Another Wristband
Why Latitude and not Longitude?
I went to another music festival, as you might have figured out, and have returned utterly rebrowned, tired and rather annoyed at the fact that the organisers did not increase the arena area despite upping the capacity this year. Result? Hundreds of people standing outside performance tents that they would have seen the inside of last year. Grasping, greedy Latitude people! Curses upon you! How you made the middle classes, and Geoff Hoon the poor blighter, suffer this weekend.
This year's main stage music line-up was more enjoyable and since the main stage was the only thing unaffected by the extra peeps it was the best thing about this year's festival. Everywhere else was a bit, you know, meh and whatevs man. However, at least Interpol made up for their hugely disappointing Ally Pally gig late last year by playing a set of brilliant yet dirgey in their peculiar way familiars. They even played Stella was a Diver and She's Always Down, which I haven't seen in concert form since 2002. Yes, blimey and goodness gracious me. Funny thing with the AP and then the LAT, it was raining both times. What is it with Interpol always stormbringing the rain? Do they have a band cloud-seeding machine they take on tour? Or is it something to do with the doomy Peter Hook bass stylings of Carlos D and tha fact that half the band were born in England, with lead singer Paul "Lucky boy that I am, as I am seeing Helena Christiansen" Banks having the dubious pleasure of calling Clacton his birthplace - New York must have been a real step down. While I lie down and ponder such soggy trifles and gurgle in my typical post-festival daze - and if you're wondering, I am only babbling on about the 'pol because they were the last thing I saw - here are some questions:
FE: XI
1 The Galway Blazers, The Black and Tans and The Golden Vale are all legal examples in Ireland of what activity?
2 In which Zurich cemetery can you see the grave and a statue of the novelist James Joyce?
3 Which Lithuanian-born US artist, associated with Social Realist school and left-wing politics, published the lecture series The Shape of Content and produced such works as the 1937-38 New Jersey Homesteads Mural and 23 gouache paintings of the trials of Sacco and Vanzetti?
4 Libya's second city, Benghazi, lies on which large inlet of the Mediterranean Sea?
5 Which J-pop superstar sold seven million downloads of her 2007 single Flavor of Life and saw her debut album become the bestselling ever album in Japan?
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1 Foxhunting with hounds 2 Fluntern Cemetery 3 Ben Shahn 4 Gulf of Sidra 5 Hikaru Utada
I went to another music festival, as you might have figured out, and have returned utterly rebrowned, tired and rather annoyed at the fact that the organisers did not increase the arena area despite upping the capacity this year. Result? Hundreds of people standing outside performance tents that they would have seen the inside of last year. Grasping, greedy Latitude people! Curses upon you! How you made the middle classes, and Geoff Hoon the poor blighter, suffer this weekend.
This year's main stage music line-up was more enjoyable and since the main stage was the only thing unaffected by the extra peeps it was the best thing about this year's festival. Everywhere else was a bit, you know, meh and whatevs man. However, at least Interpol made up for their hugely disappointing Ally Pally gig late last year by playing a set of brilliant yet dirgey in their peculiar way familiars. They even played Stella was a Diver and She's Always Down, which I haven't seen in concert form since 2002. Yes, blimey and goodness gracious me. Funny thing with the AP and then the LAT, it was raining both times. What is it with Interpol always stormbringing the rain? Do they have a band cloud-seeding machine they take on tour? Or is it something to do with the doomy Peter Hook bass stylings of Carlos D and tha fact that half the band were born in England, with lead singer Paul "Lucky boy that I am, as I am seeing Helena Christiansen" Banks having the dubious pleasure of calling Clacton his birthplace - New York must have been a real step down. While I lie down and ponder such soggy trifles and gurgle in my typical post-festival daze - and if you're wondering, I am only babbling on about the 'pol because they were the last thing I saw - here are some questions:
FE: XI
1 The Galway Blazers, The Black and Tans and The Golden Vale are all legal examples in Ireland of what activity?
2 In which Zurich cemetery can you see the grave and a statue of the novelist James Joyce?
3 Which Lithuanian-born US artist, associated with Social Realist school and left-wing politics, published the lecture series The Shape of Content and produced such works as the 1937-38 New Jersey Homesteads Mural and 23 gouache paintings of the trials of Sacco and Vanzetti?
4 Libya's second city, Benghazi, lies on which large inlet of the Mediterranean Sea?
5 Which J-pop superstar sold seven million downloads of her 2007 single Flavor of Life and saw her debut album become the bestselling ever album in Japan?
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A
T
T
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N
I
N
G
F
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T
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FE:XI
1 Foxhunting with hounds 2 Fluntern Cemetery 3 Ben Shahn 4 Gulf of Sidra 5 Hikaru Utada
posted by That Quiz Guy at 7:54 AM
1 Comments:
blimey. These are much harder than the questions I got on "Fifteen To One"....
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