(Continued from this thread)
Feel free to set any questions you feel might entertain people, but if possible, do wait until the previous question has run its course. Oh, and only set them on Fridays. If someone beats you to it, try again the next week.
dr desperate
So sorry for your loss, @MOVS, propelling me into 14th place and you into 15th. You can take consolation in having secured the coveted 2000th post on this thread.
15 September 2022
Exxo
Thanks Paul. That’s a record 18 entries.
My own picks are
1. Harry Quinn, Surging, bad losers, evenjng of swing, Rogation, Broken Headstone, persian rug.
2 joker on Harry quinn
3 left lyrics, PRS, San Antonio, vitas G
4.FILM THEME
5. Broadstairs
6. THe Saints
7 .27.58617%
Now an apology. Could everyone who entered more than 48 hours ago tell me on this thread over the next few days what you picked for the cover song artist, so I know who is who. I see now that i must have deleted the name question temporarily (and so the answers before then permanently ) when I changed some wodings after the “len ganley” query.
I also notice now (cos I only look at answers after the foirm closes and after I publish my own) that one person has indeed chosen len ganley as a song that will be dropped tonight, presumably because it appears in the set list chart, so understandably assuming it was played by the band in Castleton (rather than a few bars of “the john ganley stance” by NB alone, as a joke to piss-take the “request ” from a drunken audience member).
What i will generously do is give each of that person’s other 3 picks for dropped songs a weighting of 8 points if indeed dropped so adding up to the same possible maximum of 24.
Good luck everyone. I am fishing tonight so maybe I should say “tight lines.”
16 September 2022
Schoon
I think I picked the Sex Pistols.
16 September 2022
Man Of varying sorrow
I went with the Beatles. A bit out of the box perhaps but haven’t been covered since pre-pandemic times. Also I’m not too annoyed about the VAR overturning – I play for the love of the game!
16 September 2022
mister tubbs
I picked Shakespeare’s Sister again, as they got me 7 points last time out
16 September 2022
BOBBY SVARC
The cover is 5.7.0.5. by City Boy
16 September 2022
TRANSIT FULL OF keith
I went with Black Sabbath, continuing my failing strategy of picking local bands. (I did consider the obvious topical Sex Pistols / Smiths numbers, but I reckon they’re a bit too on the nose).
16 September 2022
Bad loser
Walk on was ‘Daybreaker’ by Brum’s finest: ELO.
16 September 2022
Cream CHEESE AND chives
Pistols Pretty Vacant
16 September 2022
dr desperate
I picked Buzzcocks as the cover band, which I hope will have gained me a couple of points for ‘same city’ as Magazine. Howard Devoto was born in Scunthorpe, you know.
Good call on ‘Persian Rug’ btw, @Exxo (I picked ‘Broken Headstone’ from TVY, can’t remember which other).
17 September 2022
D list paul ross
Mine was Velvet Underground.
19 September 2022
nige
Mine was ELO – wrong end of the gig though!!
19 September 2022
EXXO
Thanks. Brilliant setlist, now confirmed by Roger, so please check for me that the annotated setlist HERE will allocate the points in a just & equitable way.
To issue the points, because of my lost names question fiasco I just need to know who picked the Clash for the cover (no points there but 10 points for the closest percentage guess as it happens), the person who picked the Undertones (who was second closest for 5 points), and the other person (not Dr. D) who picked the Buzzcocks (who will get 5 points for a Manchester band). This will probably be the only gig ever where although nobody picked either band covered, 3 contestants picked bands who had some of the same members as the two bands. There should be points for that. Maybe next season (I love a rule tweak, me).
Unlucky with choosing ELO there, Nige (No, not that one). Wonder if it will also be the only gig where someone’s cover pick was the walk-on? There will definitely be a bonus for that too next season – already I can’t wait for a summer 2023 tweakfest. So it was Lux inferior who gets 5 points for walk on POP. But Nige (No, not that one), at least you were lucky to get 24 points for the dropped songs, even though you picked The Len Ganley Stance, which wasn’t really played in Castleton. Unlike Keith who only picked 3 songs to be dropped, where 4 choices are available this season. Come on, get a grip lad!
19 September 2022
Lord hereford
I was the other person who picked Buzzcocks.
19 September 2022
woodnoggin
“although nobody picked either band covered…”
Hang on – I picked Magazine. It made my day when I saw I’d got points for that, as it’s always something of a crap shoot. Don’t tell me I’m not going to get them!
19 September 2022
EXXO
Apologies Wood. I don’t even know why I said that, as I haven’t even looked properly at all the answers yet, as I’ve been away for a few days. In the process of just trying to work out who is who after a cock-up with an edit on Wednesday, I looked at most forms but not yours! I’d be pretty sure Magazine are HMHB’s most covered act, and ‘Song from Under the Floorboards’ their most covered song, plus was always a favourite of mine long before HMHB were around, so a wise choice indeed,
19 September 2022
EXXO
OK, I’ve worked out the points while I should have been prepping for a job interview. Priorities, eh?
Only two mystery identities remaining from my editing mishap – Cream Cheese & Chives – you said you’d chosen the Pistols as your cover, but by a ‘cess of elimination, you can’t have. You must have changed your mind, or not changed your mind, and chosen whichever of The Clash & The Undertones wasn’t chosen by CtSO. Whoever of those two chose the Clash got 10 points for the closest percentage of setlist turnover, and whoever chose the Undertones got 5 points for the second closest %.
20 September 2022
Chris The Siteowner
I think I picked The Clash, but I wouldn’t bet a pint on it. Definitely more likely than The Undertones, if that’s the alternative.
20 September 2022
EXXO
Thanks.
Ooh wait a minute – just spotted Schoon’s doubt when he says “I think I picked the Sex Pistols.” Hmm. @Schoon – did you pick Dead Men Don’t Need season Tickets for 33 points no less? and a difference percentage of 38.something? And the Undertones?
20 September 2022
Schoon
@exxo nope unfortunately not.
20 September 2022
Schoon
I think I picked Westward ho a lot and probably scored about three points.
20 September 2022
EXXO
Thanks Schoon. You scored a respectable 36 points, the median score for this gig, and I am assuming that Cream Cheese and Chives is the man in 7th place with 62 points. Points for Chris & Cream Cheese are somewhat provisional.
Sorry if this scoring is becoming a bit of a laughing stock. Heads are rolling at Hughes Lane FBL HQ as we speak.
20 September 2022
EXXO
So here are your provisional points and league table. Pre-season bookies’ favourite Woodnoggin, who achieved the ‘points per gig’ title last season, has raced into the lead after 2 rounds, with a neat combo of cover band and debut song.
There is controversy. Some early entrants were disadvantaged by erroneous setlists, and two participants thought Terminus had not been played in Castleton, entering it for question 1, and one thought Len Ganley had been played, entering it therefore for Q.3. The latter error was anticipated and a ruling given pre-gig, meaning that Nige (NNTO) scored 24 points from his other three correct entries for Q.3.
The ‘Terminus’ question is more vexed. I did not anticipate the issue pre-Brum, and it would have been worth another 2 points each to Lord Hereford and Mister Tubbs, but we can’t really give points for a song which did indeed appear in the last two gigs (and indeed is an ever present for 4 years). So their loss of the 2 points is just one of those things and incidentally neither played their joker on Terminus – indeed both players were successful with their joker on another song).
Brum points provisional – please check with the annotated setlist at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ICkS_nvNQMQmoUxIS7L1tka1dNCDqHuKYB_uXJ_gr2E/edit?usp=sharing
Woodnoggin_______ 94 ( 40 for Persian, 30 for Magazine, 24 for dropped songs)
Ferencvaros Fan____80 (40 persian, 22 Buried with joker, 18 dropped songs)
Mister Tubbs_______80 (40 Persian, 22 Buried with joker, 18 dropped songs)
Transit Fo Keith _____75 (40 Persian, 12 Floreat, 18 dropped songs, 5 Brum band Sab)
Lux inferior ________69 (40 Persian, 24 dropped songs, Pop walk-on 5 points)
Exxo ______________64 (persian 40, dropped songs 24)
Cream Cheese (?)____62 (dead Men 33 points, dropped songs 24, 5 for 2nd closest 38%)
Lord Hereford________49 (22 Buried, 2 ? 18 dropped songs, 5 Manc band Buzzcocks)
Man of Varying Sorrow 46 (22 Broadstairs, 24 dropped songs)
CtSO (?)____________36 (2 Broadstairs, 24 dropped songs, 10 points for closest – 40%)
Schoon_____________36 (12 Floreat, 24 dropped songs)
Nige NNTO __________31 (2 Broadstairs, 24 dropped songs, Brum band ELO 5 points)
Parsfan _____________29 (24 dropped songs, 5 for Brum band Dexy’s)
Bad Loser ___________24 (24 dropped songs)
Injured Buzzard _______24 (24 dropped songs)
Phyllis Triggs__________24 (24 dropped songs)
Dr Des _____________ 23 (18 dropped songs, 5 manc band Buzzcocks )
D-List Paul Ross_______18 (dropped songs 18)
League table after the 2nd fixture of the 2022/23 season
(2 players marked PL1 have only played 1)
Woodnoggin _________135 points
Lux Inferior __________119
Mister Tubbs _________114
Exxo _______________ 112
Transit Fo Keith _______110
Ferencvaros Fan _______97
Schoon _______________76
Parsfan _______________74
Man of Varying Sorrow ___64
C.C. & Chives__(PL 1)___ 62
CtSO _________________60
Nige (No, not that one) ____60
Bad Loser ______________55
Phyllis Triggs ____________50
Injured Buzzard __________48
Lord Hereford___(PL 1) ____47
Dr. Des _________________46
D-List Paul Ross __________42
20 September 2022
EXXO
The breakdown of Lord Hereford’s score there was just a handwriting issue with my scribbled notes and should read: 22 Broadstairs, 2 Buried, 18 points for dropped songs, 5 for Manc band Buzzcocks)
20 September 2022
EXXO
And so his Lordship is on 47 as per the overall table, not 49 as in the Brum points. doh!
20 September 2022
Cream CHEESE AND chives
I’m fairly sure that I didn’t predict Dead Men Don’t Need Season Tickets. I am happy to acfept an award for honesty and good sportsmanship.
21 September 2022
EXXO
I have had a niggling feeling ever since I didn’t find an entry for ‘Pretty Vacant’ that your form somehow didn’t come through at all, CC&C, and that therefore the mystery entry belongs to a new contestant.
Who chose ‘Dead Men Don’t Need Season Tickets’?
21 September 2022
D list paul ross
Doing exactly as well as I expected!! Must try harder although Magazine lost the toss for the cover choice.
21 September 2022
Cream cheese and chives
Exxo, fear not. I have no record of my predictions but a quick scan of the setlist made me wonder whether a negative score might be possible. The site is a very welcome distraction to some very serious issues at Cream Cheese Towers.
21 September 2022
Bad loser
I paid the price for actually doing some work in the office last week instead of doing my predictions with my gig listing close at hand. My memory told me that we’d witnessed Persian Rug Sale so I dropped it after picking it 2 of 3 times in a row. Won’t make that mistake again.
21 September 2022
woodnoggin
To celebrate being briefly top of the table (I’m sure it won’t last), I’ve put together a picture quiz. My daughter (4) has kindly drawn some of the animals featured in Half Man Half Biscuit songs. I’ve positioned them on a map according to where you might find them around the world. Your task is to identify the animal and the HMHB song it appears in. Some of them are a bit tricky. 18 animals and songs to guess.
Link here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e3dptjM_cV-zCIAkWNBN68tHBv3Bd9de/view?usp=drivesdk
23 September 2022
EXXO
Just a brilliant idea! Please pass on great praise to your daughter, who has a particular flair for the apes and birds I reckon. I’ve identified most species I reckon, but 12, 13 &14 are proving the most challenging.
23 September 2022
EXXO
OK, got #12. And #14 will be what I thought 4 was, so what’s 4? Great quiz this.
23 September 2022
Natalie at the back
This is good fun. Is no. 16 ‘Soft Verges’? I’m probably wrong – my geography is all over the place…
23 September 2022
Lord leominster
Great quiz. I thought I had no.6 but then I realised it’s not the animal that’s mentioned in song but the animal’s owner/keeper (who was alive then – but is dead now). Hmm.
23 September 2022
Lord leominster
And is no.3 a trick question? Is that a picture of a long since dead dog?
23 September 2022
Woodnoggin
@Natalie at the Back – you’re right with no.16. I think there are actually two possible correct answers for that animal.
My partner thinks 12, 13 and 15 are too difficult and I should give you a clue. But I’ll leave you to puzzle a bit longer first.
24 September 2022
dr desperate
I had ‘Mountain Bikes’ for no.16 or just possibly ‘Blood on the Quad’, in view of the location of the number. Similarly, I have two possible answers for no.18.
I haven’t got 13 or 15, and my answer for 12 is more geographical than zoological (though with a herpetological link).
24 September 2022
Lord leominsteR
I thought no.15 was one of the less difficult ones, in which case I must have that one wrong, too. Them’s the vagaries.
24 September 2022
EXXO
oooh great quiz but for my tastes way too early with sharing answers, hints, etc.
24 September 2022
EXXO
Soz I shouldn’t have actually written that thought never mind sent it. Probably the effect of having yet another bike stolen last night.
What I meant was yeah, good thinking, no hints for a couple of days.
24 September 2022
dr desperate
Still puzzling – I have an initial idea for animal no.13.
25 September 2022
Woodnoggin
This link may help for the most obscure three:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_famous_people_(born_1950%E2%80%93present)
26 September 2022
EXXO
Ha, thanks – a brilliant extra dimension to a splendid quiz! I’d googled #12 successfully because I had a vague memory of the fact that one was named after that person, but was unable to do the same for 1#3 (never thought of googling “insects named after famous people”). And I didn’t know I was wrong about #15 with squid, but now I do!
26 September 2022
dr desperate
Yeah, got ’em now. Excellent quiz!
(I don’t suppose anybody else made the herpetological link to my geographical guess for no.12.)
26 September 2022
EXXO
No – but when you said “initial idea” for #13 were you thinking of the initial U, and a cricket crowd chant-chirping like giant Colombian brown crickets?
No? Oh, OK then.
26 September 2022
dr desperate
Actually, the initials were those of Animal Number Thirteen, giving an ANT (king of the hill in WMCF).
Colombians eat fat-bottomed ants (hormigas culonas), you know.
26 September 2022
dr desperate
Even further off the mark, my geographical suggestion for no.12 was them Andes off ‘Eno Collaboration’, crossed by Frog by Captain Walter Snetterton. (Herpetologically, of course, Michael Palin was an ex-Python.)
26 September 2022
EXXO
Following the incident in which the name question for the early entrants for the Brum gig was deleted, an enquiry at FBL HQ, has now allocated 62 points (not 36) to Chris the Siteowner and identified the following 36-point entry as the one that still needs claiming,
1. songs in:
Rogation Sunday Westward Ho! Hornbeam Broadstairs Fix it so she dreams… Restless Legs (just 2 points for Broadstairs there)
2. (joker) Restless Legs
3. songs out:
Vitas G Joy in Leeuwarden PRS Yearbook Little In The Way of Sunshine
(24 points there)
4. walk on: Country
5. opening song: Suffolk Ditch
6. Cover song: London Calling
7. % difference 40% (won 10 points as the highest and nearest guess)
27 September 2022
woodnoggin
Time for some answers?
Here are the animals:
1. Badger
2. Fox
3. Tiger
4. Mynah bird
5. Orangutan
6. Turkey
7. Dolphin
8. Giraffe
9. Chimpanzee
10. Octopus
11. Sloth
12. Hyla stingi (frog)
13. Sericomyrmex radioheadi (ant)
14. Hummingbird
15. Amphinema rollinsi (jellyfish)
16. Swan
17. Eel
18. Bat
29 September 2022
EXXO
Great stuff Woody. Badger was always my favourite for #1 though I had wolf and alsatian on the pedestal for that medal. Fox likewise for #2 with “your missing cat” in a distant second place.
For #4 I got misled by the map and settled on crane a bit too too readily.
For #6 I assumed an Australian native, and so thought it was a portrayal of a baby kangaroo perhaps within a fluffy pouch without the portrayal of the mother.
For #7 I was going to give myself the points whether it was dolphin or shark, likewise the swan one if it turned out to be goose and indeed so too for the eel one if it turned out to be a tope.
All in all I’m happy with 14 out 18 before your celebrity creatures help and 16 after and just generally full of joy that this delightful quiz came to be.
Many chapeaux to the whole family and I look forward to your next quiz.
29 September 2022
EXXO
What song is the fox from?
29 September 2022
Phyllis Triggs
Fab quiz, Woodnoggin. Thanks to you and your daughter. Being somewhat geographically-challenged I’m pleased to have managed a score of 10. Had a seal for #1 and either baby kangaroo or emu for #6. Prior to the joyous realisation that #10 was an octopus, I had #10, 15 and 17 all down as plankton… Got completely wrong-footed by #11 and am shamefaced to have misinterpreted such a wonderful depiction of a sloth – it looks nothing like a dead ram!
29 September 2022
dr desperate
I had Jackdaw (or Crow) for 18, Walrus for 1 and Wolf for 2; I also went for Crane, Emu and Shark as 4, 6 and 7. Discounting my pre-hint American answers, ingenious though they were, I can’t claim any more than 50% correct.
Very enjoyable quiz though; many thanks to you and your daughter (and partner).
Do you also have a son called WoodKnut?
29 September 2022
woodnoggin
Here are the songs I had in mind for each animal:
1. Badger – Bladderwrack Allowance – “Mine’s a pint of Badger’s Entirely Blameless”
2. Fox – Persian Rug Sale at the URC – “Alfie Bass and that drone have got me foxed”
3. Tiger – Multitude – “Where the tiger soothes the baby kangaroo”
4. Mynah Bird – Stuck Up a Hornbeam – “I’ve got a mynah bird, it does nothing but moan”
5. Orangutan – Every Time a Bell Rings – “Why can’t you say ‘orangutan’?”
6. Turkey – New York Skiffle – “I’ve turkeyed way upstate”
7. Dolphin – Girlfriend’s Finished with Him – “And something or other about dolphins”
8. Giraffe – Awkward Sean – “Murdered by a giraffe”
9. Chimpanzee – Took Problem Chimp to the Ideal Home Show – “Took problem chimp to the Ideal Home Show”
10. Octopus – Them’s the Vagaries – “Squid yes, not so octopus”
11. Sloth – Tonight Matthew I’m Going to Be with Jesus – “It prods me out of my sloth”
12. Frog (Hyla stingi) – A Country Practice – “Sting, singing on the roof of the Barbican”
13. Ant (Sericomyrmex radioheadi) – On Passing Lilac Urine – “The council’s gonna ask Radiohead to switch off Blackpool lights”
14. Hummingbird – Depressed Beyond Tablets – “I’ve been sent to gut hummingbirds”
15. Jellyfish (Amphinema rollinsi) – You’re Hard – “Henry Rollins – you’re hard”
16. Swan – Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes/Soft Verges – “Careful now, that swan could break your arm”/”Do you still drink in The Swan?”
17. Eel – Something’s Rotten in the Back of Iceland – “The age-old eel in your decommissioned fridge”
18. Bat – Renfield’s Afoot – “Notice was given of a bat walk”
30 September 2022
woodnoggin
I was tempted to locate the eel in the Mersey as a nod to the infamous Speke Eel of Alehouse Futsal…
30 September 2022
dr desperate
I thought it was aspic eel (though since Bre*it they won’t come from Germany any more).
https://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/recipes/539640/eel-in-aspic-aal-in
30 September 2022
Golden Biscuit Winner
Frog (Hyla stingi) Jellyfish (Amphinema rollinsi) Ant (Sericomyrmex radioheadi) – you should be in a Suffolk Ditch
30 September 2022
EXXO
Predictions form for Friday’s Blackpool gig. New contestants and one-off entries welcome.
https://forms.gle/NpTTKX1Lfn4QvpzF8
The form now asks for an email and sends you a copy of your answers, but your emails will not be stored in my data retrieval system.
The last 15 setlists are here with the current league table:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l_G0TLwgj4MzaU9c931nTtz6hKBSNUHJ4itd_2gfLhc/edit?usp=sharing
2 October 2022
Natalie at the back
I managed to identify 11 out of the 18. I’d have got 12 but foolishly plumped for Drongo for no.6.
Thanks to Little Woodnoggin for a very entertaining quiz!
3 October 2022