Listen to this - if you dare

What do you get when you put a gaggle of media hacks, plenty of free booze and a handy recording studio together? A massacred version of Do They Know It's Christmas? it seems. The good people at Sky One blew the budget on their Christmas party last night with a mini-recording session of the Band Aid song to mark the forthcoming launch of new quiz Don't Forget the Lyrics. For those brave enough to listen, be warned - it ain't pretty. And yes, that is Sky One controller Richard Woolfe doing the Bono line. In the interests of good journalism, Monkey feels it only right to name and shame those responsible. Among the guilty were the Daily Mail's Paul Revoir, the Sun's Sara Nathan and Colin Robertson, the News of the World's Dan Wootton and Rachel Richardson, the Daily Star Sunday's James Ingham, the Daily Star's Michael Booker and Gareth Morgan, the Daily Mirror's Alun Palmer and Mark Jefferies, and the Express's Christian Guiltenane and Suzanne Kerrins. The assembled hacks also received a new iPod Touch, worth around £200, which when you add it all up could have paid for a new series of Cirque de Celebrite. Monkey couldn't make the bash but, like any good simian, always likes receiving free gifts of bananas and Apple gadgets. Not that we're bitter, like.