Max Merritt & the Meteors answers

Apologies. It has taken me more days than I expected to get back to this blog to put up the answers to this quiz. As noted in a previous post this will be the last of the Sunday quizzes in the short term at least, as the Sunday staffing at the cafe has changed. These …

Sunday quiz No.5: Max Merritt & the Meteors

As anyone who regularly reads this BLOG will know, this quiz is the last of 5 quizzes. These came into being because there is a young Kiwi guy working in a cafe I go to often & his knowledge of Kiwi music & musicians is lacking. Staffing at cafes changes often but while there were …

Spectrum quiz answers

The Spectrum quiz is the 4th in the series of Sunday quizzes I have organised for staff at a local cafe. There will be one more in this series & that one will focus on Max Merritt and the Meteors, who formed in Christchurch in the late fifties. Max and his band were one of …

Sunday quiz No.4: Spectrum

As noted in the last post, Spectrum aren't a Kiwi band but they were formed by Mike Rudd who came to Melbourne with Christchurch group the Chants R&B late in 1966. When they folded he joined Party Machine. Once Party Machine split Mike knew he needed to form another band to perform original material as …

La De Da’s quiz answers

As it's Wednesday and as I indicated that the answers to the quiz would go up today I'd better keep to my word. In case you are wondering, there will be two more quizzes in this series then there will be a break. The next quiz will be about Spectrum who I know aren't a …

Sunday quiz No.3: La De Da’s

As any regular readers will know, currently I am posting quizzes to this site after they have been completed by local cafe staff & that this all started because one of them is a Kiwi but he doesn't know much about NZ music. The La De Da's ... The band formed as the Mergers in …

Sunday Quiz No.2: Dragon

Dragon had been in Melbourne to do two shows on the same bill as Mi-Sex so when it became apparent that there was to be a second quiz, it was Dragon I was thinking about as I pondered things I had talked to Mark Williams about in an interview that I was able to arrange …

Split Enz quiz answers

So that you don't see the answers at first glance I need to write a few lines to start this post. This first quiz is a version of the one I drew up to do with the young staff at a local cafe, one of whom is a Kiwi lad who needs to know more …

Sunday quiz: Split Enz

My favourite local barista is a Kiwi lad in his early 20s. He admits he doesn't know much about music, unlike cricket or rugby that he knows lots about. The cafe where he works is one where I spend lots of time reading (mostly about music), drafting posts for this blog, writing the occasional book …