Year: 2009

Playing with rifles around the crack-addled 90s legends? Are we mad?

At 15 – 10 down, a win against Preston and the gang was essential if FHM were to salvage any hope of a comeback in our long-running series of band-battles.

When The Rakes called to say they wanted to take us on, we decided to settle it like gentlemen. A fist fight? Pissing competition? Of course not – we put on some tight-fitting uniforms and pranced around with swords.

Californian indie rockers Cold War Kids take on FHM in the lost art of blindfolded finger-painting. This is actually how Picasso developed his Cubist motif. Probably.

Bird-hunting chums of the Kaiser Chiefs climb into ‘rage buggies’ and line-up alongside FHM. When the mud finally settles, who’ll emerge victorious?

The floppy-haired rockers may look at home in their cricket whites, but can they out-run FHM’s finest willow-wielders?

Steve Beale steps into the ring with the deadly UFC middleweight. And promptly regrets it.

Steve Beale steps into the ring with the deadly UFC middleweight. And promptly regrets it.

Our man travels to sin city to take on some of the UFC’s most feared fighters.