It's the name of the opening track of 'The Soft Bulletin' by The Flaming Lips

We are the serious alter-egos of a band called The Pong Bandits, who can be found on this site. The Pong Bandits have played live, RFTP haven't.

Al wanted help writing some songs for his band, The Space Machine, and so Thomas and Patrick decided to lend a hand. However, when we went to do this, Thomas thought Al was bring a guitar, and Al thought Thomas was. The solution was for Thomas to play guitar on the keyboard, however, the result was the song 'Hide It Like A Nuclear Weapon' by The Pong Bandits.

The Pong Bandits their first EP that day, titled 'The Madness of King George'. The band enjoyed it and got a few laughs from making it, but then Thomas and Al didn't talk for a while, until much later, where we decided it was time to record a second EP, this time seemingly untitled, although sometimes known as 'Apongcalypse NOW'.

They then played one gig at a small festival known as Domfest, and the set went down extremely well, and some people described us as novelty, except without the tackiness that plagues a lot of novelty bands. They were also asked to play at a party, along with Al's other band, The Space Machine. They were all looking forward to this gig a lot. However, the gig did not go down well, and the audience just seemed extremely confused and disappointed with the show they were seeing.

At this point, Al didn't really want to carry on, Thomas wanted to focus more on experimentation, but still leave room for humour. We were offered a gig at the River Bar, and eventually it was decided that Thomas and Patrick would play it without Al. This seemed like an okay idea, except that Al had all the means of gigging. Thomas had written a new song on his computer, and after showing Al, he had decided that he would play the gig if we changed our name, and played only new material, and so Race For The Prize were born. Thomas and Al both got to writing new material, either on our own or together, and when we showed them to Patrick, he seemed to like them, and as a three piece, it sounded good. However, they still didn't play the gig, as they could not find a drummer, and the new songs were a lot more complex than The Pong Bandits song, and they couldn't find enough time to practice together.

However, The Pong Bandits are currently working on a new EP, so it's not all bad.

Sorry that was long.

Radiohead, Interpol, The Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, Pink Floyd, Joy Division, Pixies, The Beatles, Neil Young, Pavement, Kraftwerk and others.

These demos were made entirely on a computer using FruityLoops, but we use several guitars, a Yamaha keyboard, and a MicroKORG with a vocoder, and should we ever actually record, a four track.