18 June 2015

The one were my glasses were still by the front door, at home...

A week Saturday is our next concert, and without many notices, tonight we are having a jolly good sing song. It took me all the warm up to type that bit wothout my specs, as it was mostly guesswork. 

Www.chesilrocks.com was plugged during our one or two notices, but failed to load so here it is for you now!

Chicken tikka first tonight, and Ed Reminded us that the better we sing it, the less we have to practice it! Mind the Gap, everyone! We sang well (but a lot of harmony was missing, and audiences love it when we harmonise at our concerts. Maybe harmony singers ought to sit together and support each other?).

So .... Everyone played musical chairs until the music stopped! Come over to the Dark Side - if you dare! The harmonisers then sang A Capella, and received a clap from the far right! Verse, then chorus, off we went!!

For performance, you must really feel you are a very important part of this song. Not just one of 89 little voices. The harmony was sounding good and strong and the melody had become a little quieter, but instead of 'less harmony', Ed asked for more melody! We stood to sing, as if performing, to encourage us to put more of ourselves into it!

Tonight was about rehearsing really well. And our next song was I Get Around ! Now half the choir were ready to sing a part they were not used to! Many wanted to move back but tonight Ed was in charge and no one was permitted to shift even a buttock. 

First we dissected stage left, ooooh it was messy. But then you knew that! I really started to fancy half a pint. When it was stage-right's turn it turned into a Dirty Competition. Get Around Rivalry.  It's got potential to become a real show stopper, and it was started to become more watertight. 

On to Rosé. Something more gentle he said. Then everyone missed a huge gap and held a pout while waiting for the cool to start! No other choir sings this song ever, or should I say, evah! If only to remind you to sing YA! and not Yaaaaah.

The second verse is pure unadulterated rock, and was beginning to contrast superbly with the chorus. Ed even confessed to a tingle, though he wouldn't say where it was! And even hinted at a touch of kinaesthesia; and yes maybe I did spell that right, without my glasses on!

Nice. 

Not a lot of songs tongiht, but Ed was really feeling it. 

Really well done everyone. We are all super and dynamic. Keep singing - I love ya! Xxx

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