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Playlist

Capital Models - 2019-11-02

Asaf Sirkis - Full Moon

Rammstein - Made in Germany

Hawkwind - A Space Ritual

Efterklang - Piramida

Anton Eger - Æ

Another busy day ahead...

More "work" on yesterday's session - prepping for an upload tonight of the whole thing to WeTransfer for the "lads" to download at their end and also "work"...

Then, soundtracking from the mighty Rammstein...

...which continued in the car as we picked up Bob and drove to Glasgow to the digs of the boy...

A certain studentiness in the air...

The view from the office this morning...

Here he is - all grown up in a place of his own...

Feet off the counter please Olly...

Out and through the botanics, past a UFO...

...towards Byres Road..

...for a Subway into town...

Tix for later secured...

Lunch at Ad Lib - very tasty burgers - fish tacos for Bob - additional bread and butter pudding for a growing lad...

I left the three musketeers to make their way to that Hampden to watch Hearts get gubbed 3-0 in the semi final of the League Cup by Scotland's questionably funded newest club...

After a mooch around Fopp, under the bridge to find Missing has moved to new premises...

Nice and big...

Spent a good hour and half looking through every single CD in the shop, to a singalong soundtrack of Hawkwind's classic "A Space Ritual"...

Finally purchased these for £12...

Tasty...

A walk along Argyle St with a fruitless stop into HMV - then, on to Mono, noting a fave cake shop has shut down...

Nothing at Mono either...

BAck into town and metaphorically twiddling my thumbs while the trio awaited the final whistle ...

We met back at St Enochs...

...and took the Subway back to Byres Road...

A walk around the outside (due to a paid entry light show) of the Botanics to Olly's place...

Cheerios said and back into the car for the hour drive home...

Dropped Bob off and home - Anne catching up with "Strictly", which I am eschewing this year - and me working on yesterday before finally uploading for the boys in the band...

Lights out on an excellent, packed weekend...

Highlight of the Day : Hawkwind at Missing...

Writing new material, or trying to anyway...

Playlist

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2019 Vol 44

Yes - Close To The Edge

King Crimson - Red

UK - UK

Bruford - One Of A Kind

King Crimson - Beat

David Torn - Cloud About Mercury

Earthworks - Dig?

King Crimson - Thrak

Peter Locketts Network of Sparks Feat. Bill Bruford - One

Earthworks - The Sound Of Surprise

Bill Bruford & Michiel Borstlap - Every Step A Dance, Every Word A Song

Earthworks - Earthworks Underground Orchestra

Various Artists - 10 Corso Como North/South

Roger Waters - The Wall (DVD)

Up super early and the two hour podcast put together and uploaded by around 8:30...

Post breakfast, into the attic...

...to break this down...

...to this...

...and bring these...

...back down...

...and into the car and out to Roslin for today's session with Capital Models...

...during which we made a start on a new phase of writing our own material, which involved taking ideas brought to the metaphorical table by band members and changing them...

In all, I think we worked on around four or five ideas...

Discussions were involved...

Cake was involved...

A visit to my mum on the way home, doing fine...

...if a bit fed up all things considered...

Home and Anne was already away into town to meet up with chum Debbie for some tasty modern ballet...

I unpacked to the back room but no the attic...

...made my tea - last nights's leftover casserole with some noodles - and watched Roger Waters' "The Wall"...

Yep - spent the night taking pictures of our TV...

A call from Anne late on as I edited the tapes of today's session and a lift home was provided...

Lights out...

highlight of the Day : Writing new material, or trying to anyway...

Sometimes, just remembering is the best you can do...

Playlist

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (RM)

Efterklang - Magic Chairs

Laura Pausini - Un Progetto Di Vita In Comune [Single]

Feldman - Piano Box Set

Mike Taylor Quartet - Pendulum

Rheostatics - Here Come The Wolves

Efterklang - Parades

Lou Reed - Street Hassle

Soft Cell - The Singles: Keychains & Snowstorms

Hatfield & The North - The Rotters' Club

Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel?

Cream - Wheels Of Fire

Rammstein - Mutter

Rammstein - Rammstein

Paul McCartney - Egypt Station [Explorer's Edition]

Andreas Scholl - A Musicall Banquet

Various - The Million Dollar Hotel

Lou Reed - Animal Serenade

Lou Reed - Lou Reed (RM)

The Osmonds - Love Me For A Reason

Various - 70s School Days

Yes - To the Moment [Single]

Various - Funked!: Volume 1 1970 - 1973

George Benson - The Shape Of Things To Come

Eddie Harris - E.H. In The U.K.

Peter Locketts Network of Sparks Feat. Bill Bruford - One

To Helen the Podiatrist first thing...

In a nice part of town...

At 1, a lunch to remember our good old chum Keith Lodge who died a year ago this weekend...

Sixteen of us in all, enjoying good food and a couple of drinks at one of Keith's favourite establishments...

Gary, Wendy, Gillian(obscured), Matt, Gursharn, Luke, Bernie...

..Raymond (rearshot), Janine, Alan, Gina, Steve, Spike, Marta and me...

Gone but not forgotten...

Home to the second of the awaited Efterklang discs...

The links for tomorrow's podcast, which stretches to two hours this week, recorded...

Some telly, in the shape of nephew Craig's footie show on the stupid Scottish channel...

His stupid look is for charity so it's fine and dandy...

Late on, on the Twitter, a Tweet from percussionist Pete Lockett re a new piece on Bill Bruford in Rolling Stone, in the course of which, BB sets out his twelve best drumming moments - which includes one with Mr Lockett...

I note I have said LP...

...and quickly compile a playlist featuring the twelve tracks...

Tasty...

To bed...

Highlight of the Day : Lunch for an old friend...