Tangerine Dresam - White Eagle
Neu! - Neu! 75
Thomas Köner - La Barca (Complete Edition) (2CD)
The Bad Plus - For All I Know
Castiglioni - Piano Works
Glass - Music in Twelve Parts
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Golden Earring - Moontan
Various - Punky Reggae Selecta
A trip to Glasgow today with Dr Prog...
Much of the day was spent wandering around record shops and admiring the old city's architecture...
The Doc bought the new Tangent album in Fopp, after we'd parked at Byre's Road...
Into town on the subway and lunch at an Italian fast food place on Union Street...
Then, more record shops - the doc partaking of two DVDs in Missing (post our second Fopp) while your correspondent continued to draw a blank in both of these and in HMV, despite having £20 voucher to spend in the last of these....
Very tasty coffee...
...and banoffee cake at Once Upon a Tart...
A couple more shops, Mono and A1 (I think) then up towards the Concert Hall for this evening's Philip Glass recital...
...past more architecture...
...and a virtually deserted George Square...
At Love Music, we were joined by Count Brodski - in Glasgow with Penny for the same concert as us...
I picked up Iron Buttterfly's "In a Gadda Da Vida" here (turns out I already have a download but no physical copy so not as bad as it could have been) and an excellent reggae compilation, "Punky Reggae Selecta" which was playing over the sound system as the three musketeers browsed...
To the venue - and a pop up concert was happening in the foyer...
Then, in and to our second front row seats...
The performance was by the seven piece Philip Glass Ensemble, featuring Mr Glass and two further keyboard players, three wind/brass players and a singer...
In all, they played "Music in Twelve Parts" in its entirety, which comprised four 55 minute segments with breaks between of 15, 60 and 15 minutes...
During one of the breaks I noted this gentleman and was glad he was not occupying a seat in front of us...
I found the concert extremely hard going - the music is so repetitive and, frankly, annoying...
It might have been better if it hadn't just gone on and on and on and bloody well on...
I still enjoyed it in a perverse way though I suppose - but many left after the third section - perhaps realising not much was going to change...
The majority of the audience, including old chum Alan Martin, stayed till the end though and gave the performers a well deserved standing ovation - considering these, for the most part, rather old men, had just performed a very demanding three and a half hour score...
We caught the last subway back to the car and drove home to the sounds of some punky reggae...
Sack finally hit around 1:30 am...
An enjoyable but tiring day...
Highlight of the Day : Philip Glass...
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