Your Guest Quizmaster and Quizmistress from Offbeat Present

Your quizmaster and quizmistress from Offbeat present…

.: an indie quiz :.

Round 1: Picture Round(to be completed at any time during the quiz)

Shown below are snippets from the covers of 6 famous indie albums? Can you name the band and the album (½ mark for each)?

a.
/ Band:
Album: / d.
/ Band:
Album:
b.
/ Band:
Album: / e.
/ Band:
Album:
c.
/ Band:
Album: / f.
/ Band:
Album:

Round 2: The Price is Right?

Can you guess the winning bids of some of the more esoteric indie memorabilia sold on EBAY in recent weeks?

a. Libertines sweatband ______(margin allowed–20p)

b. Ian Curtis fridge magnet______(margin allowed–20p)

c. A Gene football shirt______(margin allowed –£1.00)

d. An official Oasis tracksuit top______(margin allowed - £1.00)

e. New Order promo scarf ______(margin allowed - £3.00)

f. Franz Ferdinand promo’ condom!______(margin allowed –10p)

Round 3. Sir John Peel

To mark the first anniversary of the legend’s death, 6 questions devoted to the greatest DJ ever:

a. Which daytime Radio 1 DJ did Peel and David Jensen plan to beat up in the BBC Car Park (after lying in wait they never went through with it!)?

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b. What was John Peel’s real surname? ______

c. Which band were no.1 in the posthumous Peel Festive 50 of 2004?______

d. Which football team did Peel support?______

e. Which artist turned up at the BBC whilst John was on air, with a curry and a copy of his demo, thus succeeding in getting the latter played?

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f. What was John’s favourite radio show, on which he made a guest appearance as himself in the early 90’s?

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Round 4. Fall or Pavement?

Both these leftfield indie bands are renowned for having some strangely titled songs. All you have to do is state whether the following tracks were by The Fall or Pavement (simply write in ‘The Fall’ or ‘Pavement’)

a. Lie Dream of a Casino Soul ______

b. Susan vs Youthclub ______

c. The porpoise and the hand-grenade ______

d. Mere Pseud Mag Ed ______

e. 5 – 4 = Unity ______

f. Mercy: the laundromat ______

Round 5. Music Round

Can you correctly identify the intros from famous indie tracks played at the wrong speeds. ½ mark for each band, ½ for each track.

a.______

b.______

c.______

d.______

e.______

f.______

Round 6. The forgotten men of indie

Cursed by an unfashionable choice of instrument, clothing or haircut, they lurk suspiciously at the back of band photos in the NME. But in which band would you find the following?

a.Gordon Moakes ______

b.Bob Hardy ______

c.Phil Selway______

d.Simon Rix ______

e.Sam Fogarino ______

f.Huw Bunford______

Round 7. Picture Round (to be completed at any time during the quiz)

Can you identify the bands from these pictorial clues?

/ / a.
/ / / / b.
/ / / / c.
/ / d.
e. / / O O o O o
O o o
O o O O
O o o / e.
/ / / / f.

Round 8. Punk or twee?

The following names belong to bands whose musical style is either or punk or twee indiepop. Can you guess which? (simply write in ‘punk’ or ‘twee’)

a.Desperate Bicycles ______

b. The Cat's Miaow______

c. The Prefects ______

d.Jesse Garon And The Desperadoes ______

e.Bulldozer Crash ______

f. Satan’s Rats ______

Round 9. Name the year

In which year did the following indie events occur?

a. Radiohead release OK Computer, the first Offbeat in Sheffield took place! ______

b. The Stone Roses disasterously headline the Reading Festival, Jarvis Cocker disrupts Michael Jackson’s performance at the Brit Awards.

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c. The Smiths split, a Beastie Boys gig in Liverpool ends in a riot ______

d. Richey Edwards goes missing, and it’s Blur vs Oasis at the top of the charts ______

e. Pete Doherty burgles Carl Barat, REM headline Glastonbury______

f. Sid Vicious is found dead, Cabaret Voltaire release their seminal Nag Nag Nag single on Rough Trade

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Round 10. indieSheffield

Finally, a round devoted to the SteelCity…

a. What was the name of Pulp’s debut LP, released in 1983? ______

b. Which Sheffield band of the 90’s featured Richard Hawley and Crispin Hunt?

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c. In 1983 which artist was famously turned down by The Leadmill because he/she wanted too much money to play?

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d.Which Sheffield venue was formerly known as the Black Swan? ______

e.To which indie label are The Arctic Monkeys currently signed?______

f. Which band, who were based in Sheffield when they made their breakthrough to mainstream success, won the 1998 Mercury music prize?

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