You're halfway there - It was a genuinely unique performance in which he recorded a quadruple of centuries - One in each innings with the bat (he needed a total of 210 to reach the double) And conceded a century of runs in each innings bowling where he also took 11 wickets and ended up on the losing side! The matchcard makes amazing reading: http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/50/50531.html Widely considered the best cricketer never to have played test cricket, he was banned for life for going on the rebel West Indies tour of South Africa. Another amazing feat he has performed is to be one of only two people to have recorded a birdie on the Extreme 19th, the world's longest Par 3 hole in South Africa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_19th
That is a strong batting line up Notts had, and just look at the number of overs he bowled in the Yorkshire 2nd innings! He was famed for his slower ball wasn't he? Anyway back to prog rock to keep Stan happy. Pink Floyd's first album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was named after a chapter of which children's classic novel?
Cheers Roller. Its from the brilliant Wind in the Willows, a book which convinces me I was born out of time and should have been a late Victorian/Edwardian gentleman. Actually I quite like some bits of the Floyd, think they have been used as a catch all/ shorthand for prog, when Gilmour gets goings its more bluesy. I'll even confess that early Genesis has a real sense of English surrealism and whimsy. Yes I find hard to find an excuse for though, even though Chris Squire is undoubtedly a genius.
Actually I can picture you dressed up in Victorian garb. My Genesis time line stops at the point when Hackett left, nothing of any note (no pun intended) happened after then. Gabriel certainly led them down all sorts of weird and wonderful paths, whereas Floyd got better (imo) when their oddball left; post Syd they were so much better and are one of the very, very few bands that got much better with time (definitely no pun intended!). Your answer is right, of course.
Do you like post Genesis Gabriel mate? He has done more than most to broaden musical horizons, and seems like a good bloke too. In which novel does a character called Chemo, who has had his hand (devoured by a barracuda) replaced by a weed whacker/strimmer, feature? You'll know this or you won't, but I'm in evangelistic mood, would love more people to enjoy this (still living and writing) author.
Not particularly. It is generally the music rather than the vocals that grabs me and the actual music I've heard on his stuff has been pretty standard. A song like The Cinema Show is some people's idea of hell, but I love it. I'm afraid that I'm firmly in the "won't" camp here, but it does sound like a plot for a poor B movie made after Edward Scissorhands was a success. Still, I'll look it up and give it a go.
Oops, looks like I've inadvertently killed the thread with a question with is either too arcane or boring - the answer is Carl Hiaasen's Skin Tight. He writes acid and extremely funny satires on the general corruption and degeneration of Florida. Highly recommended. Someone set a more engaging question!
That's a great question Sooper. I looked up the answer and then spent half an hour reading about it. My only excuse is a D at 'o' level English Literature - I spent two years in fruitless battle with the concept of studying literature, which I felt was for enjoyment and a personal link between reader and author. I suspect had I had a better teacher I would have seen the error of my ways....
In an attempt to keep this thread moving I've googled this. The answers are Aldgate and Chaucer, but perhaps you'd like to explain it Soops?
It's a wooden 'weaved sculpture'. Erected on the site of the original east gate to the City of London at Aldgate, a site that the poet Geoffrey Chaucer lived at and the 'sculpture' recreates one of the buildings that he imagined in the 'dream' poems written in the time that he lived there. It marked the beginning of the 'high street 2012' leading east to the Olympic Park and is likely to remain at Aldgate indefinitely...
Cheers Soops. To stay with the arts, well almost, Iron Maiden's singer, Bruce Dickinson, has two other major strings to his bow, what are they?
He's a fully qualified airline pilot, he flies the band all over the world in their jumbo. Dunno the other 'string'...
Shooting or archery. Though I thought this was the bloke who lost his arm, which makes either a little unlikely.
It certainly is. I think one of their videos feature him fencing, but I'm very much out of touch with Iron Maiden. To quote wiki: Dickinson's interests include literature, writing, fencing (at which he has competed internationally, placing 7th in Great Britain Dickinson learned to fly recreationally in Florida in the 1990s and now holds an airline transport pilot's licence. He regularly flew Boeing 757s in his role as captain for the now-defunct UK charter airline Astraeus
I've seen them live a few times, you can see the way he leaps around the stage he's got the sort of balance of a disciplined professional, a great live band... Here's an easier question: what is measured by a cyanometer?...
