The Price of Music Christmas Quiz 2025!

0:02Steve:Hello and welcome to the Price of Music brought to you by Music Ally. It is our final show of 2025. So it's a slightly different kettle of fish this week as we conclude proceedings for the year with our Price of Music 2025 pop quiz, which I don't know about you, Stu. I mean, I've said this before, but I'm very nervous of this as someone whose memory recall has more holes in it than, you know, than a sieve. this could be a bit career bruising, I think. What do you reckon? Hopes are high in the dredge household for taking home the trophy. There isn't a trophy, but if there was. If there was. Do you know, to your comments last time, I watched Mastermind last night where someone came on with their specialist subject and completely spooned it.

0:50Steve:Really? You could tell they were having an internal nightmare as it went on. So I was thinking that's my omen. Did we talk about that in the lock-in? Just in case you don't know, I was saying that, and this is by no means trying to big myself up in any way, but twice I've been approached by the researchers on Celebrity Mastermind, inquiring as to whether I would like to take part in Celebrity Mastermind. And on both occasions, I said, no, thank you very much. But purely for the fear of sitting there and going blank. Did you ever see Tom Ravenscroft when he did Celebrity Mastermind? How did it go?

1:26Steve:Oh, and he was, you know, he'd picked a specialist, a specialist subject with something to do with music. And it was a label, I think, maybe, a certain record label. And you could see the pain in his eyes, they were asking him questions. And he was just blanking, blanking, you know, I just can't. And within seconds, I'm sure, of the buzzer going, the beep at the end, he'd have been going, oh, well, that's obviously that and that's that. But that's what, that's why I've never done it. and that's why I am quite scared of this. Anyway, nevertheless, we would like to thank all our super fans who have contributed questions for this quiz.

2:04Steve:So there's some questions set by them and some which have been compiled by our producer, who is also taking on the role of quiz master for this episode. So, ladies and gentlemen, will you welcome the man behind the scenes, the man who gets us online every week, the Ken Bruce of Music Industry Podcasts. it's captain joe sparrow thank you very much good to be here applause that is that's my uh now new benchmark for being introduced thank you steve that's okay uh hi everyone is that by the way is that worth a point uh well put it this way when i'm feeling generous later when the questions get particularly tricky i'll keep that in mind i'm nervous today because you both have great radio voices both of you like two of my two best radio voices i know and i'm going to be sitting here is the guy who writes for a living who's trying to talk so that's why i'm really worried about i'm gonna be the loser on that front that's a very good point so you can take a point off stewart for for not having a radio voice the dirty tricks are starting early yeah there's no there's no points for voices here stewart it's all it's all recall and knowledge you'll be pleased to know and in keeping with the topics discussed this year i'm happy to say that i've used ai to generate a 1990s uh tv game show style theme for this quiz which i'll play now

3:28Steve:That actually is very good. That is pretty much spot on, isn't it? I thought I'd go the extra mile. The thing is, we've been talking about it all year. And yeah, so we've got seven short themed rounds of questions. In some rounds, you'll need to write down your questions, your answers to the questions. but I will give you answers after each question and I'll tot up the scores as we go along. Some are multiple choice questions. Some questions are provided by listeners. Others are from me based on stuff you've discussed on the podcast this year. And one question is from a indie special guest. And then at the end, we'll reveal the scores and crown one of you quiz champion 2025.

4:10Round one, if you're ready, is your knowledge on things that are featured on the price of music this year? Question one is, the price of music is the music industry's number one Peppa Pig and Baby Shark music news service, as you know. But which one has been mentioned in the most episodes of the price of music this year? This is excluding the lock-ins, public episodes. Is it A, Peppa Pig? Is it B, Baby Shark? Or is it C, they were both mentioned the same amount of times? Okay. Okay. Okay, the answer is C. Three episodes each. I was sure that was Baby Shark. I was sure that's Baby Shark. That's zero for both of you on that one.

4:57Question number two. What was the name of the world's only all-female Slade tribute band mentioned by Steve back in October?

5:07Okay. Okay. The answer, of course, is Slady. Slady. I had Slady's, plural. Slady's, Stu, no, I'm being difficult. Half for that. Nope. Steve?

5:21Steve:Very harsh, yeah, I had Slady. Slady, okay, one for Steve. Question three. Lily Allen has had a really great 2025, but this time last year, she was featured on The Price of Music for a story where she was making good money selling photos of her feet on OnlyFans. Okay, but what was the star rating out of five for her feet on foot enthusiast platform WikiFeet? Was it four stars out of five, 4.5 stars out of five, or five stars out of five? I mean, this is what you guess, right? So I'm going to guess four and a half. I'm guessing five. Stu's guessing five. The correct answer is five, in fact. So a point for Stu.

6:12Wow. I wouldn't expect either of you to be regular users of WikiFeet. I'm wondering if any of us are on it. Well, only one way to find out, Stu. We'll research that later. Okay. Question number four, then. The podcast reported on an exploding toilet cancelling a gig recently, but which venue was that? Oh, right. Yeah. Okay. Do you want to go first, Stuart? Go on, Stuart. King Tutswawa Hut. yeah king touch both of you one point congratulations and follow-up question what was the name of the band whose show was cancelled

6:56Steve:it was a band wasn't it and then there was there was the female artists who'd come all the way from somewhere like new zealand to support and i can't remember the name of either of them So it's the plan that I'm looking for. Oh, he's very strict, isn't he? We can't even come up with any poo puns or anything, can we? I'm going to have to pass. Yeah. Okay, it was Fickle Friends. Fickle Friends. Sorry, Fickle Friends. Okay, and then a bonus question, which ties together both King Tut's and another major event of the year. There's three points available in this one. This year saw the glorious return of Oasis, playing live, who were of course discovered at the venue.

7:39But which 1990s Oasis songs sounded similar enough to songs by other artists that Oasis had to pay settlements or offer songwriting credits? One point for each of these three songs.

7:54Steve:What's the... Um... Oh, that's really... I should really know this. What's the one that has the Gary Glitter sample in it. Oh, yes. That's one. Can't remember the title of it. I mean, you know, if we were being waggish about this, you'd probably say most of the first two albums. But actual lawsuits, and they were actual lawsuits. Well, not lawsuits, but copyright infringement was upheld, was it? Correct. So these are the ones, I'm going to help you out here and say it is not the Gary Glitter one, because that was an agreed use in advance. So it's three songs that later went either for settlements or songwriting credits.

8:46Are they famous songs? Well, yes, two of them, I would say, are famous.

8:52Steve:And the titles are? No, we didn't want to call for that. Almost, almost. It's weird because we want to discuss this, really. I'll go with one. is cigarettes and alcohol the beginning bit I'm afraid not which is interesting isn't it what's the one that begins like a sex pistol song I mean about half a dozen of them I like the way you're bobbing your head around as if that's going to you're going to kick yourselves when I tell you whatever don't look back in anger okay Stu got a point there there was one I'll tell you all three Whatever Which was Settled with Neil Innes Who was awarded A co-writing credit The Beatles Yeah After it was found Parts of it Closely resembled His song How Free to be an idiot Shaker Maker The band Of course famously settled With the rights holders Of I'd Like to Teach You Will to Sing Oh yeah Oh yeah And according to I think this is Wikipedia Reportedly paying around Half a million dollars And then finally From the second album Step Out which was removed from the main album just ahead of release after Stevie Wonder and co-writers challenged its similarity to his song Uptight Brackets Everything's Alright and then they later received a writing credit when it was released as a piece of it so there you go, one point to Stu and then after that first round then I should probably play the game show theme again yeah, please do okay, so yeah, after the first round Stu has three points and Steve has two points okay all right this is where you say it's um plenty of time or still everything to play for lots of points available lots of points you see you're still playing for the checkbook and pen um now round number two are these are listeners questions um and so we put the we put a call out to the patron super fans uh they could have chosen to submit questions in one of three categories which were tricky music trivia name that year or the answer is your favorite artist and they all picks tricky music trivia so these are their favorites this is the four super fans here their favorite um music trivia question okay so um again write down your these are um write down your answers and i'll announce the correct ones after each question this is from kate collins kate says how many uk number one singles has billy bragg had

11:27okay okay Stu okay Steve we'll go first with you one and Stu one one the correct answer is one it was the charity double A side she's leaving home with wet wet wet that's right 1988 thank you Kate you both got that one okay one each okay second question from Richard Bowes which indie band were the first choice, but also turned down the song Believe, which then became a seven-week number one hit to share? I was... An actual indie band?

12:09Steve:Really? Yes, I would say it's stretching the term a little bit. I'll give you a clue there, but I would probably drop them in that bracket. So what sort of... era is um i think that was sort of 1999 was that stew i'm trusting you yeah i do know what i saw it on the uh top of the pups you know rehash show the other week and they were talking about it getting turned down god damn it yeah do you know what i haven't i i i have no idea but this is good because whatever the answer is i'm going to be using this in my moment on the show. Hang on. Stu's digging deep, folks. No, I know it. I know it. Okay, you.

12:55What is it? It's St. Etienne, isn't it? It is indeed St. Etienne. Congratulations. And the only reason I know that is because we were talking and I couldn't imagine Sarah Cracknell singing it. It's because I just can only hear Cher singing it. There you go. That's my evenings in watching Top of the Pops reruns. Finally, you're reaping the rewards. So thank you, Richard. Good. Okay, question number three. This is from Ian Beresford. Now, Ian says, what is the connection between Lost in Music by Sister Sledge, Victoria by The Kinks, and There's a Ghost in My House by Ardeen Taylor? Oh, nice one.

13:39I've got no idea in this.

13:42Steve:This, thank you very much. this place to our strengths. They've all been covered by the fall. Correct. Straight in there. Very, very good. Yep. Exactly. All been covered by the fall. And then a final question from the Patreon Superfans is from Gerard G. Okay, now there's two parts to this. The first question is which British synth pop musician and songwriter had four UK top four hit singles with four different acts in the 1980s. You can get a point for the musician and a bonus point if you can name all of the singers in the four other acts. This one is tough, I'll be honest. Right. The clue is British synth pop musician.

14:35Steve:Yeah.

14:39And what was the period again? 1980s Okay

14:53For listeners at home There's some very furrowed brows going on here There's a lot of thinking happening

14:58Steve:I mean it's the 80s Okay are we ready If you can remember the 80s You weren't ashamed enough Right Stu do you want to go first with your answer Mark Holmend i'm afraid not steve uh vince clark it is oh work so alison moyer correct what was his name andy andy bell was it andy bell from eurasia yes and that's i think i'm that's made done who i'm never going to get two more i don't think was he in only depeche mode no correct depeche mode was the... Oh, I didn't think of that. Right, okay. I'm merely thinking of what he did post-Depeche mode, but yeah, okay, so Dave Garn. Dave Garn, yeah. I don't know.

15:49Steve:Jimmy Somerville. Very close. It was the assembly with Vogelsharkee. Oh, there you go. Very close to the bonus point there, Steve, but I'm going to be very hard and say, very strict, and say that this round was a... Oh, hang on, pop music, hang on. Oh, sure.

16:09so at the end of this round um it's a reversal of the first round that was two points to stew three points to steve and the running total therefore is five all bless you super fans thank you very much yes thank you for those um there are some uh more super fan questions coming up later you'll be thrilled to know um round number three is where we start uh blending together music industry and pop trivia knowledge. Okay, so this is band names and music biz big cheeses. Okay, three points to play for here. Now the UK music business has a bunch of industry organizations that have ex artists at the helm.

16:49And this is a round that is about those artists and their artist names. So these are multiple choice questions, you can say your answers immediately afterwards. Question number one, Sam Duckworth works for the UK Music Venue Trust, but is better known or was better known at one time as the artist Get Cape Wear Cape Fly. But where did the name, and I'm going to use the word allegedly here, come from? Okay, three options. Is it A, from a video game magazine? Is it B, from a short story that Duckworth wrote in GCSE English about 1980s strongman Jeff Capes? Or is it C, from an advert in a local shop that sold waterproof clothing for fly fishermen?

17:32Steve:two of those two of those are so preposterous that they're probably right yeah i should know this as well i'm really sorry sam i was i was really excited they're thinking i know it he's get careful yeah i knew his artist name but that wasn't the question no that's not the answer you need i think it's the first one which is the sensible one the video game yeah you're both going for the video game magazine uh yes sadly you are correct according to him uh his uh original staging came from retro gamer magazine yeah um about a walkthrough of a video game that was the enemy in 2006 digging deep here okay uh second question tom gray is now a big cheese in the industry organizations the ivors academy prs for music and uk music but he was also in the band Gomez.

18:22However, where did the band name Gomez come from? Was it A, named after Gomez Adams from the Adams family TV show? Was it B, a friend of the band whose name was Gomez? Or was it C, the late 90s Chilean international footballer, Jorg Gomez?

18:42Steve:I've got the Adams family theme in my head. So that's, that's I'm going to think. Can I go with the footballer? Because I'd love that to be true. So C Steve's going for C Stu A Going for A Gomez Addams The Addams Family The correct answer Is the mundane one I'm afraid it's B The friend of the band This is according to Wikipedia The band played its first gig In 1996 In Leeds At the Hyde Park Social Club At the time They didn't have a formal name And the band left a sign outside Which read Gomez in here For a friend of theirs Whose surname was Gomez People saw the sign and assumed it was the band's name and it stuck.

19:23Steve:That's not mundane. That's rather lovely. Yeah, that's good. Do I ever tell you how the band's, there was the UK punk band Snuff, how they got their name, or purportedly how they got their name. They all went to the pub early one evening because they'd been trying to pick a name for weeks and weeks and weeks. And they said, we'll sit in the pub until we actually get a name. And so they carried on drinking, swapping suggestions of names none of which they could agree on until one of them just uh collapsed basically on the table and say ah snuff that's enough snuff that's how they got their name yeah i think every band name should involve a line in the anecdote saying they carried on drinking and then the band name well into the evening um yeah all right okay so final question in this round is Crispin Hunt is also a grand fromage at the Ivers Academy and Pierrot's Music, but was, of course, in the band Long Pigs.

20:22But what does long pig mean? I know this one. Okay. So is it A, a brand of animal feed seen on Hunt's father's pig farm? Is it B, a word for the cooked human body when eaten by cannibals? Or is it C, a type of surfboard that Richard Hawley learned to use when he went on holiday to Hawaii?

20:47Steve:I think it's B. There's no way Richard Hawley went on holiday to Hawaii. Can we sit with that image of Richard Hawley surfing in Hawaii, though? I quite like it because, I mean, he looks cool anyway, but can you imagine Richard Hawley on a surfboard? I mean, apart from, you know, his skinny physique might let him down something, but his hair, man. Actually, that's probably why he wouldn't ever go surfing, for fear of damaging his quiff. Yeah, wild guess at B. What is it then, Stuart? It's B, I think. It's cannibals. That's correct. It is indeed an obsolete term translated from Maori and Polynesian.

21:25It's human flesh eaten by cannibals. Can I bust out a long pig's anecdote? Oh, why not? They were my first ever interview when I was at university, and they've been on the radio. It might have been your show, Steve. I don't know they played a session and they played she said and she's saying this is a song about fashion and how I despise it that was his line and so I asked him what we thought about fashion what's that about and he basically Crispin said well if we all have big blue baboons arses we wouldn't give a shit about fashion would we and that was the perfect explanation and that's my first interview and I was there going I haven't really prepared for how to follow of that.

22:05My follow-up question doesn't really match. I'm picturing Richard Hawley now on a surfboard with a big blue baboon's arse and his quote. That's the next album cover.

22:15Steve:Boys, can we keep this clean? It's family friendly. This is tea time viewing. You're having a bad fever dream later, you guys. Okay, well, running score then. It really is all to play for. Seven all at the moment. And so So I've got a good job I've got a tiebreaker question right at the end. That's all I'm going to say. Round four is where we move on to our special celebrity superstar question. And the special celebrity superstar guest is Eddie Argos from Art Brute. Hello, Stephen Stu. Merry Christmas. Here's my pub quiz question for you from an actual pub. Art Brute often sing about Top of the Pops.

23:00Yeah, sadly, never performed on the show. The last ever regular edition of Top of the Pops was on the 23rd of July 2006. But which guitar band performed the final ever song in the studio? Oh, that's a good question. Yeah, 2006. 2006, last performance in the studio.

23:24Steve:2000, guitar band, 2006. Okay, so what era is that in indie? Let me give you a slight clue, which is my original wording of the question said which indie band, and Eddie refused to call this artist an indie band. Oh, is it like a sort of a Coldplay Snoopatrol type? I'm not going to give you any more clues. Coldplay. Stu's going for Coldplay. Well, because I don't know, and I'm being tactical about this, I am also going to say Coldplay. See, it's getting underhand when it gets so close. The correct answer is Snow Patrol. Oh! Should have done that. So, at the end of that round, it's still seven all.

24:16Do you know what the terrible thing about this quiz is? Normally, there's about 12 years between us, isn't there, Steve? And normally, if I was in a quiz with someone who's 12 years old, I'd be like, well, at least when you get the Britpop questions, I'll have an advantage. but I don't because you're Steve Lemack

24:33Steve:okay alright so there we are, thank you to Eddie Argos for providing that and okay the next round, so we've got rounds five and six, round five is questions for Stu about Steve based on what we've been doing on the podcast this year so Stu, are you ready? okay, so in these rounds will be three questions for each of you about the other one, you can say the answers immediately because only one of you is replying there are four questions, there are four points for the three questions. So, Stu, question number one, what is the name of the OAP-themed band that Steve has been infusing over in recent months?