Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Jam

Welcome to Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Jam! It’s a monthly wizard rock challenge where you respond to a prompt through the medium of wizard rock. Each month, we’ll suggest a new topic and you’ll have until the end of the month to record a cover song, write something new, make a silly video, share lyrics or works-in-progress that relate to that theme. You can make a video, share an audio link, or just type your lyrics as a response. Comment with what you’ve made, and at the end of the month we’ll make a post compiling what everybody did that month! You’re welcome to be super creative with it – maybe a wizard rock song already exists that’s a perfect match for the theme, and you want to make a music video for it or choreograph a dance to it. Go for it! This is all just for fun, so do something that feels good for you.

The theme for August is “starting over.” Maybe you’ll share something about timeturners, or your experience of rereading the books, or Luna getting ready for a new school year, or how excited you are that the Wizrocklopedia is back. Be imaginative and have fun! When you’ve got something to share, put it in the comments so we can all enjoy it. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

And thanks to “Muggle Mike” Belsole for titling the jam!

8 responses to “Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Jam”

  1. Candle Wix Avatar

    Hey so I had like 20 extra minutes last night and recorded this cruddy little demo on my computer. It’s not very good, but whatever. I might record a better version of it at some point, but I might not…
    My upcoming song on the Wizard Rock Sampler is much better!!!
    Anyhoo, here’s the link. https://www.dropbox.com/s/cg5aar5ho5cfjur/i%27m%20starting%20over.wav?dl=0

    Lyrics:

    I wanna pass my O.W.L. exams
    I need to do it well; gotta make it slam
    My parent works in the Department of Mysteries
    I stole a timeturner from xem so I could cheat

    Xe won’t be happy if xey finds out
    In fact, xey’re probably gonna scream and shout
    I better put it back so it’ll just look like
    I’m starting over…

    [backwards]

    I wanna pass my O.W.L. exams
    I need to do it well; gotta make it slam
    My parent works in the Department of Mysteries
    I stole a timeturner from xem so I could cheat…

  2. Grace Avatar

    I can’t seem to reply to these individually – but wow, both of these are awesome!

    TK, what a gorgeous version of a gorgeous song, and so perfect to kick this off. It sounds really good on ukulele, and suits your voice so well!

    Sagan, I love how chill this beat is! What a funny concept, and I love the time travel sound effects. Pretty good for 20 minutes! I love it.

  3. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    Hi guys! Jen from Hallows and Horcruxes here.

    Here’s a song I’m working on, it’s called “Carry on”. It’s not the greatest quality, but I was excited to share. I will be recording it with a friend towards the end of the month.

    Thanks! (Hopefully this link works)

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/14P7Iw4JPNdkEYxboxkemY28_wz_NMsLT/view?usp=sharing

    The war is over
    And we have won
    He’s been defeated
    And now it’s done

    It’s been a long time coming
    And it’s finally here
    We’ve lost a lot of good people
    On the journey, I fear
    But as we move on forward
    They will always be near,
    In our hearts

    It’s not the ending
    No, we’ll all learn to carry on
    It’s just beginning
    This war has made us strong

    We’re starting over
    Where do we go now?
    Pick up the pieces
    And mend them somehow

    It’s been a long time coming
    And it’s finally here
    We’ve lost a lot of good people
    On the journey I fear
    But as we move on forward
    They will always be near
    In our hearts

    It’s not the ending
    No, we’ll all learn to carry on
    It’s just beginning
    This war has made us strong
    It made us strong
    It’s not the ending
    No, we’ll all learn to carry on
    It’s just beginning
    This war has made us strong
    It made us strong
    Ooooooo
    And we’ll carry on
    Ooooooo
    The dark days are gone
    Ooooooo
    And we’re moving on
    Ooooooo

    x2:
    We are moving on
    This war has made us strong
    The end has not yet come
    And we will carry on

  4. Grace Avatar

    WOW, Jen! That is so gorgeous! The lyrics ate great, but teally i cant get over that melody. It soars so nicely! Can’t wait to hear the next recording of it.

  5. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    Thank you Grace! 🙂

  6. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    https://youtu.be/81-hmp3q-I0
    Carry on- Hallows and Horcruxes

  7. Darvil Avatar

    https://open.spotify.com/track/0seOApnS38clZxyg1PZ0KO?si=gnlQ4D7xTUuxugdvDJwj6A

    Hopefully that link works…
    Percy and the Prefects wore this song for the monthly theme. It just took us a little longer to get it finished and released.

    It’s called Start Over. It’s Ron singing to McGonagall. The song started as a joke, but then it got real.

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