Crazy Frog Displaced by Baaarmy Sheep

The Crazy Frog's Christmas single - Jingle Bells -gets its first UK airplay today and is widely tipped to become a music chart Christmas number one. But the "Baarmy Sheep" of the Lake District are launching a pre-emptive strike by making their own version of Jingle Bells available for free from the website of Cumbria Tourist Board at www.golakes.co.uk/xmasbaarmysheep

There's also a Baarmy Sheep Christmas megamix featuring their rendition of Good King Wenceslas, Hark The Herald Angels Sing and While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks By Night. The sheep were recorded and filmed live for the Christmas single.

Eric Robson, chairman of Cumbria Tourist Board, said: "Christmas may be the season of goodwill to all men - but not Crazy Frog's!

"Visitors from all over the world love the Lake District and our sheep, so we're confident people will prefer our version."

"Who knows, a break in Cumbria - the Lake District might be the only place to escape the Crazy Frog and the stress of Christmas this year!"

The Baarmy Sheep first took on the Crazy Frog in June when they released a sheep ringtone Jerusalem - in response to the animated cartoon's growing domination of television, airwaves and mobile phones.

Thousands of people logged onto www.golakes.co.uk to download the sheep ringtone and watch the video, while a story about sheep-turned-rock stars became headline news in the national and foreign media."

Posted to the site on 1st December 2005