The boys are back in town...

Playlist

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vols 1-52

The Stranglers - No More Heroes

Various Artists - Pulp Fusion Vol. 8 - Revival Boogie Down

Björk - Utopia

Paper Tether - Empty Names

Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Box Set

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

Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Rod Stewart - The Best Of Rod Stewart

Glenn Gould - Plays Bach

Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker With Strings: The Master Takes

Various Artists - The World's Greatest Trance

Black Stone Cherry - Family Tree

Bach - Das Orgelwerk - Complete Edition

Frank Zappa - Does Humor Belong In Music?

!!! - !!!

!!! - Louden Up Now

Save Us from the Archon - Melancholia

The Upsetters - Africa's Blood

Rojas - Cancion de Cuna

Various Composers - Moon, Sun & All Things - Baroque Music From Latin America, Vol. 2

Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is

Stratovarius - Enigma: Intermission II

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - SAHB Stories

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 03

Various Artists - 101 Punk & New Wave Anthems

Taylor Swift - Red (Deluxe Edition)

Various Artists - Virtually Alternative #077

Various Artists - Sunday Times Music Collection Vol 2

Various Artists - Billboard Top 100 1982

Schumann - The Complete Piano Works

Rheostatics - Melville

Elvis Presley - Memories: The '68 Comeback Special

Alex Machacek - 24 Tales

Bill Orcutt - Bill Orcutt

Capital Models - Live 29 November 2014

Capital Models - Live at the Kilted Pig 2012-04-21

Various Artists - Further Beyond Nashville

Various Artists - Move On Up, Vol. 2

Shivaree - Rough Dreams

Various Artists - The Annual 2003 (Ministry of Sound)

Poppy - Poppy.Computer

Bela B - Bingo

Jenkins, J - All In A Garden Green

Various Artists - Now Hear This! April 2006 (Word)

The Beatles - Chronology

Die Ärzte - Runter mit den Spendierhosen, Unsichtbarer!

Hawkwind - Alien 4

Rigatti - Venetian Vespers

Muddy Waters - The Anthology 1947-1972

Ligeti - The Ligeti Project

Jakko - Mustard Gas And Roses

Various Artists - 100 Hits: 80s Essentials

Atlantis Quartet - X

Muddy Waters - The Anthology 1947-1972

Russ Ballard - The Very Best Of Russ Ballard

Various Artists - Honey Honey

Collegium Terpsichore - Dances from Terpsichore

Journey - Eclipse

The xx - I See You

The Black Dog - Textures

Moebius - Musik für Metropolis

Mendelssohn - Romances sans paroles

Frank Zappa - Civilization Phaze III

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Greatest Hits

Eloy - Silent Cries And Mighty Echoes

Kevin Drumm - The March Flog

Motörhead - Bad Magic

Mozart - Mozart

Beethoven - Beethoven; Dvořák: Piano Trios

Audiomachine - Life

Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6

Various Artists - Best of The Sixties

Catalani - La Wally

Bach, J S - Choräle

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Anotherhappyday

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Anthology : Rubinmusik 1977-2016

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ersatzreal

John Coltrane - The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions

Rare Earth - Band Together

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightnight

Tom Paxton - Ramblin' Boy

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Doveloveshawk

Bruno Pronsato - US Drag

Cloudland Blue QuartetvDeeperdown

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ampersand

Makoto Moroi - Electronic Panorama

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, L'Estro Armonico, Etc

Various Artists - Milano Jukebox 2003

Eloy - Eloy

Frank Zappa - FZ:OZ

Prokofiev; Scriabin; Shostakovich - Complete Piano Sonatas

Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire; Serenade; Die eiserne Brigade

Various Artists - Chillout Moods

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Callingstill

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Soundingfall

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentyseventeen

Monteverdi - Monteverdi: Madrigals Book 3

It's Saturday, so up early...

Three hours later, this...

Breakfast at home with the EP post posting up the podcast and carrying on with the latest project - to fill my phone (256GB) with music I've acquired but not yet listened to...

Can't get it all in but I reckon probably everything since December 2015...

Later, Anne was off out Xmas shopping...

I found a spreadsheet I'd been looking for for a while - it list every song I've played live since my return to the fray on 30 January 2003, after something like a 5 year hiatus re performing...

It had not been updated since my last full gig as Cloudland Blue Quartet, on 3 March 2012, 5 months before the release of my last song-based LP, "Starlightnight"...

It has now...

Some numbers...

From January 2003 to now, I've performed 132 times, including 53 full gigs and played 909 songs, comprising 199 different titles, including 106 CBQ songs, 27 of my own pre-CBQ songs and 66 covers...

But...

I didn't perform as CBQ at all in 2013, 2015 or 2017 (in fact, in 2017, I didn't perform full stop)...

I've only performed 15 times since that last full CBQ gig in 2012 and 7 of those were covers sets, either solo, as a trio, a quartet and, now a quintet...

Other than two songs in 2014, I didn't perform as CBQ for four years (almost to the day) after that 2012 gig...

Since 2012, just 8 CBQ outings, 2 of which were at private parties...

No full gigs, just 21 songs in six and a half years, comprising 16 different titles, including 11 CBQ songs, 2 of my own pre-CBQ songs and 3 covers...

So lazy...

Anyway, over to my mum's for lunch, where nephew Andy and Great-Nephew Kerr were also in attendance...

Here, Andy shows my mum the progress on his extension down in Leeds...

  

...while Kerr does his best to get out of shot...

Later Andy showed Kerr how to do dishes...

On the way home, communication with a tired from too much walking and hardly any Xmas present finding EP led to me picking her up on Lothian Road...

Home for a relaxing evening of curry, "Strictly" and finishing off the filling up the phone with unheard music project...

Today's artwork, "Looking at the New Build"...

Highlight of the Day : The boys at Loanhead...