The discovery of unwarranted fraughtness and the end of an era...

Playlist

Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?

Alice Cooper - The Beast Of Alice Cooper

Haydn - Complete String Quartets

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World

Brian Eno - Nerve Net

The Weeknd - Starboy

Neal Morse - The Similitude of a Dream

Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

Radiohead - Hail To The Thief

Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men Of Tain

T Rex - The Slider

Fennesz/Sakamto - Cendre

Uriah Heep - Sweet Freedom

Asia - Gravitas

Laura Pausini - Tra Te e Il Mare

Chad Wackerman - Forty Reasons

Robert Fripp - The Wine of Silence

Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Plateaux Of Mirror

Eagles - One Of These Nights

Black Widow - Black Widow III

Roy Harper - Stormcock

Alice Cooper - Hollywood Vampires

Soft Machine - Softs

David Sylvian - Dead Bees On A Cake

Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega

Grand Funk Railroad - Survival

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Miles Davis - Nefertiti

Miles Davis - Get Up With It

Bryan Ferry - These Foolish Things

Various Artists - Capital Models Covers - The Originals

Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up

Peter, Paul and Mary - Leaving on a Jet Plane [Single]

Neil Young - Freedom

Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon

Status Quo - Gold

Eagles - Hotel California

Bruce Springsteen - The Essential Bruce Springsteen

Lou Reed - Transformer

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

Capital Models - 2017-02-11 Run Through 

Nucleus - Elastic Rock

Nucleus - Roots

Nucleus - Labyrinth

Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1

Ryan Adams - 1989

Taylor Swift - 1989

Paul McCartney - Egypt Station

Belinda Carlisle - Runaway Horses

Mick Ronson - Slaughter On 10th Avenue

Nina Hagen - Unbehagen

Friedrich Gulda - Genius and Rebel

John Wetton & Geoff Downes - Icon II - Rubicon

Jherek Bischoff - Cistern

Various Artists - Trojan Dub Box Set

Pink Floyd - Pulse

Ingrid Michaelson - It Doesn't Have to Make Sense

Edgar Froese - Macula Transfer

Edgar Froese - Dalinetopia

Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By

Ulrich Schnauss - Remixes

Awake at 4 am and listening again to Roger Waters, to whom I'd fallen asleep around 1:30...

I had a moment of clarity...

I realised that his latest LP is his ultimate work and, just like the sun is eclipsed by the moon, so the work of Pink Floyd is eclipsed by "Is This The Life We Really Want?"...

Continuing loading music into my phone...

Went shopping at 8 for breakfast stuff ...

Anne was up by the time I got back and we had a fry up – so no lunch needed...

Breakfast was soundtracked by Miles Daviss - following a Twitter discussion re his best LP - for me, today, it was this...

At midday, with the phone reload finally complete, I drove to Roslin for band practice with a 12:45 kick off...

I was super grumpy with my band mates re mistakes etc etc...

This was half time...

At 2:50...

Chloe carried out some impressive gymnastics, which Paul couldn't see...

Keith couldn't believe his eyes, while Stu captured my reaction...

Tea, coffee and flapjacks accidentally without flour, were enjoyed...

...and boots were worn...

Back to work...

In all we recorded all 185 minutes of the session, we were knackered by the end at 4:45...

To Anne’s mum’s at 5:30 for the last ever family tea at the house I’ve been visiting since 1980...

13 people in attendance – as usual I sat next to my fave (unpictured) niece, Kitty...

She showed me all the pics from her dance show...

Final pictures...

The shelf in the dining room where we used to put nephew Craig, now 32, when he was under 5...

This, the dining room, which was once Anne & Jane's shared bedroom...

The hall, where many a game of dangerous football with small children was played...

The kitchen, where so many Sunday family teas have been prepared over the years...

Here's Mary pretending to fall down the stairs...

...and here's her not doing either of those things...

End of an era...

Home around 9...

Unpacked my guitars and equipment – then listened to music but not today's playing, not till that is just before retiring - the two songs I heard were surprisingly good...

Lights out...

Highlight of the day : Rehearsing, despite, in the end, unwarranted fraughtness...