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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).

As of 5 March 2024 it moved into its 20th year of drivel.  At that point, that was 6,941 days in, although there were actually 7,351 entries to date. 

At present, there are 148 "picture only" entries, across five periods:-

2022 (91): 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)

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!)...

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Swipe, ear, sadly not so simple...

Playlist
Simone Sessa - Space Echo
Sorabji - Toccata Terza
Pärt - Lamentate
Gesaffelstein - GAMMA
Beethoven - Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97 "Archduke"
Dave Douglas - GIFTS
James - Yummy
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Nimbus
Cosmic Ground - melt
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-04-06 OOTB Rehearsal
Capital Models - 2024-04-07
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Dissolution: The White Album
Guapo - Seven Suns
King Crimson - The Reconstrukction of Light (ProjeKct X)
Timo Maas - Global Underground: Select #9 (Mixed)
Catching Flies - Tides
Max Richter - Nosedive (OST) (EP)
Huelgas Ensemble - The Landscape of the Polyphonists
GoGo Penguin - From the North - GoGo Penguin Live in Manchester
Donizetti/Lindpaintner - Concerti for Winds
Schumann - String Quartets Nos. 1-3
Laurence Pike - Prophecy
Warm Dust - Peace for Our Time
The Church - The Blurred Crusade Concert 1982
Ensemble Ambidexter - Ensemble Ambidexter
King Tubby - Never Run Away (Dub Plate Specials)
Skull Practitioners - Negative Stars
Paper Beat Scissors - Paper Beat Scissors
Still Corners - Dream Talk
Focus - Moving Waves

Almost back to normal...



Prepping the content for the podcast, writing this, breakfast then out and over to the hospital, where a good hour was spent, once again, trying to teach my mum how to...

(a) make a call on her mobile and...

(b) answer a call on her mobile...

The latter of these was finally boiled down to...

(1) Swipe and...

(2) Ear...

That is, when a call comes in, the screen lights up, she swipes the green "accept" button then puts the phone to her ear...

I thought she had it...

I called her from the car park as I left the hospital...

No reply...

No reply...

No reply...

The lady cleaning her room swiped the button but mum did not put the phone to her ear...

The lady cleaning her room swiped the button and mum put the phone to her ear but clearly had no clue as to what she was doing...

Hmmmm...

Home for lunch before Anne headed off to the football - 4-2 Hearts v Livingston, after going 2-0 down in 22 minutes - in Dumfries, Queens beat bottom club Edinburgh City 2-0 - they can no longer reach the promotion play offs and it's now a question of avoiding being drawn into the relegation play offs with three games to go...

Not the greatest season ever...

I tested the PA for tomorrow - all seemed to be working...


Dismantled everything and packed it all away...


...and took it all downstairs...


Then recorded the links for the podcast, put it all together, uploaded to the world and gave it a listen back...

A tasty tea from Anne, happy with her team's performance...


Some "Monk", some "Almost Paradise"...

Some music, some bed...

Highlight of the Day: Podcasting...

Today's New Music:-

Friday, April 12, 2024

Out for the day against the odds...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-04-06 OOTB Rehearsal
Guapo - Seven Suns
Miasma & The Carousel Of Headless Horses - Perils
King Crimson - The Reconstrukction of Light (ProjeKct X)
Various Artists - Global Underground: Select #9 (Mixed)
Still Corners - Dream Talk
Catching Flies - Tides
Huelgas Ensemble - En Albion: Medieval Polyphony in England
GoGo Penguin - From the North - GoGo Penguin Live in Manchester
Huelgas Ensemble - The Landscape of the Polyphonists
Max Richter - Nosedive (OST) (EP)
Capital Models - 2024-04-07
Gesaffelstein - GAMMA
Donizetti/Lindpaintner - Concerti for Winds
Schumann - String Quartets Nos. 1-3
Laurence Pike - Prophecy
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Dissolution: The White Album
Warm Dust - And It Came to Pass
Beethoven - Beethoven for Three: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5
Beethoven - Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97 "Archduke"
Beethoven - Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale" and Op. 1, No. 3
Warm Dust - Dreams of Impossibilities
Lizzy McAlpine - Give Me A Minute
Warm Dust - Peace for Our Time
Warm Dust - Warm Dust
Lizzy McAlpine - When The World Stopped Moving: The Live EP
King Tubby - Never Run Away (Dub Plate Specials)
The Church - The Blurred Crusade Concert 1982
Ensemble Ambidexter - Ensemble Ambidexter
Skull Practitioners - Negative Stars
Goose - 2024/04/08 The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY
MARIOLA MEMBRIVES - Ajuares Primavera
Sinfonia of London- Bacewicz, Enescu, Ysaÿe: Music for Strings
Brian Eno - By This River (Single)
Hour - Ease the Work
Blue Öyster Cult - Ghost Stories
Dave Douglas - GIFTS
Stegosaurus - it’s ok, i don’t mind
Sleepmakeswaves - It's Here, But I Have No Names For It
Stegosaurus - leaving / loving
Xiaowen Shang - Music of Silence (The Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series)
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Nimbus
Pärt - Lamentate
Sorabji - Toccata Terza
Simone Sessa - Space Echo
Stegosaurus - spicy sweet chili
Fred again.. - USB
James - Yummy
Goose - 2024/04/09 The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY
Goose - 2024/04/10 The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY
Cosmic Ground - melt

Up and doing the rounds to garner the new music, for it was, once again, Friday...


It would soundtrack two journeys...

Scenes...


Feeling still a little under the weather but struggling on...


New stuff integrating...



A quick visit from Fang...


Then, Anne out to Zumba and me, despite not being fully recovered, off to that Glasgow, for the retirement lunch of old chum Neil Galbraith...

A bus just before 10...



...and whisked off through...






...the beast was listening to new music...


...and realising he'd set out with the wrong glasses on..

Oh well...

Arrived just after 11...


I thought I saw Neil...


...making an early start....


To Missing...


One thing bought for a quid - Canadian, via the North West of England, apparently...



Pretty good find...


...as was this poster, I did not know there was a new LP...


The venue for teh celbratory meal was Sannio, where Anne and I dined once, although I cannot find exactly when...


Before that though, to The Griffin, opposite, for drinks...



...with Neil, pre the others arriving...


Janine...


Bernie, Wendy, Raymond...


Gary, Christine...


...and Yuill...


Start of a good day...

The Nine Musketeers!


Lovely food...




...drinks were flowing and top chat - so many stories...





Once people startyed arriving for the evening, we realised it was time to go...

To a nearby fave of Neil's, Chinaski's...

We managed to secure a table till 6...





...but then had to move outside re a booking...


Everyone was somewhat the worse for wear...


...other than your correspondent, who was trying his best not to be ill and conducting himself accordingly...

Eventually, we were refused service...

Next door to Chinaski's was a place Anne and I once enjoyed a Valentine's curry at, a very long time ago but, now, sadly, derelict...


A walk back along Sauchiehall Street...



The carousing continued for Neil, Bernie, Yuill and Wendy...

Janine and Christine were on the train to the West of Edinburgh, while Gary was on a bus to Kirkaldy...


...and Raymond and I were on one to Edinburgh... 


I listened to music, Raymond learned Spanish...


...as I left Raymond, he faced almost another 2 hours of journey before reaching Rosewell...


Later on, everyone reported having arrived home safely...

Meanwhile Johnny Impossible sent a pic of his set up which we'll use for monitors on Sunday...


Some telly ("Beyond Paradise", "Monk"), before bed...

Highlight of the Day: Retirement do...

Today's New Music:-