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The Netherlands

Band: Earth & Fire
Album: Tax Free
Solo Artist: Jan Akkerman
Symphonic Metal: Within Temptation
Singer: Sharon den Adel
Actor: Rutger Hauer
Film: Amsterdamned
TV Show: Van der Valk
Comedy: Dutch Cops on the Fast Show
Cheese: Edam
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USA - Greg approved USA citizens

Guitar - Pat Metheny and Allan Holdsworth
Keyboards - Chick Corea
Drums - Marco Minnemann and Chad Wackerman
Bass - Bryan Beller
Trumpet - Lee Morgan
Saxaphone - John Coltrane
Violin - Robby Steinhardt
Trombone - Bill Watrous
Novelist - Edgar Allan Poe
Filmmaker - Woody Allen
Inventors - Thomas Edison
Theoretical Psysicist - Albert Einstein
COVID 19 Vaccine - Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman



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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

^ Good Moaning Tongue

The Netherlands

Band: Earth & Fire
Album: Tax Free
Solo Artist: Jan Akkerman
Symphonic Metal: Within Temptation
Singer: Sharon den Adel
Actor: Rutger Hauer
Film: Amsterdamned
TV Show: Van der Valk
Comedy: Dutch Cops on the Fast Show
Cheese: Edam

Van Der Valk isn't technically a Dutch TV show it just happens to be shot in Amsterdam.

There was a Dutch crime drama that was on Netflix that I liked but I can't remember the name. If I remember it I will do a Netherlands list.
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Scotland
Band: Big Country
Album: Act One by Beggars Opera
Solo Artist: Al Stewart
TV Show: Taggart
Film: Shallow Grave
Sporting Legend: Graham Souness (football)
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Thanks. Scotland is a nice one. I wish the UK term was not so ubiquitous when looking up location; wish seeing England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland was more common. It often feels like there is this kind of homogenisation of the world and at other times identity and differences seem more pronounced than ever. If I do Wales, I will try to resist mentioning Free Willy.

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Band: Cocteau Twins
Album: Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada
Male Singer: Donovan
Female Singer: Elizabeth Fraser
Favourite album for when I'm feeling sinister: Belle and Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister
Favourite faux Scottish James Bond film: Dressed to Kilt
Favourite big international co-production with a setting in Scotland: Breaking the Waves
Favourite film set in Scotland: The Wicker Man
TV show set in Scotland: One of Us
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Wales

Band: Man
Album: Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend
Male Singer: James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers)
Female Singer: Mary Hopkin
TV Show: How Green Was My Valley
Film: Tiger Bay
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^ I was thinking Tiger Bay for Wales. Hard to think of many other films from Wales. For TV show there were 2 famous shows that were shot in Barry Island (not actually an island but it used to be famous for having a funfair with a big dipper, the Welsh version of Blackpool perhaps). One is Gavin and Stacey but someone else can have that as I have something much better!
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Spain

Album: Unidad de desplazamiento by Los Planetas
Classical guitarist: Joaquín Rodrigo
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Film: Jamón Jamón (director Bigas Luna) (1992)
Novel: The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (1993)
Favourite film that takes place in Spain: Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
TV series: Money Heist (2017)

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Wales!

Singer: Katherine Jenkins
Band: there aren’t actually any I’m really into TBH
Album: ?
Film: Very Annie Mary
Actor: Sir Anthony Hopkins
TV series (drama): Hinterland
TV series (comedy): Gavin And Stacey
Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell
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^ I can't think of a more riveting actor than Anthony Hopkins.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

^ I can't think of a more riveting actor than Anthony Hopkins.
Maybe Anthony Perkins?
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^ Not even Anthony from The Wiggles, who I have seen live. I guess Sam Neill would the next to come to mind perhaps

Speaking of The Wiggles, I shall do Australia (hoping for another trip there next year).

Band: Dead Can Dance
Album: Spleen and Ideal by Dead Can Dance
Film: Bliss (1985)
TV Series: Glitch
Place to watch concerts: Kuranda amphitheatre (near Cairns)
Actor: Geoffrey Rush
Actress: Kate Blanchett
Reef: The Great Barrier Reef
Big red rock in desert: Big Red Rock (in Desert)
Two tracks per many of my fave acts: A Youtube Playlist
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Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Germany
Favourite film: Downfall

That's a great movie, a bit disturbing (the Goebbels family subplot), I recently rewatched it, just as good as ever. 

  Thanks; for sure it is a great film, but disturbing (my sister could not get through it due to the Goebbels family section) The whole Nazi machine was our worst fears realised, but I figure it has to be remembered to be learned from.....

Another great German movie about WW2 is Stalingrad (1993). 
Also a difficult watch in places...
Thanks for the link. I will check it out.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Scotland
Band: Big Country
Album: Act One by Beggars Opera
Solo Artist: Al Stewart
TV Show: Taggart
Film: Shallow Grave
Sporting Legend: Graham Souness (football)
I'm with you on the Beggar's Opera debut. Brilliant.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

^ I can't think of a more riveting actor than Anthony Hopkins.

One of the greats for sure. Wales actually has a proud history of great actors. Some of the more well known ones below, think this is what is called 'punching above your weight' (btw I would have liked to include some females but Catherine Zeta Jones is all I could come up with and I wouldn't put her in this company)
Richard Burton
Iwan Rheon (Game Of Thrones)
Rhys Ifans
Ioan Gruffud
Michael Sheen
Luke Evans
Christian Bale (born in Wales to English parents)
Jonathan Pryce
Gareth Thomas (Blake's Seven!)
Taron Egerton
Ray Milland (that one was a surprise when I googled it!)
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^ Yes, great names. Jonathan Pryce actually was the first name to come to mind after seeing Will's "Maybe Anthony Perkins?" post. A Hopkins association there due The Two Popes especially. The New Zelander Sam was an Australian association for me. Brazil, with Pryce, is an all-time favourite movie for me. As for Gareth Thomas, how good he was as Blake. I'm a huge fan of Blake's Seven. And I was so very sad when I heard he died. It's a show I can return to at any episode again and again. Well the ending I still find devastating. I also liked Children of the Stones an awful lot (with Gareth Thomas). And Michael Sheen, love him in Good Omens as the angel Aziraphale.

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Italy

Favourite artist: Le Orme
Favourite album:  Dedalus-Dedalus
Favourite musical conductor: Arturo Toscanini
Favourite film: Armacord
Favourite composer: Verdi



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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

^ Yes, great names. Jonathan Pryce actually was the first name to come to mind after seeing Will's "Maybe Anthony Perkins?" post. A Hopkins association there due The Two Popes especially. The New Zelander Sam was an Australian association for me. Brazil, with Pryce, is an all-time favourite movie for me. As for Gareth Thomas, how good he was as Blake. I'm a huge fan of Blake's Seven. And I was so very sad when I heard he died. It's a show I can return to at any episode again and again. Well the ending I still find devastating. I also liked Children of the Stones an awful lot (with Gareth Thomas). And Michael Sheen, love him in Good Omens as the angel Aziraphale.
I am also a huge fan of Blake's Seven!Thumbs Up Also a show I can return to again and again.
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Canada

Favourite artist:  Rush
Favourite album: Rush-Fly By Night
Favourite film: Goin' Down The Road
Favourite musical conductor: Sir Ernest MacMillan
Favourite composer: Healey Willan
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Greece

Band: Forbidden Myth 
Album: Rapsodies by Vangelis & Irene Papas
Singer (Male): Georgios Michaelopolopolous - formerly of Whamos Ridgeleyakos Kakos
Singer (Female): Irene Papas
Musician: Vangelis
Film: Zorba the Greek
Actor: Anthony Quinn
Hero: Odysseus
Dragon: Theo Pamphletis (or something like that)
Conqueror: Alexander the Great
Doctor: Hippocrates
Mathematician: Archimedes
Painter: El Greco
Philosopher: Aristotle
Shipping Tycoon: Aristotle Onassis
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