The Band of the Red Hand

It's time for another "Tune or No Tune" thread. All you need to do is decide whether the chosen song is a TUNE (i.e. you love it) or a NO TUNE (i.e. you hate it). Quite simple! "You Can Call Me Al" was the first single released from Paul Simon's album Graceland. The song originally charted in the U.S. at #44 in October, 1986 but it was reissued with greater promotion in March, 1987 and hit #23. In the UK it peaked at #4. The lyrics describe a man experiencing an identity crisis ("Where's my wife and family? What if I die here? Who'll be my role model?") which is ultimately resolved when he takes a trip to "the Third World". The song features an unusual bass…

*** GOING TO RHUIDEAN *** http://www.ageoflegends.net/ashaman/images/litldean.jpg[/img] Ok Clans, it is time to go to RHUIDEAN and see your FUTURE!!! Pack enough water-skins and spears, it's not gonna be an easy walk! On the way there, two Clans will lose another member. Welcome to the GOING TO RHUIDEAN IMMUNITY CHALLENGE!!! The Rules: The game begins with the traveling down the road. A member from each clan must call out the previous poster by saying "On my way to Rhuidien, I saw Mynd and guess what he was eating?" Anyone can answer that, but if you answer you are the next person seen on the road. You can be as detailed or as little …

:( :( :( Hey, it was wonderful being a raw recruit and I enjoyed my stay alot, but right now with stresses at work being very high and not having access to DM anywhere else, I cannot give the time I would like to be in the band. I will stay on DM in various places and hopefully when (and if) things settle down at work, I would like to try again to be a band member. Thank you to all that helped me and making my stay wonderful. I don't feel like it is worth it to you, if I can't be here enough to participate in all I would want. Have a Bandy on me! ;D Sorry, to have to go! :(

Ive been waiting forever for my account on the off site boards to be approved. What is taking it so long? Can someone please tell me?

And here we go with the first of the knock out threads! First up are the winners from the Garage and R&B genre. Below are the small write ups on the two winners for you to look at again before you vote for your favourite. The champion of Garage... THE WHITE STRIPES The champion of R&B... RAY CHARLES There you go - the two champions of Garage and R&B. All you now need to do is pick who you want to win (please highlight in some way or another) and go through to the next stage of the Knock out and one step closer to the Grand Final! You have until Tuesday 8th July 2008 to make your choice!

And here we go with the next of the knock out threads! Up this time are the winners from the Electronica and Soul genres. Below are the small write ups on the two winners for you to look at again before you vote for your favourite. The champion of Electronica... THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS The champion of SOUL... ARETHA FRANKLIN There you go - the two champions of Electronica and Soul. All you now need to do is pick who you want to win (please highlight in some way or another) and go through to the next stage of the Knock out and one step closer to the Grand Final! You have until Tuesday 8th July 2008 to make your choice!

Before we start the first round of the knock out stage, below are the nominations that have made it through. The Nominations 1. Blues LINK Overall Winner: B.B. KING 2. Country LINK Overall Winner: JOHNNY CASH 3. Electronica LINK Overall Winner: THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS 4. Folk LINK Overall Winner: BOB DYLAN 5. Garage LINK Overall Winner: THE WHITE STRIPES 6. Hip Hop LINK Overall Winner: THE BEASTIE BOYS 7. Indie LINK Overall Winner: MODEST MOUSE 8. Jazz LINK Overall Winner: LOUIS ARMSTRONG 9. Metal LINK Overall Winner: METALLICA 10. Pop LINK Overall Winner: THE BEATLES 11. R&B LINK O…

WELCOME TO SURVIVOR: RHUIDEAN WEEK 4 - To the Victor goes the Spoils! The producers have received the fan surveys and some helpful feedback from the players, and we have decided to change things up a bit this week. First of all, this will be a combined REWARD and IMMUNITY CHALLENGE, meaning that the winning Clan will get to take home JoBu the Immunity Idol as well as any prizes they may win during this competition. The two LOSING Clans will BOTH have to go to Tribal Council where each clan will lose one member of their clan. This week's theme is To the Victor Goes the Spoils. It is an Aiel tradition that whenever they defeat an opponent, that they tak…

Hey Barm, welcome to the Band!! Glad to have you with us. *hands the recruit a line of flaming shots* Brid will probably PM you soon with all the info you'll need and Corki will stop by with his official Spiel, so I suggest taking a load off and getting comfortable. ;D I am currently the Archer's Captain-General, so looking forward to seeing you for your week in the Range. I promise we won't make you dig in the latrines like the Infantry do. :D

Welcome to this month's edition of the Hornsounder! The Hornsounder is back once more, and boy has it been a busy month here in the Band. Our EiC has bowed out once more, but we're still going to deliver your news in grand fashion! We are continuing to move forward with our process and there have been some changes in the Hornsounder with different pieces coming and going. We have two fantastic articles making a comeback this month! Paladin Manny, Footman, and Snin brought back a very lengthy article about the Org Game, and there's lots of juicy details that you might find interesting. Check that article out for a breakdown of the current Bel Tine Festival. …

Week 8 is the last week of genres. And the penultimate thread before the knock out stages is for the category of Indie. Below are the nominations from the three Regiments. The Archers have nominated... MODEST MOUSE The Cavalry have nominated... THE UGLI STICK The Infantry have nominated... MURDER BY DEATH There you go. There are the 3 nominations. All you now need to do is pick who you want to win (please highlight in some way or another) and go through as the Champion of INDIE for the Grand Final! You have until Monday 30th June 2008 to make your choice!

And here is the last genre to find a winner for the knock out stages of the competiton - Garage. Below are the nominations from the three Regiments. The Archers have nominated... THE WHITE STRIPES The Cavalry have nominated... SUBLIME The Infantry have nominated... MS DYNAMITE There you go. There are the 3 nominations. All you now need to do is pick who you want to win (please highlight in some way or another) and go through as the Champion of Garage for the Grand Final! You have until Monday 30th June 2008 to make your choice!

I don't know whether this is my bad luck of June continuing, or Royal Mail (the UK postal service) being inept and incompetent. Before I went home to Wales early in June, I bought something off eBay. I had expected one of my housemates to be in the house when it arrived at my house in London. That didn't happen, as I got a "Sorry, you were out" card. I picked that up when I returned to London 10 days ago. I re-arranged delivery on the website, and specified it to be Monday 23rd June, as I would be in the house. Nothing appeared on that Monday. I arranged that day as I would be out early in the morning for the rest of the week as I travelled up to Rickmansworth for w…

A member after my own heart!! I love to eat the Raw Recruits. ;) Now I want you to check your PM box to see an important message from me. OH, wait...first this...Welcome to the Best Org Ever!! I'm Brid, 3rd in Command of the Band and more importantly the one in charge of Raw Recruits, which is you!!! I so love my job!!! *grins evilly* Now hold on to your knickers, the official Spiel is a coming.

I know you've started your own thread in the Campfires Board, but we always welcome new members on the public board. It also allows me to show off the Official Spiel to everyone! lol! But that will come shortly after a few other Banders have welcomed you!

June is fast turning into Muppet Month for me. Following on from deleting my music from iPod at the beginning of the month, the Muppet Curse struck again yesterday. While on the bus home from work, my mobile phone somehow slipped out of my pocket and onto the seat. I did not realise until several hours later. Thankfully, the bus company found my phone, and we are trying to arrange a time to pick it up. I am now beginning to fear what else might go wrong in June, and we aren't even half way through the month yet!

And the second category for Week 7 is Trance. Below are the nominations from the three Regiments. The Archers have nominated...ARMIN VAN BUUREN The Cavalry have nominated... PAUL VAN DYK The Infantry have nominated... ROBERT MILES There you go. There are the 3 nominations. All you now need to do is pick who you want to win (please highlight in some way or another) and go through as the Champion of Electronica for the Grand Final! You have until Sunday 22nd June 2008 to make your choice!

Turnpike Lane, the area I live in up here in London, is a large Turkish community. And for the last 30 or so minutes, all I've heard is a cacophony of car horns tooting away! You would never know that Turkey had just won their Quarter-Final match in the current UEFA European Football Championships against Croatia... Thankfully it is quietening down, but it will be interesting to see how the Semi-Final goes...

The first category for Week 7 is Hip Hop. Below are the nominations from the three Regiments. The Archers have nominated... GRANDMASTER FLASH The Cavalry have nominated... RUN D.M.C. The Infantry have nominated... THE BEASTIE BOYS There you go. There are the 3 nominations. All you now need to do is pick who you want to win (please highlight in some way or another) and go through as the Champion of Rock for the Grand Final! You have until Sunday 22nd June 2008 to make your choice!

Aragorn Saw these and thought the banders would get a kick out of them. There were some scenes I was not familiar with. Like the scene right after Eye of the Tiger ends where Aragorn holds the sword up to the eye and drops Arwyn's necklace. Are these from the special edition box sets?

I've seen these in the paper I read, and thought we could have some fun with them. Basically, I will start off by posting a puzzle for you to work out. All you have to do is work the puzzle out, and who guesses correctly posts the next one. Just a bit of fun. So, here is the first puzzle... C H M A D E I N A Happy guessing!

Welcome, Bonzo, to the Best Org Evah!! We're thrilled you decided to join us! I'm Brid, Executive Officer (XO) of the Band. The most imporant thing you need to remember about me is that I like chocolate ;). After that it's that I'm in charge of Raw Recruits (RR). That means you!! ;D Now check your PM box and you'll find a very important PM from me about what to do next. *hands a brew or two* Now my friend, hang on to your knickers, for our illustrious leader, the Magnificent, Malignant Muppet M-G will by to give you the Official Spiel. In the meantime, hang out, relax, feed me chocolate and get to know the rest of the members of the Band for they wi…

While playing around with iTunes and my iPod, I've somehow managed to erase all the music off my iPod. So, I am now putting it all back on. Oh fun. What a muppet I am.

Title shamelessly stolen from Quibby. *Toots the horn* Alrighty Gang, next stop, the army that wants to sing their enemies to death! They must all have terrible voices.

Well, it's been sometime since we have a Tavern thread on our public boards. No idea why it disappeared. Anyway, without further ado, it is time to welcome back our long lost friend, The Stumbling Soldier. We are open for business. All Band drinks are available, as is about everything else. Band law applies. So don't spill your Band drinks! Or those eagle-eyed Redarms will slap a spotfine on you. ;) Come and chat about anything and everything! You never know, a brawl could be around the corner. So, welcome to... THE STUMBLING SOLDIER!!!!!

The first category for Week 6 is Rock. Below are the nominations from the three Regiments. The Archers have nominated... LED ZEPPELIN The Cavalry have nominated... THE ROLLING STONES The Infantry have nominated... AEROSMITH There you go. There are the 3 nominations. All you now need to do is pick who you want to win (please highlight in some way or another) and go through as the Champion of Rock for the Grand Final! You have until Wednesday 18th June 2008 to make your choice! b]

And the second category for Week 6 is Electronica. Below are the nominations from the three Regiments. The Archers have nominated...THE PRODIGY The Cavalry have nominated... THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS The Infantry have nominated... MOBY There you go. There are the 3 nominations. All you now need to do is pick who you want to win (please highlight in some way or another) and go through as the Champion of Electronica for the Grand Final! You have until Wednesday 18th June 2008 to make your choice!

Here is a chance to see our truly awful/terrible/fantastic/amazing* song. Feel free to comment on it. * = please delete as appropriate Waiting, for the Ambulance to come, Shivers, up and down my spine, It's a long way down and it's a leap of faith, It's all of my pleasure, all of my pain, But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell. This town is colder now, I think it's sick of us, Cuz I'm crawling in the dark, Mutha, don't wanna go to school today, Never cared for what they do, And Hell is still overburdened, So I'm going home. But before you come to any conclusions, Everyone must bury their own, We dont wake up before lunch …

Whether as part of Eurythmics or as a solo artist, there's no denying Annie Lennox's incredible vocals. I'm personally a huge fan of just about everything she's ever done. All you need to do is decide if it is a TUNE (i.e. you love it) or NO TUNE (i.e. you hate it). "No More "I Love You's"" is the song I've picked this week and it was the first single from her second studio album Medusa. The song was written by Joseph Hughes and David Freeman and was first released by their band, The Lover Speaks in the 1980s. This single became the highest charting solo single for Lennox in the UK, entering the chart and peaking at #2 (spending 12 weeks on the charts and al…

Sorry this is late, but here we go. So, Coldplay was picked as the Artist of the Month for June. This is a group that is quite close to me in more ways than one, considering that Coldplay come from University College, London - and that is where I studied my degree. Also the frontman, Chris Martin, happened to study in the same department as me, which was the Greek and Latin Department. Sadly, he did a inferior degree, since he did Ancient World Studies, and not Classics! 8) Formed in September 1996 by Chris Martin and guitarist Jonny Buckland, most of their first year was spent putting the Band together. The first name chosen by the two was Pectoralz, before "C…