Playlist
Various Artists - Bowie Velvets Roxy Eno Mixes
MOG, Man Like Chez, Epicentre, Edward Spark - Bye Bye Butterflies (Single)
Cloudland Blue Quartet, Edward Spark & MOG - Subject to Decay (Single)
Cloudland Blue Quartet - wentytwentythree
Alice Cooper - Coal Black Model T (Single)
Elvis Presley - At 3:AM Lake Tahoe 1973
Max Richter & Sparks - Don’t Go Away
Glass - Cocteau Trilogy
Motörhead - The Lost Tapes - The Collection (Vol. 1-5)
Gentle Giant - The Missing Piece (Steven Wilson 2024 Remix)
Giacomo Vanelli - Music for Nothing
Ace Frehley - Origins Vol.2
Belinfante Quartet - Parallel 40
William Doyle - Springs Eternal
Jean-Michel Jarre - VERSAILLES 400 LIVE
Monkey3 - Welcome To The Machine
Various Artists - Classic Jazz
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel/Holy Holy (7")
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes/One of the Boys (7")
Wings - Mary Had a Little Lamb/Little Woman Love (7")
Wings - Jet/Let Me Roll It (7")
Yes - And You and I/Roundabout (7")
New music Friday yet again...
Some nice things partaken of, digitally of course...
Part of our pension planning...
With Anne off to Zumba, I was off out, to the funeral of old chum/client, Alan Berry - just a couple of years older than me...
To the bus stop...
...and soundtracked by the new mix of Gentle Giant LP I bought on its release back in 1977...
Excellent - this was the first Gentle Giant LP I bought on release - prior to that I was always playing catch up...
Also out today, a nice 7 minute piece by Max Richter with help from Sparks - that was unexpected...
Off the bus at the other end in plenty time, so popped into the Cancer Research shop and picked up this hitherto unknown to me band's rocking debut for £1...
To the crematorium...
...and met up with a few well-kent faces , as they say...
Ex colleagues Kris & Yuill - with wife Debbie, Julie & Guido Crolla, Kenny Dyer, George Brewster, Steve Collins...
A very good eulogy from Alan's daughter - telling the story of a life very well lived indeed...
None of my erstwhile chums was going along to the "afterparty", so I walked back into town...
...ending up taking a bus up to the University district for a mooch around...
In the middle here is the bar where...
...in October 1994, I had a fortnightly residency which was cancelled after precisely two dates - the first was packed, while the second performance, which led to the cancellation, was made to an empty room...
Yep, an audience of absolutely no-one (except the bar staff)...
Maybe I should have played covers rather than my own electronic based noodlings...
These very same venue-clearing songs will be being re-released at some point this year..
Another bus back down to Princess St, past the museum...
...and into HMV, spotting this poster - it's what I'd like the band to do re Bowie/Eno/Velvets/Roxy...
Anyway...
A final bus home...
I noted in my diary that it was exactly 50 years ago today that I discovered Yes - purchasing the single (which plays at 33 1/3rd) of "And You And I"/"Roundabout", along with four other records, for "just" 50p each...
Sounds fine but £2.50 in February 1974 is £36.65 in today’s money!
I was 14 and spending nearly £40 on 5 singles?
Come. On.
Anyway, tonight I dug them all out and gave both sides of each a satisfying spin, saving Yes till last...
The just released Bowie single, “Rebel Rebel”/"Holy Holy"...
Mott the Hoople's ”All the Young Dudes”/"One of the Boys", an import...
Wings' “Mary Had a Little Lamb”/"Little Woman Love" (definitely a repurchase as I had this when it was in the charts back in 1972)...
...and "Jet"/"Let Me Roll It"; and the aforementioned Yes single - which I probably only bought cos I saw there was 18 minutes of music on it!
I will see them live in, I think, June...
Tasty tea from Anne...
...and continued "Loudermilk" and "Leverage" watching...
Nephew Craig's TV show, without nephew Craig also watched pre sack-hitting...
Highlight of the Day: Spinning 50 year old singles...
Today's New Music:-
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