Saturday, January 11, 2020

The beast versus a watermelon...

Playlist
M - New York-London-Paris-Munich
Lou Reed - Take No Prisoners (Live)
Japan - Quiet Life
La Düsseldorf - Viva
Phil Manzanera/801 - Listen Now
Nina Hagen - Unbehagen
The Durutti Column - The Return Of The Durutti Column
The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Alice Cooper - Flush The Fashion
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Jon Hassell & Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol 1 Possible Musics
Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness and Charm
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound-On-Sound
Joy Division - Closer
Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap
David Bowie - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
Simple Minds - Empires And Dance
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Organisation
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
Fehlfarben - Monarchie Und Alltag (Remixed)
Michael Rother - Flammende Herzen
Rush - Permanent Waves
Yes - Tormato
U2 - Boy
Rush - Caress Of Steel
Rush - Roll The Bones
Rush - Counterparts
Herman Van Veen - Neue Saiten
Françoise Hardy - Personne D'autre (CD)
Herman Van Veen - Die Lieder - Zugabe
Fehlfarben - Ein Jahr (Es Geht Voran) [Single]
DJ Hell - Teufelswerk (CD)
Françoise Hardy - Et Si Je M'en Vais Avant Toi
DJ Hell - Teufelswerk (CD)
Various Composers - 50 Jahre Neue Musik In Darmstadt 1946-1996 Volume 4
Françoise Hardy - Parentheses

Up around 7 and today's podcast uploaded for 8, while I recorded next week's...

To Helen the Podiatrist for 9:30 but a mooted meet up with Dr Prog postponed due to both of us being somewhat under the weather...

As Anne painted...


...I sorted out a big box of leads from the attic...


Then, the postie arrived with swag from a recent trawl through the bay of e...

The latest from Herman Van Veen - no doubt some of these tracks featured in the set list when we saw him in Hamburg back in October...


The latest too from Françoise Hardy, which I already had as a download but, as ever, nice to have one by one of my faves, in physical form...


Had not seen this from Herman before - a re-recorded 1978 best of re songs from his first five German LPs...


Another physical version of an already owned burn of Françoise Hardy...


...and a completely new to me Françoise Hardy LP from 1972...


Tuneless "contemporary" classical music from the fifties and sixties - so, actually 50-60 years old...


...a cheeky wee remix CD single of Fehlfarben's greatest hit...


...and yet another already owned as a download album - but this time, I didn't have the second of the two discs in the pack...


So, all purchases completely justified...

Just after one, round to Keith's for today's rehearsal...

Work done honing during the first half before the coffee break...


New group portrait...


Celebrations after the second half, wherein we ran through the set without stops a la "on the night" - success...


  
Back home for some tasty home made soup and, later on, a seedless watermelon, received as a prize on Thursday night, among many further healthy items...



But can you tell the difference between a seedless watermelon and today's portrait of the beast?


Thought not...

The evening was spent, in the main, watching two episodes of Norwegian cop show, "Wisting", then listening to the new discs and updating this, then two more episodes of "Wisting", an episode of "The Majorca Files" and getting this right up to date (apart from a few days still outstanding from the Hamburg trip)...

That was it...

Another busy day ahead tomorrow, with more rehearsals...

Highlight of the Day : Musicking and new CDs...

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