Playlist
Rainbow - Rainbow Rising
The Golden Dogs - The Golden Dogs
Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Dark Room
glass beach - plastic death
Counterweight - Counterweight
Acceleration Due to Gravity - Jonesville
Advancing on A Wild Pitch - Disasters Vol 2
Friends and Neighbors - Circles
Throttle Elevator Music - Retrorespective
Rammstein - Herzeleid
A busy day ahead...
Scenes...
...and coffee...
Mastering the remaining tracks for "The Dark Room", uploading it all to Bandcamp and starting to write the credits and sleevenotes...
Eggs for breakfast...
Out around 11:30 or so...
And down the hill...
We had our walking shoes on...
A bus to the Bridges and down the Royal Mile to Holyrood...
...to meet up with Ranger Sam...
...for a guided walk into Arthur's seat's environs...
Calton Hill, in the distance, was pointed out...
Then, as we went further in, out last view of the city...
Sam's expertise lay in geology so a lot of very, very long ago history was imparted to the group...
Apparently this rock comes from the hill we walked down this morning, five miles or so away...
It took a few million years inside a glacier to get here...
It was touched by the hand of the beast...
...and two possible future "Disquietmusik" album covers were taken...
On, to "the beach"...
...where the different wavelengths in the rocks signify the era in which they were "laid down", man...
The changeable weather provided occasional good views...
Our happy group, from Scotchland and around the world...
Purposeful striding from the Exec Producer...
...and more stories - many millions of years ago, Arthur's Seat was a volcano and, many millions of years after that but still many millions of years ago, 2.5 km of ice lay on top of the hill we see today...
The city swung back into view...
...as we made our way down the hill...
..to Hunter's Bog - nothing to do with Hunters but, rather, named for a Dutch engineer, who assisted with the reclaiming of bogland and, for his efforts, was rewarded with...
A bog...
...which the EP enjoyed the look of...
Almost at the end of the walk, views of St Margaret's Loch and the ruins of St Anthony's Chapel...
...and Ranger Sam showed us some very rare plants that he, personally has conserved and nurtured - along with rare insects and beasties - including nightly toad protection adventures...
And over...
A good couple of hours with interesting chat, great views and wee bit of mud...
From Holyrood, a walk down past Abbeyhill, Easter Rd and to Leith to the Dockers Club...
...to suss it out as a possible rehearsal/gig venue for the band...
...and, lo, it was good and will fit the proverbial bill...
We celebrated with drinks...
...before walking futher to the Shore in search of an early dinner...
Nothing was found though so we walked back to Leith Walk and found ourselves at Desi Pakwa...
...for a shared plate of very tasty but unpictured pakora, followed by this lot...
Yum!
A tram to Haymarket and a bus home, arriving around 7.5 hours after leaving...
Coffee and telly were the order of the evening...
A very enjoyable day indeed...
Highlight of the Day : Arthur's Seat, the club, the Indian...
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