A hard conversation...

Playlist

Vivaldi - Time For Relaxation

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon"

Purcell - 4 Suites for String Orchestra; 12 Lessons; Harpsichord Suite No 6

Sombre Reptiles - Songs of the Sombre Reptiles (1980-1995)

Brian Eno - Another Green World (Original Masters)

David Bowie - The Next Day

The Velvet Underground - Loaded

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus (Deluxe Edition)

The Stooges - Raw Power

Television - Marquee Moon

David Bowie - Heroes

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

The Kinks - Kinks

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Stereo)

Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

David Bowie - Diamond Dogs

The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man

Bob Dylan - Desire

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Queen - A Night At The Opera

Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Stevie Wonder - Talking Book

Robin Schulz - Pink

Sombre Reptiles - Songs of the Sombre Reptiles

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Songs of the Sombre Reptiles (CD Single Extras)

Up early as ever on a Monday morning...

Luna was in her place...

...and then she was in a place where she ought not to have been...

She was inspecting...

Back to the machines...

...for some "work" pre an egg based breakfast with out of date eggs brought back from my mum's...

Luna was in her place...

A call with Spike's wife, Debbie re funeral arrangements, details etc etc and agreed to compile and create playlists for the as yet unknown day...

Difficult times...

Out with Anne taking her to her mum's and then I walked from there...

...to the office, expectedly subdued...

To the BHF and a strange CD purchased...

As is my wont...

To FOPP and a couple more things partaken of (see below) and a chat with the guy there re the performance on 4 November...

Home on the bus and a wee chum spotted on my way up the hill...

Another wee chum was in her place back home...

Ripping and listening...

In the evening, I was in charge of the balked potatoes - Luna had been eating something or other judging by the stain on her chin...

"University Challenge" and "Citadel" etc tonight on Anne's return...

Highlight of the Day : New things...

Today's New Music:-

A very sad day...

Playlist

Sombre Reptiles - The 1996 Tapes

Capital Models - 2018-12-02

Capital Models - 2020-03-10

Capital Models - 2022-05-14 Live in Roslin

Capital Models - 2023-07-02

Capital Models - 2023-03-26

The Prince of Wales' Concert - Cello Music in London

PJ Moore & Co - When A Good Days Comes

Mike McKenzie - Treading Water 2019-2023

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Live Suite 2023/24 (Live Set Rehearsals)

Purcell - 4 Suites for String Orchestra; 12 Lessons; Harpsichord Suite No 6

Green Day - 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (Box)

Green Day - Kerplunk! (Box)

Green Day - Dookie (Box)

Green Day - Insomniac (Box)

Green Day - Nimrod. (Box)

Green Day - Warning (Box)

Green Day - American Idiot (Box)

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (Box)

The Who - Quadrophenia

Dean Friedman - Dean Friedman

Dean Friedman - Well, Well, Said The Rocking Chair

Up just after six...

Working on Capital Models stuff and then breakfast...

...accompanied by a wee cat...

Anne was painting the bathroom and I was mucking about re music when a message came through to say our chum of some 20 years, Alex "Spike" Williams died last night...

Just shocked...

I'd been messaging him last week when he advised he was to have open heart surgery - an angiogram tomorrow and then "in for the slicing" as he put it...

Apparently, he'd had a good day, up in Stirling for new sunglasses then out in the afternoon with his wife Debbie and a couple of friends and, post that, rather than just heading home in the car, with Spike driving, they took a walk along Portobello promenade...

At 6:21 he collapsed and died...

Only "good" thing about it was he would not have known anything - one second there, the next gone...

Dreadful news and now just in a bit of a daze for the rest of the day...

Still had to go and do my mum's shopping and give her a wee visit...

And Anne still had to go to the Hearts game against Motherwell - which Spike should have been at too of course - biggest Jambo I knew and I know a lot of Jambos...

He was only just back from Norway, at what turned out to be their final European game of the season...

They let Spike down with a dreadful performance today...

On my way to my mum's I stopped off in Morningside, still in shock and merely popped into the Shelter Shop only to find these...

On to do my mum's shopping and put it away and let her peruse the receipt...

She always finds something or other which perplexes her...

Back home just before five...

Anne had continued her painting, or, re-painting, of the bathroom...

This evening some relaxation...

...and thinking...

Can't believe Spike has gone...

Lowlight of the Day : Spike, gone...

Today's New Music:-

Blast from the past...

Playlist

Hugh Hopper - Numero D'Vol

Oz Noy - Twisted Blues Vol. 1

Lefrenk - Plastic

The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan

Sombre Reptiles - Songs of the Sombre Reptiles

Saturday, up "late" and podcast issued...

Late morning, down the hill...

...and to Haymarket for a bus change and out to Balerno for a visit to Mr "meeting Us At The Bus Stop and Walking us to His House" Malcolm Logan...

Found this buried amongst huis noy organised in any way pile of CDs...

We were soundtracked by Mr Eno...

...and, a blast from the past, The Three Johns...

Drinks were enjoyed, chat was chatted and Malcolm cooked a tasty seafood pasta...

Later, to the Grey Horse Inn, for more drinks and a discussion with "Keith" about the possibility of Capital Models playing a Bowie Velvets Roxy Eno based gig here...

Let's see...

On our walk back to the bus, spotted this...

Malcom, looking good as he approaches 57 - although he did not seem to be aware of exactly how old he was - we worked it out due his 18th having been in 1984...

Another convoluted journey home and some telly and bed...

Highlight of the Day : Catching up with Malcolm...

Today's New Music:-

Once more out into the wild...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon"

The Paper Kites - At the Roadhouse

Arkady Shilkloper - Owner of a Lonely Horn (Symphonic Tribute to Yes)

Charlotte Cardin - 99 Nights

Brian McBride - The Effective Disconnect

Jacques Loussier Trio - The Very Best Of Play Bach

Bach, J S - Cantatas, Vol. 21

Reformat - Precursed

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Building a New Town (EP)

Yes - Fragile

Gábor Lázár - Boundary Object

David Toop & Lawrence English - The Shell That Speaks The Sea

Capital Models - Edinburgh Festival Live (Eric Brown's 26 August 1980)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Fripp & Eno (Single)

Sombre Reptiles - Sombre Reptiles 1980-1989

Sombre Reptiles - Crispysnatch

Sombre Reptiles - Love/War/Travel/Etc

Sombre Reptiles - Kernelcrux

Sombre Reptiles - Songs of the Sombre Reptiles

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Songs of the Sombre Reptiles (CD Single Extras)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fifty Five Songs

Sombre Reptiles - Songs of the Sombre Reptiles (1980-1995)

Hmm, 1st September...

And a Friday...

And so, the latest CBQ and Creek records were set free into the wild...

..while new music was trawled for...

Good views...

Some painting is required in the bathroom - due to an attempted repair having used "off2 four year old paint...

Spent some time today working on my "version" of "Dark Side of the Moon"...

...and Anne made soup, utilising this new pot for the first time...

Meanwhile, Luna was being Luna...

Such a cutie...

The podcast was recorded and readied for tomorrow...

I think that was about it, he says, writing this 17 days later...

Highlight of the Day : Releasing music...

Today's New Music:-