And on drums...

Playlist

10,000 Maniacs - Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure & Unknown Recordings

Luther Adams - In the White Silence

Tangerine Dream - Tangram

Soft Machine - Softs

Chic - Take It Off

Soft Machine - BBC Sessions (1971-1974)

Genesis - Platinum Collection

Sonny Rollins - The Blue Box: Blue Note's Best

Liza Minnelli - Results

The Who - My Generation

Brahms - Piano Works

Neal Morse - Momentum

Francis Dunnery - Let's Go Do What Happens

The Heavenly Music Corporation - Windfall Star

Capital Models - 2018-09-23 DR Covers Learning

Haydn - Complete String Quartets

Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood

Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room

Various - The Wire Tapper 04

Icehouse - Primitive Man

Phil Manzanera - Firebird V11

Anger 77 - Allein Im Flugzeug

Herman Van Veen - Signale

Hawkwind - Epocheclipse

Ry Cooder - Music By Ry Cooder

Laurie Anderson - Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology

Beethoven - Hommage

Keimzeit - Im Elektromagnetischen Feld

Julian Lennon - Help Yourself

Various Composers - Deutsche Grammophon : Original Masters : The Singles

Ligeti - Works

Catrin Finch - Crossing The Stone

Beardfish - Destined Solitaire 

Lee Hazlewood - Cake or Death

Johnny Cash - American Recordings

2ManyDJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2

Pro Arte Trio - Arabesque

Creek - 2019

The Stylistics - The Best Of The Stylistics

Cocteau Twins - Stars & Topsoil: A Collection (1982-1990)

New flowers...

The view from the office this morning...

Soundtracked by the "Unplayed Yet" playlist on the phone...

The Hill I...

The Hill II...

A free bus journey - still getting used to the number of different buses I can use for nowt with the old codgers' bus pass...

Along to Dalry at lunchtime and, in the St Columba's Hospice shop they were selling their CDs for just 20 of your English New Pence each...

Accordingly, £1 was paid out...

Further old codgers - dead old codgers in fact...

This is really rather good...

This is sparse and better than I recall when Dr Prog played it to me and Anne at his flat over ten years ago and I slagged it off...

..and this includes a song to be played tonight, thanks to Mr Jamieson Frain of course...

...and, once, young whippersnappers...

And erm...

Come on, for 20p it's fine and dandy...

Further along, at the Cats' Protection League, this for £1.50 - listed on Amazon 2nd hand for £18...

Delightful...

Home this evening for super healthy fish, chips and peas from the fair hand of the EP, before she headed out to watch Hearts draw with lower league Dundee Utd in the League Cup - but win an extra point 5-3 on penalties - all accompanied by an ongoing torrential downpour...

The game was coincidentally showing at our venue this evening, The Beaton Docket (no idea what that means) in Portobello, for the first outing by the downsized Capital Models Trio, of me Stu and Keith...

Set up...

The night was opened by one of Keith's two other bands, in both of which he is the drummer as opposed to bassist - with us he is the once drummer now bassist...

They were top notch...

Then, "Frank", a man whom I would accompany later on, entertained for six or seven songs...

Your heroes then took to the (unpictured for their sets) stage and blasted through eleven of our twelve song pool for the evening - missing out only "Satellite of Love" as Keith couldn't remember how to play it (setlist below)...

This guy then played a selection of covers, including some Supertramp and a one man and his 12 string guitar version of "Mr Blue Sky"...

Impressive, if somewhat different...

He did not play the coda, advising there were too many instruments on it - erm, he'd just played the rest of "Mr Blue Sky"?

Then, a return for Alan, Ian and Keith (after a rendition of what I found out later was a Paul Weller song, with Alan on voice and guitar and Mr CBQ on the drums - for the first time in public since 1981)...

More rocking numbers from the trio, including cracking renditions of "Keep on Running" and a "Ziggy Stardust/Rebel Rebel" medley...

Every single song played tonight seemed to be being filmed by this young man down the front...

Turned out he was with Alan and Ian...

Our guitarist was also enjoying the night - although not sure if this pic illustrates that to the best effect...

And indeed Stu was our only guitarist for our second impromptu set, this time with me on the bass and Keith on drums - not too bad considering I'd not bassed for some considerable time and in fact, tonight was the first time I'd ever played it on "Leavin' on a Jet Plane"...

Finally, Frank returned to the stage with a rendition of "In the Air Tonight" - for which the Cloudland Blue Drummer accompanied, from the "do do, do do, do do, do do, do do do" drum break, mid song, onwards...

Ian then joined us on bass, for the apt "It's All Over Now"...

..and then it was, indeed, all over...

Take down...

Home at 1am, Anne up and waiting...

A very good night indeed...

Highlight of the Day : Drumming in public...

Capital Models Setlists

I

Virginia Plain

Folsom Prison Blues

Proud Mary

Rhinestone Cowboy

Perfect Day

Let's Stick Together

Starman

Suspicious Minds

Stuck in the Middle With You

Brown Eyed Girl

Mrs Robinson

II

A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall

Leavin' on a Jet Plane

Sweet Jane