Playlist
Morning
The Bad Plus - Complex Emotions
Neal Morse - No Hill For a Climber
Road Trip I
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 7 November 2024, Evening, Live Performance
Art Garfunkel jnr & Art Garfunkel - Father and Son
deadmau5 - Jaded (EP)
Pet Shop Boys - All the Young Dudes
Jordan Sparks - Secret Place EP
Greg Lake - Live 2005
Warmth - The Black Sand
Francesca Michielin - di20are
Brian Eno - The 2024 EPs
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
Various - 100 Hits - Girls Night
Various - Jackie - Long Hot Summer
Isaac Hayes - Stax Records Presents
Road Trip II
Faces - The Best of
London Saxophonic - Michael Nyman: An Eye for a Difference
Bryan Ferry - Retrospective
Bon Iver - Sable, (EP)
Alice Cooper - Teenage Lament 74 (Acoustic) (Single)
King Crimson - Red (2024 Elemental Mix)
Hammock - From the Void
Bruce Brubaker - Eno Piano 2 (EP)
Constant Little Ghost - The Yellow Knife
Zahara - Yo solo queria escriber una cancion de amor
Gracie Abrams - The Secret of Us (Deluxe)
Víkingur Ólafsson - Bach, JS - Continuum (EP)
Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! III (Demo Version)
Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! FOUR (Demo Version)
At the House
Miles Davis - Miles at the Fillmore: Miles Davis Bootleg Series, Vol 3
Road Trip III & IV
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 9 June 2024, Afternoon, Live Performance (Improvisation)
Late Night
The Bad Plus - Complex Emotions
Keith Jarrett - The Old Country (Live at the Deer Head Inn)
Jonathan Elias - Requiem for the Americas
Art Garfunkel jnr & Art Garfunkel - Father and Son
Overnight
Neal Morse - No Hill For a Climber
Up at 6:23...
Updating this when suddenly I remembered it was Friday...
New Music Friday...
Nabbed some stuff, 23 items in all...
New releases from...
The Bad Plus
Neal Morse
Keith Jarrett
Jonathan Elias
Art Garfunkel jnr & Art Garfunkel
Dave Holland
deadmau5
65daysofstatic
Carsten Dahl
Miles Davis
and, new releases from, new to me...
Alessandro Dominguez
Agerfeldt Oleson
Vaughan String Quartet
David Preston
Rafael Anton Isarri
Yoo Doo Right
...and some older stuff too from Miles Davis, Carsten Dahl, Rafael Anton Isarri, David Preston...
That's plenty...
At 9:45, we were off, soundtracked by "Whitby Playlist", quickly concocted just before we set off...
It lasted for 2 hours and, a short time later, we arrived in Morpeth...
To Morrisons for provisions for the houses we will stay in over the next few days...
The Whitby Playlist was quickly added to in the car park...
Then, a walk around and to The Old Bakehouse...
...for lunch - pie of the day for your correspondent...
...and a toastie for Anne, somehow surprised that I was documenting her...
While a little like an OAPs lunch club, the fayre was excellent and superbly priced...
A further wander around the town ensued, mainly antiques shops and chazza - nothing purchased...
Loadsa stuff that could very well have come here from my mum's house...
Back to the car and the rest of the journey took around another 80 minutes, arriving at 3:15...
Lovely house in Guiseborough...
Post a swift unpack, it was back into the car for the 30 minute drive to Whitby...
For this...
We found the researched car park and walked to the centre...
...where we met up with Andy Wood, head honcho of TQ magazine and TQLive and Jez from Nottingham, aka Modulator ESP, who will play on Sunday just after noon...
Into the hall - nice set up...
Jez and I had both brought our Merch...
Almost everyone had more items than me...
But not really, as I had 30 completely different CDs - as explained to the organisers - but that's too much effort for them...
Anyway...
First act at 5:50, bang on time, Mirador, a combination of electronics and vocals...
Post this, the Merch Table had been set out - loadsa LPS, CDs and badges and books...
...and my two wee boxes of CD Packs...
While I took time to explain the concept to the lady "manning" the table, I do not have high hopes anymore...
We'll see...
Next on, from Edinburgh, fresh from almost meeting his fate in a car accident just yesterday when his brakes failed and having just made it here on time and no more via hastily booked trains (including a 3 hour trip from Newcastle), Faex Optim gave us a set of trance-like bangers...
Good chat with him outside after his set...
Anne was having fun...
Noted on the poster that, once again, the TQ artists had been rather sidelined...
Oh well...
Next up, Magpie Vectors...
Her set (apparently only her 2nd live appearance) reminded me of what it must've been like at "The Berlin School" when Edgar Froese and his chums found some synths and switched them on and turned the knobs and made connections to see what they could all do...
That was it for us - Anne was keen to get back to Guiseborough for dinner and a drink, so we said our farewells around 8, missing Pulselovers, The Twelve Hour Foundation, Space Ship and Burd Ellen - all of whom would have taken proceedings to midnight...
Out and back to the car...
As going, returning from Whitby was soundtracked by an early improv of the "Live Suite" from back in June - very different from the end result I'll play tomorrow...
It's on one of the three CDs Andy bought - he's sending one to Belgium, one to Spain and keeping one for himself...
Hopefully he rips the two he sends off to Europe...
Guiseborough was deserted - at 8:45 on a Friday night - the "best pub in Guiseborough", next door to our house, was closed...
We walked to a nearby square to the recommended Indian...
Thankfully, open...
Wine and beer ordered...
Unpictured onion bhajis for me to start - Anne advising it was now too late to have a starter...
A Duck Tikka Masal with Onions for me - going off piste...
...and Chicken Karai for Annie, staying on piste...
Shared rice and naan...
My second pint may have been a pint too far - but, of course for most of this trip, I'll be driving...
All in all, superb and we can recommend the Shurovi in Guiseborough...
Home...
Anne watched Graham Norton...
...while I listened again to the LP that opened my day, the new one from The Bad Plus - superb...
Then Keith Jarratt...
Hmmm...
Why did Keith Jarrett’s manager, producer or musical colleagues never tell him to just, for the love of God, shut the fuck up, when he was playing the piano? This is, frankly, unlistenable…
Kind of Yes alumni, Jonathan Elias and Mr Garfunkel and his son cleansed my palate, before heading to bed with Neal Morse in the cans...
A good start to the trip...
Highlight of the Day : Whitby...
Today's New Music:-
Today's Acts at Switched On:-
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