Playlist
Edward Spark - Upsidedown (Single)
Water Damage - In E
Palace - Ultrasound
claire rousay - sentiment
Kelly Moran - Moves in the Field
Tu-Ner - T-2 Tu-Ner for Lovers
Caporaso Ensemble - Encounter
Fergus McCreadie - Stream
Capital Models - 2024-04-30
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-04-30 OOTB Rehearsal
Elyanna - WOLEDTO
Lachlan R. Dale Shrines
David Munrow: Early Music Consort Of London - Monteverdi's Contemporaries
Austin Peralta - Endless Planets (Deluxe Edition)
Kenny Wheeler & John Taylor - On The Way To Two
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-05-02 Out of the Bedroom
Edward Spark & Cloudland Blue Quartet - Upsidedown (Remix - Unreleased)
Ellis - no place that feels like
Justice - Hyperdrama
elinch - grau
The Core - Roots
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers - Revelations
Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism
Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement
Sia - Reasonable Woman
Emily Barker - Fragile as Humans
Klangforum Wien, Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard - DLW: Extended Beats
Jon Opstad & Max Richter - The Veil (OST)
Joseph Bishara - Tarot (OST)
Lo.Flynn - Memories (EP)
Vito Cadonau - en casa veglia
Tim Garland - Moment Of Departure
RIOPY - Meditation 333
Olga Reznichenko Trio - Rhythm Dissection
Obey Cobra - Mwg Drwg
Hamrå Orkester - 32,8
Adam Forkelid - Turning Point
State Azure - Alpha II
Solaris - Temporal Flux
My birthday today - which is always good - previous ones covered in this diary have been...
2005 - London*
2006 - Amsterdam
2007 - Limerick
2008 - Kassel*
2009 - Cagliari
2010 - Vienna
2011 - Edinburgh
2012 - Berlin
2013 - Edinburgh
2014 - Bologna/Florence*
2015 - Scheveningen
2016 - Stuttgart
2017 - Santander
2018 - Exeter
2019 - Alnwick*
2020 - Edinburgh
2021 - Dunfermline
2022 - Edinburgh
2023 - Nantes*
2024 - Wrexham*
(*actually Edinburgh but we were heading to these places shortly after)...
The last 5 years and today...
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
And so, 65!
Today I am the same age my dad was in 1995...
I admit I do look a little like him...
"Put some shoes on, Dave!"
Arguably, the best day of the year...
Omelet (kind of) on toast for breakfast...
Present and card opening...
Money, wine and chocolate...
More cards arrived later from music chums...
Over to Bonnyrigg to see my mum, this the view as I waited to enter the ward...
...and this from my mum's window, the rabbit and the crow...
...and an old lady enjoying a cake...
Mum could not remember what age I was...
Oh well...
At 11am our time, Jorg and Manu got married in Felsberg (pics are stills from a wee video received when I got home this evening a 1am)...
We would have been there and I would have been Jorg's best man, had the band not already been contracted to play at a wedding here today...
A drive home to find Anne's mum asleep in the living room...
Half an hour later it was back into the car...
...with the ladies...
...and along to the Hampton...
...for a birthday lunch...
Celebratory Coke Zero...
...wine...
...and wine...
Goujons for Mary...
Macaroni Cheese for Anne...
Chicken with Haggis for the birthday boy...
...all followed by coffees...
...and taking Mary home...
Back at Crispycat Towers, Fang popped in to say "Happy Birthday" to the big man who gives him Dreamies (and to get some Dreamies)...
All too soon, he was gone...
Then, to recording the podcast and getting it uploaded...
All done just in time to load up the car and drive out to Kirknewton, arriving at 16:45...
...to find that the guests had not yet started the main course and so things were a wee bit behind...
Of course, it turned out I had the music for the first dance on the wrong machine and so I was soon back home - and by 6 back again at Kirknewton...
In the meantime, the boys had loaded in everything apart from my stuff...
Set up and sound check took until 7pm and so, we commenced playback of the string quartet playing music from our repertoire which may not be played by us later, just about on time...
Here, the desk settings were noted...
As at the Dockers, we were unable to feed the vocals to the monitors so I had to rely on the sound coming back from the room...
Pre tables being moved to create the dance floor, cards from John & Ali Impossible and from the boys in the band...
Paul knows that a tidy stage is a happy stage...
The view from his station...
And drummer Johnny's, with guitarist Johnny...
...and bassist Keith's..
...and singer/guitarist Dave's...
Johnny Impossible's stage outlook was not recorded...
But, but, courtesy of his blog, he did take this of his set up...
...and this of the stage pre Johnny W's lights...
Nice...
The important cake was recorded by me though...
...as was the garden where the marriage had taken place this afternoon - with drummer Johnny and cake maestro Moira in attendance..
Bride Tracey's backdrop creation...
...had some lights added by Drummer Johnny...
...while she and groom Paul practised their 1st dance...
The stage was set...
With the string quartet coming to a close, it was time to cut the cake (though I did not see any actual cutting taking place)...
...and then, the gathering for the first dance
...to the recently retrieved "At Last" by Etta James...
Our first set followed, with people up dancing from the off, which was gratifying but, I suppose, to be expected, as it was a wedding...
After our 35 mins set, there was a fine display of Spanish Dancing from the bride and her colleagues...
...followed by some Ceilidh dancing, organised by Johnny W and Moira...
Then it was back to us for our 35 min set two...
After which a break for some disco dancing and the buffet...
...on to our 45 min set three, which was supposed to have been followed by more ceilidh but, due to late running and busses, taxis and, indeed, trains starting to take guests away, we moved straight into the two slow songs we'd learned at the couples' request and then, eschewing our final set, just moved straight to our final song...
However, on its ending, we were called back for five encores - meaning, all in all, only five of our rehearsed songs for the evening remained unplayed at the end...
Some eventful disco dancing took us up to the end of the night as we dismantled the equipment...
Here money restored to the upside down man's pockets...
Moira had had a great day...
As had we all...
Car loaded, drive home, car unloaded...
One last look at the birthday display...
To bed around 1am...
A good day...
Highlight of the Day : Performing on my birthday...
Today's new music:-
Setlist:-
One
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
The Ballad of John & Yoko
You're So Vain
Keep On Running
Perfect Day
Take It Easy
Fulsom Prison Blues
Brown Sugar
Blue Suede Shoes
Heroes
Two
Dakota
Bad Moon Rising
That's Entertainment
Big Yellow Taxi
Love is the Drug
Candy
Sweet Caroline
Stuck in the Middle With You
Suspicious Minds
Rhinestone Cowboy
Three
Proud Mary
Dancing in the Dark
Virginia Plain
Crazy Horses (Bride Request)
Starman
Hotel California
Walk on the Wild Side
Teenage Kicks
Make Me Smile
Boys Keep Swinging
Caroline
The Jean Genie
Rocket Man
Four
At Last
Let the Light Shine Over You
Five Hundred Miles
Encores
Crazy Horses (Encore I)
Let's Stick Together (Encore II)
Mrs Robinson (Encore III)
Brown Eyed Girl (Encore IV)
Mr Brightside (Encore V)
Not Played
Rockin' in the Free World
Let's Spend the Night Together
Cracklin' Rosie
Daydream Believer
Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town
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