Here's a new trivia teaser with a strong FACTORY bent for those of you who have been starved of my wonderfully controversial brain-picklers for so long.....and let's face it......you just know you were!!
The aforementioned prestigious prize is on offer (true!) to the complete swot who can manage to get ALL the questions right here so, don your thinking caps on, dim the lights, whack on "Palatine" (failing that, a spoken word tape of Tony Wilson rambling on will do just as well), open a few crates, light a few Marlboroughs and just let those answers come floating back from the deep dank inner recesses of your memory....
Here goes...
1) Which Latino-esque band did Mike Pickering front long before he finally hit the big time with the honking goose and M-People? And what was the title of their only album? 2) Name the latest Chameleons "comeback" album. Which famous small venue near Manchester will the Chameleons play /have played on 29th April this year? 3) Julia Nagle and Chris Nagle used to front which experimental noisenik band of the late 80s? 4) On which New Order album track can be heard quite clearly the sound of a ricocheting gunshot (around the two-and-a-half-minute mark)? 5) Dave Haslam held which funk night at The Boardwalk club in 1992? And what was the name of the legendary fanzine he started in the mid 1980s? 6) Who or what was given the catalogue numberFac 191? 7) Simon Topping - formerly of A Certain Ratio - currently plays as percussionist for which celebrated local Latin ensemble? 8) Bruce Mitchell is regarded as the other main protagonist in which stalwart Manchester band? 9) And which Manchester singer's first solo album did his collaborator play extensively on? 10) In the 1984 Channel 4 programme about New Order and Factory Records "Play At Home", which two people were filmed riding around a field on a motorcycle? 11) Oasis were the second Mancunian band to be signed to Creation Records. Who were the first? 12) Legendary Manc Oddball from the eighties, Edward Barton sang about having no chicken.....but what did he have?? 13) To finish with, the ultimate toughie then..... Here is an extract from a witty review taken from a 1986 edition of "Sounds". Which underground Manchester band was getting the cold shoulder from poison scribe Ron Rom....?
"It's innovative...it's interesting...ahh! I concede, pull my nipples off and sell them as walnuts, place my head on a spike outside the Tower of London and spit in My face. I have to come clean, ******** are rubbish! I wanted songs, and all I got was a slap in the face for being so presumptious."Let us take the formula: Latin-funk music played at the speed of The Ramones. Really different, eh?......They sound like Level 42 on Mars. They sound like they're trying to masturbate with mousetraps!....."Y'see, ******** snub the idea of a song and prefer to do all the things mother convention told them they couldn't. An odd twist is always a good thing but when you get a three minute pop song with a million paranoid twists attentions stray........ ******** are trash at its most pretentious....."
Right, if that hasn't scared half of you away, let's face it...nothing will! :D :D
Fac 191 = Cat. 
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DOH!!!!