After I plugged the DAW brochures and offered free birthday lollies, Ed thanked everyone for a great concert on Friday night which as you know was fab. I'm now the average age of DFS. Maybe.
Happily dinner will be served on Friday night - tomorrow - in the IOW on that contencious table for 36 ...
Fur in the square and Best of Dorset fall in the half term holidays. Ed put out the idea of singing during this years Weymouth carnival and will ask for a show of hands to find out if there's enough interest in this. I remember singing on the beach before during the sea food festival some years ago. Back when our choir t-shirts were new to us! And in the near future we will be filmed for a promotion, such fun. make sure you look for best from here on, DFS!
Songs for tonight were the songs to be sung on the IOW trip and we kicked off with our Karen, low voices to start!
Life On Mars next. Ed pressed on as he was running a timer especially as DFS are sharing concert time with another choir. I'm sorry not to be there but I'll be sooo busy running the race for life on Sunday and I need all the oxygen I can get for running .... Ed loved this one, saying at the end that we sounded like a real choir!
Talking of needing oxygen, Forever Motown is next in the running order. We put a lot of energy into this one! Someone said the backing track was loud but Ed said that had sorted out any timing issues! And that much was true.
For Video killed the radio star, I won't be there to be pinched in as the final voice so someone else better volunteer quick before you get picked on! It was Jenny.
Men Only to start Somewhere, which sounded fab to me as they were all together. I joined in a bit as I like male parts. Which I why I love singing Karen Carpenter songs I guess ... Just watch your Sssss's please.
Next Make You Feel My Love gets another Sssss warning tooo.
Total Eclipse of The Heart brought us to 33 minutes ... And it was time for our apraisal.
Only yesterday had a missing harmony part and a bum note. It might get booted off next week. Mars sounded good but too much sailors sliding in the dance hall. Mowton is hard work - words words words said Ed and demanded even more ooomph. Grapevine isn't working so well because there are too many words. We should have a word about that. Diction. There was life in the key change and ain't no mountain was EXCEPTIONAL yes oh yes... Video killed is ooo-wha and a second verse caught a few people out! Somewhere had an early s, so we had a little test. And we passed. Make you feel my love s s s ... Breathing must be staggered. Finally, Total Eclipse which sounded great in church didn't sound so good tonight. So we broke that down. Do you hear the people sing really needs to sound in time, which it didn't on Friday but we did realise and rectify the matter. Maybe the flags put us off but the audience smiles were a sight for sore lungs!
So we ran through Do You Hear The People Sing. The ends of lines are getting lost in the fights for breath of those tired lungs, so we had a chat about taking turns to grab some air. We stood to improve our capacity! Then still standing we sang One Day Like This to finish. Some lower and middle parts were missing but we can work on that next week.
You worked so hard that little Cat Blogger says woo hoo, I love you, and have a great trip and enjoy your lollies! Well done xxxx
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