High the memory, as Yes would say...

Playlist

Various Artists - The Legacy of Disco

Norbert Kraft - 19th Century Guitar Favourites

Ike Quebec - The Ike Quebec Collection

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik II

Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Before the Day Breaks

James Jamieson - Precious
Various - The Treasure Isle Story
Malia & Boris Blank - Convergence
Martin Kershaw Quartet - Fryition

A sad anniversary today - 5 years ago, my music cohort of some 35 years, Jamie Frain aka James Jamieson left us...  

Despite his undoubted talent, he always found it hard to write songs and so, almost his entire canon is contained on this one release... 

The picture below was taken at on the 200th night of Edinburgh Songwriters' Club, Out of the Bedroom in February 2006 (subject of this entry in this diary) three years into our regular visits there...

This was the audience on the night...

It's usually an "originals" only night but, on the occasion of this "birthday", performers were encouraged to cover their peers' songs and Jamie, after I'd sneaked him onto the performers board due to his not being able to get their on time re some child related duties or other, surprised me by doing one of mine...

The club is still going strong today - in fact it was on tonight...

I swithered about going along and singing three of Jamie's songs but time did not allow an early enough arrival and no-one there on time would have sneaked my name onto the board...

So, instead, I stayed at home and listened to his LP and remembered all the good times we had playing music together over the years, including the night above...

Elsewhere, a "normal" day...

At lunchtime, in the BHF shop, some "bargains" found - this Genesis related CD for 50p - it's on Amazon, 2nd hand, from a lone Japanese seller at £600 - and valued on Discogs at a slightly more respectable £45...

This ballet DVD for Anne is available on Amazon for £50 new, £45 2nd hand - £1...

...and a trilogy films which I spent an inordinate amount of time in the late 70's/early 80's going to see at the Edinburgh Odeon and cinemas in Kassel - £1 for the three...

Back home, listening as above, plus some TV - "The Goldbergs" and its spin off, "Schooled" and "Question Time", from Belfast - polarised positions to the fore but some sense talked by the younger members of the audience and, refreshingly, a lack of gammon...

Then, "This Week", during which I did not fall asleep...

To bed with some new purchases winging their way from Amazon but able to be downloaded prior to their arrival...

Highlight of the Day : Remembering Jamie....