Competition Time!
This week we are featuring Fire Horses by Mark Piggott and his publisher Legend Press have given us a signed edition of Mark's book for a competition here at The View From Here.
To win think of a song title that includes one or more of the words
Fire
Horse or Horses
and leave your song title as a comment with your name.
So for example Bring on the Dancing Horses by Echo & The Bunnymen
Best one that I think matches the subject matter of the book wins!
(See our review here if you want to see what the book is about.)
Good Luck! Competition closes Friday 27th June.
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3 Comments:
Hi Mike,
Allow me to offer this song title, a song which is certain to become a bonafide country music hit:
"You can lead a horse to a fire, but you can't make it barbeque." by Johnny Charcoal and the Greasy Aprons
Be advised, in America, the word "barbeque" is also used as a verb, as in "Tonight the horses are going to barbeque some steaks."
ha ha
Thanks for the opportunity, my friend.
-Mike (M2)
hey there Mike...
hows this one.....
Moonlight drive/Horse Lattitude by the Doors soundtrack Dance on Fire
thought fits given both the bans and the author have a poetic nature..
who performs poetry better than jim Morrison
Hmm.. this was quite tricky as I could actually think of a number of songs with horse/fire in the title but trying to match one with the theme of the book was harder. Eventually, I narrowed it down to Firestarter (The prodigy -oh, I'm so young and trendy!), Crazy Horses (The Osmonds - no I didn't fancy Donny! Well perhaps I'm not quite so young after all...)
But finally I've settled Indoor Fireworks by Elvis Costello as my entry. I'm thinking maybe there's a lot going on inside the protagonist's head...
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