As we may have mentioned once or twice before, Proper were recently nominated Distributor of the Year by Music Week, the official music industry magazine. So we thought we’d go out and celebrate! We went to Lingfield Park, a horse-racing course (of course of course).
The Proper Music Team (before some of us got drunk)
We had varying degrees of success on our respective horses although i can tell you a bit about the horse i bet on. Not being a particularly big gambler i went about my highly scrutinous selection process; picking the one horse i liked the name of and sticking a tenner on it. The winner of my attention was Action Girl (i’ve just been disappointed to find that she doesn’t have her own website i can link you to. In fact typing “action girl horse” into google brought up an entirely different site altogether).
A Horse (for illustration purposes)
So i wait until they’re taking bets, only to find that my trusty Action Girl is on odds at 150 to 1. This doesn’t put me off, so i go up to one of the shiftiest looking people i’ve ever seen in my life and bet for her each way, rather than the win. We then go to have a look at the horses before the race starts to find a parade of focused, muscular horses with healthy, shiny brown coats followed by the grey coated, ageing mule that’s clearly more interested in everything around it than the prospect of running a race; the horse we’ve just backed has nearly just smacked its head into a tree.
We return to the track to find that most of the rest of our Proper buddies have also bet on Action Girl, to the point that the odds have shortened to 80 to 1. As the horses do their warm up, it’s clear that Action Girl is saving her energy for the race (or something).
So the race starts. We look at the big screen to find out that she’s not doing that badly, she’s up there in the top three. Our optimism is somewhat short-lived as they come round the bend; it’s quite hard to see from the front-on perspective exactly who is in what position but it looks like Action Girl is lagging. By the time our perspective straightens out it’s quite clear that she’s behind and when the rest of the horses cross the finishing line our Action Girl is a good 4 seconds behind, although she is greeted by us from cheering her over the line.
So the moral of the story is: if you want your CDs distributed, come to us. If you want advice on which nag to stick your cash on, don’t ask us.
July 5, 2009 at 7:35 AM
Competition answer = The Giant’s Causeway