Are these gates singing Blur's Song 2?

A VIDEO about a London ticket barrier doesn't sound so funny. But what if that barrier sounded similar to Blur's Song 2?

Ritch Ames said he first noticed that the barrier, located at Canary Wharf's Jubilee line, sounded like the "woo-hoo" in Song 2 about a year ago.

So he mashed together a video of Song 2 and the sound from the barriers when they open.

"On Tuesday, without knowing it was almost the anniversary of this observation, I seized the opportunity while the Canary Wharf tube was relatively quiet, and cobbled together the video on Tuesday night," Mr Ames said. "I'm hoping this evening there will be a larger queue for the fourth barrier from the right."

The video has been seen more than 180,000 times already.

Gates with musicality ... The noise that these London Underground gates make sound very similar to Blur's Song 2.

Even Blur couldn't stop from laughing at the video, with the band's official Twitter account giving a "woo-hoo" of support.

Making noise ... The 'woo-hoo' in Blur's Song 2 sounds very similar to the opening of some London Underground ticket gates.