Victory to The Seventeeners

stefanc, our pal Nick (WINOLJ) and myself form a pub quiz team. For a long time we ruled the roost at an easy quiz at a pub in Canonbury called the Snooty Fox, taking about £20 or so a week and thus having a cheap night out. Then Nick wanted to step it up a bit and try a new one.
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Addendum

For those of you who may be curious...

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Many Different Houses of many Rising Suns

I'm meeting up with that guitarist Spike tonight to play through a couple of things. One of the songs I thought it might be interesting to try out was that old American folk classic House of the Rising Sun. So I've been on YouTube looking at a mountain of different covers. There's a fabulous Nina Simone live version, for example, and an interesting attempt by Duran Duran.
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