Metamatic Forums Socialising The Green Room Advent* Pop Quiz

Basically chart songs of yore If you know the answer . write it or even better leave a Youtube link then leave your own question
OK I'll start the ball rolling
Which vertically challenged London disco diva and allegedly niece of Welsh footballing legend John lamented the fact that she was dying to get rodgered senseless but she wasn't getting any action due to the fact her man was too busy John Travoltaing it all over the dancefloor ?
Got to number 1 mid 70's if my failing memory serves me right

*I'm sure the pedantic Membs will point out I'm 3 weeks too early

Indeed . .but since I know the answer to that one...
I'll allow the "Advent" quiz to go on, provided you don't start opening your calendar windows or whip out you coat-hangar-and-tinsel Advent "crown" (oneyou made earlier) just yet ...

heeeeeeeere's Tina! http://youtu.be/pdPA2sEfBdo

My turn?

WELL in Marco ! Off you go with your question !

Ok .. which London combo started out as a possible signing to the Beatles' Apple Corps., only to have their plans quashed after the Fab Four split up, but then mericfully saved by seventies record industry guru MM who raised them to success?

If I had any friends I'd choose the "phone a friend" option I know MM is Micky Most I'll have to think about it .Work calls , laters !

Struggling here Membs Gizza nother clue , failing that put me out of my misery Obviously a fruity sounding combo !
GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS deffo not
I'm torn between MARMALADE and THE STRAWBS
IS MM Mickey Most ?

mm...
..not so much fruity as .. well, a bedtime drink that is not Ovaltine ..

aww..c-mon... they really did believe in miracles..and knew where heaven was...

(We-re givin- things away!)

OH you sexy thing !
Errol and his unfeasibly tight kecks !
Guess I'm a winner too !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GkwIRbLw8

Just about!

Ok .. you turn . .or anybody else's.....!

Which classically trained pianist connects Peter Gabriel, China Crisis and The Flying Pickets?

Wow.. a tough one there Martin..and I can't wait to know the answer!

I think I might know the answer to this. Was the person the support act for the 3 acts?

Yes indeed.

A further clue. When first attracted to the attention of WEA records, it was suggested that he should write a new song for a debut single as nothing in his repertoire was deemed strong enough to lead with.

I'll let others see if they can get it. I knew that the person supported China Crisis (as I was there) & Gabriel but wasn't sure about the pickets.

Howard Jones

No, really? I actually saw HJ supporting CC back in the day.

Ok if Martin confirms it's right then it's your turn Mr Ilektrik..

You are indeed correct.
The answer is Howard Jones.

I heard (from Mr Jones) the story behind his debut single New Song in Oxford where he played lots of makeshift impromptu gigs in 81/82 and used to drink / chat / perform occasionally in the Hall of Residence where I was doing my thing.
I pushed a couple of tables togtehr and plugged things in for him more than once.

The things you learn on here ! I take it you managed to throw off your mental chains Martin !
As The Leckyman doesn't seem to be around I'll jump the queue
Which Welsh Valleys boyo and Lancastrian dwarf got to number one against all odds around the same time as the aforementioned Tina Charles ? The latter did the spadework with his great voice whilst the former merely provided nuisance value . A prototype Bez or Andrew Ridgeley no less. They were obviously on class A drugs as they were imploring one form of vegetation not to speak to another !

phew..toughie...

Gallagher & Lyle?
Bellamy Bros.?
Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots?

... mmmm , no points for guessing I s'pose....

Ah, now then.

Is it warm in here, or is that just me?

We've had Hot Chocolate already!

I know this one.

Ok Martin .. please put us out of our misery. (otherwise we'll move on to spin the bottle..)

I give up.

My guess is this odd pairing from Christmas 1975:

(No, not Tony Blackburn and Noel Edmonds...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAATxhOXH_A

There's clever Martin boyo ! Well done Your turn!

I've had the previous question.

Member D/ Mr Ilektrik / AN Other can stick one in now

Ok .. well as we are now technically in the Advent period (ie. that frantic, panic-ridden run-up to Christmas), let's have something Christian-fest related:

Which traditional Basque carol has been adapted by modern troubadors for inclusion on their recorded Yuletide offerings?

(hint: someone omitted to inform Ms Ciccone that the line "most highly favoured lady" was referred to another Madonna...)

Oh c'mon chums! .. think on't othewise never mind Christmas it'll be Candlemas soon..

Clue: Sting.

Ummmmm - that Irish Boy band (can't remember their name and I'm not Googling!)

I ain't got a Scooby Membs , but as my trusty domestique Radler is wont to say "Audere est Facere " So I'll stick my neck out and go for this as I once heard it in a bar in San Sebastian *

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxm1FlLSfe4

* tenuous Basque connection

Good shout!

I'm struggling with this one too.
Seems a better bet than anything I've come up with

Nay pop-chums .. I don't know much about Irish boy-bands (Westlife?) but the answer to this one lies verily herein:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF2BzUDeTkY

nul points all round there, but in the spirit of Yuletide I'll let someone else have a stab...

So the clue was the answer??

Subtle. Too clever for me

Nay !

Q: Which traditional Basque carol ...?
A: Gabriel's Message.

..pass the sherry would you?

Your turn.

Faute de mieux I'll have another go !

Which genre -defying chart topper unfolds under a Gemini sky and sees the protagonist and his chums trying to outwit their "Ursine " enemies ?

does this one have anything to do with the Beatles, or some adaptation of the nursery rhyme Teddy Bears Picnic - "if you go down to the woods today"

?

Well as you are North Of the Border I'll give you a wee clue The wood could well be full of fir trees You 'll be able to follow my trail if you are on the ball !
Yours sincerely
Arnie Saknussem

Come on people Call yourselves music connoiseurs !! Head to the West of Scotland until you reach some a fir forest in which there is a well around which stand some dossers , Ask of their leader and this will ultimately help you in your quest !
*stands on top of mountain and holds out lantern like that old geezer on the inside of the gatefold cover of Led Zep 4 *

I have not done well with these...

My brain's asleep. Thanks for the clues.
Will give it a little more thunk

Alas...I haven't the foggiest.

Mull of Kintyre?

Oh weary traveller I have spoken to the spirit in the sky Googlemap and it informs me that thou hast fallen 80 miles or so short of your final destination . Look to the Orient (not Leyton !)

Gah! I was never any good at geography .. and I don't know any songs about Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park either.

Curses!

Ivan, is it anything like this old load of tosh? (an out-take from Peter Jackson's aborted 80s attempt at filming The Hobbit as a docusoap):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOad0FU9zF8

Jeez That's Barry White so it is !! I understand why the Emperor Hadrian had the wall built now !
Joking apart, Scotland has nothing to do with the artiste you seek , but if you arrive at the well and ask of the leader , you should be at your journey's end !

Oh I dunno .....

to paraphrase Moz : Please, Please, Please...put us out of our misery . .and contrary to Pete 'n' Kate's advice..I DO give up!

Can we open the Quality Streets yet?

This is the leader you should have sought |

NOT SAFE FOR WORK IMAGE

http://www.photo-shotts.com/photo_8552908.html

Owch, Ivan I was just too shy shy to say, McCall = McHugh, and Leader = Commander? I thought that this tribute was the well mother chart hit -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMC6-novink

You are still"Miles Away " I'm afraid

Okay Ivan, I googled the enemy 'bears' of Mr McCall, now seeing as I'm a Glaswegian who's father supported Glasgow Rangers all his life then you'd think I might know that Rangers were 'the bears' (nope, I didn't), so, I know you said this had nothing to do with Scotland, but was this crowd song/chant the chart hit (its not exactly genre-defying though so I'm probably well wide of the mark)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ninFK8jzk7E

OK Cores You are not seeing the wood for the (fir) trees A good mate of mine* from University was from Corstorphine and also followed The Teddy Bears But there is no Rangers or Scotland connection The main thing was for you to get to Motherwell THE WELL who play at FIRS PARK and apparently have an alternative nick name of "TTHE DOSSERS " (Wikipedia , so don't know how reliable it might be) The Scottish commection ends there as you have reached faux Scotsman Stuart McCall You must now cross the Atlantic The bears are flying bears !
*I've been to see Two Scottish games with him The first one Scottish Cup Final , his beloved Bears against Hibernian , the second in his native Edinburgh at Easter Road where St Mirren were the guests So the Hibees are my Scottish team by default I'm one of the few Englishmen who know exactly what Irvine Welsh is on about ! If no one has cracked it come Tuesday , I'll put a Youtube link up and put you all out of you misery

flying football bears across the Atlantic..!

Please, please Ivan give us a less cryptic clue for this quiz is turning into the Nightmare before Christmas

OK Last clue It reached number 1 (One) in USA Canada Australia and New Zealand respectively
Number 2 (Two) in UK and Ireland so it's hardly obscure
If no one has got it by tomorrow I'll link it as promised As the world is due to end on Friday , you'll have more pressing issues to worry about rather than "What the fook was Ivan on about ?"


I expect to see some red. faced Mayans about come Saturday when we are still here btw

Aye, and some red-faced "music experts" too as soon as the proverbial cat is out of the even more proverbial bag on this one.

Considering everything, it's gotta be The Riddle by Nik Kershaw

Rather an apt title, in that case...

My last and final clue before I put it up tomorrow

X IV



*applies for position of Guardian Cryptic Crossword Compiler *

Ivan, is it X IV or XIV

(I have my enigma machine ready and Kate Winslet is raring to go, failing that I will have to channel the ghost of Alan Turing)

Louis Quatorze?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcstsc_bow-wow-wow-louis-quatorze_music

Ivan, Is it Convoy by C W McCall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI5eT4UmyFY

Good Foxxhead buddy Core Memory you receiving me loud and clear over The CB ! Let's hear it for man Mark E Smith based his entire career on !Over and out 10 4 ! Let those truckers roll for we have got ourselves a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWO_AIh8drk

Groan .. I thought it would something festive ...

Ok .. a quick mince pie then it's your turn Cors .. not too hard mind cos my head hurts from all the sherry ...

I wouldn't of got that in a million years!

Guardian Cryptic Crossword Compiler!? You're wasted there Ivan.

I think GCHQ have a post for you though!

I accept your challenge, pistols at dawn...

If ‘Americas Got Talent’ existed back in the hay day of Chic and Mr Ferry’s Roxy Music and a rock band took part and performed a song in the easy-listening mode of those particular artists then it would have sounded like this catchy little number, its also one which would have lent itself to the title of a programme presented by John Craven, or Alan Partridge even. These were a rock/pop band who appeared mainstream but who thought of themselves as being alternative, fast forward back to the future now and when it comes to naming that band then our very own UK Hex Factor judge the tax evading (allegedly) Gary Barlow as the celebrity personality fits the bill for me every time. So, bad male hairstyle and a chanteuse’s headgear to the fore, if you want a dream come true you need one singer with a mullet, and another with style…

After 45 seconds careful deliberation I came up with this Probably wrong but good excuse to post third division footballer and prototype Chavess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7AyB4qKCR0

Aaaaaaaaaaaargh, Ivan, are you trying to give me a heart attack, I clicked on that link only to have my psyche attacked by the sight of that pervert in a white catsuit mincing across the stage, and no I am not talking about David Van Day either.

Not Dollar, though I can see why you would.

Although I described them as appearing mainstream they were in fact particularly well known on their own home turf for their flamboyant and outrageous stage shows. Their single visited our UK charts in the same year that an English Gentleman crooner and his hipster gang unleashed their manifesto (no, not Dave Cameron and the Bullingdon Club posse Yah!)

Good Lord Taggart Not as easy as it would seem If ROXETTE weren't Swedish , they'd fit the bill perfectly Mr Mullethead on guitar and caterwauling bird with outré headwear IKe of IKE AND TINA TURNER was follicullarly challenged , so that rules them out I can only summise that on the cusp of the 70's and 80's whilst I was busy being an electrohead and wasting obscene amounts of money following Everton up and down the country STEVIE NICKS and SPRINGSTEEN got together and I missed it . I can see the scene now at Madison Square Garden or San Francisco Rose Bowl
Ex FLeetwood Mac chanteuse "Hi you guys ! Hope you like the hat ! This is my good friend Brucie on guitar , if you hadn't gathered from his previous 300 songs his Daddy was a blue -collar worker Anyway we're all on a mission We've got to defeat AIDS Stop war Feed the world Make the world a better place And that's where you guys can help You now how ? Well listen to Stevie . While we play , I wancha all to punch the air aimlessly with your right hand and hold a ciggy lighter aloft in your left hand Let our voices be heard "WE ARE THE PEOPLE AIN'T NO STOPPING US NOW (Brucie launches into yet another coma- inducing pedestrian guitar riff )
Anyway Cores I still ain't got a scooby . Further help please

well Ivan at 11.14 am today (GMT) I suggest we all stop what we are doing be it at home or at work and step outside and gather together because the world as we know it is about to change, after 11.14am we will be living in a new phase according to the Mayans. Personally I'm hoping it will be an alternative reality where all people of the world are the same blue colour, athletic, tall and cat-like with tails, poetic hunter gatherers that connect with the great world tree, and one day Hollywood will visit and make a film about our fantastic native spirit.

Okay, there's not much time left now so all Metaforensic scientists lets bring this one to a close, (BTW radiobeach, I like your CSI Chorley comment in another thread )

The song and group are likely obscure today, they had two hits in our UK top 50 two years apart but I'm not expecting anyone to solve this based on any facts. The easy peasy way to get this one is to think of a radio programme at peak hour (the sort aimed at drivers, commuters, etc), much more effective though is to think of a four-letter word that describes Gary Barlow for you, this depends on whether you like or dislike the man, just use your imagination.

well 11.14am has come and gone, no-one appears to be blue skinned or grown a cauda, damn.

More evidence -

The theme behind the album that the mystery song comes from was inspired by the life of a gardener played onscreen by Peter Sellers, and the album itself was produced by a man who signed his name on the birth certificate of the actress who was the film character Arwen Undomeil.

Well I used my imagination , but I can't imagine any peak time radio prog being called (Fat) turd .I then resorted to Google and discovered that Sellers played a gardener called CHANCE which set me thinking about your fellow sons of Alba BIG COUNTRY
Going back to Google I have ascertained that the film/Novel is called BEING THERE Written by a Polish bloke called JERZY Unfortunately my amoeba type brain cannot make any inroads
Probably staring me in the face , like McCall was staring at you (literally)

OK scraping barrels here American bloke/bird combo from right period. Him bad Kevin Keegan/Leo Sayer perm and porn star muzzy no mullet . Her hatless . Lovely song all the same
As they say on Eurovision ,"Ivan Basso nul points "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9vMCgWS_n8

Ta for the programme title, if only the Beeb would wise up, theres a golden opportunity in the ratings there!

Okay, Ivan's mince pies have gone cold, MemberD has seemingly passed out from too much sherry and the rest of the forum are trapped in town by the last-minute xmas shopping crowds so I'm editing this post from 14 hours ago in order to hasten the answer to the mystery song, I honestly didn't set out to be obscure and any reply wide of the mark generate's more clues!

Google a fictional Alan Partridge radio show and you find 'Drive Time' (Fat Turd is pretty good too for Alan Partridge!), look closely at Arwen Undomeil in the flesh and you get Peter Jacksons LOTR's actress Liv Tyler, who is in fact Liv 'Rundgren' Tyler, and from there you will get that particular multi-skilled producer who guided 'The' (four's) letter word 70's rock band in their attempt at a concept album inspired by a television addicted idiot savant (Being There), the new wave style mystery song is on that album, and as for XFactor music guru Gary Barlow..?

If no answer by midnight tonight I shall post youtube link solution and allow someone else to pose a new question (assuming we wish this thread to continue over the festive season)

I've put in a very poor show on this thread so far :-(
And again, I give up.

It's the sherry...

Shame on me Cores I'm a bit of a Toddhead too (no googling required thus far) Good lady's birthday today so we've been 24 hour Party People since yesterday evening and I've had no time to dedicate to solving the mystery (The Scooby Doo team have ripped up my application to be a detective) Btw I've a bone to pick with you my Caledonian pal My mind has been awash with crap American bands , mainly of the "Pomp" genre STYX JOURNEY KANSAS TOTO Etc while trying to solve this ! You'll be hearing from my lawyer !
I'm throwing in the towel and you Cores
CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON !! All the best for Crimbo We are off to to hills for 3 days without any computer access

ADDENDUM Again without googling Just reread Was the band called The Nazz ? Back in a bit
ADDENDUM 2 I've failed to "See the light in his eyes " Hail Hail Core Memory The board's Andy Murray ! Unbeatable on his day !

The band is The Tubes the song is Prime Time, which has always stuck in my mind as I recall seeing this on TOTPs in the same period as one of Roxy Music's fab singles from their Manifesto album (either: Trash, Dance Away, or Angel Eyes). A 'bad male hairstyle and a chanteuse’s headgear to the fore', "if you want a dream come true" you need one singer with a mullet, and another with style…' the two particular singers are Mr Fee Waybill and Miss Re'styles'. The album is Remote Control - a concept album about television addiction celebrity culture etc, it was panned by the critics, produced by Tod Rundgren who thought he was the father of the beautiful Liv (Tyler) she who plays the role of pointy eared Half-Elven Arwen Undomiel in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy of films (Rundgren put his name to the birth certificate, but her biological father is actually Aerosmith's lead singer Steve Tyler). As for the four-letter word that relates to the bands name and which describes music genius and talent spotter Gary Barlow for me, well, avoiding slander lets just leave it as being Drive Time's fictional Alan Partridge character is a 'star', and Gary Barlow is not


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-fQ5GuNQeo

Even further shame on me ! apart from being into Todd . one of my favourite albums is WHAST DO YOU WANT FROM LIVE ? Whenm Radio Beach came over for the bike race I introduced him to the delights of DON'T TOUCH ME THERE and one of my favourite anthemic songs of all time alongside Skynrd's "Free Bird " WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE
What sidetracked me is that I'm not into Hollywood and the crap it turns out . I pride myself on not having seen one single second of "LOTR" Liv Aerosmith famous for being a pretty face and the scandal surrounding her parentage rather than for any acting talent she might have . I wouldn't be surprised if she became Liv Barlow at some stage
Here are The Tubes at their best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJfbO-iBkZI

Never mind Ivan, new balls please...

Basso to serve
Dead easy this one From the lyrics one might summise that the singer had been an employee of Creation records and frequented Liverpool off licences It's all about fruity headgear !

okay, first swing with this offa top of me head:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yA9r2NbNOs

OUT Advantage Basso !!
Excellent shout all the same . tThank you Taken back two decades there I was in a quandry as I loved both the Manics and T'Mondays , even if they hated and despised each other

I don't want this one dragging out Think of the boss of Creation Records , add the Scouse word for Off Licence (other than "offy") Yet again . cross the Atlantic and seek out the sex midget

As it's nearly Xmas and I probably won't be on for the next 3 days This is my present Just imagine this conversation back in my native Bootle

Scouser A "Der's a dead good proey on der telly about dat Alan McGee and his Creation Records and loads about Oasis "

Scouser B "Custy Lid " I'd berrer get down the outdoor and buy some bevvies "
Cores ,I've virtually given you match point here It only remains for you to google it and post the link



I was working part time in a five-and-dime
My boss was mr. MC GEE
He told me several times that he didn't like my kind
Cause I was a bit 2 leisurely

Seems that I was busy doing something close 2 nothing
But different than the day before
That's when I saw her, ooh, I saw her
She walked in through the OUTDOOR, OUTDOOR

Okay Ivan, you mentioned 'sex midget', only two spring to mind, Marc Almond (dwarf), and Dolly Parton, and then there's your five-and-dime line above, but your 'song' actually works well to the tune of sex midget Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse Of The Heart so I wondered if 'tiler' was some kind of Liverpool slang for someone who goes to the off-licence. However I decided to google MC GEE, turns out there's a Tits Mcgee which is slang for a well endowed woman or one who suffers from macromastia which brings us straight back to Dolly Parton, so my question is this, is a 'fruity barnet' also slang for big breasts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwDMFOLIHxU

New balls please,
dammit, the clue was there in my own post wasn't it!

Guess I'll have 2 tell U I feel 4 U Cores I really do ! Never realised Dolly Bigknockers had ripped off wee Sheena Easton with 9 to 5 ! I'm off to my country retreat Have a good one over Xmas. Tune in for more non- Foxx related lunacy on 27 Dec

Here ya go !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xATUw_ZVTzQ

Just thought I throw another mince pie at y'all before they go stale.
A different kind of question...

Who said this of John Foxx earlier in 2012, and to which track are they referring?

"I chose this song because it encapsulates much of his combination of new wave with psychedelia. The drumbeats quote Tomorrow Never Knows and the lyric is lovely surrealistic image"...

I'm guessing on this one, could it be the miss Gazelle Twin speaking about breathing through an ocean?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gw7_H9uIaA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xL1ffMlzKY

My brain's not working Martin , so I'll take a long shot and say
Bradley Wiggins referring to "Distant Smile "
failing that
Cilla Black "Twilight's Last Gleaming "

Hmm, I think you're only half correct there Ivan, Cilla was most likely referring to Kurfurstendamm, as I believe that in her autobiography she mentions that "KURFURSTENDAMM!!!" is something she shouts out when she stubs her toe on the pavement kerb, or misses with her aim whilst using a hammer and bashes her thumb, or indeed when she accidently traps her fingers in the cutlery drawer.

OK my friends.

To identify the artist in question, you need to take a holiday to the eastern seaboard, where I hear the fossil-hunting is particularly good...

Let the force of Lorentz guide your wayward bus across the water.

Lyrics about water are especially promising

There's a further link with the band's most recent album, whose title is set in the same environment as the John Foxx track in question.

Your guide, the broadcaster who forged this tenuos connection, is a would-be Olympian descended from an ancient civilisation and educated in JF's homeland.

Oh venerable Martin I have heeded your clues . I am now in Lowestoft Thinking of the Latin name for water I shall set off on my Thor Hyerdal type raft across the North Sea whence to Skaggesgat and the Kingdom of Denmark
My quest ends thus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A

Wrong direction.

Go west, young Turk! Take Core with you.
Sharp, he is...

But I would leave Elizabeth 'Gazelle twin' Walling at home if I were you.
Misleading, she is

A clue with Marvel comics style superhero(es)? Though its not 'Thor', perhaps instead beginning with another four letter rampaging character? Nah, can't be that, it has to be another Minimal Electro/Cold Wave combo who love frozen water and shooting flames, just wish I could think of a similar JF song environment, lets see, he's done Dust and Light, but ice and fire?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzbxizbc0bQ

Hmm, I think you're only half correct there Ivan, Cilla was most likely referring to Kurfurstendamm, as I believe that in her autobiography she mentions that "KURFURSTENDAMM!!!" is something she shouts out when she stubs her toe on the pavement kerb, or misses with her aim whilst using a hammer and bashes her thumb, or indeed when she accidently traps her fingers in the cutlery drawer. [/quote

Arfing Finnbar Saunders-style here Cores ! Good work ! "Surprise Surprise " my answer is wrong

you are on the tune in your first reply.

your quest now is to seek who said it, and where

Mr JLordi HulkConan surely, as to where he said it, well I'm guessing it was on a TV show hosted by Paul Merton, here's a clip of post neo-romantic JLordi talking about his addiction to tin'ternet (note the early synthesiser gizmo sat next to his right):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAjD8c6cFc8

Nope

You need to get to the Eastern seaboard of the US, from where this band / frontman hails

Ahoy shipmates, as a former sea cadet in my youth I am duty bound to steer towards either of these two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjadckMNX-c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBIYU94QvVI

Shiver me timbers!

It's not the laugh-a-minute electro-dance coupling that is Xeno & Oaklander is it? (The Richard and Linda Thompson of the 21st Century..?)

Aside from their werk on Evidence and such, I wouldn't know what other Foxxian ditty they may have 'approached' though. Through My Sleeping?

No

The answer is Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, speaking with Nemone on 6Music in August last year.

Merritt is a Foxx fan who contributed to Artrocker's JF week with a tribute. The band are based in New York.

They have released albums called The Wayward Bus and Holiday (see clues) and their latest offering is called Love At The Bottom of The Sea
which links back in with An Ocean We can Breathe, being the JF track in question

Magnetic Field = Lorentz Force...

The host Nemone is Greek, and has (almost) achieved Olympic status for her country.

So there... one point to Core for IDing the Foxx track