A visit to an old chum's place...

Playlist

Spock's Beard - Noise Floor

Fountainhead - Reverse Engineering

Rheostatics - Introducing Happiness

Various Artists - Night Fever

Riopy - Riopy

Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare

Tilman Robinson - Deer Heart

Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 2010s

Long Distance Calling - Boundless

Barlow - Musica Derivata

Roger Eno - Lost In Translation

Secret Machines - Awake in the Brain Chamber

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 19

Umphrey's McGee - Kalamazoo, MI, 2016-01-30

Lorde - Pure Heroine (Extended)

Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

Tord Gustavsen Ensemble - Restored, Returned

Schubert - The Symphonies

The Velvet Underground - Rock'n'Roll Diary 1967-1980

This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1994 Remaster)

Elvis Costello - This Year's Model

Miles Davis - Nefertiti

Jeff Buckley - My Sweetheart the Drunk

Emmylou Harris - Stumble into Grace

Essie Jain - We Made This Ourselves

Hauschka - Snowflakes and Carwrecks

Saturday - undoubtedly best day of the week - probably repeating myself by saying that...

Up and at 'em...

Podcast finished under good skies...

The musicking equipment remains unswitched on...

Breakfast outside, with yesterday's experiments on the sound system...

The bees were, happily, out...

..and photogenic...

Morning bees!

A quick pic of the bookshelf - to be fair, merely to record the time of my exit into the wild - 10:01...

...arriving at Morningside at 10:25, for a trawl around the many and varied charity shops up there...

In the first, this haul, for just seven of your English pounds sterling...

Jessie Hain...

Discovered on returning home, I have this last, a promo of a Hauschka LP already - also a promo but, while this has the big sticker on the back, the previous one has the sticker on the front so, kind of, worth a quid outlay...

This VW camper van - as sung about on "Fallingsky"'s "The Songs He Wants to Sing" - was in the window...

Onwards...

This is what faced me in another shop - I valiantly bent down and went through each and every disc...

...and found these three for just 50p each...

Soulwax 2CD of remixes...

White Stripes, my second in the space of a couple of weeks...

Justice...

Back to the car and over to the Saturday place at Newington for a further look around...

These at 3 for a pound in the BHF shop...

Daft Punk do film music...

Brazilian superstars no-one here has ever heard of...

..and some "nice" piano music - popular with the listeners at Classic FM back in the day...

Next door in the Cancer Research shop, this 5CD box of Mozart could not be resisted at just £1.50...

A further walk to the Bridges...

...and, post a fruitless visit to Blackwell's, to the Marie Curie near the Royal Mile...

...where some good stuff was taken...

Another good day on the buying of other people's deemed to be rubbish CDs...

The festival is on - it's easy to forget in these times...

Back to the car...

...but not home, instead, an excellent couple of hours spent in the company of chum Ian Sclater and his lovely dog Franco, on their terrace overlooking Arthur's Seat...

Ian is prepping the next issue of his Art magazine...

I gave him some advice on putting together a recording set up...

In his capacity as an art writer, he gets sent some very nice books indeed...

All too soon, time to make my way home...

The bees were out at the back...

In, to start the ripping and listening...

Or, rather, listening and ripping, making a kind of promise to myself not to rip any CD until I had played it through...

Got through the first four this evening...

...along with a very tasty takeaway form Abida/Prana...

...watched some telly too and sent Ian some pics of the mainstay of my set up - who'd ever have thought that this wee machine would end up being so important?

More listening as the sun went down and the moon came up...

Lights out on a very good Saturday indeed...

Highlight of the Day : A visit to an old chum's place...