[Viscount Cramer & His Orchestra]

Right the votes have been counted and the 'gifts' have been banked (thank you - very generous)

So without further ado, our glorious winner this month, by a safe margin, is PaulyX and his band with 'Ram Raid at the Palace of Wonder' - a great song and thoroughly deserving of the win!

Runner-up is Jambrains with his 'Leave No Stone Unturned'

There was very little between the other three.....in fact the third place is jointly shared by Mutrins and Yodasdad.

Thanks to the nominees for the great songs and to all 17 of you who validated the competition by voting. Shame we couldn't get more interest...tant pis.

[PaulAds]

Well done, Paulyx and the guys 

Thanks very much to VC for being kind enough to step in to run the competition...I wish we could get more people taking part...but I think we've tried everything!

[CaliaMoko]

Congratulations to the winners!

[Skub]

Grats to all the worthy nominees and Big up to da Count for doing referee. 

PaulyX song blew me away entirely.

[pompeyjazz]

An excellent winner and well deserved. Well done Paulyx

Good on yer Count for a well run competition. Counting all those votes is some job eh ? 

[Paulski]

Big congrats to Paulyx and all the podium placers.
Big thanks to VC for the hosting duties, rousing the voting mob, and keeping voter fraud to a minimum.

[PaulyX]

Wow, I wasn't expecting that.  Thanks so much everyone.  The 'guys in the van' will be equally chuffed.
Congratulations too to the other songs - it's an honour to share the podium with such fine tracks.
And thanks to the Viscount for running it so well.  And introducing me to the phrase 'tant pis' - bonus points to the first person to get that in a song lyric?
Here's to SOTM August... good luck all.

[Mikey]

Well done Pauly, and congrats to everyone who got nominated.

Mikey

[Yodasdad]

Well, I'm getting some wear out of this brides maids dress

Nice one Pauly, and the blokes you've got tied up in the van.

Well done to the other nominee's.

Thanks to all who took the time to vote.

And thanks Viscount for being the host with the most.

Yodasdad

[pompeyjazz]

OK - I know I've banged on about this before but why do we get such a poor response to voting for songs in competitions ? It's really simple and takes no time (20 minutes to listen to all the nominations and vote) There are so many excellent songs on this forum that just get hardly any feedback. OK rant over, any suggestions on how we can encourage more votes ? As Paul said though, we've tried a lot of directions and nothing seems to work) Shame....

[Viscount Cramer & His Orchestra]

I suppose if we adjust our expectations and bear in mind that a few years ago when I first hosted the comp there were only 13 votes, we can count on it as a small success!

[Darren1664]

Congratz Pauly for the well deserved win!! and to all nominees for their excellent songs!

and of course to Viscount for hosting. It's great to have these competitions and the opportunity to listen to some great new music, so thank you.

All the best

Darren

[Skub]

OK - I know I've banged on about this before but why do we get such a poor response to voting for songs in competitions ? It's really simple and takes no time (20 minutes to listen to all the nominations and vote) There are so many excellent songs on this forum that just get hardly any feedback. OK rant over, any suggestions on how we can encourage more votes ? As Paul said though, we've tried a lot of directions and nothing seems to work) Shame....

It may be down to time of year in this particular case,John. The forum is unusually quiet overall,probably due to folk on holiday. Another factor is..a fair few folk don't venture beyond 'finished songs',so never see the other sub forums.

[Neil C]

Hi,

17 seems reasonable to me in terms of a response from my experience, especially given its holiday season.

It feels like theres a hardcore of between 30 - 50 regular posters on the forum ay any moment in time. Its a free world and everybody has time constraints, commitments and priorities, so for me it works ok. The hardest bit is getting volunteers to run the competitions, the lyric of the month has ceased again.

One thought I had was could we make it easier to actually vote. I think Jambrians is a clever and understands focus and stuff and found a way once to be able to vote without having to pm, that might make the admin overhead easier?
 
neil

[Mutrins]

Congrats PaulyX !!! And everyone else 😁