Challenge results

Check back here to see how we coped with the various challenges that we have been set. We'll upload a wealth of videos and photographs as we attempt to complete them.

Click on a challenge title to see the video:

100m WR Challenge
"See if you can take my 100m word record. Pussies" (Submitted by Usain Bolt)
Guitar Hero EXTREEEME CO-OP!!!
"Play a song of your choice from any Guitar Hero or Rock Band game (no bass) on either Hard or Expert setting. Here's the catch though, one person has to play the fret hand and the other has to play the strumming bar. Try and complete a song within 5 attempts." (Submitted by Colin Liton (Obi Wan Ross Noble))
Do a Joe/goat painting
"I challenge Rowan to paint a picture of Joe as a goat. So, Joe's head on a goats body probably. Good luck lads." (Submitted by Roy Ashman)
Chubby Bubbies
"Play chubby bubbies (stick as many marshmallows in your mouth as possible, while saying counting out loud how many you've got) then once you can't fit any more in sing your fav song off the 'Hello future, our name is Swound!' Have fun!!" (Submitted by Meaghan Fox)
Manxtube Misery
"All of you have to watch this video - only once, at full volume and are not allowed to laugh once. Film yourselves watching it and then play it back. One slight smirk on any of your faces and you fail. Good luck. youtube.com/watch?v=2eNvwBCRdUw" (Submitted by Banter Magazine)
Marathon Men
"Enter a marathon. All 4 of you. Run the damn thing. And then play a gig. Do it!" (Submitted by Tom O'Rourke)
Long Distance Drinking
"Drink a pint of orange squash from 5 metres away." (Submitted by Usain Gulp)

Everyone Laugh At The Drummer
"Get the drummer to do a solo version of eye of the tiger on guitar. Unless he's secretly ace at guitar, in which case, do it on a harp instead." (Submitted by James Hurley)
Learn To Knit
"I want you guys to learn to knit. Just come to Lee Rosy's on Tuesday nights and I'll teach you. Or one of us will." (Submitted by Kate Bolin)
Find The Loch Ness Monster (Part 2)
"Go to Scotland and find the Loch Ness Monster." (Submitted by Superfly Spy)
Find The Loch Ness Monster (Part 1)
"Go to Scotland and find the Loch Ness Monster." (Submitted by Superfly Spy)
Storm a Castle
"I've got something mightily important to say and I'll only say it once... (Storm a Castle)" (Submitted by Mr Jelly)
Blind man tent building
"Make 2 teams of two and have a blind folded race of who can put up a tent the fastest :)" (Submitted by Tahnee Caoile)
GOUT!
"I know you lot suffer from Gout.. I do too. Make a video that describes how much pain you are in when you get a gout attack!" (Submitted by Bob Grundy)
Discover the Black Death
"Go to the village of Eyam in Derbyshire for 9am and don't leave until 5pm. You must find things to keep you entertained for the whole 8 hours." (Submitted by Daisy Shephard)
Is that a large fruit falling towards me at high speed?
"Throw a large fruit (melon, for example) from a large height to the ground below." (Submitted by Robot Boy)
The Lazarus
"Give yourselves brain freeze. All 4 must obtain to complete." (Submitted by Tony Van Spike)
Eating Skittles
"Eating Skittles :)" (Submitted by Liam! Archer)
I Love Fred Durst
"You have to proclaim your love for Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit in a poem, explaining exactly why you love him so much." (Submitted by MC Squidfingers)
Deep Fried Haribo
"I challange you to get a chip shop to deep fry some haribo and then eat it." (Submitted by Stephen Denman)
Trick Your Bandmates
"Rowan has to play tricks on all the others.. You aren't allowed to tell them when you are planning on doing it." (Submitted by Dave Hopper)

The Great Mosh Challenge
"Step 1: Choose the finest of Metal Music
Step 2: Play All songs on a loop
Step 3: Mosh for 30 Minutes Straight" (Submitted by Dave Taylor)

Apologies about the lack of real metal music, we went to our practice room with only Rowans Ipod and this is all he had.
Blind Treasure Challenge
"You have to all go into a reasonably sized garden and stand in each corner blindfolded. Someone then places two footballs randomly amongst you. You have a minute to find them and complete the challenge. NO peaking!" (Submitted by The World's Strongest Man)
Suitcase Challenge
"I challenge Rowan to fit into my suitcase."(Submitted by Mummy Swound!)
UFO Challenge
"Set up a scenario which leads to a newspaper publishing an apparently legitimate story about UFOs."(Submitted by Ben Hawkins)
Jump a Cow
"I challenge you to jump over a cow - standing or lying, as long as its real!" (Submitted by Jill Harrison)
Dizzy Penalty Kicks
"You spin on the spot 30 times before taking Penalties against a keeper (who isn't spinning and perfectly stationary). We then see who is the best dizzy pen taker in Swound!" (Submitted by Robert Crozier)
Get Tim Westwood to pimp your ride...

After having just finished our set at the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend, we were milling around backstage, looking for 'spect from people who had seen us play, when Westwood zoomed past in his ghetto mobile (a golf cart). He had a couple of hard looking men with him, I suppose his homies, but I wasn't intimidated. When they stopped close by, I ran up to them. I actually think I called him Mr Westwood to get his attention.

Anyway, we needed to get him to pimp something and all I had was a bottle of water (that stuff was totally free backstage!), so I asked him to sign it. I’m not sure he was entirely impressed with my shenanigans, but he did it anyway. Lacking small craft materials, I then asked him if he could put a dandelion in the top of the bottle. Mr Westwood asked me why, and I told him straight, not knowing whether it would irritate him further, that I needed him to pimp my bottle.

He said "you're dream's just come true, dog" before throwing the flower in and that's not even a lie.

Him and his massive bouncers then jumped in his ghetto mobile, before trundling off. No matter how big and scary you are, and how gangster you sound, you cannot look cool in a golf cart.

Anyway, it's the best pimping I could manage, but I reckon it's good enough.

CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

I still don’t know how he has the power to make me an astronaut.

Westwood pimping the bottle.

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Westwood pimping the bottle. Tom and the pimped bottle. Westwood's signature on the pimped bottle.
3 Man Skateboard
"Try to skateboard with three of you on 1 board for 20 meters." (Submitted by Nathan Dreger)
The Nottingham Bulldog
"All 4 must see who can fit the most bulldog clips on their faces (inc ears, tongue if needed to become champ)! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!" (Submitted by Pippy and Hannah)
3 Man Up
"I challange yous to stand un-supported 3 man up for at 30 seconds. This must be done with each Person sat on the other persons shoulders. Good luck lads and try not to hurt yourselves." (Submitted my Team Morning)
The Big Weekend TV Challenge
"Well done on getting on the Big Weekend! However, most of the bands playing are rubbish. You're not. So my challenge to you is to get some TV airtime so I have to spend a bit less time looking at Moyles or Snow Patrol and I get to see something fun and rocking instead." (Submitted by Isabella)
Press-up Challenge
"Do 100 press-ups in two minutes." (Submitted by James F.)
Big Mac Challenge
"Drink a blended Big Mac meal from MacDonalds." (Submitted by Amy Young and Sophy Turner.)