1: Prog continued to farm out its lyrics long after the 70s heyday. Marillion, post-Fish, used John Helmer, ex of The Piranhas and Pookiesnackenburger as their wordsmith. Rightly so, as he's a fiercely clever guy, a published novelist and a general good egg.

2: My recent rehearsals with The George Kypreos band - Greek and proud of it: Max Pashm on percussion - took me deep into songs in 9/8 and 7/4. For a while it even looked like 13/8 was going to rear it's strangley beautiful head.

I heard recently that Dick Dale's scales and timing came from his Lebanese oud-playing uncle. If the King of Surf Guitar had Eastern Med antecedents, what about Prog's secret Balkan, Klezmer and Greek background?

Twins in Rock? Not just Cocteau, Thompson or Glimmer but real twins, preferably identical...

I can think of Elvis and Jesse Presley, Wendy (of Wendy and Lisa)and Susannah Melvoin, and Joel and Benji Madden (Good Charlotte), Lamb and Lynx Gaede (Weird Nazi youth band Prussian Blue - was this a joke?).

Anybody else?

I know that his day job - obsession - is a film reviewer of taste and commitment, but Mark Kermode is also a better than decent string bass player in the band Dodge Brothers. Backing vocals, Harmonica and tea-chest skiffle bass too.

Who else in the public eye maintains a share in a drink-sozzled Dad's band, I wonder?