Sunday, 21 August 2011

Gig 37

Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh 20/8/11
DM-Pub-Quiz
Setlist: A Physical Husband, Death Makes You Feel Like A Man, (We Were) Always On Our Own, Watching Waters Rise, The g Factor, Four Times On The Floor, Cool, It's Abnormal, Selling The Party, Blue Screen
Sound: Leonora. Great soundcheck but worst ever on stage when playing. Good front of house though.
Reception: Warm, relaxed.
Featured the first Dancing Mice Pub Quiz viz:
Q 1. By what name is Lieutenant George Lee Sheridan better known? A. ‘Phones’: the Stingray co-pilot.
 
Q 2. In which city is the oldest copy of the Koran housed?
A. Tashkent.
 
Q 3. In which annual event do Isis and Goldie compete? A. The Oxford and Cambridge boat race reserve crews’ competition.
Q 4. What is the collective noun for a group of crows.
A. A ‘murder’.
Q 5. Who was the first famous woman to wear a white wedding dress? A. Mary Queen of Scots.
Q 6. What is the cinema called in Springfield (the Simpsons’ town)?
A. Googolplex.
Q 7. If something is described as zygal, what does it look like?
A. H-shaped.
Q 8. Who shot and killed Robert F. Kennedy (John F. Kennedy’s younger brother)?
A. Sirhan Sirhan.
Q 9. How many soldiers was a centurion in charge of?
A. 83
Q 10. According to the Reimann hypothesis the non-trivial zeros of the Reimann zeta function lie on which line?
A. z = ½ + iy

Monday, 15 August 2011

Thursday, 28 July 2011

Harrogate BAP 2011

Harrogate-BAP-2011

24- 27th July 2022 .Good fun with Ian Reid, Bill Riddle and Douglas Patience. Included a visit to Menston.

Monday, 11 July 2011

Ivy Gone

Ivygone

The ivy at the back of the house exploded out of control, had to go.

Thursday, 30 June 2011

Monday, 27 June 2011

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Difficult Lessons

So far, The Dance of the Black Mouse, Four Times on the Floor, The Man In the Island, Scarred By Love, Arizona, Cool, Thrills, Land and Sea, Assembly, Time Alone