Ed thanked us for the wonderful concert last week. Then started with some breathing, after pointing out some important information for Race for Life. We need to be in position to sing at 10.30 by the lake. Arrival at 10am is recommended as is car sharing. Park in the volunteer sector!
Ed asked for feedback about the concert. Mike asked for monitors for future concerts. Also Ed to find ways to raise himself up for better viewing. Some one had said to me, 'at least you only sang one song' which you could either take as a desire for more variety, or more about my voice. Answers on a postcard please.
Canterbury singers are to enjoy three hours rehearsal on Saturday, meaning we can leave out singing Reach Out and A Little Help From My friends. So we kicked off with The Street Where you live.
It sounded a bit flat, a bit low-cheek-bones so Ed sat at the piano and ran is off at twice the speed. That woke us up!
Our volume went through the roof! Like a good syringing apparently.
And as to curry favour with our audience, Chicken Tikka will no longer be refered to as such. That means looking up the spelling of chiquitita eveytime we sing it and trying to stay one step ahead of Autocorrect. Phew. When we sang it Ed declared it almost perfect, and well done for not looking at the screen at the end when the line repeats anyway...
Our Get Around surprise success next. Ed thought the clapping might have been an issue. We had to speak out the song to get the timing right, before the town-to-town side singing it again. Then we were taped, as they say in the old days wen the tape was rollin'.
Can we sleep in the subway please?, said Ed without letting us listen to the recording, and woke up Jack to do the words for another taping! NOTHIN' sould be sung with a nice, short, punchy NOTHING! (More anger. But without punching anyone please!) But the men turned into The Wurzels!
Lean on me, you will need to when you have tears rolling down your face at choir. It sounded nice but Ed stopped us to start us again with more blues/soul/gospel/Wurzels. Tick one. Then we split the room to make sure we have enought leaders... Ssssssses ...
Careful now!
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do right said Ed. We lack confidence a bit. And maybe timing is an issue again!
Finally choir stood to sing Waterloo.
Really well done DFS, keep singing, love you loads, Cat xxxx
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