^ Double link: Geese are birds and both bands have brothers in…

^ from Joint to Elbow…

^ The last song was on the album Superfly to another insect a Lost Worker Bee…

^ Pip was a character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations…

^ A Grace link…

^ From Byrd to a type of bird, starlings…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4YdmSclJA8

If you can’t help yourself you might be an infant, perhaps even a new born one…

Crocodile Cryer was on the album ‘Boat To Bolivia’. When ‘Boat to Bolivia’ came out, the song ‘Boat to Bolivia’ wasn’t on it at first, and got added to it ‘by public demand’. Similarly, the title track of Elbow’s album ‘Asleep in the Back’ wasn’t on the initial release…

Double Link:

• From ‘Staring At The Rude Boys‘ to the album ‘The Seldom Seen Kid‘
• From The Ruts who formed at a festival in Bury to Elbow who recently received the freedom of Bury, as they are from there…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX0B9ZpdZEA

Double link alert:

• From shins to another part of the body…
• From phantom limb to a joint in a limb…

The Stone Roses were formed in Manchester, as were Elbow*…

* Pedants will say Elbow were formed in Bury, but it still counts as Greater Manchester so is allowable.

Brass monkey is a cocktail (equal parts rum, vodka and orange, according to Stuart – sounds disgusting), so to a song that starts with the line “I’ve been working on a cocktail…”

Heads are made of bone…

The Flaming Lips, who featured on the previous link, headlined Tranmission in Jodrell Bank in 2011. The band in the next link headline Transmission in 2012.

Build’ A Rocket Boys is a lyric in the next track…

The Pogues’ Shane MacGowan also played with ‘The Popes’, so…

From hotel to motel…

Guy Garvey is in the band Elbow…

The dead-end street up to Manchester Piccadilly train station has a song named after it…

From eight days to one day…

From one body part to another…

The last tune was from the album ‘Wrecking Ball’…to another type of ball…

From betting to fixing a horse race…