1. Of which town were Marillion allegedly Market Square heroes?

2. What have the following in common: Listen To The Band by Michael Nesmith; Cities by Talking Heads; High Tension Line by The Fall; Hand In Glove by The Smiths?

3. Which band has name-checked Scotch Whiskey, Pina Colada, Grapefruit Wine and a Zombie cocktail in various songs?

4. What links Living In A Box, Big Country, Talk Talk, The Fall, The Clash and Madness?

5. Who played the ukelele for the Bonzo Dog Band?

6. What’s the connection between Charles Baudelaire and Dead Can Dance?

7. In the late-80s, Ralf Hutter out of Kraftwerk gave an interview to a French magazine. What was unusual about that?

8. John Cage won a substantial amount of money on an Italian quiz show, answering questions on which subject?

9. Which band credited the famous American legal advocate Melvin Belli as a member?

10. (double bonus impossible non-music poser) Which classic film has Jonathan Ross in it?


(clues available upon request :))

I wouldn't call Breaking Glass a classic myself, but is that the answer to no.10?

no.5 might be John Wayne - anybody got the Intro and the Outro to hand?

God, I hope not re: Breaking Glass - but not the one I'm thinking of.

Whilst Googling is proscribed, Listening To Records is permitted ;)

1. Aylesbury. Local boys to near where I grew up.
4. Had self-referential songs.
5. Dunno - I know Adolf Hitler was on vibes though.*
7. It was all about cycling.

Making a sandwich while I mull on 2 and 3. Great quiz, Fritter...


* Pedantry corner - Ukulele.

Is 2 a harmonica or a harmonica solo?

9. Wild guesses. Beach Boys? Residents?

8. Silence or himself.

10. Clue cadge - presumably this was when he was a kid, in the 70s?

1: Correct! How the hardcore glaswegian Derek Dick aka Fish ended up in Aylesbury I neither know nor care.

4: Yes that right

7: Yes indeed, it never once mentioned that he was a member of Kraftwerk.

Nope

No, although they are one of my favourite groups.

Neither, I'm afraid.

No it was the 60s, so he probably would have been younger.

That would have been a great Italian TV quiz show, though. While the dollybirds circled...

5. "Eric Clapton, Ukulele...Hi Eric"

Is 2 a faded in intro?

Something makes me recall Wossy was in Whistle Down The Wind, but he can't have been born then, shirley?

10, quadraphenia?

5. Who played the ukelele for the Bonzo Dog Band?

Macca

8. John Cage won a substantial amount of money on an Italian quiz show, answering questions on which subject?

mushrooms

9. Which band credited the famous American legal advocate Melvin Belli as a member?

Big Black

7, ralph hutter gave his interview to a cycling mag i think

oh bugger, on edit someones already got it...

10. Ross appears in Breaking Glass in crowd shots?

10. Kes?

Clues from 3 and 10, please Fritter.

Complete guess, but is no.3 Men At Work?

Right, let's look at the scores on the doors so far:

1. Of which town were Marillion allegedly Market Square heroes? (Marillion - Elvischomsky)

2. What have the following in common: Listen To The Band by Michael Nesmith; Cities by Talking Heads; High Tension Line by The Fall; Hand In Glove by The Smiths? (They all fade in - Elvischomsky)

3. Which band has name-checked Scotch Whiskey, Pina Colada, Grapefruit Wine and a Zombie cocktail in various songs?

4. What links Living In A Box, Big Country, Talk Talk, The Fall, The Clash and Madness? (They all have songs with the band's name in - Elvischomsky)

5. Who played the ukelele for the Bonzo Dog Band? (Eric Clapton - and it really was him, I asked! - Graemelovespinklady

6. What’s the connection between Charles Baudelaire and Dead Can Dance?

7. In the late-80s, Ralf Hutter out of Kraftwerk gave an interview to a French magazine. What was unusual about that? (It only talked about cycling, not mentioning his 'day job' - Elvischomsky)

8. John Cage won a substantial amount of money on an Italian quiz show, answering questions on which subject? (Mushrooms - GVAB)

9. Which band credited the famous American legal advocate Melvin Belli as a member? (Big Black (guitarist Santiago Durango went off to law practice after Songs About Fucking - GVAB)

10. (double bonus impossible non-music poser) Which classic film has Jonathan Ross in it?


Elvischomsky is obviously well in the lead, though I'm tempted to invoke Gascoigne's Law and deduct a point for spelling surely 'shirley' again, let's see how the hangover turns out :banghead: 2 to GVAB and 1 to GLPL.

Clues:

3 is not Men At Work. They're much much more sophisticated than that.

10 - The film was shot in Southern Spain, though set somewhere else, and I worded the question as carefully as I could.

6- I'm fairly surprised no one's had a stab at this, I thought there were q lot of well-read types here :)

10. Is it a spaghetti western?

Bang on BK(well, very warm at least) ....very good!

In that case, and sorry for a list...is it one of:

A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon A Time In The West?

I should know this. :banghead:

Yes it is one of those (but I'm giving a Paxman-type eyebrow raise at the list) - and it looks like you've discarded the red herring (wed hewwing?)

This is why I'm interested in the question!
He's not actually "in" the film, is he??? (this isn't rhetorical, I don't know)

Or is he? :ohdear:

Oh, put me out of my misery, Fritter!

I'm saying The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.
But I don't know why...

You're right, and I apologise because it's pretty tenuous, but in The Good The Bad & The Ugly, when Clint and Eli have been taken prisoner by the yankees, there's a roll-call in the prison camp - and one of the names called out is Jonathan Ross. When I saw it the other night at the cinema, the bloke next to me muttered a quiet "oh fuck, no!" at the name.

So, all that remains is the Boozy Group and the Baudelaire/Dead Can Dance connection.

3, De-la-soul?

Not De La Soul, but UNCANNILY close in a way, but not in the obvious way (i.e. they're not rappers or black). I confess I might have an inflated opinion of this group's popularity on the Forum.

I demand a motherfucking recount! Macca played uke on "Urban Spaceman" which makes me joint leader.

PS I have been a roadie for John Cage.

Sorry, I knew he produced Urban Spaceman but didn't know he played on it. A bonus 80 points for outsmarting the quizmaster!

Were you really a roadie for John Cage? That must've been a hell of a job, with all them screws and nuts 'n' bolts and flower pots etc. etc. Still, I could think of worse bosses.

....gee thanx. Yeah it was when "Roratorio" (sp) was in Huddersfield, I had to put plants in precise places as per his instructions.

Viv Stanshall played Uke for the Bonzos["a much maligned instrument"]

Just had a thorough read through of the thread and if Eric Clapton did play Uke on Intro&Outro, good for him. There are several songs on the early Bonzo albums that a Uke is heard in the background and I am pretty certain that that is Viv.
[Will try and read more carefully in the future: nice quiz]

I've clearly made a blunder with the Ukelele/Bonzos question :ohdear: since it's so easy to play, maybe Viv could've done it, but the man I was thinking of was Eric Clapton. Should've worded it: Which dull-as-ditchwater bangwagon-jumping wife-stealing junky alcoholic Armani clotheshorse played ukelele for the Bonzos...