¡Forward, Bingo!

Going to see ¡Forward, Russia! tonight at the Mercury Lounge, and worried the neocommie postpunkers might be less than completely engaging?

Why not double the fun?  Play ¡Bingo!!

Aside from their bothersome punctuation, ¡F,R! have another gimmick:  All their song titles are numbers!  I don’t know whether this is because they’re math nerds, code freaks or just methodically uncreative, and I don’t care.  While the true-red fans’ll sound like golfers, yelling out requests for one of the band’s B-sides, you’ll be playing for the right to be the first to scream “BINGO!” at the angular Brits.

Here’s how you play:  Print up the cards below (click on the images for full-sized pics, or just go to this Flickr set).  When the band plays a song, X off the number.  Get five “X’s” in a row – vertically, horizontally, or (say it with me Connect Four fans) diagonally – and yell “BINGO!” as loud as is humanly possible.

Heck, if you're feeling it, bellow "You sunk my battleship!"

It couldn’t be easier!  Or more fun!

As the band has numbered their songs consecutively, and as all the songs aren’t on their first full-length CD (Give Me a Wall) some numbers have a better chance of getting played than others.  Also:  They’re only up to song number 19 (as far as I know), so I’ve included some covers that struck me as appropriate.

More cards are on the way!  Check their myspace page for tour dates and songs and whatnot.

(Though some of you (the winner, at least) will want to treasure your ¡Bingo! cards forever, others (losers) should deposit them carefully in the nearest trash receptacle recycling bin.  ¡Don’t litter!  ¡Only ¡you! can prevent forest fires!  ¡Etc., and good luck!)

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