Friendship trumps politics, you would hope...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Anthology : Rubinmusik 1977-2016

Delibes - Delibes: Sylvia; Saint-Saëns: Henry VIII

The Troggs - Hit Single Anthology

Dessau - East German Revolution : A Composer's Portrait

Axel Rudi Pell - Game Of Sins

Haken - Affinity

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Soul Legends

Fauré - Piano Quartets & Quintets

Fauré - Music by Debussy, Fauré, Chopin

Dave Douglas - Five

Earth, Wind & Fire - The Box Set Series

Khymera - The Grand Design

Mozart - Le Belle Immagini - Mozart; Gluck; Myslivecek: Arias

Mike Oldfield - The Songs Of Distant Earth

Thunder - All You Can Eat

Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty

Various - Gatecrasher Anthems Paul Van Dyk

Various Composers - A Shakespeare Celebration

Various - Dancing In The Streets - Motown's Greatest Hits

Various Composers - Contemporary East German Composers

Primal Fear - Rulebreaker

Janáček - Janacek, Haas, Szymanowski String Quartets

Krauze - Piano Works

Boxhead Ensemble - Dutch Harbor: Where The Sea Breaks Its Back OST

Fashiøn - The Height Of Fashiøn

Mob Rules - Tales From Beyond

Commodores - The Very Best Of The Commodores

Refused - The Shape Of Punk to Come

Various Composers - Deutsche Grammophon : Original Masters : The Singles

Orff - Kleines Konzert

Paul McCartney & Wings - Pure McCartney

Cloudland Blue Quartet & Pedantic Pedestrian - Schneewittchen Schwarzmischung

Udo Lindenberg - Stärker Als Die Zeit

Deadmau5 - Album Title Goes Here

Ronnie Montrose - Open Fire

Various Composers - English String Miniatures, Vol. 2

Deadmau5 - Random Album Title

Pink Floyd - Selected Tracks from Shine On

Françoise Hardy - The Real... Françoise Hardy

Feldman - Orchestral Works and Chamber Music

Matthew Friedberger - Winter Women / Holy Ghost Language School

Chopin - Piano Concertos

Krommer - Partitas For Wind Ensemble Op. 57, 71 & 78

Tony Williams Lifetime - Turn It Over

Gabi Delgado - 2

A bargain at Fopp at lunchtime - an excellent big book on Laurie Anderson from 2000...

Back home a wait for a visit from Count Brodski - during which two games of football were watched - Norn Iron beating Ukraine 2-0 and Germany drawing 0-0 with Polska...

Earlier in the day, England came from behind to beat Wales 2-1 with a goal in injury time - doing a bit of a Hibs...

Brodski finally arrived and some good chat was undertaken - we agree on most things apart from his desire for Scottish Independence...

...we find his assertions on the subject fairly incredible, as is noted here on the face of the Exec Producer...

Still, friendship trumps politics, you would hope...

Lights out post 1am...

Highlight of the Day : A visit from Count Brodski...