And here are the cheat music round clues for tonight. First the Vibrators at the Brass Monkey Leith:
From so long ago, its not even really a video
This Top of The Pops performance was probably the precise moment at which mainstream Britain became bored of punk.
The singer looks like a tourist, a middle-class kid who thinks that taking his tap aff and singing about marital aids will give him Sid-Vicious-style notoriety.
It’s almost as predictable as the evening news.
By contrast, check this terrific video by Basement Jaxx for a song that appears at Saint Andrews Brewing Company:
The video has everything from a pirate with a tone-arm for a hand to a Mexican stand-off with luchadors and scissor-paper-stone. Tremendous.
Anyway – it’s bank holiday Monday so drink and drink and drink and drunk and remember to come to the quiz.
By the Power of Greyskull – Come to the quiz
See ya later – x
Dr P
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Sunday night. Also Easter. I can imagine that it might be a wee bit messy around the edges tonight.
Trust in yourself, but keep a grip. That’s my advice.
Anyway, if you are coming tonight (to the quiz) you’ll need the free answers – here’s the music round cheat for tonight’s quiz at the Persevere:
A Bit Harsh
It’s Billy Bragg in 1988. I saw him at Barrowland a couple of years later and it was the same schtick – just Bragg and a guitar, no backing band, no support act.
Somehow he made that last for an hour and a half. Decent, likes although I don’t listen to him much these days. I think his voice finally did my head in and I had to quit.
Anyway if you are one of the “normals” then you odn’t have work tomorrow. Come to the quiz tonight.
See you at the quiz tonight.
Dr Paul
Genius insult
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It’s still the Easter holidays and I’m still doing the childcare so today’s post is, once again, brief and functional.
If you demand more chat and banter and all that business, then simply come to the quiz tonight – a safe zone for adults, where no children may interfere.
So here are the music round cheat answers for tonight:
It’s the Boomtown Rats, fronted by Bob Geldof who vies with Morrissey for the Throne of Twats.
In this video he reminds me of BA Robertson who had the same schtick at around the same time, and that’s not a good thing.
And here are the cheat music round clues for tonight. First the Spike Milligan song at the Safari Lounge quiz:
From so long ago, its not even really a video
Spike Milligan was your archetypal tortured comic genius, swinging wildly between depression and creating the kind of comedy which started everyone else that you like, years before they did.
I went to Aberdeen yesterday and, as ever, it’s great to be out of there and back here.
I also saw one thousand seals on a beach. The beach is Newburgh. It’s great. Go and see the seals.
Anyway, if you are coming tonight (to the quiz) you’ll need these free answers – here’s the music round cheat for tonight’s quiz at the Tolbooth:
Epic Disco
It’s from the high days of Disco, complete with classical influences and dancers in purple. All the dancers in the video are now over sixty years old.
Even rave is getting that way. All the ravers are married and driving cars to supermarkets instead of fields.
Some of them probably drive their car to a supermarket which is built on a piece of land which used to be a field where they once raved to the Prodigy and Suburban Delay
9pm – The Newsroom. Jackpot £150. Cheat answer: Sofia Loren (pic round).
It’s Easter holidays and I’m doing the childcare so today’s post is brief and functional, like when you nip into WH Smith as fast as you possibly can to buy a bottle of water before you get on the train.
So here are the music round cheat answers for tonight:
First for The Ship Inn at Musselburgh where Kerry will be playing this bollocks by Niall Horan who used to be one of the directions out of One Direction:
And secondly at the Argyle Bar where I will be playing this by Pulp which feels epic at first but, upon repeated listens, becomes rather turgid:
Both these tunes are not the greatest but maybe Niall Horan wins because he is available in life-size cardboard cutout format:
If you buy that, remember to make sure you do it ironically
Here is the free answer for tonight’s music round at the Joker. It’s 1990s mega rave-pop Dutch People: 2 Unlimited.
This was when Rave had come out of the fields and into the charts and having it large had become the new normal:
Fred, Cindy, Kate, Keith and Ricky
Includes the line: “Don’t just stand there, let’s get loose. I am Ray, I’ve got the juice. “
Probably not 2 Unlimited’s finest moment.
But for a wee while there in the 1990s it was smileys, bandanas, tie-dye and ravey gloves. Literally everyone. Even cops, financial advisers and primary school teachers.
Get yourself to Musselburgh! Kerry is up and running at the Ship Inn. Join her to see what quizzing looks like in Mussy!
Here is the music cheat answer for tonight:
At the Newsroom, the music round includes a song by Pussycat Dollswhich sounds like this:
There is a lot to hate about this video, not least the egregious over-featuring of Campariwhich must have have won some kind of trophy for Most Obvious product placement of the year at the commercial music awards.
Anyway, instead of weeping about it maybe I should phone Campari and get them to sponsor the quiz. You could win Campari every week.
