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Published: 20th November 2020

 

Author: Adam 

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Questions:

 

1) Which 1987 Proclaimers hit wonders 'I've looked at the ocean / Tried hard to imagine / The way you felt the day you sailed / From Wester Ross to Nova Scotia'?

 

2) Complete the name of this Bellshill formed alt-rock group founded by Norman Blake; 'Teenage ...'?

a) Dreams b) Bottlerockers c) Fanclub

 

 

3) Which Deacon Blue song, a regular at the end of a night, was played during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, though songwriter Ricky Ross was actually in Greece when he started writing it?

 

 

4) Which Glasgow street did Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera sing about, where 'Whisky words tumble down in the street'?

 

 

5) Bobby Bluebell and his band took which song to number one following its appearance on an advert for a Volkswagen Golf in 1991?

 

 

6) On which Scottish city is there 'Panic' on The Smiths 1986 track?

 

 

7) Which ABBA track features the lyric 'I was sick and tired of everything / When I called you last night from Glasgow'?

 

 

8) Which Scottish singer-songwriter wrote and released the heart rending ballad 'Caledonia' in 1977?

 

 

9) The Fall's Mark E. Smith sang of wishing he was in which Scottish city, having briefly lived there in 1990?

 

 

10) Camera Obscura sang of being 'Knee-deep at the NPL' - what does NPL stand for?

 

 

11) An 82-year old Glasgow poet laureate Edwin Morgan appears on the closing track of 'The Remote Part', a 2002 album from which Scottish group?

 

 

12) The song 'Shang-a-Lang' attempted to recreate the sounds of Glasgow shipyards. Which group released the song in 1974?

 

 

13) Which band released 'Mother Glasgow' with its lyrics: 'Mother Glasgow nurses all her weans'?

 

 

14) Which Scottish indie rock band consist of James & Rab Allen on lead vocals and lead guitar, with Paul Donoghue on bass?

 

 

15) Formed in Glasgow in 1995, which group including guitarist Stuart Braithwaite takes its' name from a creature in the film 'Gremlins'?

 

 

16) The 2007 album 'Hats Off To The Buskers' was the debut album from which Dundee indie rock band?

 

17) Which Scottish indie pop group featuring Sci-fi Steven, John Disco and Manda Rin took its name from a derivation of the 'The The' lyric 'black iron skyline'?

 

18) Del Amitri have had five albums reach the UK Top 10. Can you name one of them?

Waking Hours, Change Everything, Twisted, Some Other Sucker's Parade, Hatful of Rain (a compilation best of)

 

19) Which Scottish pop group formed in 1978 had two Uk Top 40 hits with 'I Dream to Sleep' and 'Just Outside of Heaven'?

 

20) Wet Wet Wet's cover of The Troggs' 'Love Is All Around' featured on the soundtrack to which 1990s Richard Curtis film?

 

21) Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty formed which synth-pop group in Glasgow? They released their debut studio album 'The Bones of What You Believe' in September 2013?

 

22) Brothers Kevin and Jim McGinley were members of which Scottish pop group who achieved a 1976 UK number one single with 'Forever and Ever'?

 

 

Answers:

 

1) Which 1987 Proclaimers hit wonders 'I've looked at the ocean / Tried hard to imagine / The way you felt the day you sailed / From Wester Ross to Nova Scotia'?

Letters From America

 

2) Complete the name of this Bellshill formed alt-rock group founded by Norman Blake; 'Teenage ...'?

a) Dreams b) Bottlerockers c) Fanclub

c) Fanclub

 

3) Which Deacon Blue song, a regular at the end of a night, was played during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow? Songwriter Ricky Ross was actually in Greece when he started writing it.

Dignity

 

4) Which Glasgow street did Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera sing about, where 'Whisky words tumble down in the street'?

Killermont Street

 

 

5) Bobby Bluebell and his band took which song to number one following its appearance on an advert for a Volkswagen Golf in 1991?

Young at Heart

 

 

6) On which Scottish city is there 'Panic' on The Smiths 1986 track?

Dundee

 

 

7) Which ABBA track features the lyric 'I was sick and tired of everything / When I called you last night from Glasgow'?

Super Trouper

 

 

8) Which Scottish singer-songwriter wrote and released the heart rending ballad 'Caledonia' in 1977?

Dougie MacLean

 

 

9) The Fall's Mark E. Smith sang of wishing he was in which Scottish city, having briefly lived there in 1990?

Edinburgh

 

 

10) Camera Obscura sang of being 'Knee-deep at the NPL' - what does NPL stand for?

National Pop League (an infamous Indie night)

 

 

11) An 82-year old Glasgow poet laureate Edwin Morgan appears on the closing track of 'The Remote Part', a 2002 album from which Scottish group?

Idlewild

 

 

12) The song 'Shang-a-Lang' attempted to recreate the sounds of Glasgow shipyards. Which group released the song in 1974?

Bay City Rollers

 

 

13) Which band released 'Mother Glasgow' with its lyrics: 'Mother Glasgow nurses all her weans'?

Hue & Cry

 

 

14) Which Scottish indie rock band consist of James & Rab Allen on lead vocals and lead guitar, with Paul Donoghue on bass?

Glasvegas

 

 

15) Formed in Glasgow in 1995, which group including guitarist Stuart Braithwaite takes its' name from a creature in the film 'Gremlins'?

Mogwai

 

 

16) The 2007 album 'Hats Off To The Buskers' was the debut album from which Dundee indie rock band?

The View

 

17) Which Scottish indie pop group featuring Sci-fi Steven, John Disco and Manda Rin took its name from a derivation of the 'The The' lyric 'black iron skyline'?

bis

 

18) Del Amitri have had five albums reach the UK Top 10. Can you name one of them?

Waking Hours, Change Everything, Twisted, Some Other Sucker's Parade, Hatful of Rain (a compilation best of)

 

19) Which Scottish pop group formed in 1978 had two Uk Top 40 hits with 'I Dream to Sleep' and 'Just Outside of Heaven'?

H2O

 

20) Wet Wet Wet's cover of The Troggs' 'Love Is All Around' featured on the soundtrack to which 1990s Richard Curtis film?

Four Weddings and a Funeral

 

21) Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty formed which synth-pop group in Glasgow? They released their debut studio album 'The Bones of What You Believe' in September 2013?

CHVRCHES

 

22) Brothers Kevin and Jim McGinley were members of which Scottish pop group who achieved a 1976 UK number one single with 'Forever and Ever'?

Slik