Joy Division Oven Gloves (Double Belt Version)

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I was previously aware of the fine work of Half Man Half Biscuit and have always liked this song, due to being a fan of Joy Division too! I would like a home. That’s one of my principal objectives. There was a nice sofa in The Apartment. I still have it. I would like to sit on it again. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.

Technicolour Field (the rug), Technicolour Fade (the chair upholstery) and Technicolour Flux (the curtain) by Peter Saville/ Kvadrat Kvadrat Not to put too fine a point on it, the individual in question is one whom your present interlocutor is in the habit of defining by means of the perpendicular pronoun.) We don't mind if it gets to six or 36," said one of the campaign's co-ordinators, Chris Shade, from Rochester in Kent. He said it had started out as "a bit of a joke", but the song – from the band's 2005 album Achtung Bono – has now become an unofficial anthem of the station.The title "We Built This Village on a Trad. Arr. Tune" parodies that of the 1985 song " We Built This City" by Starship. Much to enjoy here, though I found myself in biff-then-parse mode for a number of the clues, only working out the wordplay once I had the answer rather than the other way round. Thanks a lot to the Rotter for doing the blog last week, which 20d for you means you’ll have me again next week. Many thanks to Marty! Across

Trad. Arr." is short for "traditional, arranged (by)", and is often attached to recordings of folk music. The commercial radio top 40, The Big Top 40 Show, has a top 10 based entirely on iTunes sales figures, allowing listeners to influence chart positions during the course of the Sunday afternoon show.

Wow indeed, great catch Tim and Verlaine, and thanks a lot to Templar for the lyrics – it made listening to the (rather good) song all the better. Half the puzzle in there is right: a superb effort from Marty. If I think of Peter Saville and interiors I think of Pulp’s ‘Help The Aged' sleeve and your Nineties Mayfair home, The Apartment. They both had a kind of retro-Playboy vibe Well there was one, also from the editor but setting as Felix, that contained references to a teacher at his child’s school.

There is a song reference here: “Joy Division Oven Gloves” by the band Half Man Half Biscuit. I kid you not.

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Spot on 20 minutes for me, so right on the cusp of escaping the SCC. My favourite clues were OVEN GLOVES and MINI (very clever), and PICCALILLI is one of my favourite relishes (especially a home-produced version, available from my local farmers’ market). I somehow remembered the meanings of YAMMERED and EMENDS, from a previous QC, but DNK transport = JOY and could not fully parse IRON ON. Enjoyable fare. Spotted the Joy Division reference but didn’t see the other connections. To say that was niche is an understatement. I mean, occasionally. And I have to politely point out that I’m a 66-year-old man and it’s not appropriate. I did consultancy for Manchester for several years [in 2004 Savile was announced as 'creative director' of the city]. So I was up in Manchester every week. This is a good ten years ago now, but I guy came up to me in the street, he was in a band and he said ‘Are you Peter Saville? Will you do our cover?’ I said ‘How old are you?’ And he’s 22. So I said ‘When I was 22 I wouldn’t have asked my Dad to do my record’. I said ‘I’m old enough to be your father. Maybe your grandfather. Someone of your own universe, your own life has to do it'. It was really nice of him to ask and I was touched. But it’s not appropriate. Personalised Double Oven Glove Fathers Day Grandma Grandad Dad Cooking Baking Queen Grandma Gran Best Mummy Valentines