Exploring the concept of the enclosed space that exists within our minds, apparently...

Playlist

Various - Craig Charles Funk & Soul Classics

Boccherini - String Quartets Op. 32

Various Composers - Sparkle

Glanert - Sinfonie Nr. 1, Vier Fantasien, Mahler/Skizze, Drei Gesänge (Sinfonie Nr. 2)

Babe Ruth - First Base

Baker Gurvitz Army - Live

Ginger Baker Trio - Falling Off The Roof

Ginger Baker Trio - Going Back Home

Ginger Baker - Under The Sun

Ginger Baker - Unseen Rain

BBM - Around The Next Dream

Beck, Bogert & Appice - Live

Beck, Bogert & Appice - Radioshow

Dziuk - Kairo Mond

Blind Faith - Blind Faith

John Mayall - Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton

Graham Bond Organization - I Met The Blues At Klook´s Kleek

Graham Bond - Holy Magick

Pete Brown & Piblokto - Things May Come Things May Go But The Art School Dance Goes On For Ever

Pete Brown & Piblokto - Thousands On A Raft

Pete Brown And His Battered Ornaments - Mantle-Piece

Pete Brown And His Battered Ornaments - A Meal You Can Shake Hands With In The Dark

Jack Bruce - BBC Live In Concert

Jack Bruce - The Jack Bruce Collector´s Edition

Jack Bruce - Live On The Old Grey Whistle Test

Cactus - Fully Unleashed - The Live Gigs

Derek And The Dominos - Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Fantastischen Vier - Unplugged

Vanilla Fudge - Then And Now

Free - The Free Family

Brett Garsed - Big Sky

Charlie Mariano - Helen 12 Trees

Dick Heckstall-Smith, John Etheridge, Reiner Glas, Joe Nay - Live 1990

Free - Live at the Sunderland Locarno

Golden Earring - Fully Naked

Jody Grind - One Step One

Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment

Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2

Liquid Trio Experiment - Spontaneous Combustion

Mark Nauseef & Miroslav Tadic - The Snake Music

May Blitz - May Blitz

May Blitz - The 2nd Of May

Michael Gibbs - Michael Gibbs

Michael Gibbs - Tanglewood 63

Pallas - Mythopoeia

Paul Kossoff - Back Street Crawler

Kossoff Kirke Testu & Rabbit - The Collection

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits

Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute

Haydn - Doric String Quartet - Wigmore Hall Live

Dutilleux - The Centenary Edition

Riff Raff - Outside Looking In - Unreleased Debut Album

Riff Raff - Riff Raff

Roy Harper - In Concert 1975 - The BBC Tapes - Volume 4

Three Man Army - A Third Of A Lifetime

Three Man Army - 3

Vanilla Fudge - Mystery

Robert Fripp - Guitar

Started the day by adding old chum Jorg Sonnenschein's MP3 player's content (acquired when he visited in 2009) to my i-Tunes and sampling tracks through out the morning, whilst sorting out artwork, ID tags etc etc...

Was prompted by a conversation on Twitter (@MisterQuartet) to check my copy of "In the Court of the Crimson King"...

I realise now I have an original...

...although it's not exactly mint condition...

Just as well I mostly listen to CDs (because they sound better of course)...

In the afternoon, took Anne to her mum's for today's "win ugly" event at Tynecastle - 1-0 v Partick Thistle - Queens don't play till Tuesday...

While the ladies watched footie, I visited my mum again...

She is improving everyday but still needs to work on leg strength before she has a chance of release back to her normal surroundings...

Some sweets were provided re tomorrow's Mother's Day scenario...

Mum always likes to show off her bruising re various blood taking and intravenous inputting situations...

Picked Anne up and took her mum home then, back to the house for a quick pizza...

...before heading out into the night...

The Festival Theatre was our destination...

...for three pieces by the Phoenix Dance Theatre Company...

We were in the front row of the Grand Circle - and reasonably early...

Our favourite piece was the first, in which Dutch/Israeli choreographer Itzik Galili reworked his own piece, "Until.With/Out.Enough", which "explores the concept of the enclosed space that exists within our minds"...

Music was by Gorecki...



Although the dancing was superb, our least favourite was the second piece, mainly due to the soundtrack and use of spoken word...

"Undivided Loves" "commemorates the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death"...



Finally, "Bloom", by one of the three Matthew Bourne's New Adventures Choreographer Award winners for 2014, Caroline Finn...

Her work is said to often present "darkly comic expressions of life and humanity using her playful, quirky and highly engaging choreographic style"...

The music included a cover of Radiohead's "Creep" in a Frank Sinatra stylee...

Out, after over two hours of spectacular breath-taking dancing...

I do love the ballet, especially modern dance...

Home again to spend the rest of the evening relaxing in the living room...

...with stuff from "The Shelf"...

Lights out on a good Saturday...

Highlight of the Day : The Ballet...