Something wicked this way comes...

Playlist

Yes - Fly From Here

Yes - Heaven & Earth

Capital Models - 2018-02-04

John Surman - Invisible Threads

The Chick Corea & Steve Gadd Band - Chinese Butterfly

Bobo Stenson Trio - Contra La Indecision

Martin Archer & Engine Room Favourites - Safety Signal From A Target Town

Shatner's Bassoon - The Self Titled Album Shansa Barsnaan

Django Django - Marble Skies

Albert King - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968

The Temperance Movement - A Deeper Cut

Dream Theater - 5 Days In A Livetime

February away...

Listening back to the last two Yes albums today led me to realise they are not quite as bad as I had thought...

They are even quite good...

Worse snow today...

Again, I soldiered on...

...as did Anne, very nervously in the new beastie

However, in light of the oncoming storm, I was home by 3pm...

"Endeavour" and "Marcella" both enjoyed and, later in the evening, after a run through the covers set along to the tapes frm earlier this month, the rescheduled "Shetland " and "Holby" also entertained as the country went a bit mad re some snow...

Such is this United Kingdom...

Today's artwork, "Something Wicked This Way Comes"...

Lights out with a blizzard blowing outside...

Hihglight of the day : Cosy in the house...

Is this what I pay my license fee for pt 346...

Playlist

ProjeKct One - The Deception Of The Thrush (A Beginner's Guide)

Lou Reed - The Raven

The Tangent - A Place In The Queue

Benjamin Damage - Heliopause

Chic - Risqué

Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels

Paul Buchanan - Mid Air

Jeremy Pelt - Soul

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

Alice Peacock - Alice Peacock

Radiohead - Hail To The Thief

Free - The Free Story

John Wetton & Phil Manzanera - Wetton/Manzanera

Iggy Pop - The Idiot

King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon - 40th Anniversary Series

The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Slade - Sladest

Rush - Moving Pictures

Toyah - Ophelia's Shadow

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Love Beach

Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits

Various - Rock Revival

Marc Almond - Varieté

Anger 77 - Allein Im Flugzeug

Weather Report - Night Passage

Creek - Reconstructed

Mott - Drive On

Spock's Beard - V

Some snow this morning but not too much re the so-called Beast from the East...

Soldiered on...

In the evening took the car on its last journey as the designated Cloudland Blue Mobile... 

...and picked up the new Cloudland Blue Mobile and drove it home...

With Anne out in the freezing cold with her mum, watching Hearts draw 1-1 with Kilmarnock (including an injury time penalty miss that could have won it for the JTs), I chose not to record this week's podcast but, instead, to watch a "Fantastic Four" film about "The Silver Surfer"...

Now I like these types of film but, frankly, this was one of the worst films I've ever watched...

Picked Anne up as the weather worsened...

Both "Shetland" and "Holby" postponed due to pishy football on the telly...

Is this what I pay my license fee for pt 346...

Today's artwork, "The Last Parking Place of Gandalf"...

Highlight of the Day : New car

Reconstituting can result in hearing things not heard for too long...

Playlist

Sparks - Interior Design

Alice Cooper - Trash

New Order - Technique

It Bites - Eat Me In St Louis

Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound Of Thunder

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Uriah Heep - Into The Wild

John Grant - Queen Of Denmark

Brian Eno - Wah Wah

Johnny Bennett - The Violet Hush

James - Whiplash

Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel?

Laurie Anderson - Bright Red

Brian Eno & Jah Wobble - Spinner

Armand Margjeka - Hummingbird

Madonna - Music

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Black Moon

Everything Everything - Arc

King Crimson - The Power To Believe

Laurie Anderson - The Ugly One With The Jewels And Other Stories

Alan Morse - Four o'Clock And Hysteria

Jonatha Brooke - Back In The Circus

Cheryl - 3 Words

Conspiracy - Conspiracy

Sébastien Tellier - My God Is Blue

Bell Gardens - Full Sundown Assembly

Tool - Lateralus

Alice Cooper - A Fistful Of Alice

Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live

King Crimson - The ConstruKction Of Light

David Bowie - Heathen

Herman Van Veen - Hut Ab!

The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare

Grandaddy - Last Place

Spock's Beard - Snow

Metheny/Mehldau - Metheny Mehldau

Earthworks - Stamping Ground

Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque

Camilla Fuchs - Singing From Fixed Rung

Texas - White On Blonde

T Rex - Ride A White Swan

Haystacks Balboa - Haystacks Balboa

The Glitter Band - Hey!

Geoff Love And His Orchestra - Your Favourite TV Themes

Dr Feelgood - Stupidity

Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Plateaux Of Mirror

Yello - You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess

Michael Brook - Hybrid

Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist

Lou Reed - New York

Kansas - In The Spirit Of Things

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni - Marco Polo

Eels - Hombre Lobo

The Bad Plus - Never Stop

Ulrich Schnauss - No Further Ahead Than Today

John Wetton & Geoff Downes - Icon III

Creek - Reconstructed

Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business

Loads of listening today as I reconstituted the iPod classic...

On the telly, "Collateral" continued and was good...

I think I may also have played a few songs...

Prep too for tomorrow's car switch...

that was it...

Today's artwork, "The Reconstitution of an iPod"...

Highlight of the day : Music listening...

Whittling out the freebies...

Playlist

Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo

Craig Armstrong - As If To Nothing

The Blue Nile - Peace At Last

Simple Minds - Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call

Rush - Power Windows

Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet

Alice Cooper - Paranormal

Capital Models - 2018-02-04

Miles Davis - The Complete Concert 1964

Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Plateaux Of Mirror

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Rush - Hemispheres

The Who - Tommy OST

The Clash - Sandinista!

Holger Hiller - Ein Bündel Fäulnis in der Grube

John Lennon - Walls And Bridges

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies

John Cale - Honi Soit

The Cure - Concert: The Cure Live

David Bowie - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps

Don Henley - The End Of The Innocence

Sparks - Interior Design

Alice Cooper - Trash

Udo Lindenberg - Livehaftig

Up around 6:30...

Mucking about at the computer as usual...

To the gym at 9 with Anne - we need to up our visits...

Home for breakfast and this wee chum was visiting the food station...

In the early afternoon, some rehearsing again of the covers set...

...and reformatting the iPod Classic once again, to try and sort the fact that LP artwork is not showing properly...

Out to my mum's for 3, negotiating traffic jams...

She has a date for the great toe removal of 2018...

Errands undertaken, during which sister Sheila and husband Senior were bumped into...

Over to Anne's mum's around 5 for the family tea...

Very tasty curry, followed by raspberry pavlova - we are all spoiled by Mary's cooking prowess...

Bob was in attendance despite a knee operation which should really have kept him at home - but he's going stir crazy...

Home around 8:30 and to re-filling the iPod with LPs purchased in the year of release...

I went through my lists and removed albums I acquired but for which there was no outlay - this reduced the number for 2018 from over fifty to just two...

Today's artwork, "Upload"..

To bed with music from the 70's in the cans...

Highlight of the Day : Family tea...

Always crashing in the same car, pt 6...

Playlist

Tangerine Dream - Quantum Gate

Tangerine Dream - Tangerine Dream 70-80

Alice Cooper - The Sound Of A [EP]

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall

Alice Cooper - Paranormal

Everything Everything - A Fever Dream

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

Taylor Swift - Reputation EP

Erdmann - Solo-Konzerte Und Orchestermusik

Sterling Grove - Parallel Lines

2raumwohnung - Nacht und Tag

Led Zeppelin - I

The Stranglers - The Collection 1977-1982

Yes - Heaven & Earth

Capital Models - 2018-02-04

Ruehr - Six String Quartets

Tonochrome - A Map in Fragments

Andy Sheppard Quartet - Romaria

Johannes Falk - Von Mucken und Elefanten

Al Di Meola - Opus

Hugh Hopper - 1984

I'm With Her - See You Around

The Sun Burns Bright - Through Dusk, Came The Light

Voodoo Circle - Raised On Rock

Shatner's Bassoon - The Self Titled Album Shansa Barsnaan

Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Yield to Despair

The morning comprised uploading the podcast and breakfasting at home, before we headed out around 10 to see about a new car...

Home around 1:30 and a deal had been done for a higher spec for just a few quid more per month than at present...

 

Of course, buyer's regret kicked in immediately but I will revert to normal shortly...

In the afternoon, Anne enjoyed some work in the garden (being a gardening lover) while I played through the covers set applying some heavy metal electric guitar to the recordings from earlier this month (being a heavy metal guitar lover)...

Meanwhile Scotland were beating England at Rugby Union to take the Calcutta Cup for the first time in 10 years...

Hearts lost 2-0 away to Scotland's newest club and QoS and Dunfermline provided a goalless draw in Dumfries...

In the evening, a very hot and tasty curry from Bombay Feast, as we both opted for Jalfrezie...

"Marcella" and last week's two episodes of "Modus" kind of entertained...

Ended the day listening to new downloaded acquistions whilst watching "Match of the Day"...

Today's artwork, almost inevitably, is "Shiny New Car"...

Highlight of the Day : New car...

The far East is too far...

Playlist

Wizzard - Introducing Eddy and the Falcons

Uriah Heep - Salisbury

Uriah Heep - Into the wild

Tangerine Dream - Quantum Gate

Wizzard listening continued this morning...

At lunchtime a walk along to Fopp and two new discs partaken of by particular faves...

Late afternoon, a meet up with the EP, she having just enjoyed a long lunch with chum Teresa...

Round to Teuchters bar and met up with Spike, Baz, Gaz, Bernardo, Lodger, KT and, back from the Far East for a flying visit, the frankly not seen often enough due to said location, Kris-with-a-K...

Your correspondent laid out on booze and it had an effect such that, post a bus home, there was no listening to the new discs, rather, there was falling asleep to attempts to watch "Marcella" from earlier in the week...

Today's artwork was, nonetheless, "Alice and Laurie"...

Lights out, worse for wear...

Highlight of the Day : Drinks with some chums...

Wood can be good...

Playlist

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2018

Various - Records Released and Bought in 1988

Wizzard - Singles 1972-1976

Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge

Wizzard - Wizzard Brew

Not much to report today - listening back to last night's podcast recording...

And to records purchased in 1988 that were released in 1988...

A late on communique ont t'internet led me to listen to some classic Roy Wood late doors...

...with some Mike Oldfield thrown in between for good measure...

On telly, "Death in Paradise" came to an end...

Always an enjoyable slice of summery nonsense that cheers mid-winter...

Meanwhile "This is not an F" is today's artwork...

Even later on, "This Week" brought the day to a close...

Highlight of the Day : The mighty Wizzard...

Labour of love...

Playlist
Various Artists - Blaxploitation : The Payback : Volume Three
Wishbone Ash - Blowin' Free: An Introduction To Wishbone Ash
The Moody Blues - The Other Side Of Life
Laurie Anderson - It's Not the Bullet That Kills You, It's the Hole
Umphrey's McGee - 2018/02/02 Kalamazoo, MI
Umphrey's McGee - 2018/02/03 Kalamazoo, MI
We Lost The Sea - Departure Songs
Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Yield to Despair
Hammock - Repeat/Texture [EP]
Matthew Florianz - Onontgonnen
Roxy Music - Roxy Music (45th Anniversary Edition)
Lione-Conti - Lione-Conti
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Lay It On Down
Echotide - Into The Half Light
Jordan Rudess And Steve Horelick - Intersonic
Scientist v Prince Jammy - Big Showdown At King Tubby's
Sonny Rollins - The Definitive Sonny Rollins On Prestige, Riverside, And Contemporary
Twilight Fields - Our Time Is Now
Laura Pausini - Fantastico (Fai quello che sei) [Single]
Tigran Hamasyan - For Gyumri
Norma Winstone - Descansado - Songs For Films
Tatanka - Baikal
Adrian Belew - Mr. Music Head
Terje Rypdal - The Singles Collection
Trevor Rabin - Can't Look Away
Rush - Presto
Rush - A Show Of Hands
Yes - Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Don Henley - The End Of The Innocence
David Bowie - Tin Machine
New Order - Technique

This evening, with Anne out at Zumba, recording the podcast despite my voice being pretty well shot...

It took an hour to record and then edit all the between music links, then another two hours to record it, followed by some final editing...

A labour of love indeed...

Tonight, I think we may also have watched another "Endeavour"...

Today's artwork, "The Corner of the Screen"...

Highlight of the Day : Podcasting...

Silver will often trump black...

Playlist

The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

Tonight Alive - Underworld

Otto A. Totland - The Lost

Matt Emery - Empire

Glen Hansard - Between Two Shores

Gabriel Saloman - Movement Building vol.3

First Aid Kit - Ruins

Cortex - Avant-Garde Party Music

Bruno Pronsato - US Drag

Black Label Society - Grimmest Hits

Bird Traps - The Rainbow Body

Bipolar Explorer - Dream Together

Armand Amar - Retrospective

Arctic Monkeys - AM

Alfred Chiu - Secret Place (Piano Version)

Aidan Baker & Karen Willems - Nonland

Andrew Hill - Eternal Spirit

Gil Scott-Heron - Glory: The Gil Scott-Heron Collection

Lou Reed Hudson - River Wind Meditations

Gregory Isaacs - Absent

Various Artists - The Story Of Blue Beat: The Birth Of Ska

Mariza - Fado Curvo

Roots Manuva - Bleeds (Deluxe Version)

Culture - Adventures In And Beyond Dub

David Arnold - Shaken And Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project

Manu Chao - La Radiolina

Donna Summer - Endless Summer: Donna Summer's Greatest Hits

Thomas Stronen - Lucus

Kit Downes - Obsidian

John Surman - Invisible Threads

The Chick Corea & Steve Gadd Band - Chinese Butterfly

Bobo Stenson Trio - ontra La Indecision

Martin Archer & Engine Room Favourites - Safety Signal From A Target Town

Django Django - Marble Skies

Various Artists - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968

Shatner's Bassoon - The Self Titled Album Shansa Barsnaan

France Jobin - Scènes

False Horizon - Transition

Hesam Rahmani - Sky Crying Blood

Carlos Cipa - Sculptures

Senses Fail - If There Is Light It Will Find You

Toto - Greatest Hits: 40 Trips Around The Sun

The Plot In You - Dispose

Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert

Rod Stewart - Atlantic Crossing

Vangelis & Jon Anderson - Heaven and Hell (CD)

Henry Mancini - The Best Of Henry Mancini

Various Artists - Blaxploitation : The Payback : Volume Three

A trip today up to Newington for a mooch around...

In the Cancer Research shop for £2.20 a 2CD set of funky music...

The box needed to be replaced,,,

...and the discs looked dodgy...

...however, it plays just fine...

Had it been a record, it would have had to have been binned - this is just one more reason why CDs are better than vinyl...

Anyway...

On telly, "Shetland" - the acting was up to the usual standards...

Today's artwork, "Steeple"...

Highlight of the Day : Rescuing some music from the bin, kind of...

Endeavouring not to speak...

Playlist

Norma Winstone - Descansado - Songs For Films

Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Black Coffee

Sophie Alour - Time For Love

Microtrauma - Soñar

Carlton Melton - Mind Minerals

Emma - Essere Qui

Umphrey's McGee - it's not us

Thomas Stronen - Lucus

Space Native - Distant Future

David Murray - Blues for Memo

The Wood Brothers - One Drop of Truth

Glen Hansard - Between Two Shores

Nils Frahm - All Melody

Tonight Alive - Underworld

Joachim Kühn - Love & Peace

Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars

Senses Fail - If There Is Light It Will Find You

Simple Minds - Walk Between Worlds

Bobo Stenson Trio - Contra La Indecision

The Plot In You - Dispose

Long Distance Calling - Boundless

Johann Johannsson - The Mercy

Juliette Armanet - Petite Amie (Deluxe)

Tatanka - Baikal

First Aid Kit - Ruins

Nadine - oh my

Margo Rey - The Roots of Rey | Despacito Margo

Django Django - Marble Skies

Rhye - Blood

Son Lux - Brighter Wounds

Yes - Fragile

I am being plagued by the lurgi once again...

Today, I had, in fact, lost my voice...

In the evening, University Challenge - we did well (125 points I think) but did not win...

Oh well...

"Endeavour" watched and "Marcella" recorded...

Today's artwork, "Jagged"...

...like my throat...

Highlight of the Day : Endeavour...

The early morning antics of a cat can buoy...

Playlist
Herbie Mann - Memphis Underground
Joe Satriani - What Happens Next
Kit Downes - Obsidian
Microtrauma - Soñar
The Chick Corea & Steve Gadd Band - Chinese Butterfly
Umphrey's McGee - it's not us
Tonight Alive - Underworld
Sophie Alour - Time For Love
Tigran Hamasyan - For Gyumri
Margo Rey - The Roots of Rey | Despacito Margo
Django Django - Marble Skies
Bobo Stenson Trio - Contra La Indecision
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall
Bipolar Explorer - Sometimes in Dreams
Johann Johannsson - The Mercy
Norma Winstone - Descansado - Songs For Films
Lione-Conti - Lione-Conti
Van William - Countries
Simple Minds - Walk Between Worlds
Above & Beyond - Common Ground
Carlton Melton - Mind Minerals
Juliette Armanet - Petite Amie (Deluxe)
Rhye - Blood
Joachim Kühn - Love & Peace
First Aid Kit - Ruins
Long Distance Calling - Boundless
Emma - Essere Qui
The Wood Brothers - One Drop of Truth
John Surman - Invisible Threads
Good Tiger - We Will All Be Gone
Family - It's Only A Movie
Geneviève Bellemare - Melancholy Fever
Johnny Jewel - Digital Rain
Bird Traps - The Rainbow Body
Senses Fail - If There Is Light It Will Find You
Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars

Up not too early...

My last full day with Mia - she will be collected tomorrow by step-niece in law Abbie and partner Blair...

We've loved having her here...

Eventually, she wore herself out...

In the afternoon, to my mum's, where she decided she wanted to listen to some music and had chosen (weirdly) this CD...

It was ok, if a little late...

In the evening, chicken kebabs and Anne watched "Call the Midwife" while we recorded "Endeavour"...

I was upstairs mucking about/doing nothing of any import...

Today's artwork, "One Last Sleep"...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : The antics of a cat...