Celebrating a life, again...

Playlist

Bryars - The Fifth Century

Max Richter - Memoryhouse

Jlin - Autobiography

Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters - Underrated Silence

Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters - Tomorrow Is Another Day

Tarwater - Inside the Ships

Tarwater - Adrift

Moebius & Plank - Material

Karl Bartos - Atomium [Single]

Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator - Con-Struct

Cluster - USA Live

Cluster - Japan Live

Various - Sky Records Kollektion

Al Green - The Hi Records Singles Collection

Various - 101 Stax

Various) - The Spoken Word - British Writers

Jean-Claude Vannier - En public & Fait maison

Françoise Hardy - Love Songs

Danny Driver - Dale: Piano Sonata; Bowen: Miniature Suite

Ashton Gardner & Dyke - Ashton Gardner & Dyke

Sand - Golem

Japan - The Very Best Of

Weather Report - The Agora, Columbus Ohio October 17 1972

Various - 60s Jukebox - The Ultimate Collection

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware

King Crimson - 2018 Tour

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik II

Music today, the choices for this week's podcast...

Plus King Crimson...

Plus the new CBQ LP...

A call around 9 from my mum at the hospital - she was being taken to theatre at 2...

I called the ward at 10 to find out what was happening - it seems they had gotten to the bottom of what was wrong and now were going to carry out a procedure re her gallstones and stent...

Hmmm...

Having gotten kind of back to normal, today was the day when that would be reversed, as we attended Keith Lodge's funeral, with a host of friends, colleagues and people not seen for years, from across the industry which funds my musicking and arting...

Cufflinks were donned...

And the sky was good...

A big lunch, over 20 of us at Quattro Zero, and toasts made - before taxis to the crematorium, where I met up with Anne...

So many faces from the past - and, of course the present...

A much loved man, seen here with the apples of his eye, his two boys Jonathan and Daniel, both of whom took part, bravely and movingly, in the service...

Keith's old friend, Ronnie Urquhart, gave the eulogy, just the right mix of sadness and laughter - and reflecting too, the disbelief among everyone gathered, that a freak accident could have taken Keith from us too, too early...

Just a couple more steps before his fatal stumble would have seen him merely bump into a fence, instead of falling through an open gate and down into a basement to be found the next morning...

Still hard to grasp that he's gone...

A celebration later at one of his favourite haunts, Angel Share; and a moving slideshow of his life and much good chat and reminiscing...

Word from Sheila re mum - back on the ward, groggy, visiting not required re her general "out of it" state but Sheila would return tomorrow...

And so, we left the gathering around 6:30 - others called it a day at 4 in the morning!

Back home, the podcast was recorded - in line with Keith's philosophy, described at his funeral, we have a short time here and we need to do what we like to do - what makes us happy...

And so, a few hours later, done, dusted...

Today's artwork, "Keith and His Boys"...

Highlight of the day : Celebrating a life...