Tuesday 5 September 2006

Coming to the end of a full day. I've just been writing a bassline for Richard Leveridge's tune for 'The Tippling Philosophers', after the tune we had in rehearsal this afternoon clearly didn't fit the words. The wonderful people at the Wighton Collection came to our rescue and emailed us a copy of Leveridge's from The Musical Miscellany of c.1730, which fits the text perfectly and is a fascinating tune into the bargain.

Now to work out a schedule for tomorrow's recording: there are 19 items to record, 20 if you include a brief bit of spoken material which we might get to. 21 if you include the extra thing we want to do at the end.

Lots of achievements today. The three of us playing music together again (with some help) is possibly the greatest. Sushil came in and took a commemorative photograph, so I took one of him.

Now listening to Fox 'Tails of Illusion', an LP I bought at the age of 8 and loved from the beginning. Finally out on CD and still sounding great to these ears.