Chicken wire is better bought close to home...

Playlist

Roger Waters - Copenhagen, 2018-08-10
Various - Feelin' Soulful
Rikard Sjöblom - Cyklonmannen
Various - Island Presents: Ska
Ravel - A Quatre Mains - The Abbott O'Gorman Duo
Gregson-Williams - The Martian OST
Françoise Hardy - Story 1965-67
Jeffrey Skidmore: Ex Cathedra - Moon, Sun & All Things - Baroque Music From Latin America, Vol. 2
Miles Okazaki - Work
Paper Tether - Empty Names
Dean Friedman - Lucky Stars [Single]
Simon Trpčeski - Schubert/Bach/Liszt/Chopin - Wigmore Hall Live
The Paper Kites - States
Enchant - Time Lost
Roedelius - Geschenk des Augenblicks
Various - The Front Line : Best Of
Justin Currie - What Is Love For
DJ Hell - Misch Masch
Various - One Year, One Single
Françoise Hardy - Entr'acte

Yes - Close to the Edge

Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans

Yes - Relayer
Phish - 2018/08/03 Alpharetta, GA
Coheed & Cambria - Year Of The Black Rainbow
Sainte-Colombe Le Fils - Les Six Suittes Pour Basses De Viole Seule
The Paper Kites - Woodland EP
And So I Watch You From Afar - The Endless Shimmering

Yes - Yesshows
Suzanne Vega - 99.9 Degrees F

Up early once again, though I can't say I recall exactly what I was doing...

We did, however, breakfast at home, that's for sure...

...while listening to some soul music on the CD player...

Now using one speaker for Bluetooth and one to play CDs...

A twitter discussion led me to dig these out...

This disc is an amalgam of...

...these two LPs from 1980/81...

The next thing Fripp did...

...was to reform King Crimson, initially as the combo "Discipline", which went on to be the name of the new quartet's first LP in Autumn of 1981...

This morning, a return to the #Yesathon, with "Close to the Edge"...

"Tales From Topographic Oceans"...

...and "Relayer"...

...before we headed out to the cathedral for a recital

...filmed by the performers, Ruth Hopkins (soprano) and Duncan Appleby (piano)...

Pieces by Purcell, Dowland, Gurney, Gershwin, Britten, Howells, Clark and Boulcom...

The earlier pieces were more to our liking...

Gershwin's "Summertime" is one of my all-time least liked songs... 

Not to worry...

A walk up to the University, stopping for a sandwich on the way...

Past the castle...

Into the Grassmarket, where we spotted the ice skaters from last Thursday - the second time I've chanced upon them in the city centre - both times arriving just too late to see any of their performance...

Oh well...

To the Counting House for the second of today's shows, Stand Up Philosophy...

One of the performers was a philosophy professor and we'd have liked to have heard more from him and less from the others - the subject was "happiness" - which is, of course, relative...

Oh well...

We exited, went down some stairs, queued back at the door through which we'd entered the philosophy show and went back into the same room for an excellent and moving comedy hour from Jim Tavaré...

"From Deadpan to Bedpan" tells the story of a horrendous car accident he was involved in 18 months ago which saw him on the brink of death...

No spoilers - get along and see it...

Best show of the day, easily...

Some swift shopping and a couple of buses home...

Listened to Suzanne Vega instead of paying £100 between us to see her live tonight...

Oh well...

A run through the covers set and working on the podcast line up...

That was about it...

Today's artwork, "Relayer"...

Highlight of the Day : Jim Tavaré...