Pop Pickers 3 - Q&A

Frank Cronin

01. Name the artist, and give the reason they were able to celebrate Paddy's Day on stage in both NY & Dublin in the same year?

02. Aside from band members/manager, name 2 actors in The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle?

03. Name 'the main' Clash manager, and what was his favourite slogan (influenced a song title)?

04. What was the reason "Richie Ramone" gave for leaving the Ramones?

05. Name Joe Strummers band prior to The Clash?

06. Which Ian Dury track was banned by the BBC because ironically they thought Ian was being offensive?

07. Name the Irish track/band that the Dropkick Murphys used to open gigs with?

08. Which Pete St John (writer) / Dubliners cover do Blood Or Whiskey perform live and have recorded?

09. Which bands offices were raided in 1982 by the Police's Obscene Publications Squad and had 10,000 copies of a certain single impounded? And name the single (A& B sides)?

BBC DJ Tony Blackburn said the song "... was obviously made by untalented people who are out to make money by shocking people". And he should know about lack of talent!

10. Name the british Punk Poet who made famous Beasley Street?

fish-head

3. Bernie Rhodes, Complete Control!
5. The 101ers
6. Spasticus Autisticus
10. Patrik Fitzgerald?

Frank Cronin

Clearly a clash fan, all correct except number 10.

fish-head

THE Clash fan!

bombidol

7's not Blood or whiskey again is it? i thought the DKM track was "Blood And Whiskey" not Or

herobear

bombidol wrote:

7's not Blood or whiskey again is it? i thought the DKM track was "Blood And Whiskey" not Or

i think its, "The Foggy Dew" by the Chieftains

Frank Cronin

herobear wrote:

i think its, "The Foggy Dew" by the Chieftains

Herobear is right!

Ro: maaan!

Dammit, by the time I get here all the ones I know are always answered. Except in this case no. 8. The Mero.

Redleslie2

Frank Cronin wrote:

09. Which bands offices were raided in 1982 by the Police's Obscene Publications Squad and had 10,000 copies of a certain single impounded? And name the single (A& B sides)?

Crass? Probably called F**k something or other.

10. Name the british Punk Poet who made famous Beasley Street?

John Cooper Clark.

Frank Cronin

Mero is correct, as is John Cooper Clarke, Crass is wrong.

To recap:

01. Name the artist, and give the reason they were able to celebrate Paddy's Day on stage in both NY & Dublin in the same year?

02. Aside from band members/manager, name 2 actors in The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle?

04. What was the reason "Richie Ramone" gave for leaving the Ramones?

09. Which bands offices were raided in 1982 by the Police's Obscene Publications Squad and had 10,000 copies of a certain single impounded? And name the single (A& B sides)?

BBC DJ Tony Blackburn said the song "... was obviously made by untalented people who are out to make money by shocking people". And he should know about lack of talent!

Kingsize

im gonna take a swipe at the first one by saying that whoever it was played in NY on march 17th & then in Dublin a couple of weeks later ( paddys day festival was postponed due to foot & mouth a couple o years back)
???
theoretically it couldve been any of the american marching bands also!!!

was #9 flux of pink indians?

2:im pretty sure mary millington was in the great r&R swindle as was the old dear who played the granny in "metal mickey"

Frank Cronin

Kingsize:

1/2 a mark for Foot & Mouth
1/2 a mark for Mary Millington
Number 9 is wrong though

Kingsize

irenee handl was the name of the granny in metal mickey she was working in the cinema in the great r&r swindle so i'll have another 1/2 point for that.

9 wasnt poison girls was it?

Frank Cronin

Well kingsize you got another point, no to 9 though

Kingsize

9 has me stumped!!though its probably staring me in the face....

okay one last guess_ DK's Holiday in cambodia ???

Frank Cronin

Sorry!

NotMe

Anti Nowhere League - Streets of London/So What

NotMe

04. Because they weren't paying him enough/ as much as the other band members.

Frank Cronin

At last, ANWL is correct, I thought it would be an easy one. You will have to be more specific on number 4 though, there was an exact thing that pissed him off so much - it's nearly always about money!

01. Name the artist, and give the reason they were able to celebrate Paddy's Day on stage in both NY & Dublin in the same year?

We have been given the reason, who is the artist, they made an album on it?

04. What was the exact reason "Richie Ramone" gave for leaving the Ramones?

Frank Cronin

01. Name the artist, and give the reason they were able to celebrate Paddy's Day on stage in both NY & Dublin in the same year?

Shane McGowan & The Popes, Paddy's Day was moved due to foot & mouth in 2001. The live album capturing the gigs is Across The Broad Atlantic.

02. Aside from band members/manager, name 2 actors in The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle?

Mary Millington / Irene Handl / Liz Frazer.

03. Name 'the main' Clash manager, and what was his favourite slogan (influenced a song title)?

Bernie Rhodes, Complete control!

04. What was the reason "Richie Ramone" gave for leaving the Ramones?

They would not give him a cut of the t-shirt sales.

05. Name Joe Strummers band prior to The Clash?

The 101-ers.

06. Which Ian Dury track was banned by the BBC because ironically they thought Ian was being offensive?

Spasticus Autisticus.

07. Name the Irish track/band that the Dropkick Murphys used to open gigs with?

"The Foggy Dew" by the Chieftains, with Sinead O' Connor.

08. Which Pete St John (writer) / Dubliners cover do Blood Or Whiskey perform live and have recorded?

The Mero.

09. Which bands offices were raided in 1982 by the Police's Obscene Publications Squad and had 10,000 copies of a certain single impounded? And name the single (A& B sides)?

Anti Nowhere League, Streets Of London / So What!

BBC DJ Tony Blackburn said the song "... was obviously made by untalented people who are out to make money by shocking people". And he should know about lack of talent!

10. Name the british Punk Poet who made famous Beasley Street?

John Cooper Clarke.