Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Being enticed out to a closed place but enjoying the alternatives can be good...

Playlist
Capital Models - 2018-07-22 (Audience Recording)
Capital Models - 2018-09-01 Roslin Fun Day
BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory
Neal Morse Band - Innocence and Danger
Eric Chamberlain - Quadratura Cinetectura
William Tyler - New Vanitas
Marisa Anderson/William Tyler - Lost Futures
Eric Chamberlain - Dark Ambient Music: Hell's Waiting Room
Explosions in the Sky - Big Bend OST
Jason van Wyk - Threads
Capital Models - 2021-10-10
Jackie McLean - New And Old Gospel
Dave Holland - Another Land
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Iris OST
Huelgas Ensemble - Ciconia : The Complete Works 
Solomun - Nobody Is Not Loved
Kats-Chernin - Unsent Love Letters, meditations on Erik Satie
Bacewicz - Piano Works
Frost* - Day and Age
Psychic Lemon - Studio Jams Vol1
Jacaszek - Treny
Tim Hecker - The North Water OST
Massane - Another Dawn
Sarah Collins - Resonance Lines
Peter Serkin - Schoenberg
Rhye - Home
Cage - Number Pieces
Tomohawk - Tonic Immobility
Portman - Never Let Me Go OST
Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God
Phil Lanzon - 48 Seconds
Bobby Hutcherson - Components
Birdpen - All Function One
Vocano Kings - Lonesome Cybernetic Drifter
Steve Kilbey - The Hall of Counterfeits
Saint Saens - Chamber Music
Martha Wainwright - Love Will Be Reborn
Everything Everything - Arc (Deluxe Version)
Mono - Beyond the Past ( Live in London with the Platinum Anniversary Orchestra)
Hollywood Vampires - Rise
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2021 Vol 15

Up early and keeping this up to date...


Scenes...





Listening back to rehearsals for the Capital Models gig in September 2018 - one of only 2 played by the current formation since the re-boot in 2017, when I got together with drummer Johnny, followed by the re-recruiting of ex-drummer and now bassist Keith, then Stu on guitar at the end of 2017 and Paul on keys at the end of July 2018...

Of course, over a year was wiped out by the pandemic...

The tapes sampled included an "audience recording" at the hall where we propose to perform at the end of November, to get an idea again of the sound...

Anyway...

The LPs of 1968 were culled to the top 30...



Some dude on Twitter reckoned that Jackie McLean's "Old and New Gospel" was from 1967...

I pointed out to him the actual record on Blue Note states it was originally released in 1968...


So then he comes back with the "fact" that this site says it was 1967...


Jeez - even the sleeve notes allude to it having been released in early 1968 (I agree it was recorded in 1967)...


People and the internet and their lack of research...

Anyway, post pretty torrential rain this morning, we headed out for lunch at 12, driving 25 miles to Gifford, to The Goblin Ha', a good lunch venue - only to find it was closed, without explanation , annoyingly so, as they had actually e-mailed me to remind what a good idea it would be to have lunch there!


So we drove on to Haddington...


...and, after looking around for a place, plumped for the Carlyle House Café...

A very tasty risotto was enjoyed...


...and Anne had something she likes...


Out for a wee look around the shops...


...and partook of this for a quid re the second CD with 6 bonus tracks (I already have the main album)...


Further walking around this lovely wee town...




To the river...



...and the large church where, a few years ago now, old chum Gavin Calder's funeral was held, the building was packed on that sad day...






Along the river and we coveted some of the gardens...




On the way home, we were looking for a coffee and cake venue and ended up back at the Paper Mill in Lasswade...


...which...


...did...


...nicely...


Home for a wee rest and then, after an episode of "Community", out to Bannermans in the centre of town, for a short set by Mr Ian Sclater...


His first four numbers were from the album I recorded with him back in 2005, documented in the early days of this blog...


Good chat with Ian - such a nice guy - then home through the night...

The Scotland highlights of the game in the Faroe Isles were enjoyed as they, ok struggled a little but, nonetheless, enjoyed their fourth win in a row...

Ex Queen of the South man Lyndon Dykes the hero once again with his fourth goal in four games...

We finished off the day with the first episode of the second series of "Guilt" - very enjoyable - the first series sat on our Tivo box for over 2 years before we stumbled across it and binged it earlier this year...

A welcome return...

Highlight of the Day : Out and about...

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