Playlist
NO:EL - AREA : 4 (AREA : 4)
BEAK> - >>>>
Family Stereo - Take Care (EP)
Françoise Hardy - Träume
Various Artists - Northern Soul: Keep the Faith!
Happy 61st birthday to Sister Pam, who will, of course, always be just 48...
I think she was probably around 6 in this pic...
Anyway, let's not get maudlin...
Onwards...
Luna was being Luna...
...shouting for biscuits first thing...
...and, of course, getting them...
It was still pretty early, as it always is first thing for Mr CBQ...
Today, spent some time going over the three songs for Out of the Bedroom but also got sucked into learning around 6 of my faves from Françoise Hardy's canon...
...which was enjoyable...
I was still to early to play them and, indeed, when it came to it, I did not record my renditions...
A banana omelet for breakfast then...
...into the office for a few hours work/bacon home bringing...
Took a break for lunch and ended up in Fopp, noting acts still playing in-store so, had a chat with the guys and CBQ will play again soon...
Home around 5:30 or so....
...noting today's Fopp acquisitions...
A quick tea and turnaround and out and over to Out of the Bedroom to debut three songs from "Everything Ends"...
I should have stuck with my original slot choice of last on e in the first session, given that was the point where the audience was at its largest...
Not to worry, an entertaining evening was had...
Just in from Dublin this afternoon, Robbie Raiden was very good indeed...
...while very political and, to be fair, mostly poetry with an occasionally strummed guitar rather than songs, Geoff Winde was a little leftfield...
Mike Wheeler always sounds like he has a rock band playing in his head - which is never good for an acoustic open mic but hey ho...
Closing the first session was Ally Duncan, who has impressed every time I've seen him...
After a mass exodus (including 3 of the 4 acts from the first session) kind of halved the audience, I took to the floor and sang "Look Up at the Stars", "Somebody That's New" and "Everything Ends" - thinking I'd played spectacularly badly - when, in fact, on listening back to the audience bootleg, I was actually not too bad at all...
I was followed by the very shy and amplification refusing Alastair Aitken...
...and young punky rocker, Elsie MacDonald - a music student , which does make me wonder a little about her songwriting but, she has the chutzpah to carry it off...
Then, a debutante, Glengo, who did two on guitar, bravely trying to get a singalong going on his second and then a third on accomplished keyboard...
...followed by his chum, Rosie, who impressed...
Compere Scott Renton closed the night with three songs I don't think I'd heard before but which, too, were impressive...
He advised he'd recently been listening to the recordings from 2004 when I took over the Waverley Bar in St Mary St for 4 weeks during the Edinburgh Festival and played, all told 55 songs, inviting two or three guests a night from Out of the Bedroom's ranks to each do a set, Scott having been one of them - almost 20 years ago - time flies...
A chat with Scott and an under the weather Jim Igoe and then the drive home, listening back to what I'd played...
All over for another fortnight...
Highlight of the Day : Performing...
Today's New Music:-
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