In an ideal world...

Good evening!

Thank you for all the entries we've had in our Fanzine competition.

A few weeks back we asked you to complete the following sentence -

'(In an ideal world)I would like to say cheerio to...'

We can't print all of them in the Fanzine, so we thought it would be cool to post a whole load of our favourite answers so you can see exactly what fellow readers would like to say 'cheerio to'...

Gary Hetherington, Camberley

"robert mugabe, inequality, english rain, mosquito's and flies. flies because they have to be the dumbest creatures on this planet. why is it that when you open a window they always fly up? 'fly down stupid!' "

Niomi, Maidenhead

"wrinkled shirts, sour milk, John Lennon, & dusty Carpets"

Aarron, Reading

"My grandparents"

Sam Foreman, Brighton

"Watercress, The Queen, Aids & Flatulence"

Tamar Levi, London

"cheerio to the grim dirge of the deranged in Morrisons at 16.00 on a Wednesday. "

Neil Amon

"Cheerio to gangs of drunk chavs on buses with loud garage music playing off their mobile phones... the nanny state... and that annoying bint who plays Stacey in Eastenders."

Becki Burrows, London

"losers..users, substance abusers....and george bush."

Jody Faulkner, London

"Well, the only thing that springs to mind that I feel strongly about is injustice...did I say injustice? I meant coriander...this evil substance added to otherwise delicious food renders it inedible. Lately it seems to have become the fashion to insert this vile plant into all dishes as a final touch...more like the kiss of death in my book...coriander you murderer, you've ruined my burrito."

Matty Harris, Newcastle

"cheerio to wasps ruining picnics......their getting bigger as well"

Joni Kähkönen, Finland

"(In an ideal world) I would like to say cheerio to wars and unnecessary violence, 'cos if we even could get rid of those things the world would be so much better place to be in and maybe we all could just hold hands and sing about nice things, like birds, rainbows and WinterKids."

Tom Durrent, Woking

"Holly Willoughby when I leave for work in the morning...?"

We'll notify those of you who will get their answers printed in the fanzines...meanwhile, if anyone else can think of any others, feel free to message them over. We did say closing time is today, but the fanzines havent been printed yet, so theres still a bit of time to get a few more answers in!!!

Enjoy the weekend

Kids

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A Fish Called Ponder

Hello everyone, Brad here!

This week I have been pondering to myself.

There are a number of deep and philosophical questions I wanted answered, so I felt compelled enough to do some research and share with you what I have found.

My first ponder

Being in WinterKids, I was thinking about the birth of the CD. I wondered what the first song ever pressed onto this format was.

The answer: The first CD ever pressed was in the US, and it was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

My second ponder

I was walking through town the other day and happened to notice a Motorola advertisement.

I thought to myself ‘I wonder where they got that name from’.

The answer: The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At the time, the most known record player on the market was called the 'Victrola'...so they called themselves Motorola!

My third ponder

For those of you who aren't aware, Chris (drummer) and Hannah (organ/vocals) are going to be getting married next year. This got me thinking about he word ‘honeymoon’.

What does it actually mean?

The answer: It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.

Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the "honeymoon".

(Some mead)

My fourth ponder

When touring in Germany a couple of weeks ago with the band, I noticed several statue’s of soldiers on horses in parks.

One horse had both legs in the air, whereas another had just one leg in the air. This made me think ‘do the legs mean anything?'

The answer: If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

(This soldier died as a result of wounds received in battle)

My fifth and final ponder
Birthdays; whenever its someone’s birthday, they usually receive a rendition of the classic ‘happy birthday’ song from friends and family.

Well this got me thinking ‘does that song have a copyright or is it owned by the public?’

The answer: The company, Warner Communications actually paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".

Thanks for reading my ponders. If you have anything you'd like answered, feel free to write to me, and I'll do my upmost to find out the answers.

Btw, thank you everyone for your fanzine entries! We've had some real gems. There is still time to place an entry, so read the last blog for more info! (comp closes next Friday)

Cya soon

Brad

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Win A Prize

Hello friends

WE NEED YOUR HELP

We are putting together a limited edition fanzine that will be given out to the first few hundred people who buy the new EP (set for release later this year)

Within the fanzine we are putting together a page called 'Cheerio to...'

What we are asking you to do is complete the following sentence -

'(In an ideal world) I would like to say cheerio to...'

The most inventive answers will be printed in the fanzine.

Can you think of anything you'd like to say 'Cheerio to?'

(For those of you who aren't British, 'cheerio' means 'goodbye'!)

ALSO

Are you good at drawing?

Well, even if your not we would love you to draw illustrations of things you like to see and do at country fairs...again, the most inventive doodles will be printed within our fanzine.

Email all entries to info@winterkidsmusic.com

PRIZE

Any one who's entry gets printed, will be sent a a prize :)

Look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Kids
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Chris Martin

This week we have been in the studio working with producer Ken Nelson!

Ken is responsible for Coldplays first two albums, as well as 4 tracks from X and Y (including 'Fix You')

It's a massive honour for us to be working with Ken on the new album and we can't wait to hear the results!

The studio we've been using (Parr Street) is home to the very piano that Coldplays 'Trouble' was recorded on.

Here is Hannah playing the piano -


Here is Hannah looking under the piano pointing at something interesting...

...and here is what she found...

I'm not gonna lie, ebaying it did cross our minds...as did writing 'WinterKids were 'ere', however, I think we'll wait until we've gone multi platinum before ruining the piano!

Have a good weekend

James

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Phil Collins

Hello everyone! Tour manager – Steve here.

So basically, we’ve decided that it would be a nice idea for me to share with you, an insight in to the current tour as an ‘outsider’. This is my second tour with WK and both (so far…) have been great.

This is me writing the blog…

…and this is me with a mouse that has a Koi fish in it…

I’m writing to you from the ‘Corbin Feng Shui Business – hotel’ in Freising, which I’ve been informed (by an unreliable source) is the only Feng Shui hotel in Germany.

We’ve just come back from a festival where the ‘Kids played in front of about 2,500 people. The atmosphere was electrifying and the weather was extremely damp.

On both tours I’ve enjoyed many things, nothing more though than killing time playing Mario Kart. You’ll find us in the van having a few games against each other all getting annoyed at the fact that Tom is stupidly good at it and will probably win no matter what, however, it truly is the game of kings.

Here are James and Tom enjoying a sneaky bit of MK in the hotel whilst I take a relaxing break with the Zen garden, how tranquil -

Last night we were in Heidleberg where the ‘Kids were pencilled in to perform a DJ set.

This is Chris and I purely and simply giving the punters a reason to dance -

I can safely say that we all managed to get too carried away with last nights festivities and so, this led to us all feeling a little worse for wear this morning. I wont add anymore than that...

Tomorrow we set off for Switzerland, the home of Swiss army knives, Swatch watches and Phil Collins. I cannot wait!

Ok that’s it from me, just have to say quickly that WK are going in to the studio next week to record with Ken Nelson which is rather exciting, hopefully that all goes well.

Stay safe everyone. Big love, Steve x


P.S - Whilst writing this blog, I've had to endure endless drivel coming out the mouths of Tom, James and Brad whilst they sit next to me playing Mario Kart...so for the next 3 minutes im going to type everything they say...

James – “Do you think the MK Dons got their name from playing excessive amounts of Mario Kart...and not from the fact that they are from Milton Keynes...?!”

Brad – “Princess just took my box…”

Tom – “Have you finished the blog yet Steve?”

James – “Me and B-boy are ruling the roost”

Brad – “Yoshi can eat it!”

Me (thinking to myself) – “This is probably a lot funnier outloud than it is on here…”

Brad – “Yoshi”

James – “Brad you’ve always got a love/hate relationship with Yoshi."

“If you could make love to any Mario Kart character who would it be?”

Brad – “Theres only 2 really…Princess and Mario”

Me - "Genius"