So this week brought the return of SJ Denney. He, alongside Roisin O’Hagan and Amy Sergeant performed on my Xmas special. Denney, the “S” standing for Stuart, is in the process of releasing his new EP “The Waiting Room”, I’ve listened to it… and its pretty darn good.
AND he is currently leading 50 Grades Smarter, earning eight out of a possible 15. Although, it did not go down well with previous participants, claiming he got easy questions.
1. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – The Right Stuff
2. The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age Of The Understatement
3. REM – Imitation of Life
4. SJ Denney – The Great Unknown
5. Paolo Nutini – New Shoes
6. Oasis – Rockin’ Chair
7. SJ Denney – Another Way To Fade (Live in the studio)
8. Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye
9. Jake Bugg – Broken
10. Roisin O’Hagan – At Our Finest
11. SJ Denney – Knee Jerk Blues (Live in the studio)
12. Neil Young – Alabama
13. Paul Weller – Echoes Round The sun
14. Lucy Rose – Watch Over
15. Elbow – The Fix
16. The Wings – Love In Song
17. Ocean Colour Scene – The Day We Caught The Train
18. SJ Denney – Average Man (Live in the studio)
19. Finding Miranda – Karaoke Singers
20. The Enemy – 40 Days and 40 Nights
21. Franz Ferdinand – This Fire
You can listen to the show back on this link… https://www.mixcloud.com/chay-appleyard/
Here is the current scoreboard of 50 Grades Smarter.
Name Score
Stuart Denney 8
Tom Verity 7
Dangerous Poets 6
Kieran 5
Jenni Pettican 4
The Robes 4
Ren Stedman 3
Blackwaters 3