Somalian broadcasters mock music ban with gunfire, frogs and cocks

This article is pretty amazing.

Broadcasters in Mogadishu have responded to a ban imposed by Islamist insurgents on airing any form of music with a bitter sense of irony: where once there were songs and jingles, now there is recorded gunfire, a sound with which the battle-scarred capital's residents have become all too familiar.

Other replacements for now-forbidden melodies include croaking frogs and crowing cockerels. Braver broadcasters are considering adding braying donkeys to the list.

"We are not allowed to play music and we have to fill the slot, so we came up with this; these are the sounds one hears most often in this city, so I think they are appropriate," said a broadcaster who preferred anonymity.

Most of the roughly 16 radio stations in Mogadishu have resorted to this tactic.

I'll definitely be playing some frogs on the last Malty Media show. Maybe I should insert a cock or two.