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There's less than 3 days to go now before Whamageddon 2023 kicks off. Are you read? Everyone plays, whether they like it or not, but how many of you will be sharing your results here?
Is this still a thing?
It is in our house.
My daughter has learned to play it in the guitar with the specific intention of taking us all out at 6:00am on Friday morning. If that doesn't work we are going to the village panto on Friday evening, so whichever way, I'll be out on the 1st.
According to the Whamageddon site:
The 3rd Rule
Only the original version applies. Enjoy the ?#!$&%! out of remixes and covers.
Played it a few times in the past. It’s surprisingly easy if you don’t listen to rubbish radio stations, the hardest part is shops, bars and Christmas parties. Still managed though in some years, others I didn’t. Just seems to me it’s been done.
And a pointed out, let your daughter play her version as it doesn’t count.
Yup, I'll be in this year again after failing miserably last year. May have to switch the van radio off for the next month.
According to the Whamageddon site:
The 3rd Rule
Only the original version applies. Enjoy the ?#!$&%! out of remixes and covers.
Excellent. I'll still let her get up at 6:00am on Friday and go through the whole rigmarole, then tell her that it didn't count.
Have a cover -
I may commit harakiri this yr just to put myself out of the misery - FING HATE THAT SONG.
already heard it in a cafe on Saturday...
I do not like the song at all either, which is presumably why Whamageddon strikes such a chord with me.
I don't listen to music radio much these days so I'm safe there, so for me shops and the like are my biggest risk area. I walked into the local shop on December 1st a couple of years ago and was immediately Whammed, that was pretty galling.
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already heard it in a cafe on Saturday…
That's fine (well it isn't, it's always better not to hear it at all), Whamageddon starts on December the 1st.
Made it last year I think. Two previous years I'd been taken out very late on by overhearing radio.
Nervously awaiting Shaun Keaveny's Daily Grind later, fingers crossed he doesn't play a snippet!
Just seems to me it’s been done.
So's Christmas.
My kids like to play trashy commercial radio in the car, only made it to the 3rd last year.
Don’t hold out much hope. Christmas playlist is on in the office…
I love the song - going to whambush myself and put it on now
I suggested playing whamageddon on my family chat group. they immediately started setting traps for each other with hidden links to the song. Jeepers what a bunch!
they immediately started setting traps for each other with hidden links to the song
Ah, the sanitized version of mlehworld
Heh!
*spins*
Thought I got whammed this morning but on a closer listen it was a cover version. Playing at a merry-go-round in Lille.
Survived Sainsbury's last night. I'm out more this year so not holding out much hope.
I got Whammed by a stupid video online. Not my worst result, but still very poor.
Came to ask about covers, heard a soft acoustic female version in a shop today and thought I'd won / lost.
Spent the afternoon sorting the Christmas tree so my girls can decorate while I make tea, left them listening to Bing Crosby on the stereo whilst I popped to the shops. Just walked back in to Last Christmas blaring out of a tinny phone speaker, gah!
I can’t fake an interest in football. Why this?
We're dropping like flies this year!
Absolute radio are not playing it across their network, so you're safe listening to any if their stations.
I still haven't heard it yet....
Littlest had whammed himself into the floor from the back of the sofa and broken his collarbone.
Impressive commitment to the game!
... i've actually never heard of it. But also highly unlikely i'll even hear a christmas song this year. I don't often go anywhere there's music I don't choose myself.
a very long standing friend recently told me that his sister in law was in the last christmas video
Cubs Christmas musical statues with festive playlist. Of course….
Be prepared!
I'm surprisingly I'm still in - have resorted to using headphones at the gym to reduce the risk from Dodgy FM Christmas Hits.
I’m doing well this year. Only listening to radio four in the car and listening to Spotify playlists through headphones in the office. Not planning on visiting any shops so, fingers crossed, I could survive the season!
Being currently not in full time employment is really benefitting me this year.
So far I have only heard a cover version on a Facebook ad.
I do however need to go christmas shopping...
I remember you bringing the cd to a trailbuilding session.
CD?
If it was me, it would have been on an iPod!
… i’ve actually never heard of it. But also highly unlikely i’ll even hear a christmas song this year. I don’t often go anywhere there’s music I don’t choose myself.
Bloody hell. 6am and i'm arriving at the start of a ride and listening to the Australian equivalent of Radio 4 and what suddenly comes on without warning at the start of a segment on christmas songs?
Well it wasn't Fairytale of New York I tell you 🙁
Damn you Zoe Ball! I’d nearly done a full week.
Radio 2 innit.
A bit like going to the airport and being surprised that you've seen aeroplanes 😉
Done over last-night by a London blackcab. I swear when it struck up, cars around us stuck in traffic started beeping their horn.
Yep Radio 2 for me as well. Jeremy Vine declaring River by Joni Mitchell was his favourite Christmas song, then promptly playing Last Christmas. What the hell!
Tuesday and Sara Cox saw me out. She even said that she was going to play it, but I was too slow in turning the radio off in the car. Oh well another year!
Sara Cox got me last night, came back into the garage and it was halfway through. She apparently forgot to warn people as well, oh well done worse.
Managed to steer clear so far, including yesterday in the full day of being dragged around the shops as 'bagman'. Yay. I resigned myself from the outset to hearing it more than once, but it didn't happen. I assumed tantrum position more than once during the high street expedition, however; I simply loathe shopping.
Then the announcement that we needed to go to the supermarket on the way home, which meant well over an hour of dicing with the inevitable. It still didn't happen. The God's of awful Christmas music have been kind, so far.*
*To be fair, it's an incredibly well put together song, with brilliant songwriting, as with most of George Michael's work. He was very, very talented.
Well into the month and it's not been on Radio 3 yet.
Not heard it yet despite an afternoon of present shopping yesterday
I did hear one of these open last night, does that count?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-67659010
A football stadium DJ has apologised for playing Last Christmas by Wham!, potentially knocking more than 7,000 people out of cult game Whamageddon.
Managed to get this far without hearing it but the Locker room at work has the radio playing 24/7 so I'm just waiting for the time I'm getting changed and the damn thing comes on.
Never been bothered by this in past years but this time im actually trying not to hear it, no idea why
Seems some people take this quite seriously!
Yup,I bet they don't stand on cracks and spit at magpies 😉
Thought I was doing well,then got taken out yesterday by a person on a mobility scooter,wee speaker playing full blast Xmas tunes 🤪 😜
interval music at my son's college performing arts showcase. Part of the showcase is that the kids (6th formers so not littl'uns) produce most of it barring a couple of whole cast pieces, I suspect the kids may have consciously chosen it. ie: my lad has deliberately whammed me and his mum while he'll have been offstage so he can claim a W this year.
Came on here to declare my loss, but re-reading the rules a brass ensemble version doesn't count. Yay!!
Got whammed last night at a birthday party.
First year I've lost for quite a while 😭
It's just dawned on me that getting caught out by George Michael in a public toilets has a nice ring to it.
I think he would have approved and I have come to terms with it.
Next year I will be playing quality Christmas tune bingo.
I will field suggestions for actual good Christmas songs to be ticked off in the run up.
It’s just dawned on me that getting caught out by George Michael in a public toilets has a nice ring to it.
Fnarr fnarr.
Got whammed by my wife's xmas playlist on Saturday morning, whamming herself in the process. Then daughter and son both got whammed at their respective Saturday night parties. The whole family got wiped out in one day.
On the plus side my band played it last night at our big xmas gig and everyone bloody loved it. (Nobody was whammed of course, only the original counts)