( Gentle but perky violin quartet music, Egyptian hieroglyphs swirl around. )
Welcome to a special edition of Only Connect! You know what? Each week I look at the teams and, let’s be honest, they do tend to be nerdy people of a certain age who have really have nothing better to do! They usually have unhealthy and very uninteresting obsessions. Things like “style” and, dare-I-say it, personal hygiene are not priorities.
How refreshing then, to meet the Afterword Massive. (Long pause)
What connects these ?
1. Your first hieroglyph is the Eye of Horus.
NxWorries
Yes
Suede
ABBA
2. The Horned Viper
PJ Harvey
Jerry Lee Lewis
Debbie Gibson
Taylor Swift
3. Water
Limahl
George Formby
Georgie Fame
Richard Ashcroft
4. Twisted Flax
The Pet Shop Boys
The Buzzcocks
The Dead Kennedys
The The The
5. The Lion
Hey Bulldog
Road to Nowhere
Tarzan Boy
Werewolves of London
6. Two Reeds
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Sandinista!
Emancipation
Yessongs
That’s the end of our special Afterword show. Please answer in the comments below.
Phwooar! Michael Portillo! Goodnight.
Rigid Digit says
4. The definitive article is extraneous
(that even sounds like an OC response)
Black Celebration says
That is the the right answer.
duco01 says
You could’ve had (The) Yachts and (The) Pixies, too!
Rigid Digit says
Small Faces and Faces too
Rigid Digit says
6. Triple albums?
Black Celebration says
Yes Yes Yes
Gatz says
1. Band members with surnames which are variants of ‘Anderson’
Black Celebration says
Correct!
Davidg says
3. Born in or around Wigan
Black Celebration says
Very good and very corrrect.
duco01 says
2. All have songs to do with shaking!
Black Celebration says
That’s right – they do!
Black Type says
2. Shake:
Let England…
Whole Lotta….Goin’ On
…Your Love
… It Off
Black Celebration says
As above – well done.
Paul Wad says
5 – there’s a bit of howling in all 4 songs
Black Celebration says
Can you perhaps elaborate on that ?
Paul Wad says
Howling’s perhaps the wrong word, as David Byrne squawks – animal sounds in the outro
Black Celebration says
Yep – I was just after animal noises really – well done.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Here’s the first Wall.
Your time starts NOW:
duco01 says
Erm … well, all dubheads know that Hopeton Overton Brown is Scientist.
So … erm … is that one answer?
duco01 says
and the other reggae chaps are:
Winston James Thompson – Dr Alimentado
Winston Rodney – Burning Spear
Ewart Beckford – U-Roy
Vulpes Vulpes says
So that’s one row correctly lined up – should make the rest a little easier. Maybe?
salwarpe says
born in Essex –
Victoria Beckham. Keith Christmas, Sonja Kristina, Twink
top 4 songs in the Peel festive fifty 2004 –
Theme from Sparta FC part 2, Chargr, Singer, Dreams and Bridges
places in the south west of the UK –
Carnglaze, Tintagel, Saunton, Hengistbury Head
Vulpes Vulpes says
Oh so close!
The first two are correct, but the third one isn’t quite specific enough….
Rigid Digit says
Album covers?
Only one (I think) I know is Saunton – Pink Floyd’s Momentary Lapse Of Reason
duco01 says
Hengistbury Head is the setting for the cover of Phish’s album “Slip, Stitch and Pass”
duco01 says
Carnglaze is the setting for the cover of “Ocean Rain” by the Bunnymen.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Correctamundo!
And the cover for Seth Lakeman’s album Poor Man’s Heaven was shot at Tintagel.
Gatz says
Complete the sequence (and remember it has to form a sequence, not just a connection).
1
The Visitors
Back in Black
Prince Charming
?
2
Screamadelica
Suede
Elegant Slumming
?
3
River
The Climb
I Have a Dream
?
Barry Blue says
1. An album by Aerosmith
2. Dummy
3. Dunno
Gatz says
Correct (as is @duco01 on number 1 below).
1 is albums by bands beginning AB (ABBA), AC (AC/DC) and AD (Adam and the Ants) so I was looking for an album by a band beginning AE (Aerosmith’s Pump was the example I was thinking of, but any fitting the description would do).
2 is the first 4 winners of the Mercury prize, beginning with the first.
duco01 says
Is no.1 an album by Aerosmith? I don’t know which one, though…
Black Celebration says
A guess for 3 – because I am struggling with it :
If you tolerate this…- Manics?
Gatz says
Two hours is enough, and 3 was the toughest. It’s the number on singles at the start of the most recent 4 decades.
River = 1 Jan 2020, Ellie Goulding
The Climb = 1 Jan 2010, Joe McElderry
I Have a Dream = 1 Jan 2000, Westlife
So the answer was … Do They Know it’s Christmas?, 1 Jan 1990, Band Aid II
Black Celebration says
Very good – I thought it might have something to do with political speeches.
salwarpe says
Probably 2 obscure 2 name…
Rigid Digit says
The round is usually 3 minutes.
I’ve been staring at that for 10 minutes … and nothing
Slug says
I can think of only two well known people with that particular spelling of Alec. One is Douglas- Home. So.. former prime ministers? Double-barrelled surnames? The other is Guinness..so, actors, Star Wars cast members, people with drinks as a surname?
I am struggling.
Black Celebration says
Just checking @salwarpe – is the answer related to rockular music?
salwarpe says
It is. Members of 4 very well known British rockular combos
salwarpe says
That was the first clue. There are four more
Black Celebration says
I’m stumped. My only thought is middle names but I’m not getting far.
Rigid Digit says
I thought I had one then – Genesis
Anthony, Michael, Philip … and Frank
Rigid Digit says
Middle names:
John JOSEPH Lydon
Stephen PHILIP Jones
Paul THOMAS Cook
Simon JOHN Ritchie
Vulpes Vulpes says
Ah, then the rest of the grid consists entirely of Eno’s middle names!
Rigid Digit says
And it might just work:
Robert ANTHONY Plant
James PATRICK Page
John RICHARD Baldwin
John HENRY Bonham
Rigid Digit says
Roger HARRY Daltrey
Peter DENNIS Blandford Townshend
John ALEC Entwhistle
Keith JOHN Moon
Rigid Digit says
(guesswork and wikipedia)
salwarpe says
That’s my policy and approach to these things. All 3 above are right.
My clues would have been (shame to waste them)
What else could be used as a starting gun?
Has that led you any further?
Who were active in the seventies.
And one for the last set, one for BC
One who shares your first name, but not your second name.
Black Celebration says
Black Sabbath then…?
Tony Iommi’s middle name is Frank. Ozzy’s middle name is Michael and, erm, the others all check out too*.
*probably
salwarpe says
… is the right answer.
Is it time for the gratuitous and lame Portillo insults?
Black Celebration says
There’s still the mssng vwls round.
Vulpes Vulpes says
*drums fingers*
*scratches chin*
*goes to make a coffee*
Rigid Digit says
Tm fr th mssng vwls rnd
Ramones Albums:
RM NS
TSA LV
RDT RN
PLS NTDR MS
CD TRS
Black Celebration says
I don’t know the album titles by memory so here’s my hurried guesses
Ramones
Dunno (there’s an A in the clue…?)
Road to Ruin
Pleasant Dreams
Acid Tears
Moose the Mooche says
It’s Alive.
…..where the Blitzkrieg Bop Hitmakers were famously brought onstage by a ragged, bearded Michael Palin.
Black Celebration says
Next missing vowels round
Afterword-friendly LPs
RL
MMGMM
GTYRYYT
TFTHBL
J
Gatz says
2 and 3 are Ummagumma and Get Yer Ya-Yas Out!
4 is Out of the Blue
Rigid Digit says
Out Of The Blue – would that be the Debbie Gibson masterwork?
Rigid Digit says
1. Aerial
(Didn’t realise it had that many vowels in it ..)
Black Celebration says
That was quick work! Wll dn !
hubert rawlinson says
Get your ya yas out. (Unless I’m wrong but I think there should be an s)
AJA
hubert rawlinson says
Don’t know why this wasn’t part of the reply to mssngvwlsrnd.
Black Celebration says
Sorry to have missed the ‘s’ – but you’re right of course.
I honestly thought AJA and Aerial would take longer.
Black Celebration says
Singers
S
DL
SXSSX
LMCGN
DMNT
Gatz says
I’ll leave the easy ones (3 and 5) for others, I can’t see 1 and 2 at first glance, but 3 is Alma Cogan.
Gatz says
I mean 4 is Alma Cogan of course, but can’t edit at the moment.
Black Celebration says
Crikey – I thought Alma Cogan would take ages, but BAM there you are.
Rigid Digit says
2. Adele
?
Black Celebration says
Hello. It’s her. (i.e. yes, it’s Adele).
hubert rawlinson says
Adam Ant.
Black Celebration says
Correct
Freddy Steady says
I think 1 is Sia.
Is 3 David Essex’ wayward daughter, Sex Essex?
Black Celebration says
Well done on number 1.
I sense you are pulling my chain on number 3. Even a full-on rocker like David Essex wouldn’t call his daughter “Sex”.
Black Type says
3 is ‘er out of t’ Banshees.
Black Celebration says
Aye… ‘appen.
Black Type says
Try these artistes:
DM NT
HD GRS
SD D
S
H
SH
Black Celebration says
3 – ASIA
4. A-HA
5 -ASH
Black Type says
Correct. Also, apologies – I didn’t see your earlier DM NT…wonder if anyone will get mine? 😉
Black Celebration says
I honestly didn’t notice – I was wracking my brains…
bobness says
2 Hoodoo Gurus
1 Adam Ant?
Black Type says
Yes and yes.
Black Celebration says
Afterword-isms
GRRYRFFRTYHSBNQTRCNTLY
HMPR
HYJDHTMKRS
SPDSTRNDHTSTND
TMFRRPPRSL
hubert rawlinson says
I think it’s
Gerry Rafferty has been quiet recently.
Black Celebration says
Quite right.
I may do one more – but make it exceptionally hard and perhaps earn myself a hmpr.
Rigid Digit says
Hamper
Hey Jude Hitmakers
Three More From Them Later
Aspidisrta And Hatstand
And I can’t get number 1 because drink has been taken, the FPO is on my case, and I shall be resigning my commission in the morning
Black Celebration says
Well done for typing aspidistra when pissed – all correct of course.
One more to get.
Black Celebration says
HOLD THE “FRONT” “PAGE” !
One of Rigid’s answers is NOT correct
TMFRRPPRSL
Remains open.
salwarpe says
Time for rappers, olé?
Black Celebration says
So close…
thecheshirecat says
Well its Time for a Reappraisal, innit?
Black Celebration says
Yes it is. Congratulations.
Black Celebration says
Drummers early 80s bands
JZSTRD FRM KJGG
CRLDPLNTR FRM JMMYTHHV
LSCR FRM FLCKFSGLLS
KVNHSKNS FRM BHS
TRSTN FRY FRM SKY
Bonus, general question
GGLSYRFRND
Rigid Digit says
Tristan Fry From Sky
That’s the only one I get without resorting to Google.
There’s Limahl, Nick Beggs, and some other blokes (one’s probably called Jez)
Gary says
There’s also Les or Lee C-something-R-something from A Flock of Seagulls and Kevin Hoskins from British Home Stores.
I like this game. It’s very easy.
Black Celebration says
I can’t accept those answers I’m afraid.
British Home Stores is the punchline to great joke. Do you want to hear it?
Go on then.
Three men are leaving a shopping centre pub after a lunchtime drink and they are approached by a policeman. There has been a bank robbery and the policeman thinks that they may have some involvement. When the poloceman asks for their names, they instinctively avoid telling him their real names and their eyes dart around, looking for inspiration.
First man – “Er….John Lewis!”
Second Man – “Er….William Hill!”
Third man – “Er…British Home Stores!”
Rigid Digit says
No Google- divine inspiration perhaps:
Kevin Haskins from Bauhaus
Still no idea of the members a Kajagoolies though …
Black Celebration says
Yes – Kevin, the drummer from Bauhaus is correct.
Black Celebration says
Jez Strode was the skinsman for the ‘googoos.
salwarpe says
Carla Duplantier, Jimmy The Hoove(r)
Black Celebration says
Yes that’s correc(t)
Black Type says
Is it Lee Score from AFOS?
Black Celebration says
That’ll do – it’s Ali Score.
Black Type says
The desperate cry of Tottenham fans everywhere…
hubert rawlinson says
drummer done with as VCM says by ‘squidging’ some of the letters together.
ZG BMDL STF RMTHM TRS
Billybob Dylan says
Ziggy Modeliste from the Meters?
Was the ‘B’ supposed to be another ‘G’?
hubert rawlinson says
Zigaboo as he gets called on Sundays. But correct.
Billybob Dylan says
Aha!!