By Scottish Keith Stodart

I mentioned in my first diary that after the wedding we had all went back to Chris’s house to continue our celebrations. Well I got an e-mail from him this morning and I just gotta share some of it with you.

“I had just spent nearly FOUR HOURS sitting at the kitchen table (admittedly with a nice bottle of Valpolicella) trying to sort out the Sat. mess, matching lp sleeves / white pokes / lyric sheets / cd covers + cds, plus removing finger/beer/wine stains (You should see the Record Room Carpet! Cranberry Vodka makes some mess – think I spilled most of it myself and ruined the covers of at least 6 classic Reggae LPs which were sitting out on the floor)…. Once I had finished, I was astonished at the amount of stuff on the table (a foot high pile of LPs / 12″, 3 x 6″ piles of CDs), so I then wrote it all down. I’ll list them all in a minute, but I must say it makes for a spectacular night of entertainment after such a fantastic wedding (free bar! no wonder I was such a mess!!!), only about 75% of which I recall clearly and the rest either vaguely or have no knowledge of at all…… Over 100 songs (Maybe more – 2 or more from the same record? I’m just going to list the ‘items’ lying about – even if you guesstimate at 4 minute a song, that’s over SEVEN HOURS of us carrying on after the wedding! My last recollection was about 8 am….) ”

Now that’s what I’m talking about, as Arthur would say

Chris never listed the album titles but the artists alone give the flavour of a marvelous evening. So here are the lists

Vinyl: RICHARD HELL / STONE ROSES (x 2) / VERVE / PETER TOSH / LEMONHEADS / THE THE / TEENAGE FANCLUB (x2) / RAINY DAY / FELT (x3) / BYRDS / ROD STEWART / JACKSON BROWNE (x2) / LOVE / LYNYRD S. / BLONDIE / NEIL YOUNG (x 2) / ROXY MUSIC (x2) / SWERVEDRIVER (x2) / RIDE / BOB DYLAN (x2) / MODERN LOVERS / WORLD OF TWIST / PAVEMENT / MARY CHAIN / TODD RUNDGREN / BOWIE (x2) / SPACEMEN 3 / CULTURE / LED ZEP / LOU REED / CAROLE KING / BLUE NILE / RED HOUSE PAINTERS (x2) / PRIMAL SCREAM / BIFF BANG POW! / STEVE MILLER BAND/ JONI MITCHELL (x2) / THE LEFT BANKE / SLOWdivE / THE CONGOS / BUNNYMEN / RAIN PARADE / ‘MIDNIGHT COWBOY’ / BEACH BOYS / JOHN CALE / JOY divISION / ROLLING STRONES / WIRE / DEXYS CDs: NICK DRAKE / UNDERWORLD / SIGUR ROS / RICHARD HAWLEY / LAYO & BUSHWWACKA! / HOUSE OF LOVE / BELLE & SEBASTIAN / SLAM / WHITE STRIPES/ D. I. VEGAS / FLAMING LIPS / DANDY WARHOLS / DOORS / SPIRITUALIZED / WAH! / LEMON JELLY / THE RAPTURE / BONNY PRINCE BILLY / PLAYGROUP / KINGS OF CONVENIENCE / LE TIGRE / WARLOCKS / RIDE / PRIMAL SCREAM / JIM O’ROURKE (x2) / ‘DUB SAMPLER VOL 1’ / SIMIAN / NEW RADICALS / RED HOUSE PAINTERS / INTERPOL / OASIS / THE TYDE / BOARDS OF CANADA / MATHEW SWEET/ FELT / SOUNDTRACKS OF OUR LIVES / SHACK / ‘FUTURE SOUND OF IBIZA’ / YO LA TENGO / THE FOLK IMPLOSION / GRANDADDY

Next time we a small social night everybody’s welcome

Mike Randle