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Listen to Firebox Chart Show

Fireboxers have gotten together and compiled a Firebox themed playlist. We didn't just tap in 'Fire' or 'Box' into the music search bar, Oh no sireee!

To listen to our excellent compilation and pretend you're in our massive toy factory*, simply download our Spotify playlist. Spotify is a free online music application that enables you to listen to all your favourite songs without paying for them. All you need is an internet connection and a pair of ears.

You can download Spotfiy by clicking here.

Once you have downloaded the software you can click on this link to listen to our Firebox Chart Show.

Expect more weird and wonderful compilations soon.

*lies

Write the Firebox Theme Tune, Sing The Firebox Theme Tune!

We can’t believe that as a company we’ve been around for over 10 years now and have yet to produce a cheesy theme tune. It’s a tragic state of affairs. After all, who wouldn’t enjoy a catchy ditty about gifts and gadgets?

Then we stumbled across Songsmith, the new bit of software from the bods at Microsoft, for which they’ve made the worst advert ever. And we thought it would be fun to see what you, our loyal Firebox followers, could come up with. Given that the software seems to turn most stuff into the kind of cringe-worthy tunes reminiscent of 1970s toothpaste adverts, it should be interesting.

So here’s the plan...

1. Download the free trial version. It will work for 6 hours of actual use (so not just 6 hrs from when you download, it only counts when you’re using it).
2. Write a theme song for us. It can be in any style you like, you just need to sing it into a microphone connected to your computer. Then run it through Songsmith to get the backing track.
3. Either e-mail your masterpiece to us at themetune@firebox.com, or post it to YouTube or your MySpace page and e-mail us the link.
4. We will put the best/most amusing tunes into one of our upcoming newsletters, and on this blog. We're looking for the tackiest, silliest stuff you can come up with!

P.S People are also putting famous tunes into Songsmith to see what happens. The best so far is this version of ‘Roxanne’ by The Police.

Guess Who

Does your person have red hair? Does your person have facial hair? Is your person a woman? Does your person sing?

Check out this awesome animated music video by Kirsten Lepore using the game of 'Guess Who'.

Guess Who from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

Guess Who? was created by Ora and Theo Coster also known as Theora Design and first manufactured by Milton Bradley in 1979 in England. FACT

Christmas Number One For Domino?

We'll let you decide!

Firebox On The Radio?

Absolutely! Yes our very own Kristian Bromley was on JK and Joel's show last Saturday (25th October). Telling all of Absolute Radio's listeners what's going to be big this Christmas! Watch a snippet here...

Kristian also starred in our recent press event... you can watch him go through the top gifts and gadgets here at the Firebox Hot List Awards 2008.