Vote for tonight's very last Sound of Summer
We got lots of entries that we kinda felt didn't really fit into the summer sound category (whatever that is) or sounds that perhaps didn't quite work.
Among them - those below.
Big Ben is due back on Monday so tonight's Sound of Summer will be the choice of PM listeners.
Just click on the comment link and add the number of your choice, 1-6, before 16.00 BST today. The most popular choice will be the one we play.*
1: From Malcolm Teal: This clip is of my band, Split the Kitty, from our rehearsal on the evening of Tuesday August 28th in Walton-on-Thames. It was our first get-together since our guitarist Duncan got married in July, and the clip is from our version of Dodgy鈥檚 鈥淪taying Out for the Summer鈥.
2:Humph sent this: "I work throughout the summer period and so for me the "sound of summer" is a work sound. The attached file is of one of the instruments that I work with - setting up and starting the analysis of an extract to measure the polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) content of a soil sample."
3:David Reid sent this: "this is the sound of Nottingham Arboretum, 11 September, early evening."
4:David Reid - I think it's the same person but can't be faffed to check - also sent this: "of East Midlands Airport as passengers leave the terminal with their baggage trollies - early September, 21.00"
5: Paul Freeman sent this: "This is the sound of the end of summer really; it's the first rehearsal after the summer break of our Anglo French choir "Vocalise" (pronounced the French way :- "vocal-ease"). We are an amateur choir of some 25 people roughly half-and-half English and French, based in the Limousin. It's 7.15 in the evening, on Tuesday. We would have been outside, in the late summer evening, but it was too cold ! There are 3 clips here, 2 x warm-up exercises plus the beginning of a traditional Czech song we are learning for Christmas (trad/ms). The voice you can hear is that of the Chef de Chorale, Julien Reynaud (nf).
6:Carl Goss sent this:
to accompany this
"Don鈥檛 know if this is of interest for 鈥榮ounds of summer鈥 but it鈥檚 the sound of our chickens being fed in the garden. Unfortunately they don鈥檛 roam free anymore since we had a fox attack a few months back. We lost three of our lovely girls including Brenda Brown chest and Snowy White (my six year old daughter Catherine insisted on naming them). We were of course all very sad and deeply concerned for the four remaining, the spread of foxes into the urban environment seems to go on unabated. But we added more wire, and strengthened the chicken pen and they鈥檝e been alright since.
Their enclosure is an old fruit cage, having seen the horrendous price of chicken coops. The raspberries and gooseberries still survive higher up!! We decided to buy a 拢99 B and Q shed and customise it, building a storage container and nest box on one side. They are Belgium Bantams by the way with lovely little eggs (attached photo of the very first one we got, how proud we were!!). I don't think we鈥檝e ever had such tasty, or yellow, Omelettes!!
We took on seven girls and one boy... Basil!
Sadly after one day and ONE MORNING, the cockerel had to go. He was just too noisy for the neighbours. No we didn鈥檛 eat him, we found him a new loving home, at a specialist breeder and now he鈥檚 the father of countless Belgiums (if you know what I mean!) The owner has promised if we want some fertislised eggs anytime to just ask! He said pop them under your broody hens and Bobs your Uncle, or rather Basils your Dad.....Cockadoodledoo!"
GET VOTING! We are expecting irregularities so the whole thing is being monitored by Alan Yentob.
*We've already chosen the winner, of course.
1030 UPDATE: Yes it seems number six is a bit broken. Apologies. Yentob furious. Fixing now. Stand by.
1038 UPDATE: All the links now work. Thanks to Kyren who made it happen.
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Well I can't listen to these from work but clearly I cannot vote for a band called 'Split the kitty' or they'd have me up in front of the MRCVS
So I'd like to vote for Carl Goss' chickens please (sorry Humph!x) especially after we had one as a patient the other week which laid us an egg!!
To be honest, Eddie, I don't care which of them is played. They're all good :)
Sound No 6 please.
1 - because I haven't heard it!
PS morning all, early newsletter really made smile me after a particularly cr@ppy start.
sound of the summer No. 4 please
I was disappointed I could not get the final clip to play but am going for number 5 the "French Choir". Thanks. HK.
5
Sound number 3, please.
Sound No 6 please
Oh, the chickens. Absolutely the chickens...
no 3. I love the Arboretum. Vote for green space!
Sound No 5 please.
The chickens. Without doubt.
Though my own band - Pisco Sour Hour - is putting a new track up on the web today which really should be considered for contention, not withstanding that we haven't entered it or anything, and that is a sound of the autumn but given the 大象传媒s current track record I expect to hear it tonight.
In case you really are interested www.myspace.com/piscosourhour
But anyway... the chickens. Oh yes!
Eddie - a quick reminder.
The crooked 大象传媒 voting machines are due back in Florida by next Thursday.
1
Slightly perturbed by Chrissie's enthusiasm!?!
My vote goes for polyaromatic hydrocarbons, 'cos for most of us work has been our sound of the summer!
2
6 please
No 6 - the chickens please
The chickens please!
Chick Chick Chick Chick Chicken please
2 please
What's wrong with the blog. My last post was not 502ed or malicious. Is this because this voting thread is just being sent to the ether cos you have already decided its option 7 (Sox fighting with cookie).
Oh! Spoke too soon. this is malicious.
I couldn't hear No. 6 but loved the picture, so will opt for that one: you so seldom get pictures on the radio.
Definitely number 1. Couldn't hear the chickens for some reason.
Using the criterion of which sound will most baffle listeners who tune in just before six and have no idea of what 's going on.... The Chickens have my vote
number 6 please
My names Maria von Trap.. can I vote for the chickens?(COUGH). Eddie.. are we allowed to vote for our own? Will you still charge for votes after the lines have closed?
I can't get the blxxxxdy chooks* to play - I've heard all the others, so can i vote for the chooks so at least I can hear it!
*chooks is Australian for chickens, for any Galahs out there!
Wow, I made it onto the short-list, I certainly did not expect that. It was not until I did the recording that I noticed how much background noise there was in the laboratory. I did try to do a recording of cryo-trapping an air sample in another laboratory but that was even worse for background noise! I am not sure if it is the done thing to vote for one鈥檚 own sound-clip and so I will take the safe option and vote for one of the others rather than getting myself disqualified. My vote goes to 5iii. It seems fitting that the end of 鈥淪ounds of Summer鈥 should be an end of summer sound and after going shopping last weekend I realise that now is the time to look forward to Christmas.
Nill Points Humph. :o(
6
3
Number 6 please!
Carl's chickens please - number 6.
I did like your instrument, Humph - honest!
Well yes, I know it's horrible not to vote for a friend - but malicious? And it's my first attempt of the day?!
Seems to be a gremlin in the works (a 大象传媒 website with a gremlin? Never!) - but the link to the chickens isn't working. However I was going to vote for no.3 anyway!
Why do we have to have the sound of Big Ben anyway? Will civilisation as we know cease to exist if PM doesn't end (or the Six O'clock news doesn't start) with the sound of Big Ben? Perhaps this could be an annual event. Or even seasonal - Christmas (sounds of wrapping paper being torn, children crying because Santa forgot the batteries etc.).
Just a thought.
The chookies please - number 6!
Has to be the chickens at 6.
Sound no. 6, please.
Dear Eddie,
No 5 please (although they're all good). Why don't you do a Sound of Summer on one evening a week throughout the year? Big Ben is a bit repetitive if you think about it.
Oh my, number 1, without a doubt. What we need on a grey day like today.
Couldn't get the chickens to work so no 3 please, especially as the plane fades out and the banjo? gradually reappears. Lovely.
Sound 6 won't download. 'The link you followed may be outdated or inaccurate' - so unlike anything else to do with PM.
So Eddie, Marc, please could you look into this?
Otherwise I'm going to suspect this is part of your vote-rigging.
* * *
And don't be so silly, that wasn't malicious. Or is that vote-rigging, too?
Decisions, decisions. Humph, your machine sounded like my printer at home :o)
I can't hear the chickens either, but I imagine them to be very summery.
So I think it has to be the French choir warming up. In fact could I please make a request that they are posted on each week's beach as I found them utterly irresistible and I joined in with gusto (don't ask). Took me right back to school days and a mixture of warming up for choir, and warming up for French class - ah, eh, ee, aw, uueh.
Monsieur Mair, the vote from East Lothian is for numero 5, s'il vous plait?
Sound number 6 please.
1 please
6 please
It reminds me of when I worked on a rare breeds farm and one of my jobs was to look after some Bearded Belgians (Bantams, of course)
Sadly link No. 6 won't play. So I vote for that so I can hear it!
And the blog won't play with me either - flat out 'not allowed to post comments'.
Number 2 please - because I haven't got a clue what it is - haven't been able to listen to it at work. Education to the nation - everyone knows what Chickens sound like!
Cluck, cluck!
No.3 would be my first choice as it reflects so many aspects of summer (outdoor music, overhead planes, trees rustling, birdsong)
But I'd be almost as happy with No. 6 - 'the cute vote' as you might say.
Number 6 please
number 6 please, but if we can't hear it now will it work later...? the suspense may be unbearable
Let the chickens have it
The arboretum please, Eddie. Either that or you and the Any Questions team scoffing your fish and chips the other week.
As an aside to all Froggers, please remember to e-mail the team your strapline suggestions. The appearance of my third one in as many weeks suggests that they're getting hard up for good ones.
Gillian (34) I hope that you do not think that I set the "Malice warning levels". You may also notice that I (30) do not vote for myself, either and am quite surprised by the number of people who have.
H.
Number 3: outdoorsy and soothing
No 6 please.
Regarding foxes doing what comes naturally - it's actually quite easy to prevent them gaining access to the coop.
Run the chicken wire down to the ground, and then extend it outwards along the ground at least 18".
Foxes clearly aren't as bright as they're made out to be - they can't work out that they have to step back 18" to start digging under the wire.
Da-Daa! Foxed.
I'll go with number 6. It can be a small memorial to our bantams who were wiped out by foxes dispite tha fact that by that time they'd taken to roosting in trees.
no 7 please.george broon apologising for the pensions theft & WARMONGERING.
Love foxes, foxes love chicken, therefore I love chicken. No. 6 please.
Third time lucky?
Love foxes, foxes love chicken, therefore I love chicken - in a strictly honourable way for their beauty. No. 6 please.
Eddie
Will Blue Peter be counting the votes? And will that Dimbleby bloke be up all night waiting for the results?
number 3...and please don't vote for anyone doing covers of 'Dodgy' songs
ta
1 Please... Almost as good as the old PM Theme Tune!
No. 1 because it made me smile and I look forward to dancing with my dog in the kitchen at 10 seconds to 6.
I'm voting for number 6, the chickens. I loved the story and picture.
Eddie - I'll go for the chickens please.
No.6 please.
Look forward to hearing it, hopefully.
PM is a great programme - thanks.
number 6 please, even if we do know what they sound like, let's hear them again.Can't wait for the sounds of autumn, bring on those hump-ing hedgehogs!
5 but only in the absence of an autumnal Messiah rolling across the West Yorkshire hills
Hello Chickie,
Chickens too please, thank you for a lovely show.
I love chickens - they are great and the chicks sooo cute.
I do not eat them - am a veggie - so I just love them and pet them.
May we also hear some beautiful 'crickets'?
Many thanks,
Helen
x
I would like to vote for number 6 which is charming.
No 6 the chickens please!
# 6 please - it's got to be the chickens! What a lovely story and photo.
Stainless (53) we might do a radio appeal in due course for more straplines, but to be honest I'm happy we're using more from regular froggers.
Number 6 - has to be with all that care and history.
By the way I thought you read the weather splendidly yesterday - can we have a repeat (reading not the weather you dished up for us here in the SE. Was going flying today in a light aircraft but NOT in this wind and low cloud.
I'll vote for Jonnies ferry boat din.
No 6 please
I hope this gets past the 502s and malice...
My vote goes to chickens at 6. Or at just before 6. You know what I mean.
The others are terrific too but the sheer brainlessness of chook-chook noises gets to me every time!
6
- It made me smile :-)
No 6 please - lovely visual sound.
Ferry boat 'din' Joe!!
That was recorded with AKG 414's -- I'm sorry the 大象传媒 Playout system didn't do it justice.
Now - back to Chris Evans with you!
The chickens please!
It has to be number 1 - I respect Malcom for being prepared to even send it!
You could of course play All Summer Long by the Beach Boys?
Keep skating!
No 6. We used to keep chickens, and it was my job to feed and water them every day, summer or winter.
No.1 - just the last bit of moaning...sorry singing.. should capture last summer!
Unless there's a very odd 大象传媒 counting method at work, this vote of mine won't count for much because Carl's chickens are romping home.
However, I vote for 2 ... especially the bit 2/3 of the way through where Humph's lovely machine gets the hiccups.
Fifi ;o)
Oh, and now I'm malicious! With my first posting for days n days!!
no 6 please
Cluckety cluck......No6 please.
It has to be the chickens...all together now aahh!
Number 6 please. Nice try having a duff link but the chickens will win in the end.
no. 3 please
No 1 please
How about ??
xx
ed
Vote-rigging alert!
Eric's newsletter is plugging the photo of the chickens!
Oh, yes, I bloomin well am allowed to post comments. Are you censoring me?
No 6 sounds best, not that i can hear them at work
What you should have had was the sound of the 50,000 pairs of trainers thuding along teh road that are taking part in the Great North Run on Sunday. Good luck to any other pm listeners who are running
It's got to be the chickens.
"Pukhar !" the sound they make which saounds a little bit too similar to Pukka !
Sigmar
me....at number 6
no 6
The chickens win! But last night I was "not allowed to post comments" for so long, I expect you won't get this comment either. :( (Sometimes you just have to use an emoticon. )
How about ??
xx
ed
me....at number 6
Number 2, number 2, number 2!
Jonnie at 81.
C'mon over here and say that...!!!
:0)
me....at number 6
Summer sound 6 please!!
1.
No, wait. I'm changing my mind. 2. Definitely.
Thank goodness for 502 - it stopped me making a mistake.
But does this mean I've got to vote for 2. twice - to show its better than 1.?
And 3, 4, 5 and 6 so that they tie with 1 again?
Oh, heck! I've changed my mind again.
3. is definitely best.
So two more voties for 3 and one more vote each for 1., 3., 4., 5., and 6.
I think.
Goodness I think I'd better email Yentob to explain to him what I'm doing.
How can you lot, (3) to (90)-odd, be so certain!?!
(You've guessed, it the 1. above is actually 1 mod(6) wrapped round three times already).
I'm so impressed by you all. No wonder you've told us all about it instead of just voting.
Such self confidence. You should all be on the radio as people of opinion. But you should tell us more. Its always so interesting to know in detail what people like you think.
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Definitely no 6 - and we'll send a recording of our own chickens later.
How about ??
xx
ed
502 blues....
My vote goes to number 2.
3, please
Number 6 - lovely!
My vote goes to number 2.
3, please
No 2 please
Chickens.
Chickens.
Without a doubt - number six.
1
1
3, for me please
1
I would like 3 please.
I'm serving roast chicken for an early supper with guests tonight and should be carving at around 6pm; PM on the kitchen wireless, as ever (the tuning knob's broken).
Chickens, please, so that I can enjoy watching the two vegetarians that my financ茅e invited and I don't particularly like squirm.
(Edit - damn you, 502!)
Chickens please. All people usually hear is the cockerel at 4 a.m., so my vote's for the ladies who do the work!
no 6
502 by a street and a half
Was going to vote for number 7, but after a re-think, it has to be the chickens!
1: Split the Kitty
Number three for me.
Chickens please. All people usually hear is the cockerel at 4 a.m., so my vote's for the ladies who do the work!
Definitely Number 6 please, it's just lovely.
Chick-chick-chickens - Please.
Number three for me.
Are you 'counting your chickens'?!
Gosh, this *does* bode well for that i-business!!
n-n
xx
Chickens - with any luck it will annoy the cat. She's been attacking my houseplants today.
That's interesting: I noted the time I pressed 'send' on my post [133] particularly as 3:55pm.
Of course it got the usual 502 raspberry after 6 or 7 minutes.
So why 04:22pm???!!!
Where *was* it for twenty minutes or so?!
nikki
Okay now that the winner has been announced I thought that I might add some more details to my offering to the Sound of Summer. Firstly for those who are interested in a piccie please click on my name above to see what the instrument looks like. The 鈥渃onstant鈥 sound through the whole file is called a roughing pump and is the last stage in the vacuum system for a mass-spectrometer. The other sounds, which are the really interesting bits, are:
Click click click click click 鈥 Sampler closing into the sample bottle
Whizzzz whiz 鈥 syringe needle going into bottle and then sucking up some liquid.
Don鈥檛 really hear it but the autosampler table moves to a waste bottle
Click, click click click click 鈥 Sampler closes into the waste bottle
Whizzzz whiz鈥 syringe moves to the waste bottle and clears sample.
Clacking sound as syringe moves back to the sample
Click click click click click 鈥 Sampler closing into the sample bottle
Whizzzzz, whiz (repeated 4 times) 鈥 what Fifi (86) refers to as the hiccups. These are called pumps and is the syringe drawing up the liquid slowly and pushing it out quickly. This is done to make sure that there is no air in the syringe, the needle or near the needle before:
Whizzz 鈥 the syringe taking up the sample
Don鈥檛 really hear it but the syringe assembly moves to the injection port.
ZZZaarrr ZZarr 鈥 Injecting the sample on the top of the chromatography column. Thirty minutes later, another soil sample has been analysed.
(I鈥檒l get my lab coat)
H.
nn @ 135, bless you, how do we explain a single message on another thread, rejected because the server wasn't available, appearing *four* times, twice close together, then an hour or more gap, then twice close together almost at the same time as my irritated (and delayed) replacement post?
Happening for some time, HAH! For six days or so, maybe.
I am really, really tempted to get hold of a bloke who turned down a job doing this stuff for the 大象传媒 because he didn't like what they were expecting him to try to work with, to see what *he* thinks has gone wrong, and whether it is exactly what he predicted. *evil grin*
This is being posted by me at 20.10 on Friday. On form, I will have to wait six minutes to be told that the 大象传媒 server isn't working, or that it is a 502; possibly less to be told that I am malicious or am not allowed to post. My machine will then stall and refuse to return here. The post will appear some time later, possibly repeated several times.
Follow-up: I was told that it was a 502, about five minutes later. Then I had to re-start the program.
This is going at 20.56.
Moderators, these might be useful data for your study: I don't think the frog is crowded just at the moment...
1.
No, wait. I'm changing my mind. 2. Definitely.
Thank goodness for 502 - it stopped me making a mistake.
But does this mean I've got to vote for 2. twice - to show its better than 1.?
And 3, 4, 5 and 6 so that they tie with 1 again?
Oh, heck! I've changed my mind again.
3. is definitely best.
So two more voties for 3 and one more vote each for 1., 3., 4., 5., and 6.
I think.
Goodness I think I'd better email Yentob to explain to him what I'm doing.
How can you lot, (3) to (90)-odd, be so certain!?!
(You've guessed, it the 1. above is actually 1 mod(6) wrapped round three times already).
I'm so impressed by you all. No wonder you've told us all about it instead of just voting.
Such self confidence. You should all be on the radio as people of opinion. But you should tell us more. Its always so interesting to know in detail what people like you think.
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PS Am i in time?