spicks and specks

 Last night (30-11-2011) Megan and I went to the Spicks and Secs show.  (Spicks and Specs is a music quiz show that ran on ABC TV finishing up last week after a 7 year run).

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/spicksandspecks/

They have a live show finale that they are touring Australia.

So we are sitting in the audience and the show starts and after the opening number that had the boys dressed as girls it is announced that contestants will be drawn from the audience following a short audition.  The audition consisted of Adam, Alan and Myf asking the audience music questions.  If you knew the answer you stood in your seat.  These were pretty obscure questions so it was pretty easy to spot who was standing first.

Pretty early on a fellow in a long sleeve brown shirt with a yellow tie stood up and as with all contestants, was asked his name.  Turned out to be something like Ross Philip Michael smith or something.  He successfully answered the music question and then they asked him his job and he advised the audience that he was a director of investigative tax recovery for the tax department.  Well now the audience has someone to hate and I am thinking "plant".

Pretty much the final question and Megan dug into her extensive array of resources and managed to make it up on stage where quite by luck she is standing next to the tax dude in a team of four led by Alan Brough.  They battle it out with Myf's team of four and in a tense battle Alan's team win by a point carried by Megan and the tax dude.  Myf's team is sent back to their seats and Myf gets to choose two members of Alan's team and what in hindsight was a way to ensue a decent finale, she takes the other two members of the team leaving Megan paired with the tax man.  Of course they trounce Myf's new team and then finally it was one on one.  Megan vs the tax man.

Both got 4 out of 5 with "Look what they've done to my song".
Entering the final count down, it was Neck and Neck.  Megan got in some good answers but the tax man was quicker on the buzzer just a little more often and he pulled ahead and eventually one the night by a couple of points.  At the end of the night, He won a tee shirt and a trophy and Megan got a tee shirt as runner up.

A fantastic night.  Afterwards we celebrated with a wine at a local bar and I basked in the reflected glory as total strangers came and congratulated her and some stayed and sat and chatted at our table.

Here she is beside the amp racks









Actually, upon reflection, I suspect the tax guy was a plan to cover for the ABC only having one trophy and they have to recycle it at each show thus manipulating things to ensure the outcome.  (:)