Once every four years...

Playlist

Various - Weekly Podcasts 2016 Vol 9

Field Music - Tones Of Town

Dutilleux - The Centenary Edition

Various - Front Line Presents Reggae Discomixes

Haydn - Doric String Quartet - Wigmore Hall Live

In Croce - Russische Kammermusik

Selina Martin - Disaster Fantasies

Field Music - Write Your Own History

Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Seven Days Of Falling

Various - Island Presents Reggae Discomixes

Sleep Research Facility - Stealth

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Air

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Bloom

Derek Bailey - String Theory

Mike Garson - The Bowie Variations

David Bowie - Nothing Has Changed

Various - Heat OST

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Dakota Starman EP

Run With the Kittens - Casio Glue Bomb EP

Commodores - Dancing In The Street

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Scream

Talking Heads - Remain In Light

The Undisputed Truth - The Best Of The Undisputed Truth

Motorpsycho - Here Be Monsters

Soler - Harpsichord Sonatas Vol.1

Steven Wilson - 4 1/2

Rick Wakeman - Life On Mars?

King Crimson - Nov 20, 2015, Toronto, Queen Elizabeth Theatre

And off goes month, number two of 2016 - already...

Up early on the 29th day...

...on which very little worth reporting took place...

A visit to my mum while Anne zumba'd...

A night time view from her window...

She's certainly taking her medicine...

She enjoyed mucking about with the Brian Eno apps on my phone...

I think she's kind of on the mend but still has some way to go...

Back home, "Fresh Meat" was enjoyed and "Cuckoo" was 'taped'...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Mum on the mend perhaps...

A nice walk and a lovely breakfast and moving stuff around...

Playlist

Jean-Michel Jarre - Essential Recollection

Various - Dancing In The Street

Ted Nugent - The Ultimate Ted Nugent

Sleep Research Facility - Stealth

Field Music - Tones Of Town

Field Music - Write Your Own History

Metallica - Death Magnetic

Mertens - Jardin clos

Clementi - Complete Sonatas For Fortepiano Vol 6 : The Late Sonatas

Dutilleux - The Centenary Edition

Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Seven Days Of Falling

Elton John - Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player

Various - Island Presents Reggae Discomixes

Laura Pausini - San Siro 2007

Maïda - In Corpore Vili 2003-2008

Schulhoff - Musik Für Streichquartett (Schulhoff Quartett) Vol. II

Beethoven - String Quintet, Op. 29 & String Quartet, Op. 132

Brad Mehldau - 10 Years Solo Live

Corelli - La Folia

Martinu - String Quartets 1 & 2

Rihm - Musik für drei Streicher

Run With the Kittens - Casio Glue Bomb EP

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Dakota Starman EP

David Bowie - Changesbowie
Mozart - Complete Piano Concertos

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Morphinecodex

The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse

Neu! - Neu!

Paul Chambers & John Coltrane - High Step

Various - Heat OST

The view from the office this morning...

...and later, as we departed for breakfast...

...frosty...

...bright and cold...

Drove to Roseburn...

...then walked on to Haymarket...

The beast was about its business...

...as was its Executive Producer...

...along by the tram tracks...

...and in to Haymarket...

...and on to Morrison Street and, new to us, Milk...

Nice...

I went for the healthy option...

...although, kind of inevitably, I did need to help Anne out with the very last of her sandwich...

Back to the car...

The Exec Producer...

...was being followed by the beast...

This would be a nice spot to have...

At home, in the garden, I mistook these for Brussel Sprouts..

Spring is perhaps on the way...

Indoors, I set about some switching of stuff about and...

...listening to a couple of LPs...

...and a Mozart Piano Concerto...

A speaker switch around, with the best set now being at my most popular listening spot...

I am not averse to the occasional spin of the old vinyl...

...but CDs certainly sound better due to the distinct lack of clicks and/or jumps and/or surface noise...

A visit from Sheila and Andrew on the way to, in turn, visit mum...

Reports later advised she'd been in bed all day, was eating well but, later still, that she was seen to be wearing a full oxygen mask rather than just the tubes in her nose...

I will pop by tomorrow...

Hoping for a full recovery...

To Anne's mum's for tea, accidentally leaving my camera in the car...

Kitty tried to show me how to download an app...

Stupid Uncle David...

Olly seemed to be using his family's entire data supply by watching football matches on his phone...

Kids need to know consequences...

Back home, the first two episodes of a very welcome returning "Person of Interest" very much entertained...

Then, hey, I downloaded not one but two apps - both Brian Eno related...

One would not load on my phone and so, I retired with its software being updated...

Always a worrying scenario...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day ; A nice walk and a lovely breakfast and moving stuff around...

Scenes from a new location, etc...

Playlist

Various - The Shelf on Shuffleplay

Various - Capital Gold Sixties Legends

Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

The Who - Then And Now (1964-2004)

Various - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Various  - Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration

Laura Pausini - San Siro 2007

The Byrds - Greatest Hits

The Monkees - The Works

Love - Da Capo

Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You

Various - California Dreaming

The Beatles - 1967-1970

Cream - Best of Cream

Various - Trojan UK Hits Box Set

Crosby Stills & Nash - Crosby Stills & Nash

Joni Mitchell - Clouds

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin Remasters

The Velvet Underground - Loaded

Dave & Ansel Collins - Double Barrel

Neil Young - Harvest

Big Star - Big Star Story

Gang Of Four - Entertainment!

Magazine - Real Life

Various - 101 Punk & New Wave Anthems

Human League - Reproduction

The Rezillos - Can't Stand the Rezillos

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Scream

Various - Rough Trade Shops Electronic 01

Various - Punky Reggae Selecta

Squeeze - Big Squeeze: The Very Best Of Squeeze

Various - Extended Seventies

The Cure - Staring At The Sea: The Singles 1979-1985

Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

The Skids - Scared To Dance

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

Yes - Going for the One (LP)

Yes  - Going for the One (CD)

Field Music - Write Your Own History

Field Music - Tones of Town

Various - Front Line Presents Reggae Discomixes

Various - Island Presents Reggae Discomixes

Derek Bailey - String Theory

Corelli - La Folia

Brad Mehldau - 10 Years Solo Live

Various  - Dancing In The Street

Dutilleux - The Centenary Edition

Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Seven Days Of Falling

Ted Nugent - The Ultimate Ted Nugent

Rihm - Rihm: Musik für drei Streicher

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2016 Vol 8

Up just after seven and writing this up while listening back to next week's podcast...

The EP was up a couple of hours later and, pre breakfast, gave some attention to this, her new machine...

Breakfast at home, I was on duty...

Breakfast was also being enjoyed outside...

Laura Pausini entertained...

...as did today's calendar pic...

...as did (in places) tracks featured in the BBC Radio 6 Music book "Alternative Jukebox" - I have around half the entries...

Some repositioning of the turntable took place...

If you want to know why it is that CD beats vinyl hands down, just listen to the opening of "Turn of the Century", track 2 on this LP...

At 2, took the EP to her mum's re today's Hearts match v Kilmarnock - a scraped 1-0 win with two penalties missed (the goal came from a rebound on the first)...

In Falkirk, Queens were 1-0 up at half time....

Yes, you guessed it, they lost 3-1...

I drove on into town and took a bus down to the Western General, opposite Fettes School...

...these the views from mum's new location...

From the chat of the doc who visited while I was there, she's going to be in for a wee while yet...

Not a well old lady...

In the corridor, some enjoyable abstract art by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham...

Back into town around 4 in the afternoon sun...

In the basement of HMV, two Field Music CDs purchased for £2 each - upstairs, new copies are £6 each...

Justified...

Met Anne and her mum from the football and took Anne's mum home...

To the Indian takeaway as the evening drew in...

They need to learn how to manage expectation - telling walk-ins that it'll take 20 minutes and then having them wait 45 is not good for repeat custom - even if their Lamb Balti is the best in the world...

Three episodes of "Spin", taking us into series 2 were enjoyed, before I retired upstairs for some pre-bed ripping and listening...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Cheering my mum up a bit...