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Ming the Merciless aka Mark Rayson was your random host for the evening in between Ben's bits. At the mike. |
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Which were handled with the usual gusto and aplom, and plenty of witty remarks and ad-libs. | |
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Press Play on Tape kicked off proceedings for the evening and rocked the house as us listeners have been accustomed to over the years. | |
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Playing not a Martin Galway composition (the in-music to Roland's Rat Race was a cover of one of his singles). | |
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Ben and Mark Knight get on stage for Monty on the Run. | |
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Ben gives it up for Mark during the infamous solo sequence at the end! | |
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PPoT are not Kraftwerk. So they say. | |
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Belting out a version of Trauma's fabulous Pumpkin remix. | |
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The Rob Hubbard appreciation society was out in force. | |
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The C64 Mafia get down with some Breakdance rap. | |
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And... yes... well... that was great says Ben! | |
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Most people may have now wondered what was going on. These were the newbies to the show, Visa Roster, formed by well-known remixer Pex Tufvesson (in the grey suit). | |
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On the menu were plenty of acapella renditions, some of which were known from RKO (Sweet, Comic Bakery) and some new to proceedings. All were utterly brilliant and I think, despite people's doubts, they really pulled it off well. | |
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Hanna takes the lead vocals during Comic Bakery. | |
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Each lady had at least one solo moment during the performance. This is Karin standing up to the plate. And for the record, they were all very nice indeed heh. | |
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Visa Roster come to terms with their new found fame as scores of people flock to buy their CD and have them signed. | |
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Well you can't really resist an opportunity like that now! | |
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Final act of the night was Stuck in D'Eighties, with Jon Hare of Sensible Software taking over bass duties at short notice (he had one day practice!). | |
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Jamming in down during the Paperboy/Arcade Classics funk. No audience wandering by Mark this time, that was saved for later. | |
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Visa Roster joined on stage to provide vocal backing during Spellbound. | |
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To me? To you! Rasputin gets going in a cossack way. | |
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Fame at last. Mark goes wandering, Swedish women throw themselves at him and all is once again normal as another BIT Live ends and everyone goes home happy. And drunk. |