Where Is My Mind? Quiz at EOTR

YouTube video by Neil Halstead - Topic Cloudbusting

Neil Halstead out of Slowdive once recorded a cover of Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting" for a compilation of "indie lullabies".

Who knew, etc?

A comprehensive top 10 rundown of the most successful punctuation in pop history

1 /
2 -
3 ! (disputed: not used throughout career)
4 '
5 '
6 &
7 , &
8 -
9 . . .
10 .

Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Note: an accent is a diacritic not punctuation.

14 years ago this was the funniest thing on the entire internet

Diddy sentencing: Sean Combs jailed for more than four years in prostitution case The hip-hop mogul told the court his actions were

At least this one got jail time as well as a fine www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - part of a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.

You can bet they've spent 5 years figuring out how to insulate themselves from this www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

@anohni.bsky.social and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now (2005)

You know how there's so much music everywhere that even incredible things that have really affected you can get lost in the continuing noise?
Well here's an absolutely astonishing album I've not heard in years, that has just *floored* me once again.
We are so lucky that art can do this to us! Waaah

Fining multi-millionaires is no punishment at all

I look forward to the day when Big Bay Leaf gets the reckoning it surely deserves, and its many bad actors are finally revealed across the planet as the crooked peddlers of useless greenery that adds literally nothing to any dish

Animals That Swim cover?

So it turns out the hardest thing about leaving Spotify after 17 years is that nobody else has left Spotify so all music links people share are still Spotify DO YOU SEE

Since mentioning hating mushrooms on my family WhatsApp today my Facebook algorithm has taken a suspicious turn

Best advice I never took was when I was 30 and on a massive career fast-track: You cannot cuddle with your career on a lonely night when your life is on the decline. Invest as much time on love and family. Sounded twee then. At 62 and near retirement, I now know it's 100% true.

Trying the BFI Player on a free trial, it's so woke you can't even add favourites in case you offend the other movies

Trae Crowder nails it.

#CharlieKirk

there’s still a lot of people on the left who’re like ‘but the greens are a niche group who are bad at engaging a broad population’ and i would like to show me the last time you have seen an ad as clear, engaging and substantive as this one

Permaban for any Vinted seller who ignores the label clearly visible *in their own pictures* and puts 'trousers' or (worse) 'green' in the Brand section 🤬

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

AXS of Evil, amirite? @radiohead.wastehq.social

#secondmention of the year?

Works every year!

Those Mercury noms in full:

Nostalgia
Genre diversity
One album late
Just indie enough
Ignoring trans life will this do
Jazz won last year so
Don't get it but should
Actually decent
Safe working class
Borderline unlistenable but cool
Honestly anyone but a trans act
Surprise Glasto crossover

Just cancelled my Spotify subscription after 17 years of service. This is the 'sad to see you go' page they served me :/

YouTube video by British Comedy Guide Alan Partridge Alpha Papa - Alan singing in his car

What song makes you go 'full Cuddly Toy' - as it should forever be known - in public, without warning or ability to stop?

Asking because 'Like A Prayer' has just Got Me alone in a random pub (and I know 'It's A Sin' can do it too)

youtu.be/9DZXOANUaNk?...

Thanks also to Yoshika Colwell for showing up to deliver her fiendish multiple-choice guest round! When it works, it really works.

See you all next year, we'll share a few questions once we've showered and slept for several days...

Thanks @endoftheroadfestival.com for having us for the 17th time, even the rain didn't stop well over 30 teams joining in the fun - we loved hearing stories from teams who've been coming to the quiz since the early days, up to and including the Zoom quiz we did in 2020 🤩

*because the actual quiz winners BETTY CARIBOU had won before, so the tickets go to the next highest scoring team 🙂

(The team name theme was 'Add a band to a band', hence these 2 crackers!)

Huge congrats to MEL CD SOUNDSYSTEM who not only came second in the @endoftheroadfestival.com Where Is My Mind? Quiz but also snagged the half-time bubbles AND probs got funniest team name too!

They win 2 passes to EOTR 2026*, and Terence the Tortoise, who we're sure will be well looked after.

Watching Goat, eating goat @endoftheroadfestival.com

Is that this year? Lots of rain en route from Sussex..!