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Name That Tune!
It’s a track by a legendary north of England band. The photo is the clue. All entries must be in by 1pm. The lucky winner gets four weekend camping tickets to the Electric Picnic, backstage passes, €2,000 spending money, helicopter transfer to the site and a massive pile of drugs. Okay, there might not actually be a prize. P.S. The computer owner isn’t necessarily male.
August 4th, 2010.
August 4th, 2010 at 8:18 am
Missy Elliot – Lose Control?
August 4th, 2010 at 8:22 am
‘Lose Control’ – James
August 4th, 2010 at 8:37 am
The band is the unjustly critically-neglected Light House Family, and the song is their breezy summer hit ”***’s **** *******”.
August 4th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Out of Control – Chemical Brothers
August 4th, 2010 at 9:15 am
(I know they’re not technically *from* the North of England but they went to college there, came to musical maturity there etc)
August 4th, 2010 at 9:22 am
The song is ***’* **** ******* by *** ********, and I claim my prize!
August 4th, 2010 at 9:34 am
Me Alt-Tab Keys Buggered (Cripes Me Sheila Has Caught Me Watching Porn Again) by Rolf Harris
August 4th, 2010 at 10:11 am
Um, ***’* **** *******l by *** ********?
August 4th, 2010 at 10:21 am
For a runner up I’d also like to nominate DBX – losing control.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwihmkUENTU
August 4th, 2010 at 11:07 am
Standing in the Way of Control?
August 4th, 2010 at 11:25 am
“The computer owner isn’t necessarily male”….
Really living in a feminist utopia here, aren’t we?
August 4th, 2010 at 11:58 am
***’* **** ******* – *** ********
August 4th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
My Keyboard is Missiing a Button by by Nin Huegen and the Huegenotes
August 4th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
***’* **** ******* – *** *******
August 4th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Announcement imminent… The Internet has just gone down here for a second.
August 4th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Okay, first person to get the song title right was Mark. Unfortunately, he made the classic mistake of mixing up Joy Division and the Lighthouse Family. (I’ll never forget the time I interviewed Peter Hook and blabbed on and on about how much I loved Lifted and Ocean Drive.)
Neal got both song title and band name correct. But he’s my first cousin and if he’d read the small print (pretty much invisible to the naked eye) he’d see that family members are prohibited from entering.
So that means our winner is “technical writer, West Ham fan, CD buyer and inept fixie rider” David. Keep riding those fixies, David (whatever that means.)
Congratulations also to Darragh, many time champion Adrian and (via Twitter) @storkboy who basically just added up the asterixes to work out that the correct answer is She’s Lost Control by Joy Division.
Apologies to Denise for offending her feminist sensibilities – of course women can own computers *undermybreath* for now at least MOOOOhahahahaha….
Lisa – I’m not sure they reached musical maturity until the release of their critically acclaimed Further album earlier this year. Otherwise good answer. You finish a strong fifteenth. No shame in that.
John – You take second prize so. That’s one ticket to EP, €1,000 spending money, a sachet of drugs and a helicopter with enough fuel to take you halfway to the site and then crash into a field.
August 4th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
“she’s lost control’ by joy division?!
August 4th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
errr a bit late there, sorry about that!
August 4th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Just out by a whisker there, sorry Mary!
August 4th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Also, David has been in touch via Twitter to let me know that this is what a Fixie is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixie
August 4th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
@ Denise – The correct term for a woman using a computer keyboard is “typist”, is it not….
August 4th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Humph. I’ll consider it a moral victory.
August 4th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
That’s the spirit!
August 4th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Would have been a pretty epic helicopter transfer to EP anyway from down here…
August 4th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
From New Zealand, yes, I hadn’t thought of that. I’d have had to arrange for some of that inflight refuelling. Christ, it’d have run to a few pound alright. And to think I was almost going to allow your “musical maturity” argument stand….
August 5th, 2010 at 12:16 am
Yes in interest of global warming I’ll graciously concede defeat.
I see you’re now billing yourself as a “writer, journalist and outdoorsman” by the way? Is this the new thing? One or two of those outdoorsy types round these parts as well…
August 5th, 2010 at 12:22 am
Yeah, I went camping a few weeks ago. Collected firewood. Made a fire. Slept in a sleeping bag. Fuck it, I figured that qualified me. (Referred to here.)
August 5th, 2010 at 12:27 am
Absolutely. The lure of the great outdoors, the call of the wild, rekindling the primal instincts and all that.
August 5th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
@Eoin: the iPhone was your swiss army knife on the trip. Entertainment centre and GPS map.
Next time download the anti-midge app ahead of time.
August 5th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Dude, I can’t even talk about the shit we endured, midge-wise. It was like the Vietnam of midges. You had to be there to understand.
August 5th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
@Eoin: Aye, it was rough when we were airlifted out but had left Johnny behind to suffer his fate to those damn dirty midges.
Still wake up at night in cold sweats, screaming… it never leaves us… never…
August 5th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
@ Colin – I keep having this dream where I wake up in a tent and Anto isn’t there anymore. That’s when I realise… THE MIDGES HAVE EATEN ANTO!!