Past Performances On Friday night, there was a small gathering at the home of our pals Helen and Bruce. As ever, thanks so much to Helen and Bruce for the outstanding hospitality. The music in the evening was provided by an Alexa device, you know the little black thing that you ask to play this or that, or tune in to a particular radio station. I spared the company my usual joke of asking Alexa to go down the shop and get me ten fags and a box of matches, then declaring that the machine doesn’t work when it fails to do so. I think that one might be wearing a little thin. Anyway, at one point in the evening, we took turns to name the first music gig we had been to, and asked Alexa to play something by the performers. My first gig was Curved Air at the Kinema Ballroom, Dunfermline, October 1971. As I recall it was great fun, but the volume of the sound was deafening. I still had ringing in my ears the following morning. Alexa played the number Vivaldi from the album Airconditioning ...