Episode 51 - Night Crawlers (ft. Uriah Heep, Praying Mantis & Spider)

<p>The next category to come out of the Tico Torres Tombola of Topics and Themes was 'insects', which the boys immediately changed to Night Crawler in homage to Judas Priest. The usual rules applied - a tangible link to entymology either in the band name, album title or album artwork.</p> <p>The obvious choice would obviously have been the Scorpions, the obviousness itself being reason enough for the boys to neatly sidestep it in favour of something else. Which is how the lads came to spend a week in the company of Uriah Heep's Firefly from 1977 - the Brit-proggers' first album without the eccentric and erratic David Byron and with the excellent ex-Lucifers Friend and Les Humphries singers (yes, really) John Lawton.</p> <p>Joining the Heep for episode 51 were NWOBHM's blink-and-you-missed-them Praying Mantis and their one and only (for ten years and with this line up) album from 1981, Time Tells No Lies.</p> <p>Also along for the ride were Merseyside rockers Spider and their 1982 outing, Rock 'n' Roll Gypsies. We're not going to call them Quo soundalikes, but that doesn't mean no-one else did.</p>