MOJO COMPETITION

ACROSS

2 Venerable, prismic north London venue? (7)

5 Carly Simon’s appetising LP of ’74 (8)

9 Ronnie James’ eponymous band (3)

11 Soulful producer of Al Green et al (6,8) 13 Cube, T., or Fresh Kid? (3)

15 On the hour, The Pop Group (2,3,4)

17 Catch-all term for post-punk (3,4)

19 Music sticking to the white lines? (1,1,1) 20 The Slits’ Ms Up (3)

21 See photoclue A (1,1,6)

23 ZZ Top, electromagnetic in ’94 (7)

25 Celestial LP by Belly, Erasure and Earth, Wind & Fire? (4)

26 1980 Fall disc subtitled It’s Now Or Never (7,5)

29 British reggae imprint, rival to Trojan (4) 30 Downpatrick indie rockers (3)

32 Initially, Detroit techno rebels (1,1)

33 Iggy, Springsteen and The Cars cut live LPs there (5)

34 Can’s Ibizan freak-out (4,4)

36 Oasis’s Mr Archer (3)

37 Willy DeVille took a Spanish one (6)

39 NYC no wave radicals (2)

40 Peter Hammill’s 1975 persona (5)

41 PiL, on the up? (4)

44 London rap variant, or debut Radiohead EP? (5)

47 ----- Payne, Band Of Gold hitmaker (5) 49 Iron Butterfly drummer Ron (5)

50 Meat Beat Manifesto’s God complex? (1,1) 51 Soundtrack acronym (3)

52 Reggae’s electronic offspring (5)

54 Black Francis’s mob (6)

55 Van’s consumptive sheets (1,1)

57 French film music man Francis (3)

58 Bill Evans’ song for his niece (5,3,5)

61 Dread, Rebel or Christmas? (5)

63 Femi, Seun or Fela (4)

65 Rhyl rockers formerly known as The Toilets and Seventeen (5)

66 LL Cool J and Biggie Smalls pondered going back there (4)

67 Manuel Göttsching’s vehicle (5)

68 Simon & Garfunkel’s 1970 hit (7)

DOWN

1 Winter, Froese or Summertyme? (5)

2 See photoclue B (7)

3 Bette Bright’s backing band (13)

4 The Beatles’ German label (5)

6 Oh Sees’ 2017 monster (3)

7 The Teardrop Explodes’ high climber (11) 8 Charlotte Hatherley’s chilly exile? (7)

10 Finnish prog heroes (6)

12 Jac Holzman’s imprint (7)

14 Arthur Russell’s field recording? (4)

16 Narduwar The Human Serviette’s band (11)

18 John Wetton, live in Poland in ’03 (5) 21 See photoclue C (5,3)

22 Stockholm psych band of Ta Det Lungt fame (6)

24 Factory’s Belgian friends (5)

25 Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam’s aphrodisiac waxing? (7,3)

26 Miles Davis’s ballet LP? (4)

27 Vintage jazz piano nomenclature (3) 28 Mungo’s Hi Fi and Marina P meet Aldous Huxley (4,3)

31 Sugar at their most vulnerable? (8)

35 Most recently, they were Loco (1,1,1)

38 Custodians of God’s Balls (3)

42 The ‘Uncrowned Queen Of The Blues’ Ms Cox (3)

43 Ovoid prog band (3)

45 NWOBHM Mancs once known as Venom (3)

46 Nick Cave’s Prayer (5)

47 Anti-fascist Sheffield label and studio (3) 48 Chess R&B great Ms James (4)

52 Underworld’s ‘razor of love’ song (3) 53 Doers of dirty deeds, dirt cheap (2,2) 54 Brian Protheroe’s pastime (7)

56 Billy Bragg’s William ----- (5)

59 George Michael’s comfort (5)

60 Berlin techno Channel (5)

62 Eminent Motown sub-label (5)

64 Label whose name means Radio Corporation of America (1,1,1)

65 Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s curve? (3)