I strongly suspect this chap listens to the Theatre Of Noise  

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RateMyProducer.com  

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Regular listeners to the Theatre Of Noise will know that we now have a producer. He is called Jon The Producer, and he brings an extra element to the show.

Jon has sex appeal. He has panache. He is debonaire, youthful and gorgeous.

He is everything we are not.

We promised to post a picture of him, and here he is. Can someone please set up version of HotOrNot.com  called RateMyProducer.com? Lee and I will no doubt click the 'hot' button over and over again.

On the downside, Jon The Producer eats Tunnock tea cakes by slapping them on his forehead. This unforgiveable behaviour disgusts us, and reminds us that despite outward appearances, sometimes people can be really ugly on the inside.

Fighting tooth and nail for good Christian music  

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As promised on tonight's show, here are some record labels we would recommend. They all feature Christian artists doing some very interesting things.

Tooth And Nail - lots of raaaah! Includes some quality hip hop on Uprok too.

Solid State - very much the 'shouty men' element of Theatre Of Noise.

Northern Records - independent, a little bit country, and lovely.

Velvet Blue - grumpy indie artists now all grown up.

Asthmatic Kitty - quirky, odd and innovative.

If you can think of any more - I'm only writing this off my quiche-stained cuff - then post them in the comments below.

Fourth From The Last comes first in the Chainsaw vote  

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Fourth From The Last, the debut album of Christian ska band The Ws, got destroyed this week on Chainsaw Challenge.

Here's real live evidence of your votes counting. A good choice, methinks.

Don't turn your volume up - presenter Lee is some way from the camera, but Fil is about to kick off with his loud power drill so the video won't stay quiet for long.

Take it away, Fil...

A-chocolypse now: ideas we didn't use  

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At the end of every programme, we tell you some features we didn't get time to broadcast in a little 20 second piece we call Ideas We Didn't Use.  We thought we'd pop some of these on the website because you look like the kind of person who appreciates a bad pun.

So, here are some of the features we didn't get time for in the first week of the 2009 broadcast...

- We attempt to kick-start the diets of millions of fat people around the world by destroying all the world’s cocoa plants at once in ‘A-chocolypse now’

- We render a mystical cup useful by mending the holes in the Holy Grail.

- We stage a re-enactment of Jesus’ trial 20,000 feet in the air, with our new drama group, The Pontius Pilots.

- We challenge a clergyman to preach a fifteen minute sermon containing only words beginning with the letter ‘T’ in More Tea Vicar.

- We electrocute French monks in the Tazer Experience.

- We get a Biblical couple to swim upstream to spawn, in Salmon And Delilah.

- We sort Easter chocolate treats into denominational order, with Eggumenical thinking.

- We give vicars a makeover for their Easter Sunday service in The Fashion Of The Christ.

- We attempt to train rabbits to act out Shakespeare in ‘Hutch Ado About Nothing’

- We rave endlessly about the 4th floor of an office block, in The Greatest Storey Ever Told.

- We accidentally drop the Easter rabbit into our deep fat fryer in Hot Cross Bunnies.

- We declare a small VAT cut in Christianity, forcing everyone to worship Jesus Chris.

- We trace how cutlery abolished the slave trade with our profile of William Wilberforks.

- Dale Winton’s Hole In The Wall is relocated, suprisingly conveniently, to Jericho.

- We set up a new worship festival for bees and scorpions, in Sting Harvest.

The hungry cater-driller  

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The photos speak for themselves.  Israel And New Breed's A Deeper Level ends up looking like it's had a fight with the hungry caterpillar (it was in fact Fil The Destroyer's drill of doom).

And the blank, frosted-glass CD? That's what happens when you attack KJ52's Behind The Musik CD with a sander. All that artwork and the shiny CD glean rubbed into nothingness.

This is all because of your votes, dear listener! Listen in on Chainsaw Challenge on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Yay, it's Jay and the phenomenon of Menomena  

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Amid the froth of Theatre Of Noise, lovely things bubble to the surface.

Firstly, Jay Tholen is a chip tune experimentalist from rural Florida. His music sounds like Nintendos dancing gaily in a field of hay. His debut album Hidden Moon Jungle brought a prog feel to the 8 bit scene ('8 bit' just means it sounds like lots of bleeps), and he's even written an instrumental interpretation of the parable of the prodigal son.

Secondly, Menomena is an indie band from Oregan who aren't afraid to honk their sax. They've covered a Flaming Lips song and they're signed to City Slang (otherwise known as A Very Important Record Label Indeed). Sadly, two members used to be in a Christian version of Pearl Jam, but don't hold that against them.

Check out Jay Tholen here. Check out Menomena here.

Leaderboards...

The results of our stupid games so far are listed below...

Adventure Game

  • Jon: 3.
  • Lee: 2.
  • Eyan: 0 (disqualified).

Flansubstantiation

  • Adsa caramelised onion and mature cheddar quiche: 9
  • Aldi cheese & chive quiche: 7
  • Morrison's Mediterranean vegetable value quiche: 6
  • Lidl quiche lorraine: 5
  • Tesco quiche lorraine: 3
  • Marks & Spencer bacon, leek & mushroom quiche: 2
  • Morrison's cheese & caramelised onion quiche: 2
  • Sainsbury's salmon & watercress quiche: 0

Chainsaw Challenge

  • Claas-P Jambor (power chisel)
  • The Smiling Strangers CD (lawnmower)
  • The Ws debut album (power drill)
  • KJ52's Behind The Musik (sander)
  • Deeper compilation (angle grinder)
  • Chill Cafe (jigsaw)
  • Israel & New Beed's A Deeper Level (battery drill)

Sin Lose Or Draw

  • Fil & Rob: 1 (drinking pop)
  • Heidi & Jon: 1 (black magic)
  • Kathy & Fil: 1 (drug taking)
  • Fil & Lee: -1

Sackcloth & Bashes

  • Michelle 2 (Lee's calculator, Lee's pork scratchings)
  • Eyan 2 (Jon's alarm clock, Jon's toy gun)
  • Lee 2 (Eyan's candy cigarettes, Eyan's Chinese Pot Noodle)
  • Debs 1 (Lee's cream crackers)
  • Sian 1 (Lee's Transformers toy)
  • Jon 0

Balloons & Darts

  • Lee: played 9 popped 8.
  • Jon: played 9 popped 7.
  • Eyan: played 6 popped 3.

Fryer Tuck Shop

  • Deep fried creme egg: £1.50 but just too sweet.
  • Deep fried marmite rice cakes: 45p and bland.
  • Deep fried Mars Bar: 35p at a push.
  • Deep fried jelly babies: 20p and quite nauseating.

Breville's Advocate

  • Dairy Lea and fruit cake toasted sandwich £1.30
  • Tunnock's tea cake and celery toasted sandwich 20p
  • Peaches and tuna toasted sandwich 15p
  • Marmite and Daim Bar toasted sandwich £-1