Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet & Sombre Reptiles - Decades
Sarah Jarosz - Polaroid Lovers
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Fripp & Eno (Single)
The Smile - Wall Of Eyes
The Velvet Underground - End Of Cole Avenue, Dallas, October 18th, 1969
Ludovico Einaudi - La Tresse
Tangerine Dream - 8.17pm Session - Triangle
Various Artists - Les Femmes De La Chanson Francaise
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Four Last Things
Various Artists - The Sound Of The 70's
Jethro Tull - M.U. - The Best Of Jethro Tull
Lindisfarne - Lady Eleanor
Burning Spear - Social Living / Living Dub
Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Plateaux Of Mirror
Gulda - Gulda Plays Gulda
Sombre Reptiles - Starcrossfix (2024 Remaster)
Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace
Roger Steen - How the Story Goes
Adam Bałdych & Leszek Możdżer - Passacaglia
Capital Models - Anthology (2024 Remaster)
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Decades
Kula Shaker - K
Loscil - Strathcona Variations
Various Artists - 20 Jahre Kompakt / Kollektion 2
Spock's Beard - Discography
A busy day ahead...
I did not do the podcast yesterday and not doing it today or tomorrow either - having a rethink and probably move to midweek - maybe record on a Monday and upload on a Tuesday...
Anyway...
Correspondence with Dr Prog this morning - decided on a bus to Glasgow at 2...
Anne was off to the Hearts game (2-0 v Aberdeen - Queens beat Kelty Hearts by the same scoreline) and she took me to the bottom of the hill...
A wait around in the freezing cold and then eventually onto the bus with Dr Prog already in situ...
Arrived around 3 and the good Doc insisted on having a meal immediately as he "doesn't like to be digesting food while at a gig"...
Truly, he is a weirdo...
How long does he think it takes to digest food?
Let's look it up shall we?
So we missed out on shop visiting time, while, later on, had to just wander about for ages with nowhere to go (cos by then all the shops were shut) while we waited on the doors opening...
That's when we should have been eating...
However, I took the mad doctor to La Pulcinella and we just made it for their special lunch offer...
Here's Dr Prog's face when I said "I bet if I look up how long it takes to digest food it'll be a lot longer than between now and the start of the gig"...
LOL...
Anyway, lovely beers, tasty food, including unpictured cheesecake for pudding (no starters)...
Pasta Arrabiata for me, with some spicy sausage...
...and a Chicken Cutlet with Spaghetti Napolitana for the Doc...
Out and headed down towards the venue and Missing Records...
We passed Nando's...
...and I took a look in, to see if nephew Olly was there..
But, of course, he was at the Hearts match, with his dad, brother in law Bob...
...as was other nephew Craig, with his dad, brother-in-Law Keith...
And so, Missing...
Just before we got thrown out, as it was closing, I nabbed these three for a fiver...
Then, said wandering about with nowhere to go...
We ended up in a donut shop for coffees and, erm, a donut...
...and discussed the current genocide being perpetrated by Israel in Palestine...
...before, later still, still with nowhere to go, we shared a portion of chips and then a fish...
And so, with said donut, chips, fish and earlier cutlet, spaghetti and cheesecake (and, no doubt, his breakfast) all swirling around inside him, being digested, Dr Prog and I joined the queue for tonight's gig by the mighty Spock's Beard - whom we had not seen since High Voltage in 2011 and, prior to that, just round the corner from here, at The Arches, back in 2008...
The usual social misfits surrounded us - the man directly in front was in a doctor's white coat covered in autographs and...
...behind us a man (in hat) with a very irritating high voice who did not shut up once for the entire long, long wait to gain entry...
Anyway, post rigorous search, we were in and right up at the front...
Initially, no one here...
...but it ended up being packed...
Just after 8, the two hour performance commenced...
I'll let my pictures do (almost all) the talking...
Ryo Okumoto's boots!
Alan Morse is a superb guitarist with a quite unique way of playing...
Ted Leonard is also an accomplished guitarist and keyboard player as well as being the third lead singer in the history of the band I first discovered thanks to Dr Prog way back in the late 90s...
My entry for the High Voltage gig stated he was the "temporary lead singer" - he's been with them ever since...
Dave Meros was right at the back for the whole gig, bassing away...
Look at Ryo's wee hands moving so fast...
They have Saga's drummer, Mike Thorne for this tour - he's been with them for over 5 years...
...mind you, last night in Milton Keynes was their first gig for almost four years...
It certainly didn't sound like it...
They encored with Dr Prog's fave "The Light", featuring a spectacular Keytar solo from Mr Okumoto...
Just after 10, it was all over...
Out onto the streets and a swift walk back up to the bus station, found us on our chariot home in good time for its 10:30 departure...
I had to move upstairs due to the "aroma" of a fellow passenger but Dr Prog stuck it out...
The Exec Producer very kindly picked me up at the bottom of the hill..
And so, I was in bed by midnight after a top day...
Highlight of the Day : Spock's Beard...
Today's New Music:-
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