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Lean-Luc …OMG , that’s a good one 😂. …. Apologies Moving on , I have the image, I will set up the challenge after I get home 👍

Well done gents , great tunes, first one here with an acknowledgement gets the picture choice 👍

Oooh indeed , tight at the top. a vote splitter is definitely required 👍

Yep , it appears so

That was odd, it was definitely there before, though the input fields were empty. As it's a new computer it only knows recent inputs, and as I typed them , it recognised that I had typed them before, so I must have already done it, I have no idea where it went , how bizarre!

I’ll go and look for it 😂 I know I did it 🤷‍♂️

Well done guys , voting is up ...

This seems to come around quicker every month, but after the congratulations bestowed upon @Jean-Luc Pickguard for his inaugural outright win in August, he was given the honour of choosing our September picture. Thus the picture he has chosen for the month's inspiration is as follows and he muses... "On the way back to London after my regular visits to Torbay, I would always see this sign on the A380 a few miles from Exeter marking the completion of the first step of my journey. It often occurred to me that 'Telegraph Hill' sounded like it might make a good topic for a song." Here are your entries, please choose your favourite 2 and tick the boxes accordingly 1 @Dad3353 I was waiting in the car, listening to a classical music station, when I heard a piece that brought with it visions of this picture. It's heavily inspired by the Beethoven concerto (Opus 19...) I heard, but using a maximum of elements relating to either Up or Down. 2 @Leonard Smalls I done one too three! Not sure what it's got to do with the pic, but this is what came out! 3 @Jean-Luc Pickguard In my song, Telegraph Hill serves as a metaphor for the communication between two people, illustrating how their ability to communicate has diminished over time. 4 Lurksalot this came together quite quickly, its nothing like I was aiming at , but each bit I did, seemed to fit with the last bit and it just landed in my reaper like this. its a bit of fun 5 @Wolfram "This road's seen joy, this road has killed. Telegraph Hill haunts me still." 6 @upside downer An up tempo, punky pop piece about...well, driving, I suppose. The words are a load of cobblers but at least there aren't many of them and they mostly rhyme 😁 Another most excellent selection to choose from. I would suggest choosing 2 and see how it goes from there. Voting will close at midnight on 30th September

this came together quite quickly, its nothing like I was aiming at , but each bit I did, seemed to fit with the last bit and it just landed in my reaper like this. its a bit of fun technically .. EZ does it quite fast , Gordon Smith does it around the bottom , Ibby plinky plonks and yours truly adds the sophistication.

So it’s the blues then this month I guess 😁

Everyone is always welcome to participate but i think sometimes it appears daunting to some. It is always done for a bit of fun , but there are some fine song and tunesmiths among us, its just doing a first one that's the hardest , but once you get stuck in it's great fun. I think lots on here are just waiting to hear my angelic vocal tones every month TBH DIVE IN , DIVE IN September is up and running

Congratulations to @Jean-Luc Pickguard on his inaugural outright win after some superb stuff introducing himself to the challenge. The picture he has chosen for the month's inspiration is as follows and he thus muses... "On the way back to London after my regular visits to Torbay, I would always see this sign on the A380 a few miles from Exeter marking the completion of the first step of my journey. It often occurred to me that 'Telegraph Hill' sounded like it might make a good topic for a song." Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and the deadline. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✖️ No Bagpipes/panpipes as the truce has well and truly expired ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you.. Deadline-wise, we will go for Midnight on the 24th (effectively tea time on the 25th) A line or two of blurb as usual for the vote thread will be super smashing. Good luck, Have fun

Congrats to @Jean-Luc Pickguard , a fine tune and worthy winner . you now have the honour of choosing the picture for the September challenge. If you PM it across I will get the challenge posted straight away 👍

Normal service has been resumed , thank you for your patience 😃 I have thought of an excuse for the dip in the quality of the service, but I wont bore you with it 🤣

Sorted in the OP now

Humble apologies to all , I was a day early posting up the vote thread , you have a few days off and the dates on the calendar just get all jumbled up up

I’ll need an hour or so then I’ll find a signal and get the thread sorted and updated

Okey Dokey We are up and running , anything a bit late might be able to get added if I get a decent Wi-Fi to log on to tonight apart from that , good luck all ….right, its off to the beach 😃

After a very tight vote in July we had a 4 way tie! And after a few machinations the honour was bestowed on Upside Downer for the pictorial inspiration to carry us through the heady Augustine days of summer, to our voting point He thus mused... "Been pottering along the Grand Union Canal on our narrowboat and, on our way to the pub in Shrewley one night, we passed this. Minstrels, tell us the story of this abode!" Without further ado , have a listen to the entries and vote for your favourite 3 1. @Jean-Luc Pickguard Here's my entry, "How The ✽✽✽✽ Did My Bike Get Up There?" This is the radio TikTok-friendly beeped version. 2 @Leonard Smalls I felt that the house had seen better days, perhaps had regrets, could have done things differently. So here's a sort of urban tribute to Bill Laswell, featuring a fellow Badass Weed... 3 @Dad3353 The theme is set in the title; what else could it be..? Yes, it's a Cycle of Pedal Points, in various forms. 4 Lurksalot. I saw the picture and thought of ET having gone home , his bike left on the wall and Hollywood then going home thus abandoning the place ... then I was looking for parallels in the football world ...or not ..😃 5 @xgsjx How did that bike get up there?.. 6 @MoonBassAlpha When I was working on my cover of Todd Rundgren's I Saw The Light, I read that he thought the lyrics were a bit trite and wasn't keen on the "Moon, June, Spoon" rhyming. Thus, I put these rhymes to work in the "verse" of this tune, It's all nonsense, of course, but I think the story fits the picture, but is the world ready for psychedelic madrigal-core yet? 7 @AndyTravis I like the idea that the pacey parts are the bike’s former life racing down hills and the angrier parts (namely drums) are the crazed destruction that let to the house and the bike being knackered together… 8 @upside downer It's about Feng Shui! Sort of! Sounds like a load of old twaddle! Yes! Both Fung Shui and the song! Stop using exclamation marks! OK! That’s your lot so choose your favourite 3 and place your votes voting will close at midnight on the 31st August good luck

I’m away myself from tomorrow . I’m taking the iPad so I should be able to set up the voting thread , if I struggle I might shout for a volunteer, but I think I managed last year when I was away at a similar point in the month. so crack on and record what you can 👍

I saw the picture and thought of ET having gone home , his bike left on the wall and Hollywood then going home thus abandoning the place ... then I was looking for parallels in the football world ...kind of or not Yamaha 6 string acoustic , Gordon Smith on the bass label , EEEEZEEE on the tapping sticks with a guest vocal ..... I bet you wont have guessed Something new , I slapped my waves CLA vocals VST on the acoustic guitar , figured it makes the guest vocal sound awesome, it might help on the guitar .... wrapped up in a smothering of Ozone on Reaper

Mine has gone from shit to superb, fantastic and back to shit again , and I haven’t changed anything yet 😳 I’ve got a couple of things to try , but then it’s ’publish and be damned’ 😂

I thought you'd like that Douglas

duties thus dutied , can I steer you here...

Well, well, well and of course, well, a four way tie indeed. I thought it might be difficult to split them and I guess I was right. Congrats to @Dad3353 @Jean-Luc Pickguard @upside downer and Lurks ( ah shucks) for the joint win. The honour has been bestowed on upside downer for the pictorial inspiration to carry us through the heady Augustine days of summer. He thus muses... "Been pottering along the Grand Union Canal on our narrowboat and, on our way to the pub in Shrewley one night, we passed this. Minstrels, tell us the story of this abode!" Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and the deadline. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✖️ No Bagpipes/panpipes as the photo is from Shrewley, there might be a Scottish pigeon somewhere near Shrewley, but don't tell the Shrewlians ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you.. Deadline-wise, we will go for Midnight on the 25th (effectively breakfast time on the 26th) I am on my holibobs at various points in August so I had better be extractum digitum, I will take my ipad, so should be able to do the voting thread, but be gentle with if it isn't the normal smooooooth me A line or two of blurb as usual for the vote thread will be super smashing. Good luck, Have fun