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History Repeats

Gig 43 – Quiz Culture Launch

 

Henry’s Cellar Bar, Edinburgh  13/11/14

Setlist:

A Physical Husband, Eleanor, Backroom Boys, Watching Waters Rise, Red Star, Broken Road, It’s Abnormal, Hide and Seek, Mouse In Love, Selling The Party. Encore -  Dungeness

Sound: Leonora . Too loud and blurry for the first two numbers, then sorted.

“Trivia” patter. Films went smoothly.

Reception: All went down well, including the new ones. Unplanned encore due to public demand.

QC on Record Union

https://www.recordunion.com/Music/Album/33764#.VGKfXVxFC_Y

Winter Tub

Quiz Culture Done

Success; back from the manufacturers, sounds better than expected.

Brighton Metropole

Went to Brighton for meeting and saw Lucy, Christopher and Kitty- Bee in the evenings, all very nice.

David Christie 1930 - 2014

My Uncle David, in his whaling days. 

Quiz Culture

Off to the manufacturers.

Love Lies Bleeding

The Leith Vote

Surprisingly wide margin.

The Plumed Horse

Taken out for a super treat meal with Mary and Jane.

Tomato salad, veal, lemon pannacotta. Yum.

Fire In The Night

Woken up at 3.15 by a big bang outside, followed a few minutes later by a bigger bang. Smell of burning and visible smoke being blown by the wind. Had to get up and check the house, then a fire engine came along the street; the fireman said they had been called but didn’t know where the fire was! eerie and unsettling. Nothing in the newspapers today. A bomb?

Wizard

BAP 2014

Cambridge . Bill and Douglas, alas no Ian
 

Blue Garden

Tiles

Uruguay

I got Uruguay in the office sweep. ‘Mon ra ‘Guays

Ian Reid

Died of lung cancer on Monday. A great guy, a sore loss to all his family colleagues and friends, one of whom I count myself very lucky to have been.

Here he is in CDG Paris in 2001.

Ian Reid 1960–2014.

And this is his music.

http://www.amoffoot.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/studio.html

St Columba’s Exhibition

Annual bash at Freemason’s Hall. Poor show. Then afterwards, Cafe Andaluz, really good.

Windows 14

New Lamps for Old

Gig 43

Henry’s Cellar Bar, Edinburgh  15/5/14

Setlist:

Physical Husband, Eleanor, Backroom Boys, Cool, Watching Waters Rise, Four Times On The Floor, Thrills, Red Star, It's Abnormal,  Dungeness, Crusader Castles, Selling The Party.

Sound: Leonora . Faultless.

“Tribute” patter. Some glitches with the films.

Reception: Surprised applause, comments such as “nice!” Premieres of Backroom Boys and Red Star went down very well.

Unexpected Mention

http://issuu.com/thepsychologist/docs/psy0514

Page 320

Curtain Fix

After 20 years, dodgy rail finally renewed and smart cord sewn on pelmet.

Bah–Dunted

6 p.m. large 4 x 4 backed into my parked car. Grr!

Eleanor

New collection on its way

Synth OK

Thanks to Red Dog £34.32 . Phew.

Roland Bye Bye?

JP-8000 into the shop for battery change; can they do a data dump though?

Office

Sudden and swift blooming in the space of three days

Audience

According to Blogspot. Hello Ukraine, China and Venezuela.

Lighter Evenings

War Horse

Festival Theatre 7.30 – 10.30. Very enjoyable.

“Battery Low” Nightmare

After 15 years, JP-8000 showing Battery Low. Have to get a sequencer for saving everything. This is going to be more difficult than I can be bothered with.

Vengeful Squirrel God

Squirrel building drey beside window box; sorry, no not this year, after gnawing through the bathroom sill. Away.

Old Flame

Dug up from the cellar; boiler on the blink.

Art Flow

Tablet art – first go

Xmas Jigsaw

Thanks to Frances B