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What's that tune?

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Heard a song you like on The Championship?

Want to know where it's from?

Then e-mail us and we will do our best to track it down for you and print the answer below.

Please note we can only answer BBC NI Championship enquiries, so we will not be able to tell you what the soundtrack to 'Folks on the Hill' is.

For starters, the specially commissioned opening track for the programme is composed and produced by Dublin-based Len Arran who had three platinum albums with the band Skunk Anasie.

A brilliant guitar player in his own right, his original composition for the Championship programme is computerised by playing and experimenting with layered guitar sounds.


Some of last year's queries included:

Q: What's the Championship theme tune that was played at the start of the programme until last year? John, Derry

A: The old signature tune was called The Action composed and played by Alan Hawkshaw which was on the KPM label from the album Power .

Q: What was the song played at the end of the transmission of the Tyrone v Down game? It was cut short due to some technical fault
Lisa O'Hare, Tyrone

A: The answer is just above, click on it to hear it again: The tune is Things haven't started happening yet" by Ben Glover and the Earls from their debut album The week the clocks changed"

In case you have wondered what a certain tune was in the past in other BBC Sports programmes, check out our archive to see if it has been answered:




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