Starter for Eleven: Kele Okereke

Q. Silent Alarm was the overall winner in 2005. Name any 5 of the rest of the top ten in that year with a point for each?
Kele: Erm, Franz Ferdinand? I don't even know anything else that was out that year, sorry!

A. 2. Arcade Fire – Funeral, 3. Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better, 4. Antony & The Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now, 5. Kaiser Chiefs – Employment, 6. The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan 7. Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise, 8. Kanye West – Late Registration, 9. Babyshambles – Down In Albion, 10. Gorillaz – Demon Days

Kele: I honestly can't remember too many of those, must have been quite busy round about then. (1 point)

Q. Who won it last year?
Now it seems I can’t really remember much of last year either. Oh, hang on, was it The Horrors?
A. The Horrors – Primary Colours (1 point)

Q. Where did A Weekend in the City [Bloc Party’s sophomore album] place in 2007?
Kele: I honestly have absolutely no idea. 30th?
A: Good news: Better than that, 20th. Bad news: 0 points

Q. Who placed 5th in 2008 with their album Antidotes?
Kele: That's the name of the Foals record isn't it?
A.Foals (1 point). And for a bonus point do you think Yiannis from Foals rips off your singing style?
Kele: NEXT question...

Q. What's the name of the Les Savy Fav album that placed at no. 5 in 2007?
Kele: Oh no! I do hang out with Tim [Harrington, LSF singer]... I'm just trying to think of what the record's called.... no. Whoops! Sorry Tim.
A.Let’s Stay Friends

Q. Same as above, but with Outkast’s album which placed at no. 8 in 2003?
Kele: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
A.Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (1 point)

Q. Any idea who the winner was in year you were born (1981)?
Kele: Well if I can’t remember 2005....
A.Nightclubbing – Grace Jones

Q. Which winning album in this decade (2004) had a track called Darts of Pleasure?
Kele: That's Franz Ferdinand’s one isn't it?
A.Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand (1 point)

Q. In 1995, Maxinquaye by Tricky was NME’s album of the year, which act’s album came second that year?
Kele: Not a clue.
A.Oasis. Bonus point if you insult them again for our sake?
Kele: Been doing enough of that, sorry.

Q. Complete the next line in a lyric from a winning album. ‘Lights go out and I can't be saved...’
Kele: Sorry, really not sure.
A.‘...Tides that I tried to swim against’. Coldplay: Clocks, from A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002 winner).

Q. And this one? ‘And it hurts all the time when you don't return my calls...’
Kele: (laughs) Don’t have a clue mate!
Really? We don't believe you, but OK then, A. ‘...And you haven’t got the time to remember how it was’. Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass.

With 5 points, that just cost you the chance of a haggis supper. Hard lines Kele.

Kele: That’s OK, I’ve still got my dignity.