And finally, to Fuji, where Status Quo have apparently answered the prayers of every cineaste: can anyone among us honestly say they haven't dolefully scanned the listings at their local multiplex or arthouse cinema and found themselves thinking: "Yes, Wes Anderson's latest whimsical exploration of flawed characters has been well-reviewed, but if only there were an action movie on offer starring Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt of Status Quo"? But according to Rossi himself, at least one section of society will have responded to this news with little more than a shrug. "The one thing Quo fans know is to expect the unexpected," he offered. Indeed, who can look at the band's bafflingly diverse musical oeuvre, a series of perplexing musical volte-faces that have seen them leap without warning from one genre to the next, leaving only confusion in their wake, and not concur?
