Suggestions for future festivals

[Hilary]

Ha! The Wurzel stuff is great, but people really talk like that where I come from in West Sussex! I still do a little bit - especially when I go home.

I bet that Bohemian Wurzley goes down a storm. Very clever - and funny.

I've yet to see him live, but I'm looking forward to it (I wonder if he's looking forward to my act  )
I did a Stein pub once and did a parody of I've got a Combine Harvester best not divulge what it was about 

oh you've got to do one - Fest or not, go on, go on, go on!

Speedy - I can send you the Wurzel CD if you want.

[64Guitars]

I was thinking a "crackerjack" festival. Something our stateside and European friends may not understand. Is not unlike the parody fest. Anyway every week on the aforementioned kids tv show they would cover a top twenty hit and change the lyrics into something comedic.
So suggestion is we do that. Rule is it has to a parody of a current top twenty hit single.

From a listener's point of view, I think parodies are more fun when you're already familiar with the original. Since few of us here are familiar with current Top 20 songs, I'd rather have a Parody Fest that's not restricted so that people can do parodies of songs we all know.

I love some of the parodies by Bob Rivers.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q52NjFmub6k


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk13ZNqjuC4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZFnD-Yf9e4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gBBe64oncA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuBNQpgiLzY

[Oldrottenhead]

i thought we already had a parody fest, hence the crackerjack suggestion.

[64Guitars]

i thought we already had a parody fest, hence the crackerjack suggestion.

No, we've never had a Parody Fest. We had ComedyFest in 2010 which included a few parodies along with many comedy and novelty songs, but we've never had a festival that was just parodies.

[Oldrottenhead]

i thought we already had a parody fest, hence the crackerjack suggestion.

No, we've never had a Parody Fest. We had ComedyFest in 2010 which included a few parodies along with many comedy and novelty songs, but we've never had a festival that was just parodies.

oooh! goody goody.

[Redler]

Let's have Google translator festival!

The idea: write a lyric (or use an old lyric/song) on your native language and put it to Google translator and choose a language! The translator helps with pronouncing, too.

[Johnny Robbo]

Let's have Google translator festival!

The idea: write a lyric (or use an old lyric/song) on your native language and put it to Google translator and choose a language! The translator helps with pronouncing, too.

Did you know that if you translate the 1st line of Burn's "Address to Haggis" (Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!) into German & back into English you get...

"Mighty Fuhrer of the Sausage People"

There's got to be a song in that somewhere!

[Redler]

  I know the translator is a bit clumsy and very often it propose wrong word, because words are polysemic. It just gives comedy effect, imo...

Here's an example how easy Finnish is 

[Speed Demon]

Kari, could you translate "Jive-ass turkey" for me?

[Hilary]

Let's have Google translator festival!

The idea: write a lyric (or use an old lyric/song) on your native language and put it to Google translator and choose a language! The translator helps with pronouncing, too.

Sounds great!

or a Sing a Song in Another Language Fest - I bet we all pick Finnish