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NEXT RELEASES FROM CRISPYCAT RECORDINGS

Friday 3 May 2024

 Cloudland Blue Quartet - Vanilla Receiver

Monday 13 May 2024

James Jamieson: Covers Night: Live at the Kilted Pig 2012-04-21

Monday 13 May 2024

James Jamieson: James Jamieson & Capital Models Kind of Live

NEXT LIVE APPEARANCES

Thursday 2 May 2024

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Safari Lounge, 21 Cadzow Place, Edinburgh EH7 5SN

3 song acoustic set at Out of the Bedroom 768

Saturday 4 May2024

Capital Models - Kirknewton House Stables, Kirknewton EH27 8DA

Private Performance - 4 Covers Sets

Saturday 25 May 2024

Capital Models - Leith Dockers Club, 17 Academy Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 7EE

Saturday Night Club Night - 3 Covers Sets

Thursday 30 May 2024

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Safari Lounge, 21 Cadzow Place, Edinburgh EH7 5SN

3 song acoustic set at Out of the Bedroom 770

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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).

148 days are "picture only", across 5 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)

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!)...

So many followers, so little interaction...

Playlist

Palace - Ultrasound

Donna Lewis & Holmes Ives - Rooms with a View

Jogging House - Rendezvous

English Teacher - This Could Be Texas

Mzylkypop - Threnodies and Ad hocs

Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department

Cosmic Ground - melt

Elbow - AUDIO VERTIGO

Ride - Interplay

Monkey3 - Welcome To The Machine

James - Yummy

Adam Wiltzie - Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal

Pan American & Kramer - Reverberations of Non-Stop Traffic on Redding Road

Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless

Skyjack - Light Cycle

Max Richter - Spaceman OST

Nazareth - Greatest Hits

Various Artists - Sevillanas

Etta James - At Last!

Pet Shop Boys - Furthermore EP

Various Artists - Disco

Kelly Moran - Moves in the Field

Tuber - Joyful Science

Sonny Rollins - Live in Europe 1959: Complete Recordings

Elyanna - Woledto EP

SiX By SiX - Beyond Shadowland

Mott the Hoople - The Giolden Age of Roick'n'Roll

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

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Vanilla Receiver

Alice Cooper - Billion Dolar Babies (50th Anniversary Remaster)

Yello - Touch Yello (Deluxe)

A call from Anne's mum at 5:15...

Sadly, she no longer seems to have any concept of time...

Accordingly, I could not sleep and so, arose just before 6...

...and set about compiling this week's Top 30...

Eight new entries...

Discussion on Twitter re putting CDs into plastic sleeves - something I did a long time ago re all my CD-R burns but cannot bring myself to do with the actual CDs...

Speaking of Twitter, installed "Brave" onto my phone as my way of accessing said site - and , now, no ads whatsoever...

So, if you're fed up with wading through crap on Twitter...

1. Use "Brave" to use Twitter on your phone - no Ads

2. Apply Adblock to Twitter on your laptop - no Ads

3. Never, ever, look at "For You" - full of shite

4. Choose who you follow wisely - no shite

Follow those 4 rules and Twitter is fine - kind of - but I do wonder what the point is of having thousands of followers when only a few seem ever to see any posts and fewer still actually interact...

BlueSky, which is supposed to be the good version of Twitter, and Mixcloud, re the podcasts, are the same...

Why do these people follow me?

So, so annoying...

Anyway...

This afternoon, rehearsed (without recording) my proposed three song set for Out of the Bedroom on Thursday (if I get a slot)...

"Callingstill"

"A Nice Job in a Small Town"

"If I Fall"

Sounded quite good...

And Sid Smith sent me down a Kenny Wheeler shaped rabbit hole (see below)...

This evening, some very entertaining "Monk" and a nice fox in the garden, seen here, exiting...

Finished off the day by falling asleep to the quite magnificent Yello...

Highlight of the Day : Stopping Ads on Twitter...

Today's New Music:-

The ghost of Andy Warhol visits an old lady...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Leith Dockers Mock Up

Nazareth - Nazareth's Greatest Hits

David Munrow: Early Music Consort Of London - Monteverdi's Contemporaries

Elyanna - WOLEDTO

Crazy Wisdom - Attic Rehearsal 1998-04-28

The Pineapple Thief - It Leads To This

Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine

Kali Uchis - ORQUÍDEAS

The Black Keys - Ohio Players

Various Artists - I'm Every Woman: Pop Queens of the Seventies

wojtek the bear - shaking hands with the NME

James Jamieson - Covers Night: Live at the Kilted Pig 2012​-​04​-​21

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Vanilla Receiver

Kodály - String Quartets

Pierre Boulez - Composer, Conductor, Enigma

Reger - The String Quartets

Musica Antiqua Köln - Deutsche Kammermusik vor Bach

Diesendruck - String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2024

A Sunday morning spent, for a goodly part, with my mum - showing her pictures from here and, once again, how to work her phone...

The mother of the beast...

...slightly less stern take...

She was visited by the ghost of Andy Warhol...

...and enjoyed pea soup, after proclaiming it to be too thick - I pointed out that it was the nature of pea soup to be thick, hence the term "pea souper" to describe a thick fog...

With the rabbit's gamboling outside...

...I left her to her roast beef, Yorkshire pudding and roast potatoes...

My journey there and back was soundtracked by a version of our last rehearsal with my guitar mostly removed, to sample what the Quartet configuration might sound like...

Anne advised not as good - we will see - I have a trick up my sleeve if it is indeed the case...

Home to relax...

The first two episodes of "Superman & Lois" enjoyed (by me anyway)...

This evening recording, putting together and uploading the 17th podcast of the year...

...followed by some Monk and some falling asleep...

Highlight of the Day : Superman returns...

Today's New Music:-

Bass and golf, kind of...

Playlist

Capital Models/Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-04-26 GLAM! Rehearsal

Capital Models - 2024-04-14 Leith Dockers Club

Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless

Alice Cooper - Breadcrumbs EP (2024 Edition)

David Bowie & Brian Eno - Get Real (Single)

Ian Hunter - Defiance Part 2: Fiction

Capital Models - 2024-04-27 DR Bass Rehearsal

A day without mum duties (apart from one small thing), so, we decided we were going to enjoy our "freedom"...

Up and putting together a potential three set song list for the 25 May gig...

Post breakfast, with Anne off to do an errand re her mum's watch, I got the bass back out of the attic and set up the gear for a run through the proposed set, playing along to the Leith Dockers tapes, with some songs out and running order rearranged...

Around 50% played by Anne's return, at which point, it was into the car for a drive to North Berwick...

Found a nice spot to park...

...and walked along by the water into the town...

...past where my Dad and sister Pam were bidden farewell to in 2003 and 2012...

We were on the look out for a nice coffee place...

With the offerings in the main street all packed, I recalled Steam Punk from a long past previous visit...

We liked it here...

The beast was on a day off...

More walking...

...to the putting green...

...below the tennis courts where my parents would play when here on holiday pre me...

Near misses annoyed Anne..

But then...

A hole in one...

Most enjoyable...

Close to a hole in one for me too...

We almost thought we might actually take up golf...

In the end there was only one shot between us...

Yes indeed, most enjoyable...

While we played, a message from Paul - he can play the 25th of May...

Quartet time...

More walking, noting Puffin's Retreat...

..and, in the wee "junk" shop, this reminded me of gone too soon chum Spike...

"Spike is grrreat - he's my mate" indeed...

Popped back to Steam Punk, as I'd forgotten to take a look in the weekend only record shop upstairs...

Meanwhile, Anne was enjoying the ruined church over the road...

...while I exited, without having partaken of anything and pictured the Steam Punk van...

...and a seagull against the blue, blue sky...

Found some CDs in the BHF shop (see below) and, in another shop, rather a lot of mum's fave author...

...and some other junk I liked...

Back to the car, having avoided food intake, on the basis we would now drive to Gifford for a slap up late lunch/early tea at the Goblin Ha'...

Good to find the car was where we'd left it...

25 minute drive to Gifford - only to find the Ha' is being renovated and the only other place in the village had a closed kitchen due to staff shortages...

Bloody Brexit...

Driving home, checking the scores - a good win for Queens - safe in the division below where they probably ought to be but they just were not good enough this season...

We called in an order to Eastern Pavilion as soon as they opened at four...

And I popped in to wait when we arrived back at Corstorphine at 4:15...

They gave me a free Coke - perhaps they remember what happened the last time we ordered, five weeks ago...

Back home with superb pakoras...

...and tasty curries...

After this, I returned to the bass...

...and finished off the set...

...followed by ripping and listening re the CDs acquired for a total of £2.50...

...and a "Monk" or two...

A very good day...

Highlight of the Day : Playing the bass again...

Today's New Music:-