Watching and listening, not texting or peeing...

Playlist

Sex Pistols - Kiss This
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Scream
Devo - Hot Potatoes: The Best Of Devo
Patti Smith - Privilege (Set Me Free) [Single]
Yes - The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection (Complete)
The Clash - The Essential Clash
Japan - Adolescent Sex
Dean Friedman - Lucky Stars [Single]
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl [Single]
Alice Cooper - From the Inside
Public Image Limited - Public Image
Paul McCartney & Wings - Pure McCartney
Television - Adventure
Various - Billboard Top 100 1977
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Kate Bush - Anthology
Chris de Burgh - A spaceman came travelling [Single]
Genesis - Platinum Collection
Lou Reed - NYC Man: The Ultimate Lou Reed Collection
John Wetton & Geoff Downes - Icon II - Rubicon
Laura Pausini - Escucha
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
Françoise Hardy - (Parenthèses...)
Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard
John Wetton & Geoff Downes - Icon
Various - Island Presents: Ska
Various - The House That Trane Built: The Best Of Impulse Records
Various - Feelin' Soulful
Roger Waters - Copenhagen, 2018-08-10

Up early for a day of "doing the festival"...

Breakfast at home...

...and breakfast for the birds...

Into town and further coffee at a wee Turkish place...

...along with treats...

 ...on our way to the Queens Hall, this the view from the office this morning for the first half...

Once again, being broadcast on Radio 3...

The view for the second half was better, as we sneakily changed seats...

From our new vantage point we could see the old seats...

...and indeed, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who having played pieces by Obouhow, Scriabin & Debussy in the first half while out of our line of sight, now played, within our sight, pieces by Chopin & Messiaen in the second half...

...,long with an encore of a piece by Enescu...

This lady...

...who was a couple of rows in front of us during the first half, despite applauding vigorously at the end of the recital...

...had spent the whole of the second half sending and receiving texts...

Luckily, Monsieur Aimard was unaware...

Out and round to Summerhall...



 ...for some lunch and drinks...

...taking in a Pussy Riot based piece along the way...

...and the ubiquitous shots of Joseph Beuys and Richard de Marco's shenanigans in the 60's...

To the Pear Tree for more drinks...

...accompanied by some quite dreadful "blues"...

...but followed by a very enjoyable and funny hour of comedy from Swede, Olaf Felafel...

Coffee at George Square...

A bus to Hanover St and to Fopp, where two 2CD collections were purchased, ska and soul - groovy...

Cash injection, then...

...dinner at the Shenaz...

...followed by a constitutional down Leith Walk and back...

...before heading to the Playhouse for John Grant...

The views from the office this evening...

Stellar songwriting, singing, musicianship and lighting (and sound) to the fore...

I'd previously seen him at the no longer there any more The Venue back in 2005, on what was his first ever solo concert, then, in 2011, at the Liquid Rooms - I missed him at the Usher Hall in 2014...

He's come a long way and deservedly so...

A slight dampener (but not on Roger Waters audience idiocy proportions) was the measure of making of trips to and from the toilet by a number of our co-(supposed)-audients, no doubt those who call themselves fans of Mr Grant's work but who had foolishly filled their smaller than normal bladders too highly, in what now weer surely being recognised as extremely ill-considered pre-gig drinking sessions which were causing them to miss parts of a superb performance...

Idiots...

An hour long bus journey home, during which it became apparent that the lurgi were onsetting...

Back home set up a recording of this morning's concert on the iPlayer and downloaded and listened to Roger Waters in Copenhagen a week or so ago, on the recommendation of Dr Prog...

Artwork of the day, "Breakfast at Home"...

Highlight of the day : John Grant...