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Bird at work reckons it's just the end of a much larger piece of "classical" music. She's talking shit, right? She claims that it's "like, half an hour long or something" and "they played it on Capital Radio or something a while ago".

She's fairly new but strikes me as one of these people who always has a story about everything (hence this was her contribution when she found out about my small side-interest (ahem) in Countdown), often of the variety of "this actually happened to me" it's more likely to be some vague story heard from elsewhere. It's surely only a matter of time before she claims to have done something that I find on snopes. Cracking tits though.

It isn't. It was composed by Alan Hawkshaw specially for the programe. I reckon your (mis)informer is getting it mixed up with the "Nokia tune": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_tune

Thanks Jennifer. I'll show her this as proof.

Maybe I'll edit it a little first...

The clock music should be played with electric guitars.

dan j wrote:The clock music should be played with electric guitars.

Er... maybe not: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6zvYCmaOnNY

More evidence.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I6TOIjtVAZ0

Evidence for: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/40502

Who is your bird, Jon?

Jon O'Neill wrote:More evidence.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I6TOIjtVAZ0

With the obvious exception of my craptacular wailing over the top, I didn't think Matt (the guitarist) did a bad job at all.

Hi, Chris!

I haven't seen you here in a long time!

How are you, and did anyone else other than your band witness that performance?

That was at an event called the 'Ansty Music Festival', which is a very overstated title for 30 A-level students crammed into a mate's garage.

That was interesting music, Chris!