Drinking at the well...

Playlist

King Crimson - King Crimson Tour 2016

The Who - The Who Sell Out

Various - Electronic Music... It Started Here

Various - Funk

Various - Downtown Funk

Various - 100% Chilled

Opeth - Sorceress

Various - Windows : Windham Hill 25 Years of Piano

Various - The Cream Of Rare Groove Vol. 1

Die Ärzte - 5,6,7,8 Bullenstaat

Fountainhead - Reverse Engineering

Various - The Cream Of Funky Jams Vol. 1

ZZ Top - Tejas

Betty Davis - Is It Love or Desire?

ZZ Top - Rhythmeen

Yello - Toy

Dream Theater - The Astonishing

Airbag - Disconnected

The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness

Herman Van Veen - Fallen oder Springen

65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky: Music For an Infinite Universe

Marillion - F. E. A. R.

Van Der Graaf Generator - Do Not Disturb

Overhead, The Albatross - Learning To Growl

Vangelis - Rosetta

Standing In The Colour - Singularity

Phish - Big Boat

Tiles - Pretending 2 Run

Loscil - Monument Builders

Haken - Affinity

Levin Minnemann Rudess - From The Law Offices Of

David Bowie - Blackstar

Udo Lindenberg - Stärker Als Die Zeit

Brian Eno - The Ship

Jorn - Heavy Rock Radio

Christine and the Queens - Christine and the Queens

Sybarite - Nonument

Various - Sónar 2000

ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud

Out into the dark - heading for the 7:30 train...

On Princes St in plenty of time...

However, the train was cancelled - good start to the weekend...

Accordingly, the platform was a trifle overpopulated as we waited for the 8:00...

Luckily, or thanks to my standing exactly where a door to a carriage with unbooked seats halted, we managed to get seats...

We made our way down the East Coast...

..arriving at King's Cross around 1pm...

...and making our way over to Whitechapel...

...where the nice people at the hotel let us into our room early and, indeed, upgraded the room...

The view from etc...

Out...

..and a walk up Commercial St, past Culpeper...

...to Spittalfields for lunch...

..and a look around...

...before heading to Soho...

...for a wee look around a couple of Record shops...

We bumped into Noel Gallagher outside Sister Ray...

Anne enjoyed the settee at Phonica...

...while I found something that I liked...

...and, in the basement of  Harold Moore's, this...

To John Snow for refreshments...

...before heading to the Angel Islington, taking a detour to Camden Lock...

...and on...

More drinks, at the Camden Head...

Back out into the dark and a short walk from Angel...

...to Sadler's Wells...

...for this...

Sadly, Soft Machine were not involved...

A full house...

...at this excellent venue...

New music by Sally Beamish - most of which sounded like she couldn't hold a tune in a bucket - which is just the way I like it - but with a few beautiful passages...

All told though, whilst still very much enjoyable and despite the advantage of mostly tuneless music, the dancing was a little too much in the "traditional" mode for your correspondent...

These shots were taken during the curtain calls...

By the time we emerged, Anne deemed it too late for a full blown anniversary celebrating meal so we settled for a couple of burritos from a nearby burrito outlet - which we'd coincidentally visited last time we were at Sadler's Wells...

Celebrations were not entirely eschewed however, as celebratory Sadler's Wells mugs were acquired for back home coffees...

Train home...

...spotting this possibility on the way...

Happy anniversary to the EP and me...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Sadler's Wells...