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For a tour of my sites to browse offline click above here. See my booklets and slides below. Also, I have many videos available at YouTube including videos of some of my music. There are also clips showing my fun, editable flying game and flight simulator that is called the Clove Central Flyer. Please do a Google search for that name to find the download links for it.

King Offa Song Competition - £200 Prize, see below

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The first song below here, Cloudwatching, is the winner of the King Offa song Competition for 2001.Cloudwatching is Copyright © C.R. Bakewell who is part of the Harborough band, Babagee. He can be contacted on 01858 461903. Carl Bakewell previously organised the Harborough folk music club and is now concentrating on producing more songs including a more up-tempo one "Seven Seas of Love". On "Cloudwatching" Carl's powerful vocals are supported by his wife Anna's strong keyboard rhythms and effects. For information on King Offa's connection to the Harborough area and to the Arthurian legends see my booklets listed above.

Extract Cloudwatching

An entry form for the competition is available below here. The first prize for the competition is set at £200 which is from my earnings selling booklets on King Offa's life and times and that of his queen Cynethryth and their special place at the origins of English culture. So it is a charitable donation with the intention of supporting an aspect of modern culture in the area with roots in the distant past. I will give the songs over to an independent panel for judging in accordance with the criteria specified on the form below. I can pay the prize in $US if people prefer.

I have put some of my own songs below here though they won't be entered in the competition. These include:

Champions of the World, White Slavers, England Is The Name, The Mirror Fish, The Dale of the Dancing Teddies, The Story of Football, Try It Baby and others. Please use one of these links to transfer to www.listeningroom.lycos.com and then use the name, offa, in their search window.

White Slavers is available for the time being at www.offa.50megs.com/Music

All these songs and song lyrics are Copyright © Andrew Burbidge and I claim the right to be identified as their author.

TourOfMySites

Above here is a link to a tour of my internet sites. Click on it and on the tour buttons which follow on from it and they will lead through some pages which should then be available off-line. My sites concern King Offa's connection to the legends of King Arthur and Camelot which I have been telling people about since the beginning of the 1990s. They have some other interesting features also.

My email address is: andrew_burbidge@hotmail.com

King Offa Song Competition

Send entries to: Andrew Burbidge, 17, Rowan Ave., Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 9LS, U/K.

Entry is free.

Entries must be received by July 15, 2002. Any entry received after that date will be entered in next year's competition. The competition is for previously unpublished songs only. Copyright remains entirely with the owner of the entered song. Songs will be assessed for originality and popular appeal by an independent panel.

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