It was a dark and windy night, a little too moist for many of us, but a very good reason to kick off with a DUM DUM DIDDLY DUM, and a short warm up ending on a siren.
The result of last weeks requests for new 'old' DFS songs were Rocking Around The Christmas Tree, Bridge Over Troubled Water and I Love It When You Call, and even A Winters Tale, which was our first song tonight, and everyone was ok about including that one. Lyrics will be ready nest week and just for the record we are singing in F minus 6.
Ed came out from behind the keyboard to fire us up for our concert opener, Hello, Goodbye and reminded everyone to smile their cheesiest.
Rocking Around The Christmas Tree was fine and was followed When We Were Young and Ed didn't say too much about That tonight.
Then the blogging app crashed, and stole my witty words from at least half of my meanderings, and all the best jokes. The choir tried to remember I Love It When You Call without listening to YouTube first so that was interesting. Perfect in fact. I used that interlude to try and catch up. Then jack fired up I Only Wanna Be With You Sponsored by febreaze. My phone can spell that anymore than I can, but we did well with that, it's one of those lovely crowd pleasers.
Another one of those oldies was Love Is All Around Me - my favourite version is sung by R.E.M. and makes me want to sing Bah-bah-bah type backing vocals.
Back to festivities, with the Exciting New Christmas Medley, and Ed says if we are very good we will have a new backing track soon, then everyone cheered for Adiemus so I'll bring my recorder for next time, maybe even treat Dorchester too. Haha. It's a short song but it will keep the audience on their toes, I'm sure.
We worked hard and sung so many songs, so aptly sang Bridge Over Troubled Water after Ed reminded us which waters go up and which go down. Hmm, trouble in your waters? Nice final note. I bet that was Ruth.
And we tried to Run in the wrong key, but we all helped to find the right one by all singing at once in different keys which was very helpful. Sorted. Armadillo was squeased in. Then suddenly Ed had an Idea. I can't blog it because it would spoil the fun so if you need to know what it is ask a member!
Any-oke time now, Sweet Caroline came out of the goodie bag. Who has a lighter app? Get it on! And Teach The World To Sing followed a whole load of pieces of paper that Ed tossed to one side. Hmmm.
Did I forget to re-blog one of our songs? Answers on a £10 note to The Raggy Rat if I did. Hopefully all is now sorted. Well done choir, we have LOADS more material for our concert now, keep singing, with love, Cat xx.
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