Headbang votes - 15 Dec 17 (2)

There had been three significant anniversaries since our last gathering:

1. Death of Otis Redding - 10 December 1967
2. Ian Dury's first single with the Blockheads and New Boots and Panties! - 26 August 1977
3. Release of Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks - 28 October 1977

We played My Girl from the Stax-Volt tour of Europe 50 years ago, followed by Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, finishing with Holidays in the Sun.

Malcolm missed out on his suggested theme of Keyboard Leads, but we went ahead anyway and played 10 tracks from bands whose predominant instrument is not normally guitars. Voting was once again in place and the results were:

1	Roxy Music	Do the strand	68
2	Stranglers	No more heroes	64
3	Procul Harum	Conquistador	52
4	Deep Purple	Child in time	50
5	Zombies	Time of the season	45
6	Genesis	I know what I like	44
7	Spencer Davis Group	I'm a man	41
8	Traffic	Feelin' alright	35
9	Doors	Back door man	25
10	ELP	The Barbarian	16

Yet another example of the variety of opinions was Deep Purple, who had two maximum scores and one minimum.

Another theme carried forward from the last do was Glastonbury 2017, which would run past midnight, so Gary decided it was an appropriate time for him to depart. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the voting started to get a mite ragged at this stage, but the table below is probably a fair representation of what was intended:

1	Radiohead	Karma Police	63
2=	Biffy Clyro	Many of horror	53
2=	Foo Fighters	Under pressure	53
4	Flaming Lips	Space Oddity	50
5	Ed Sheeran	Castle on the hill	46
6=	Songhoy Blues	Bamako	39
6=	The xx	I dare you	39
8=	Chic	Get Lucky	32
8=	Lorde	Royals	32
10	Liam Gallagher	(What's the story) Morning glory	29
11	Kris Kristofferson	Sunday morning coming down	20
12	Jacksons	Wanna be starting something	10

A decisive win for Radiohead, but there was still some polarisation evident, notably with The XX.

The final theme was a very short one - Paisley Buddies, intended as a celebration for the town winning the UK City of Culture. It wasn't to be for Paisley but we went ahead and played 3 tracks from local(ish) artistes:

Paolo Nutini	Candy
Gerry Rafferty	Night Owl
David Byrne (Talking Heads)	Life during wartime

Time for the team photo, taken with a very faint David Byrne in the backdrop:

We thought that was that, but Aidan kindly extended matters a little by offering us all a fine dram: