Wednesday, April 24, 2024

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3 May 2024: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Vanilla Receiver
13 May 2024: James Jamieson: Covers Night: Live at the Kilted Pig 2012-04-21
13 May 2024: James Jamieson: James Jamieson & Capital Models Kind of Live

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DIARY

This main page contains Cloudland Blue : A Diary, with daily entries since 5 March 2005 (scroll down for the latest entries).

150 days are "picture only", across six periods:-
2022 (90): 18 April - 10 May (23); 13 - 17 June (5); 6 July - 5 September (62)
2023 (58): 21 September - 15 October (25); 18 October - 19 November (33)
2024 (2): 22 & 23 April (2)

It is always the intention to update those days with the relevant text but doing so is, of course, subject to opportunity (and, indeed, memory!)...

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Post decade renewal can be enjoyable...

Playlist
The High Llamas - Hey Panda
James Jamieson & Capital Models - Kind of Live
John Cale - Sabotage Live
Enescu - The Three Symphonies
Pierre Boulez - Pierre Boulez: Composer, Conductor, Enigma
Crazy Wisdom - Music For Holland
Various Artists - Twelve Inch Eighties: You Spin Me Round
Reger - The String Quartets
Roy Harper - Lifemask

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Monday, April 22, 2024

The boy's 1982 is reached...

Playlist
Capital Models - 2024-04-21
Ilithios - Every Bird Ever
Baby Rose (w/BADBADNOTGOOD) - Slow Burn (EP)
English Teacher - This Could Be Texas
Brainstory - Sounds Good
Chon - Grow
Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM!
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-03-28 Covers
Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! #2
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-03-30 Covers
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-22 Demos (Wedding Set)
Ippu Do - Radio Fantasy
The Buggles - Adventures In Modern Recording
Human League - Dare!
John Cale - Sabotage
Max Richter - Spaceman OST
Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department
Head Machine - Orgasm
Foghat - Energized
Kiss - Alive!
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound-On-Sound
Wizzard - Wizzard Brew
Annette Peacock - X-Dreams
The Explorers - The Explorers
Robert Wyatt - The End Of An Ear
Nina Hagen - Nina Hagen Band
Nina Hagen - Nina Hagen In Ekstasy
Various Artists - The Swinging 60s
James Jamieson & Capital Models - Kind of Live
PAKT - No Steps Left To Trace
Future & Metro Boomin - WE STILL DON'T TRUST YOU
Lucy Rose - This Ain't The Way You Go Out
Cloud Nothings - Final Summer

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Consolation platform boots and dog...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! #2
Capital Models - 2024-04-14 Leith Dockers Club (Mastered)
Soft Cell - What? E.P.
Various Artists - The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed
Elephant9 - Mythical River
Falco - Junge Roemer - Deluxe Edition
Aleksi Perälä - CHILDREN OF LIGHT 8
Simon McCorry & Wodwo - Every Creeping Thing
Andrew Heath - The Cloud Machine
Musica Antiqua Köln - Deutsche Kammermusik vor Bach
PAKT - No Steps Left To Trace
Gary Husband - The Complete Diary Of A Plastic Box
Stevenson - Piano Music, Vol. 5
Capital Models - 2024-04-21

Up and listening again to the new GLAM! and then the Leith Dockers tapes...


...the latter of which, post breakfast...


...soundtracked the trip over to Paul's to pick him up and then out to Roslin for our final rehearsal pre the wedding on 4th May...


We made our way through the four sets but only playing any songs which any one or more of us reckoned we needed to tighten up or work on...


...which amounted to 25 of the 45...

As a reward for this work, there was cake at the break...


Met up with Anne later at Jane and Bob's -  they were watching the Hearts semi final against Scotland's newest club, said club doing for the JT's 2-0...

Oh well, by way of consolation, here are fave niece Kitty's platform boots...


...and Rafa the Dog...


Tesco/Lidl for tea on the way home, haggis and mash for me, Macaroni Cheese for Anne...

In today's English semi-final, Coventry City came back from 3-0 down at 70 mins against Manchester United at Wembley to make it 3-3 at 90+6 and forced extra time...

They scored a fourth in the dying seconds of said Extra Time only to have it chalked off by VAR for a millimeter measurement offside - and then Man U had their first penalty saved but Coventry subsequently also had one saved and then ballooned one over the bar...

Such is football...

A very good "Astrid", then, to the machines, where I noted, reliability of the laptop is back up again over the last week or so, which is good...



Edited the sessions from today - 3 hours of playing whittled down to 90 minutes of music...

Some discoveries nabbed for the library and then a "Monk" and lights out...


Another good day...

Highlight of the Day : Rehearsing

Today's New Music:-