The drums have been silenced...

Playlist

John Vanderslice - Vanderslice Plays Diamond Dogs

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - The Undivided Five

Various - Pop Ambient 2001

Various - Pop Ambient 2002

Bass Communion / Freiband - VL Tones

Jethro Tull  - Stormwatch (The 40th Anniversary Force 10 Edition)

Andy MacKay & Phil Manzanera - Roxymphony

Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury

Leprous - Pitfalls

No-Man - Love You To Bits

The Pineapple Thief - Hold Our Fire (Live)

Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

Bruce Soord - All This Will Be Yours

Riverside - Acoustic Session - EP

Les Berlinois - Contredanses From The Dresden Court

David Patrick Octet - Igor Stravinsky, The Rite Of Spring

Dumb Type - [OR]

Thrice - Beggars

Calexico - Carried To Dust

Various - The Greatest Seventies Album

Phronesis - Walking Dark

Mendelssohn - Orchestral Works

Various Composers - Silenced Voices: Victims of the Holocaust

Phronesis - Life to Everything

Isaac Hayes - Branded

The Skids - Burning Cities

Mott The Hoople - Essential Young Dudes Live & More

The Geordie Approach - Shields

Gentle Giant - Three Piece Suite

Betts - Yasaka

Laura Pausini - Hazte sentir más

Craig Armstrong - The Quiet American: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance (RM)

The Neal Morse Band - The Great Adventure

Gulda - Gulda Plays Gulda

Ingrid Michaelson - It Doesn't Have to Make Sense

Atlantis Quartet - X

Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?

Malia & Boris Blank - Convergence

Bidiniband - The Motherland

John Grant - Love Is Magic

Yello - Toy

Taylor Swift - Reputation

Lurgi kicking in big style today...

The playlist was tomorrow's podcast, some tracks of the week from last year's podcasts and another four of my top 50 albums of the 2010s...

Meanwhile, portrait number 10...

And an unintentional one on the bus of the beast in a hat....

The view from the office this morning...

This afternoon...

...a visit to the Gyle...

...on the tram...

In the evening, chicken, potatoes and broccoli nourished and two podcasts' links recorded and tomorrows put together...

That was kind of it...

Anne continued her new painting...

It's being proclaimed "fiddly"...

But then, late on, on the Twitter timeline, news that Rush drummer and lyricist, Neil Peart had died on 7 January, after 3.5 years fighting a brain tumour...

Awful, very sad news indeed...

This, was his drum kit...

An unbelievably good drummer and, frankly, one of rock's and, indeed, music's best ever lyricists...

But we are not his family and we still have his music...

As with David Bowie and Chris Squire and so many others...

Lowlight of the Day : The death of Neil Peart...