Smoke My Vinyl

Tuesday,after my gig at the Quadrant and dropping the vinyl off home,and after a shower, i walked down to Rick's place in the centre of town,back of Hell's kitchen,for some more listening to music and as promised loads of the weed to smoke.. We listened to a wide selection of styles from pysche,garage,disco,and folk with his co-resident Chris and friend,Robin.One of the tracks he played , which i have not heard for years,was Simon Dupree and The Big Sound "Kites" single. We also had some dark rum and coke which we all put three quid towards,plus a heavy supply of ganja. Didn't leave til 4.30 am and by then very relaxed and chilled out.

Anyway yesterday found a copy of said Simon Dupree "Kites" single for two quid from Across The Tracks. Also found some other picture sleeve EP singles for a quid each,in tip top condition, plus other grooves from the Barnados charity shop -

Billy Eckstine - Babalu (Mercury EP)
Doris Day - Move Over Darling (CBS EP)
Stan Kenton - Tequila (Capitol)
Keith West - Excerpt from A teenage opera (Parlophone)

plus this great little number -

Simon Dupree and The Big Sound - Kites (Parlophone)

Also,an album was from Borderline.

Gil Scott Heron - Pieces Of A Man (Flying Dutchman LP)


Later this morning a trip to London to do some mystery shops around Portobello and visit MVE before we do our lager experiments.

Had some great news on Thursday  - Dan from the Quadrant  had left a message on my mobile and gave me first shot at doing a private party for the 12th starting at 7.30pm playing the same kind of grooves i played on Tuesday. Another fifty quid plus free drinks! Well i jumped at the offer and moved a PRS visit,with Sarah Radford's permission, to the Saturday from Friday