It also depends on whether Chase & Status, Little Mix, the cast of Encanto (and K-Pop Demon Hunters), Clean Bandit, Rudimental, Chain Smokers, Major Lazer or Ladbaby count as “bands”

Love it whenever I’m reminded of the existence of American Music Club

Yeah, my vague recollection is that their name used to be the full word, then they adopted the abbreviation and misspelling (which also appeared like American slang) to avoid censorship. But I was a teenager several thousand miles away.

They did, but it was also clear what NWA was an abbreviation for: they spelled it out on track 1 of the album

The band definitely used an -az rather than an -ers ending, I wonder if this was a subeditor ‘correcting’ that?

Pretty much. It seemed to be everywhere at the time

Quite fun to see it go up, but not sure it’ll affect HM choices as you’re probably the only one who can see how many full votes each song has

Yep, it should be one of the Comptroller & Auditor General’s public bodies, part of/alongside the NAO

I guess they must be claiming that the Arch is a bar not a pub, otherwise they’re not even the only one one that road!

Two Brewers looks like a pub to me too.

You should have done a list; I’d have included this if I’d heard it a week earlier!

The one that nearly turned my head was Ngishutheni by Goon Flavour and many other South Africans. Not sure if he’s anything to do with Arsenal. A definite HM

The level of discovery on this challenge has been almost as high as the pre-54 one; I had a great new playlist everyday!

Working them up shortly. Just need to convert the various notes I made during people’s 50s into a coherent list

I did like this one! Thank you!

I hadn’t, so thank you!

If you’re old enough to have seen some of the original trilogy at the cinema, then the best Star Wars film was the trailer for Phantom Menace. That had everything.

After that it was all downhill.

Yes, although Government justifying CP powers as part of a hybrid bill for a railway - when it can simply say “we need a construction site and it needs to be around here” - is easier than a council justifying CPO powers for redevelopment to an independent inspector who is subject to judicial review

Hmm. For me it wrapped together their different sounds to that point - the gothyness of 17 Seconds and Primary being added to the bigger sounds of Head on the Door and Kiss Me

It’s also the time my memories started performance-enhancement: Disintegration works for getting stoned on a French beach

Sadly FIFA are trying to ruin this by putting Congo and Jamaica in the same playoffs

Oh bad luck. If you’d come out of the other exit you could have gone to the Old Red Cow, which is a bit more fun

Return fixture looks like a cracker