The Baroness is visiting friends in France `til Monday. Burning Shed have just dropped off King Crimson`s `Sailor`s Tales`. 21 CDs, 4 Blurays, 2 DVDs. Guess what`s playing at Harkonnen Towers this weekend.
What marathon sessions have the Massive got planned (if any) this weekend. Running a marathon, pub crawl, (Xmas) shopping, err, decorating, anything?
Whatever you`re doing this weekend, enjoy.
Guess you wont need any sleeping tablets this weekend.
Look StevieT, anymore of your witisisms(that a word?) and it’ll be free beer for me in The Golden Mane’s hometown week Monday.
Take the pooch for it’s first proper walk tomorrow in two weeks after my poorlyness(that a word retro?) then it’s back to the wonderful world of ver Crim. Got the Chicago show when I’ve finished the box and more lovely out-there Prog.
I’m planning a marathon sleeping session. Have been ridiculously tired all week.
I was seriously tempted to make a Christmas present of this for myself, but I already have so much of it on disc I’d be paying about £25 each for the four new live recordings, which is ridiculous.
What a feast it is though. I hope you play it loud.
I will be oiling my latest green woodwork Windsor chair, a handsome double-bow affair, and doing some garden stuff. It’s going to be wet and chilly, so if I wimp out I have a big bottle of Tullamore Dew standing by.
A Dub Syndicate box set arrived this morning. Let the On-U bass manoeuvres begin.
Am midway through the full fat extended version of Das Boot with daughter (German GCSE) we have been watching for what seems like the length of WW2 and are still less than half-way through. Ace though. Worth it for the looks everyone says when the skipper says ‘Deeper’ and the hull-plates start creaking and cracking while the dial goes into the red. Just checked: 4 hrs 53 mins! or possibly 3 hrs 20. Long enough either way.
Hmm…presently halfway through The Passenger by F R Tallis.
Set on a U boat, with the same attention to detail as Das.
The crew have picked up a “bad spirit” and I get the distinct feeling its all going to go tits up….Alien style.
I love the Boot. Best face in is that pop-eyed gadgie in the engine room.
It’s the littlest Little’s birthday this weekend.
I’ll therefore be spending it helping him to assemble a train set, playing the new Mario game with him (quite excited about that), chasing him and his mates around a soft play and, all being well, watching Paddington 2 with the extended fam.
Also planning to squeeze in a half marathon on Sunday morning, in prep for eating an appalling amount of food next month.
I love this time of year.
Let’s just pass that through the discom-dad-ulator translation machine to remove all of the well-intentioned crap that won’t actually come to pass:
“This weekend I am playing with a train set. Even while everyone else is at the flicks.”
Oh, I’d say Mario is the weekend’s real cast-iron guarantee.
More cataloguing… The pile of “waiting” CDs has at last become manageable, thanks, no doubt, in part, to the demise of Wiilburs Web’oles, saving me from yet more long deleted nuggets of musical blind alleys..
What on earth is ‘Willburs Web’oles? @retropath2. Also don’t we have Blue Rose Code on Sunday?
Willards Wormholes as was. Late lamented site offering, um, trial listening to music “pre purchase”. And yes, indeed we do have a date at the Kitchen Garden Cafe.
All downloads offered strictly for ‘review purposes’, even when they weren’t available anywhere else. The greatest download site of them all. We shall not see it’s like again.
Miles & miles of walking around the North Norfolk coast , with a bit a bird spotting and photography thrown in, hopefully.
My marathon session? Do you really want to know?
hurrrrrrrr
Continuing my listen-through of the 12-album, 6-CD Lee Morgan set from cheapo jazz reissue label Enlightenment. Still have 3 albums to go from that.
Interspersing those with some hitherto unlistened-to “unofficial” recordings I acquired earlier in the year. A nice hour and a half of old crystal-clear BBC recordings of The Watersons and their Blue Murder offshoot. A 3-hour Sitar concert from Montreal by Ustad Vilyat Khan, also very well recorded.
A rather roughly-recorded Was (Not Was) gig from 2005 in Philadelphia.
A radio broadcast recording of The Vassar Clements Little Big Band, which is an interesting fiddle-led mix of bluegrass, country, western swing, jazz and rock from 1999.
Distinct possibles this weekend are my collection of Vivian Stanshall’s “Sir Henry At The BBC” recordings and a big long 2003 concert from Helsinki by Wigwam.
I also have a growing backlog of assorted podcasts that ain’t gonna listen to themselves.
My marathon session!
Sorry I’m allergic to peanuts (one for the oldies)*
* probably most of us.
That post was made to make my mouth water.
Made me want to work rest and play.
It put a tiger in my tank!
Mr B won’t be around tomorrow, so I expect I’ll be listening to lots of music. This will include the double LP I won in a competition last week, perhaps the new Disappointment Choir vinly if it arrives, and the new Taylor Swift which took me by surprise by dropping today (I’ve clearly not been paying attention) – that’ll be via Spotify.
I’ll no doubt also be giving another spin to the pile of Noughties 7″ singles that I picked up in a charity shop today for 75p each, which includes the Tears, McAlmont & Butler, the Rakes, Graham Coxon and the Libertines. One of the Libs’ ones is worth rather more than 75 pence: https://www.discogs.com/Libertines-Dont-Look-Back-Into-The-Sun/release/421516
I need to start thinking about what to get for my Vinyl Santa recipient. It’s a Twitter-based secret Santa for chazza fans, and it’s my turn to organise it this year. Somehow we’ve ended up with 45 of us this time round, including Andrew Cartmel, the author of the very fine Vinyl Detective books among other things. The guy who runs Harkive is a member too, and is going to harvest the VinylSanta hashtag to do some groovy data visualisation, which should be interesting.
We’ve some stale cake, so I might make Mr B a trifle as well. Get in his good books 😉
BREAKING NEWS: The Disappointment Choir vinyl is shipping tomorrow.
Should give me a chance to squeeze in my new Klaus Wunderlich LP tomorrow instead.
Mr. B not into music mini?
Oh, he’s a tolerant sort really, but I try not to inflict certain things on him, due to loving him and all that. When he’s about I try to stick to stuff we both dig.
like what, for example?
“The majesty of rock, the mystery of roll” a.k.a. Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran and Fats Domino all weekend.
Next week, it’s obscure foreign films on dvd I’ve accumulated over the last few years.
The Czechoslovakian one from 1969 set in a graveyard as a comment on the events of ’68 is sure to be a cracker.
Tomorrow morning: put this week’s jobs away then get next week’s jobs ready. Actually, it’ll probably take most of the afternoon. Might make a baked cheesecake in the afternoon if there’s time and practice my new bass. I’m a complete novice but I’m loving it so far.
Sunday: weather permitting, a walk by the sea possibly pausing for cake somewhere.
Glad to see that I’m not the only one who’s busy this weekend!
Crimson for Bargepole too (Earthbound reissue), plus Yes and XTC, while finishing the new volume of Danny Baker’s tales – what’s the chances of reading back to back autobiographies where the authors describe in gruesome detail the treatment they underwent for head and neck cancer (see also Bruce Dickinson).
When`s the XTC Stevie W. mix out Bargie? I`m gonna give Mr Baker`s biog a miss for now. Had too many friends go to that vile disease and a very good pal fighting a losing battle at this time.
24th Nov.
It’s the Pentangle weekend here at xberg Towers – celebrating the very nice (and thoroughly executed) “Albums” box which we listened to yesterday. Today it’s the Sanctuary box plus the mighty “Pentangling” 3-CD compilation (featuring discs with Reborn and Jansch solo recordings!), both annotated by Colin H. who currently seems to be omnipresent in this house…
That Pentangle box is how box sets should be produced, a wonderful collection, all the albums and loads of extras.
That 3 CD set is also great, Mr. H doing a fine job telling us things.
Actually I have an unexpected marathon session now.
I ordered The Who Maximum A’s and B’s and Tim Buckley boxsets from Amazon Italy on Friday combined about £30 below the UK price. They arrived today (Sunday) – what a great service.
Meantime I am listening to Alejandro Escobedo which is sheer bliss – neither of them did anything to equal his best. A master.
Do you mean Alejandro Escovedo dear boy. Neither of who did anything to equal his best? Pray tell. If you reply there won`t be rapid response from myself. I feel the pull of the pub.