

It ought to be more spontaneous...

The publishing of the February podcasts continues, now only on Mixcloud not here - see the podcasts tab at the top of the page for access...

Fifteen was just too many...

For March I will feature one LP from each year 1965-2014, so 50 in all - that should do...

Already compiled and a couple of the proposed five recorded tonight...

"Wolf Hall" ended...

Quite brilliant...

Elsewhere, work with both Creek and Capital Models remains on the agenda...

Highlight of the Day : "Wolf Hall"...