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Stuck, irritatingly on three, all interconnected.

Assistance with this may help me get the others -

49A Scottish group in Arizona ract badly about me being imprisoned (5, 6)
A?T?? / ?A?E?A

Thanks in advance.

Looks like aztec camera. Some kind of anagram I guess.

Aztec Camera - a Scottish group (I assume!). There's anagramming involved, but I haven't worked it all out, just stuck the answer in with a huge sigh of relief.

I think it's Az, Arizona, then an anagram of 'react, me and ca (about,circa)'.

Malone,

Thanks for this. I must admit that I've never heard of an Aztec Camera and, although it fits the clue it seems highly unlikely that a group of persons who couldn't invent the wheel were taking snaps of one another.....

I'll stick this in & hope it does the other two.

Thanks again & I wish you a Merry Christmas for when we get there.

Whoops!

Sorry, I should have thanked Bear as well - presumably some distant relation.

The trouble with this system is that as soon as you start a reply, the original window disappears & to those with a memory - not to say exiguous brain - like mine, this isn't helpful.

Bear I trust you too will have a Merry Christmas.

Thanks, Bearoflb. I've since researched (ie Googled!) the band. They seem to have been quite well-known (not to me) and released six albums over about 15 years.

Aah, Malone, that will teach me to read things properly as I've only just noticed that you specifically mentioned that it was a Scottish band.

I admit freely - indeed come close to boasting - that non-classical music is a closed world to me. I tend to take the view that music died with Richard Strauss and only recently has been resurrected by the likes of Tavener, Gorecki & the other serious modern composers (despite the best attempts of Herbert Howells and George Lloyd). Sir Thomas Beecham, asked what he thought of Stockhausen, replied that he had trodden in some once!

Here (in Reading) we used to have posters for a group called "Warm Snorkel" but so far this hasn't swum into the ken of the Times' setters.

In my humble opinion, Roddy Frame, formerly of Aztec Camera, is one of the best singer/songwriters of our generation, and their album, High Land Hard Rain, is an absolute classic.

Bear of lb, hello again. My ignorance, on many subjects, is vast - but I'm arrogant enough to expect that the same is true for most people, it's probably only the areas of ignorance that vary.

As well as the six albums, 'Aztec Camera' had a single that reached no 3 in the charts, so I think they were probably more successful than your 'Warm Snorkel'.

PS I liked the Beecham/Stockhausen story.