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Curatorfest Qualifier 5! CURATED by Andy H
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— 5 May 2023 Tom

Our fifth group comes from Andy R and it’s a broadly refugee-themed group for a poll raising money for refugee and international aid charities. 2016’s “Running (Refugee Song)” was written specially to bring awareness to the issue – it’s joined here by thematically linked tracks from Depeche Mode, R.E.M. and Tears For Fears, all of whom we last saw in our 1985 tournament!

RESULTS: A pretty clear win for Tears For Fears and REM sees both bands into the ANCIENT poll Round 1.

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Latest comments (of 5)

j_e_l   3 years ago

Yes, went with TFF’s Duran impression. Wherever you go, you can’t hide from the dominance of Tears for Fears

Tom   3 years ago

I've played about 20 minutes of GTA games in my life, but in those 20 minutes my character did pull onto a freeway just as the intro to "Pale Shelter" segued into the beats and I thought "OK, now I […]

healingandy   3 years ago

Ah, here we are! No-theme poll? No, I'm institutionalised now. Themes are mandatory, so this one I thought was appropriate. Interesting test of whether name recognition was still a thing in the […]

ajjr82   3 years ago

I like this TFF song more than their later stuff, much more in that early New Romantic style, a bit softer take on early Duran Duran.

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