Combination of improved leg, new Coop, cello and tastiness equals top day...

Playlist

Alice Cooper - Road

Emma Rawicz - Chroma

Alice Cooper - Constrictor

Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist And Yell

Alice Cooper - Trash

Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid

Hollywood Vampires - Rise

Alice Cooper - The Pretty Road 1969-2023

André Lislevand - Galanterie. The Autumn of the Viola da Gamba

Bach, J C F - Johann Christian Friedrich Bach: Works for Keyboard Solo

Bart Van Reyn - Entartete Musik

Belinda Carlisle - Kismet (EP)

Burning Spear - No Destroyer

Carsten Dahl - The Solo Songs of Keith Jarrett

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Live Suite 2023/24 (Studio Mix 2023-08-24)

Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8

Sævar Jóhansson - Where The Light Enters

Frog Squad - Special Noise

Paul Cousins - Vanishing Artefacts

Claire Daly with George Garzone - VuVu for Frances

Pabellón Sintético - Mies van der Rohe's dreams [CYD 0087]

Awoke on the sofa around 3 and managed to get a blanket over me and then fell back asleep, finally getting up around 6:45...

The views...

I can report that the night spent on the sofa and no further intake of painkillers for the rest of the day hinted I had perhaps turned a painful leg corner...

The new Alice Cooper LP, "Road", was out today - nabbed a download along with some other stuff...

First listen - liking it but his work usually takes a few listens to sink in...

I set about compiling a career spanning 2CD equivalent, cross-faded Coop-comp, which was most enjoyable...

Did not get round to recording the podcast...

Out mid afternoon with Anne and into Fopp to get the physical copy of "Road"...

Paul from Fopp approached me and advised he'd received my e-mail re my initial verbal enquiry re playing instore, which I'd made on 1st August...

He advised they'd love me to play...

Great news...

I will be performing the Newcastle set...

Date and time TBC...

Back to St Michael's church to meet up with Dr Prog for a cello recital by Hugh Mackay....

Two of Bach's solo suites for Cello and a piece by Penderecki from 1968 which was "far out, man"...

Top notch...

Then, to the Diggers for drinks...

After moaning all night about his service from Three on Monday and me saying just move to O2, the doc is now on O2...

And happy...

We bade him farewell and walked along to new place, Mustafa's Dera (Dera means house), for some home made Pakistani fayre...

And Ludo!

Superb huge portions of pakora - ya dancer...

Followed by very tasty chicken/lamb curries with breads...

Anne eventually won the Ludo...

A convoluted bus journey on the No 1 and walk home...

More listening to the new Coop...

The new LP, the Pakistani food, the cello recital and the much improved leg all made for an excellent Friday indeed...

Highlight of the Day : New Coop...

Today's New Music:-