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AFK Choir, BSides Canberra 2023

BSides Canberra · 202323:55354 viewsPublished 2023-10Watch on YouTube ↗
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Escaping from both computer and piano keyboards, the singers of AFK are here to entertain with music inspired by classics of geek culture including Star Wars, Star Trek, zombies, computer games, and Lord of the Rings, along with the ought-to-be-classics by Jonathan Coulton and Miracle of Sound. Performances may involve lively pop songs, implausibly lively zombie songs, operatic masterpieces performed as bat'leth duels to the death, network protocol error messages, tim tams, love songs about ex-planets, and the occasional Beatles number because reasons.
Show transcript [en]

the AFK choir let's welcome them to the

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[Applause] thee have I left this on yes I have aren't I clever right so now for another note because people wouldn't like that note yes the seashell you sure all [Music] right our next song is a glorious operatic duet which you puny humans have turned into a pathetic tale about drifting down the river admiring the pretty trees and the pretty flowers and the pretty birds singing We Shall be performing it in the original Klingon complete with traditional Klingon Bas and a traditional Opera translation service AFK presents you blood Circle [Music] duel beneath the trees Mighty blood circles [Music] grow a river of blood a shout in the morning [Music] together we are [Music] summoned slowly we

bleed the beautiful blood [Music] gathers we move we [Applause] follow the Beautiful blood [Music] gathers come the blood covered [Music] weapon a bird feeds there the bird beneath the trees together we are [Music] summoned to the blood [Music]

[Music] circles I [Applause] die I die [Music] I die [Music] [Applause]

I um so left a bit of a mess here hey um Henry can you help me clean this up [Music] go on in hey Tom it's Bob from the office down the it's good to see you buddy you have been okay for me except that I'm a zie now I really wish You' let us I think I speak for all of us when I say I understand why you folks might subm to our demands but here's [Music]

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FYI open the [Music] I don't want to but is this really your plan to spend your whole life locked inside a moall maybe that's okay for now but someday you'll be out of food and guns and then you'll have to make the call I'm not surprised to see you haven't thought this through enough you never had H for all that bigger pict stuff but Tom that's what I do and I plan on eating you slow all we to do is your bra not's going [Music] eat bra compromise if you open up the doors and your

bra appreciate the way you're with I'm not a monster well technically I am I am got another meeting time maybe we should wrap it up I know we'll get to Comming ground meanwhile I'll report back to my colleagues who are chewing on the doors I guess we'll table this for now I'm glad to see you take constructive criticism well thank you for your time I know we are all busy as hell and we'll put this thing to bed when I bash your head open all we want to do is eat your brains not unreasonable no one's going to eat all we to do is brains we're at an impass here maybe we should compromise if you open up the

doors we come inside and [Music] your okay everyone alive again great and now for our final song until we take a break and then we may be performing at lunchtime in the foyer or if it's too noisy we'll Retreat to the Bradman theater where you'll have to actually seek us out if you want to hear us if no one comes in to listen then we'll just rehearse for our fard performance on Monday at 3:30 they'll never know what hit them so next up is the only song I have ever personally written it involved studying Network protocol error messages for two weeks and I make the claim and I stand by it it is the geekiest song ever

written it is called the machine that goes Bing montypython reference geek cred number one H low Tech really doesn't work so well

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shut down to many years I'm a teapot I'm a teapot private

experimentation

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that's it do Bell [Applause] [Music] B escape the stairs mind the stairs