The tangerine ship...

Playlist

Tangerine Dream - Light Flux

Madredeus - O Paraíso

Miles Davis - Round About Midnight (Remaster)

Herman Van Veen - Herman van Veen 100

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 02

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Arkology

Friedrich Gulda - Genius and Rebel

Free - Free

Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Piano Music

Various Artists - Rock Revival

Roy Harper - Man And Myth

Dido - Life For Rent

The Bad Plus - Prog

King Crimson - B'BOOM: Official Bootleg - Live In Argentina

Various Artists - Trojan Slack Reggae Box Set

Marillion - F. E. A. R.

Curtis Fuller - The Opener

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Timeless Flight

The Mute Gods - tardigrades will inherit the earth

The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld

Yes - Close To The Edge

Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental

Lou Reed - NYC Man: The Ultimate Lou Reed Collection

Paul McCartney - All The Best!

Gulda - Gulda Plays Gulda

Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - I Advance Masked

The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys 20 Golden Greats

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Burnt Weeny Sandwich

Avril Lavigne - Let Go

Bartók - Solo Piano Works

Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia

Chic - Real People

Umphrey's McGee - The Bottom Half

Kronos Quartet - White Man Sleeps

Following a tasty lunch with chum Stephen at Forage and Chatter, a flying visit to Anne's mum's new apartment - looking good - to pick up the car and then a drive through to Glasgow and my first visit to Mixed Up in Otago Lane since last October...

These in their £1 CD section....

...were soon in the boot of the Cloudland Blue Mobile...

Yowsah!

A drive over to the Barras on the East Side of the city to meet up with Dr Prog...

We were here to see Tangerine Dream perform this evening but were still a little early...

So we made our way to the Val D'Oro Fish and Chip shop - Glasgow's oldest - for fish suppers - Phil's adorned with a slice of bread and butter and a cup of teas, making it a "Fish Tea" - an early birthday treat for tomorrow's birthday boy...

Excellent...

And then the owner, with his stories of ice cream making and Paul & Linda McCartney enjoying one here on their way to the Mull of Kintyre back in the 70's, led to us each enjoying one of these on the walk back to the venue...

On the way, we stopped off at St Andrew's in the Square...

...for a very good coffee and some chat...

As we emerged the light was fading...

To the venue, the so-called BAaD (Barras Art & Design)...

Wrists stamped and in we went...

An ambient set was underway from support act, Finnish DJ Ida...

You can find her music over on the Soundcloud...

At around eight fifteen, the stage was set...

Mr Schnauss snuck on to the stage to set up his laptop...

Ten minutes later we were underway for almost three hours of non-stop electronic music of the top notch variety, for which your correspondent and his prog loving chum were a couple of fanboys down the front...

The trio of Tangs were joined half way through by Brandt Brauer and Frick's Paul Frick, on piano and synths...

There were a goodly number of recognisable themes and tunes from across the group's fifty-one year discography, although, like the Ship of Theseus, all parts of the group Tangerine Dream have been changed since their initial outings back in 1968...

A very satisfying chunk of the show was improvisational material, the last of which must have comprised the final 45 minutes or so of the performance...

The mics on stage were used only for the group to talk amongst themselves and, at the end, each shouted out the name of one of their colleagues...

Bows were taken...

And it was all over...

Out into the night, to the car and the drive home...

During which we passed into the Doc's 63rd year...

Happy birthday tomorrow Dr Prog...

Highlight of the Day : Tangerine Dream...