lurksalot

Well done gents, excellent entries 👍 If you can sort a picture between you and send it over, I’ll start the new one this evening 😁

I don’t mind the show itself , however if you catch any BBC content , the show is continually promoted to death , and it just drags on soooooooo much

voting is go ....

June was a hotly contested challenge, and with congratulation to @Dad3353 @Leonard Smalls @Nail Soupand @skankdelvar for their most excellent compositions. As it was his first win, the honour of picture choosing has fallen to Nail Soup , who offered the following ..... "Its a small ornament I saw on holiday in the hotel lobby" This has provided obvious inspiration to some fantastic work , raising the bar yet again! Have yourself a listen through and choose you your favourite 3 , The choices on offer this month are as follows 1 @Dad3353 Passing on the Message, from generation to generation, as has been done for generations past, and will continue for generations to come. Simplisism, with the Mother Tuba encouraging the Baby French Horn to have confidence, to follow, then lead, staying synchronised, all the while having great fun..! There's a lesson there for us all to learn, maybe..? 2 @NickD The image spoke to me of circus tricks, which in turn tickled my sinister bone. There's always been something about circuses that makes me uneasy, and I've always had a sense that behind the thin veneer of spectacular glitz and glamour there's probably rampant animal cruelty, violent, alcoholic clowns, and all sorts of dodginess. ... this idea of the sideshows distracting us from hideous goings on, naturally led me to draw comparisons with dodginess going on behind the curtain while we watch amazed at the current shitshow. 3 @Leonard Smalls This month I done a song about Infinite Regress, which is where in an infinite series of entities, each entity depends entirely on the existence of the previous entity. This is often illustrated by the idea that the world is supported on a turtle, which is in turn supported by another turtle. So how far do these turtles go? All the way down. But every fool knows it's hippos, not turtles! Hence, we have this achingly beautiful melody: (good luck ☠️) 4 Lurksalot OK then, I have enlisted the help and vocal skills of Fat Harry White , the Hippo of Luuurve , and he is on form let me tell you 5 @xgsjx I give you Hippo toe to toe at the hippodrome - Toe Toe 6 @Nail Soup The picture evoked care-free playtime between parent and child (with my parents and also myself with my kids when they were younger), so the lyrics are from there. The music came from a quick mess-around with some jangly C86 ideas. 7 @Doctor J I took a literal approach. The Hippo, nature's most untrustworthy beast. 8 @upside downer A lolloping, lazy saunter with a vaguely hip(po) hop groove. Mucking about at night is all well and good but, c'mon, the blazing sun is on its way; let's get ourselves in the refreshing water. It could be a bit tricky limiting your choice to 3 , but the voting will close on the 31st July. Good luck to all

I thought the same till I saw Elvis Costello at the Liverpool philharmonic , and they right royally messed the sound , and then tonight.. car fest , in a field off the A41 , Simon Fowler (Ocean colour Scene) fantastic , just beautiful, seasick steve, brilliant and taking me by surprise , Mcfly , jeez these guys were having fun and sounding incredible. a good evening all round 👍

If you don’t massively need all five strings , I could detune a 4 😁

Has anybody checked that young Jeff me Lad is happy to be in this month’s challenge , I mean , he’s alright but ...... 😁

If Paul’s offer doesn’t work give me a PM , I don’t have any 5’s though

excellent , but that would take some rehearsing to play at a gig , well , if it was to be accurate Ed to add .... I thought it was too long and way past 5mins .... then I realised I had repeated it a couple of times

OK then, I have enlisted the help and vocal skills of Fat Harry White , the Hippo of Luuurve , and he is on form let me tell you Technical , well not much , but Ibby six string and Gordon Richards bass through some waves GTR3 patches, EZdrummer and a bit of piano for fun. Vocals all by Fat Harry himself

As it happens , on the journey down , lurksalittle insisted on doing her vocal warm up exercises, so I insisted on joining in. I should therefore, be able to warble a beautiful tune on my return , whether my recording technique can capture its full beauty, I’m not sure , but I’ll put it front of mix for you all 🤘

I’m sitting in the corner of a little pub/hotel on my own with no-one in sight , fields all around the pub , and no other buildings for miles , but I’m still scared to play it in case someone hears it 😉

Well I like the sound of that ! it sounds dark but I’ll listen in when I’ve got mine down....which isn’t exactly imminent 😂

my glass is full , never mind half full 😁

Well maybe , but also massively encouraging that I only came second by 1 point with a prominent vocal 😁

I reckon so, 4 shared winners and only 1 point less to the other 2 is very tight , but I know my place 😂

The ink is hardly dry from the first post Douglas 😂

up and running, dive in !

Well June was a hotly contested challenge, to the extent that it would be quicker to list those that didn't win it Nevertheless congratulations are due to @Dad3353 @Leonard Smalls @Nail Soup and @skankdelvar for their most excellent compositions. As it’s his first win, the honour of picture choosing has fallen to Nail Soup , who has offered the following ..... "Its a small ornament I saw on holiday in the hotel lobby" Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded this month. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✖️ No Bagpipes. please no bagpipes, the summer solstice truce has just gone over . panpipes only if you have too. ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you. A line or two offering an insight to your inspiration/track choice will be good as well , it works nicely on the voting thread. The Deadline for entries is Midnight on Sunday 24th July good luck everyone

I’m happy with that , well done everyone , I loved the folky approach to a few , I might follow @Leonard Smalls lead and find most pictures inspire me to a folk rock 😉

.... and I’m preparing a ‘lurksalittle lifestyle’ tiebreaker for the photo choice 😁

I hadn’t seen that 😂 I’ll change it in the morning .

Ive PM’d SurlyJoe and this is not an entry to the challenge

Ok All We are in have a good one

Here we go for the June vote , all compositions were based on the following picture chosen by last months winner .. Skankdelvar He noted ... "This month's pic is Forge Valley, Scarborough by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836 - 1893). No great significance, it's just a picture I like." 6 entries in total , so I think we shall go to 2 votes this time , If we still get a tie I will use a 'lurksalittle lifestyle' tie break question The entries are as follows 1 @Dad3353 The yellowing sky gave me the impression ofa storm brewing. A bucolic scene, but could be deceptive. Some heavy raindrops, a brief shower..? Maybe it'll turn out fine after all... 2 @Leonard Smalls Being laid up with a broken leg has some advantages (arguably!) - I had time to produce a fine example (arguably again!) of "Doh" music (*). I suggest either headphone, or a big hifi to listen as it's dribbling with big 'ol stereo stuff. 3 @Nail Soup The picture made me think of tranquility and solitude. So I decided to go for a kind of 'solo' thing - a single performance into a single mic, with minimal number of takes. So just a guitar tuned to open D and vocal. 4 Lurksalot Well I thought this shouted 'Folk' so I tried it, and it actually turned out a little bit folky 5 @upside downer The image is of a bucolic scene so I decided to take a relaxing ramble through the musical countryside with not a care in the world. 6 @skankdelvar Something a bit more basic than last month's kitchen sink production number. An admiring nod to Richard Gaughan and Peter Maxwell Davies. So there we have it, a slightly reduced quantity maybe , but certainly not reduced quality 2 votes then please Voting to close at midnight on 30th June good luck