Caption Competition

One cigarette and it’s Goodnight Vienna

Great Life Balls of Fire!

Burger King introduces flame-grilled tinned tuna

Austria? You’re supposed to be performing in Melbourne!

You mean you didn’t drain the petrol out of the drums first?

Viennese Whirl

Indeed, where would Life be without Balls?

The drummers perform Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Fire Drum Song”

Argon... oxy-acetylene... easy mistake to make.

Hang on! Which one is THE Olympic Torch?

Welcome to the Ridley Scott School of Culinary Arts. Today’s lesson will be on Crème Brulee.

From the list of presents Aunts and Uncles should not give at birthdays: #2

I told you I left the oven on...

They would have got Kasabian to do it, but apparently, they're on FIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE!

Flame and fortune, the musical

At least we can relight ours if they go out, eh?

Roll up, roll up! Only 3 left of the new diet-portion chocolate soup!

Flashdance, the next generation

Well, the drumming’s not so good, the but the lamb kebabs are absolutely delicious

Is this what they call Garage music?

Disapointment as Midge Ure complains the opening ceremony is largely meaningless.

I know I said we wanted a little light music ...

Fire Ball might have been a better title

Someone's going to have very charred drumsticks at this barbecue...

When I said several pieces of flare...

Eine Kleine Feuermusik

It was the first time Wagner's Ring Cycle had been performed with such a small orchestra

Smoke signals are so yesterday.

Look, it beats juggling axes.

Butane and the Beat

They realised the power ballad had been a mistake when the crowd started holding up their lighters.

Actually, we go round French toilets and make sure there are no more than two flies..

Nobody could understand how the guy in the middle could hold three flaming drumsticks

Chris Lowe throws off "the one standing at the back on the keyboards" label.

Ich bin der Feuerteufel

Austria wanted to show what they really thought about missing out on the Final of Eurovision

Eclectic Light Orchestra

Well they said the BBC were filming it on #Torchcam

So, what you're asking is why did we switch to flameproof metal drums?

I said I wanted you to bring the house down, not burn it down

Unseen footage reveals why the BBC finally pulled the plug on “Last of the Summer Wine” – the stunts were just getting too dangerous

The boys had completely misunderstood the concept of a Burns Night Celebration

I hate canned music

MiP's flashy-neuro-forgetting-thingy was a lot more brash than MiB's.

When I asked you to perform with cans, I meant for the Film Festival

“It’s to keep the violinists away..”

Pretty soon they were going to find out who had been eating from the world's largest baked bean cans...

Health and Safety insisted you perform with cans? I think they meant headphones.

Kraftwerk's response to Bill Bailey.

I hurt my back lifting those drums onto the stage - they sure are a Heavy Metal outfit

Ultravox play their valedictory song

Well done - literally.

The Brother Purple

With all that noise, no wonder they're suffering from tinnitus

We need some Water Music, actually.

Apprentice, the musical.

The boys had misunderstood U2's drummer when he said "Oi'll drum"

OPEC bargaining takes on a more dramatic aspect

"Your team only managed to sell three quarters of a barrel each. You're fired."

Bernard Matthews launches an advertising campaign to promote his Golden Turkey Drummers

The Queen hoped her offer of inviting the musicians to perform inside Buckingham Palace in the event of rain had not been a rash decision.

They say you should play the guitar until your fingers bleed and drum until, ah, too late there then.

Oi, George at the back there! Be a bit more careful with that flaming drumstick, will you?

As the flames become ever larger, it looked as if the Life Ball might become a bit of a misnomer

"Drum & Drummer" hits the West End.

"Now why not try with the three parts closer together, Mr Whittle?"

Government Information Film #412 : How to Open a Tin without a Can-opener

Flaming Norah!!! Does any one smell Gas?

The three baker boys were geniuses with their Viennese pastries, but always overbaked their baguettes

The Rolling Stones play their iconic hit "Timpany for the Devil"

At the annual OPEC meeting talks continued in the usual boring fashion.

Olympic organisers regret allowing Ringo to do the Liverpool leg of the torch relay

Later, the organisers realised that leaving out the fourth element of water had not been such a good idea

This year's Life Ball was themed "Fight the Flames of Ignorance" - ignorance being represented by thinking you can drum when your sticks are on fire

Percussion caps help the concert finish with a bang

So, when you wrote "Steel drums," you meant to nick them?

Hang on, lads. I think we'd better slow this drumming down a bit.

And they would have gotten away with it too, if the meddling kids and their pesky dog hadn't pointed out that drummers who believe in a 20th Life normally wear ORANGE.

No smoking luau'd

Don't fry this at home

Prometheus, the musical

The demonsration of the new North Sea gas wells showed them to be not only low in production but also labour intensive

There's another problem with your monster, Dr Frankenstein...

The Williams F1 team regrets the choice of band at the after-race party...

I still can't understand why they have that "No Smoking" sign there

That's a coincidence - so you're all called Bernie?

Timpani? I said to book a symphony orchestra.

Fearing a UK victory, Azerbaijan’s security services set up an anti Humperdinck firewall.

George Foreman's prototype was not a success

When Marianne asked for a light, she forgot she was passing the Annual 'Gentleman of the Year' awards...

Lethal Drummer Boy

Derek was determined to get that tuna out at all costs

"But Englebert told us that flares were back in fashion..."

Latest experiment confirms what colour his arts burn with

Kraeftwork - unplugged

The Seventh Circle of Hell, a Percussion Rendition.

REM's "It's the end of the world as we know it" - dramatised version

Pyrotimpany - the irresistable urge to start fires to a rhythmic beat.

Undoubtedly, Charkovsky's "Vakula the Smith" at its most dramatic.

The drummers had been flying on the very same flight as Francois Hollande