Monday 7 November 2005

An early morning meeting today could have some very positive outcomes in due course. 

On a completely unrelated task I then went to the library to look up Johann Georg Christoph Schetky in that early music explorer's bible, RISM, and found out that almost all of his major keyboard works are held in Glasgow University Library half an hour's walk away - hooray. 

A chance encounter on the Meadows in Edinburgh a few months ago was followed up by an email today, which might lead to a school performance of Allan Ramsay's 'The Gentle Shepherd'.  Meanwhile, logistics for 3 December's Bach concert continue to be unresolved, and my to-do list grows ever longer.

But ... on Saturday morning I bought an filthy old bike for twenty quid where it stood in a corner of the local church hall, and now our new bike shop is restoring it to roadworthyness. Bike dude thinks I got a bargain, even if it does need new cranks, chain, gear cable, freewheel ...

I listened to the ever amusing Andy Partridge on Tom Robinson's radio show tonight. Two things struck me (apart from how naturally funny Partridge is): rock radio sounds ridiculously over-compressed when you hear it on decent equipment, and most of the music played on the show sounded like it was made 25 years ago even when it wasn't. I suppose I'm in the target age range for 6music, but do they think that people like me only want to hear music that reminds us of when we were younger? It did feel like a bit of a timewarp. I've also been in two cafes recently in different towns that played Rainbow's 'Since You Been Gone', but that's another matter. Anyway, about this time last year Tom Robinson taught me to sing 'I Fought the Law' which was tremendous fun, so I'm predisposed to like him. Interesting byways on his website too.