A crack on the bonce can curtail singing...

Plyalist

King Crimson - 50th Anniversary

Arovane & Porya Hatami - C.H.R.O.N.O.S

Maiya Hershey & Steve Jansen - Neither Present Nor Absent

Fallen - drømmende

The Mute Gods - Atheists And Believers

Kansas - Leftoverture Live & Beyond

Mike Oldfield - The Complete Mike Oldfield

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2017 Live Set Run Through (2017-08-20)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Anotherhappyday

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Deeperdown

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ersatzreal

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Splinterheart

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightnight

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Soundingfall

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ampersand

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Doveloveshawk

Bill Nelson - TheTwo-Fold Aspect Of Everything

Soft Machine - Out-Bloody-Rageous - An Anthology 1967 -1973

Vaughan Williams - Phantasy Quintet, String Quartets #1-2

Ulrich Schnauss - Ulrich Schnauss Remixes

Various Artists - So Frenchy So Chic Volume 2

Various Artists - CBC's After Hours Blue Note Collection

Chick Corea & Friedrich Gulda - Mozart: 2 Pianos Concerto, K.365

The Weather Station - The Weather Station

Cloudland Blue Quarte - 2019 Live Set Orig Backing Tracks

Various Composers - Emerson Lake & Palmer - The Originals

Friedrich Gulda - Friedrich Gulda - Genius and Rebel

Milcho Leviev & Dave Holland - Up & Down

Haydn - Piano Trios Complete

Oxford Camerata - Renaissance Masterpieces

Haydn - String Quartets Op 76, 77 & 103

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Alison

A busy day - up early and outside to record the links for this week's podcast...

Back inside and editing the chat and putting it together and getting it uploaded...

Breakfast at home...

Breakfast too provided for our feathered friends...

Despite the scorching weather, with Anne out watching Hearts lose 3-1 at home to Scotchland's newest club (Queens beat Dunfermline 2-1 at home - much needed), I stayed in and ran through the proposed CBQ possible live set which will most likely never be played live...

I also played through a few covers which might be played tonight at chum Ali from Impossible Songs' 60th birthday party in North Queensferry...

I also took the opportunity to learn Elvis Costello's song "Alison", with which to possibly serenade the birthday girl...

Over the bridge for 7:30 and good to see loads of old chums...

The main event was Taiko Drumming...

Very loud and very impressive...

And then the guests were allowed a go...

John watched with pride as Ali tried her hand at the rhythmic stuff...

Also here, Tommy Mackay, Norman Lamont, James Igoe and Fiona Thom - Out of the Bedroom stalwarts all...

Your correspondent also had a go, alongside Jim White...

In fact, everyone interested had a turn...

Finally, Ali was star of the show...

...and blew out a candle per decade...

The venue afforded excellent views of the Queensferry Crossing...

Later on, post tasty food and more drinks, it kind of turned into Out of the Bedroom...

Several singing chums were set to play a few songs and I too had been afforded a 3 song slot...

However, things came to an abrupt end following a bit of an accident involving John and a slippery bathroom floor, an early finish and a night spent at A&E in Kirkcaldy resulting in this...



Owyah!

In conversation with Tommy Mackay, I learned he's following up his book on The Fall with one on Sparks...

He had not heard of the Gleaming Spires - basically Sparks without the Mael Brothers in their 1982-1985 format...

I thought I had a couple of their LPs and, right enough, on returning home, I was able to send him this...

Lights out on a busy Saturday...

Highlight of the Day : Celebrating...