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To The Greyhound! …on Sunday evening for the second Radio Wivenhoe pub quiz. Much like the station itself, these fundraising quizzes are gaining in local support, technical expertise and soft rock.

Any pub quiz that can seamlessly combine Glenn Miller and Arrested Development on the same answer sheet must signify a station that is as inclusive as it is eclectic. I was half expecting a Basket Weavers of Wivenhoe Traditional Folk Songs section.

And your chosen subject Mr Cobb?

Um… That will be coming close but no cigar in guessing the answers. We’re not talking about Thomas Dolby songs, either.

My mood was lifted upon seeing Mr Mule on the table next to me punching the air on identifying the song and singer. And the answer?

Britney Spears. Blimey.

Whoops, Mr Mule Did It Again, etc.

With half an eye on Halloween, the Quizmaster Supreme appeared ahead of round two with a seasonal themed costume. Can your guess what it is yet? Um… Probably not a master butcher, as was the suggestion from @AnnaJCowen.

Which proved to be the only half decent answer from The Girl all evening. Confusion came over one quarter of team We Are The Resurrection (natch) when the entire Greyhound broke out in a pub sing-along of David Essex’s ACE Hold Me Close.

Every cloud has a silver lining, and in the case of the Radio Wivenhoe pub quiz, this surfaced in the form of the first to put up their hand and guess an answer gets to walk home with the goodies. I was sadly left scratching my arse.

“What is a harmonic interval?” asked Mr Quizmaster Supreme.

Is it the beer break when the queue for the gents at The Greyhound randomly breaks out it into a rendition of Lionel Ritchie’s Running With the Night?

Nope. That would just be taking the piss.

But they’re a generous crowd at The Greyhound. Just over £150 was raised on the night for the funds for the fledgling radio station. The serious side to the evening was that as the ambitions of the station start to get serious, so do the outlays.

A studio base at the Business Centre is imminent, as is the paying of the various bills that this will bring. For ten teams to turn out on a Sunday night, shows that awareness of Radio Wivenhoe is growing around the town.

And so in true pop pickers style, that top ten countdown of pub quiz pioneers somehow managed to have a new entry with a bullet breaking into the top three for team We Are The Resurrection (natch). Once again, close but no cigar, but a rather generous box of Milk Tray instead.

And all because the lady (yeah, right…) got slightly tiddly on The Greyhound booze and scoffed all the hazelnuts on the short walk back to the base. I’m more of a soft centred sort of bloke. But definitely not soft rock.

Not ‘alf.