Crispycat Recordings: A college and a toastie can make the day...

Friday, October 16, 2026

A college and a toastie can make the day...

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Our last day in Dublin...

The weather was tip top...

The view from the room...

Unpictured breakfast too, was tip top...

We checked out but left our bags with the hotel...

...and managed one last tram on our 24 hour ticket...

...down to Trinity College...

Once again, I will let the pictures do the talking but what a lovely place this must be to study...

After an hour or so, we walked along Dame Street to Temple Bar, where we stumbled across the Irish Film Institute and its lovely cafe bar, which afforded a break and coffees...

Then out, for a further walk about...

We were now able to gain access to St Stephen's Park, closed by the strike two days ago...

Good to see the gates open again...

A short visit to the mall over the road...

...then back through the park...

..and out past the statue to Wolf Tone...

..and back to Reilly's Bar for drinks...

...before walking up Dawson St looking for a suitable lunch venue and finding Café en Seine...

...with the best ever chicken, cheese and pesto toasties, with fries and rocket salad...

Then, a final walk back to the hotel...

The Spire for the final time...

An hour long bus journey took us back to the airport...

Security was fine but we emerged to find an hour long delay re our 45 minute flight home, due to the knock on effect of a glitch in Italian Air Traffic Control earlier today...

Of course, that was subsequently stretched and so, around 4 hours of just sitting and waiting...

After arriving at the airport at 4:45, we finally boarded at 9:10...

..and the flight went by in no time...

...with the added bonus of no passport control as we were entering the UK from Ireland (nope, no idea either why it can't just be like that for all arrivals)...

An airport bus and a 26 up the hill and the systems were back up and running by 11:40...

A few choice new items were downloaded re today's new releases...

...and to bed just after midnight...

Holiday over...

Highlight of the Day: Trinity College and the toasties...

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impossible songs said...: Looking good there in Ireland.; 9:57 am

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As always from Crispycat Recordings, this release is entirely Free to Stream or Name Your Price (including zero) to Download (with over an hour of bonuses!). "Elevation", an extremely quiet (quite possibly the quietest LP you will ever hear) ambient LP from Cloudland Blue Quartet, was born out of a moment in the creation of the previous LP, "Broken" when things with that album were almost abandoned. "Elevation" is based on the ambience initially created for what became "Broken", which was eventually released in September 2026 but without the initially envisaged ambience. Once again, this LP is designed to be listened to in one gapless session and you can do that by downloading the album. For those who do download, there is a bonus LP, comprising the twelve tracks from the original version of "Elevation", which come with an alternative cover and which add a further 72 minutes of material to the bundle.

Over 800 shows have been published since 2014, sadly, only the latest 10 are able to be made available on Mixcloud. In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David podcasts a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection. On the programme each week, he kicks off with his seven new releases of the week, a couple of the latest items from CBQ and, then, seven back catalogue items of the week and, finally, a collection of other new things into the library. Get ready to hear stuff you've never heard before, far out jazz, tuneless contemporary classical music, electronic, pop music, ambient, leftfield, prog rock - anything and everything. It's eclectic!