Sigur Ros: This band's serene and sprawling sounds have been the soundtrack for plenty of poignant moments both televised and personal however, never have they soundtracked such a brutal affair as The Purple Wedding. The band's performance was unfortunately dismissed with a faceful of coppers by King Joffrey, something you'd never see at End of The Road Festival.

Coldplay curate Game of Thrones musical: As their contribution to Comic Relief, the Chris Martin quartet curated a sketch to write the camp musical version of the brutal television series. It featured all your favourite characters from the show like the kid from Love Actually, the weird one from Misfits and the Thrones equivalent of Samwise Gamgee.

The Coldplay drummer: And speaking of Coldplay, the band's drummer, Will Champion, managed to squeeze a cameo into Season 3. His acting chops weren't pushed, instead the producers thought Champion would perform best in his element, banging a fuck-off big drum as a part of a wedding band.

Snoop Dogg loves it: The only Snoop loves more than the bud, is Game of Thrones. While that might be an overstatement, the crowned Prince of Kush is so engrossed with the fantasy series he actually believes non-fictional account of the times of yore  . "I watch it for historic reasons, to try to understand what this world was based on before I got here. I like to know how we got from there, to here, and the similarities between then and now."

Enter Shikari: During their press tour for The Mindsweep, Enter Shikari covered the Game of Thrones theme tune.  This wasn't a dinky 30 second instrumental either, the Essex band's cover was four minute masterwork with chugging guitars and glitchy electronics.

Catch The Throne: There's no better way to promote a network television show than through the medium of mixtapes. That's why Catch the Throne exists. A two part mixtape featuring original tracks from Big Boi, Method Man, Killswitch Engage, Anthrax, Talib Kwali and Thrones' resident historian and anthropologist Snoop 'Dr Doggy' Dogg.

DJ Hodor: Somehow Hodor has become a cult figure in the Thrones' fan community. If you don't watch the show, here's what you need to know: his vocabulary is limited to his own name, he carries around a boy who can't walk on his back and has started to make club appearances as real-life actor and DJ, Kristian Naire . The giant turned desksmith plays exclusively progressive house and operates under the night titled, Race of Thrones.

The National: Considering the sweet crooning and warming sentimentality of Matt Berninger, we would have never guessed him and his band to brandish the flag of Lannister. The National's haunting cover of 'The Rains of Castamere' is beautiful, undeniably, but is still the song of the untrustworthy.

The bloke from Snow Patrol: If you're wondering what happened to Gary Lightbody now that Snow Patrol have been wiped from the world's collective consciousness, you can spot him playing the role of 'man singing on horseback' - it's the best tune he's worked on in years.

Of Monsters & Men: The Icelandic pop-rockers have been spotted on set for Season 6 of Thrones. Since the scenes for The Wall and Winterfell are filmed in Iceland it would make sense to get some local talent on the set. It just shows, attain mid-level indie-band fame and the possibilities for extra work become endless.

Song Exploder featured the theme's composer: Gigwise's favourite song discussion podcast, Song Exploder , featured the show's chief composer, Ramin Djawadi. The composer talked through the relationship between the show's characters and trying to capture the intersecting narratives within the instrumentation.

Grey Worm is Raleigh Ritchie: In Thrones, Greyworm is the leader of the unsullied, the legion of 8000 dickless warriors that have sworn their allegiance to Daenerys Targaryen. In real life (sorry Snoop) Jacob Anderson moonlights as one of the UK's most up-and-coming producer-songwriters, Raleigh Ritchie.

His name is Trent Reznor of the House Industrial, the first of his name, the Angel Destroyer, King of Darkness, Ocassional Movie Composer, Grammy fucker, Breaker of Ears and true heir to the throne of Westoros.