Font win our Immigrant Song Contest
The votes have been counted and verified and we can reveal that the winner of our inaugural Immigrant Song Contest is Font!
The Iranian indie rockers, who were once jailed for playing a gig in their native Tehran, were praised by the judges for their musicality and staunch commitment to their art.
Throughout the competition many of you took the time to send us your feedback on the bands - thanks for that.
Now enjoy Font performing their winning version of Cliff Richard's Congratulations:
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Comment number 1.
At 13:41 15th May 2009, JunkkMale wrote:What votes have been counted? And verified by whom?
All I saw were our three professional music expert judges have a wee chat and 'decide' on the basis of something or another.
Where did all this other stuff happen?
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Comment number 2.
At 14:46 15th May 2009, Johna wrote:I think the judges came to the right decision. Can we though see the whole song perhaps put it on youtube as I think it was great. If it were for charity I'd buy it.
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Comment number 3.
At 09:29 19th May 2009, JunkkMale wrote:In the spirit of openness and accountability (the t&c/guidelines were quite to the fore at the outset, if rather oddly more targetted to paid voting by the public), any chance of an answer or two to my questions?
Or are we adopting the Susan Watts' technique to inconvenient threads?
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Comment number 4.
At 12:39 22nd May 2009, Juuwlz wrote:I'm glad Font won, they were the best. Well-done Font!
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