No Wagnerian gestures onstage tonight, just Medlz and us once more, but tonight joined by Six Pack - we realise it is even longer since we saw these guys... 7 years... they were cool and fun as ever... and they all became 7-pack when their old bass, Peter Martin Jacob, joined them for a rendition of Ring of Fire...
All marvellous - and the audience were, if anything, even more enthusiastic than last night...
A morning concert in the church beckons... at 11am... tra la la la la....
Sunday, 9 October 2011
Saturday, 8 October 2011
Biberach
Marvellous 'Die a cappella Nacht' in Biberach... for the uninitiated, this is not an a cappella evening which makes you die... but one in Germany, thus with an article... designed and promoted by our German agent, Peter Martin Jacob and his agency, Magenta...
Two groups were with us - our old friends from this circuit, the Dresden group, Medlz - they have lost their definite article since we last worked with them in 2007... we were all amazed that it was four years ago that we last met... they looked remarkably similar; although there is a new one of them! Lydia has an 11-month old daughter... but Bine, Lydia, Silli, Mary and Nelly were as wonderful as ever [if not better!] - fantastic tuning...
...and some new friends, muSix from Berlin... a great group of er... five, who were splendid and polished too...
In fact this is a bit of a theme of the evening, Medlz started as a nine-part group, and muSix as a six-part; clearly they both decided five was best after all... & both groups met whilst singing together in children's choirs... that's why they still seem so young!
A very fine evening for all of us onstage, and by the sound of it, the audience too...
...snuck a few more Cricket CDs out too... to Germans!!
On to Bayreuth tomorrow with Medlz... and a mystery someone else...
Two groups were with us - our old friends from this circuit, the Dresden group, Medlz - they have lost their definite article since we last worked with them in 2007... we were all amazed that it was four years ago that we last met... they looked remarkably similar; although there is a new one of them! Lydia has an 11-month old daughter... but Bine, Lydia, Silli, Mary and Nelly were as wonderful as ever [if not better!] - fantastic tuning...
...and some new friends, muSix from Berlin... a great group of er... five, who were splendid and polished too...
In fact this is a bit of a theme of the evening, Medlz started as a nine-part group, and muSix as a six-part; clearly they both decided five was best after all... & both groups met whilst singing together in children's choirs... that's why they still seem so young!
A very fine evening for all of us onstage, and by the sound of it, the audience too...
...snuck a few more Cricket CDs out too... to Germans!!
On to Bayreuth tomorrow with Medlz... and a mystery someone else...
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Leuven
Another fantastic evening at the Lemmensinstituut at Leuven.... where Steve studied when a boy... he mentioned being an alumnus on stage, and when he chatted with some of the students afterwards, he saw them realise just how really old he was... it happens to us all!
Best of British (Belgium) went splendidly well, and the amount of noise the audience made [at appropriate moments] was sometimes deafening...
The mountie hats were an excellent addition to Steve's knees in The Lumberjack Song - splendid...
And we sold more Songs of Cricket - this could be the start of something very big!
International train journey to Biberach, Germany tomorrow for an a cappella nacht - more news tomorrow...
Best of British (Belgium) went splendidly well, and the amount of noise the audience made [at appropriate moments] was sometimes deafening...
The mountie hats were an excellent addition to Steve's knees in The Lumberjack Song - splendid...
And we sold more Songs of Cricket - this could be the start of something very big!
International train journey to Biberach, Germany tomorrow for an a cappella nacht - more news tomorrow...
Breast Cancer Care show
Attended a wonderful, life-enhancing event at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane this afternoon... a fashion parade of cancer survivors being the centre-piece of a day in aid of the Breast Cancer Care charity
Highly moving, of course, and everyone with such a positive outlook, as they share their stories of Breast Cancer... a disease that affects so many people each year; 50,000 new diagnoses in the UK alone.
We were treated like long-lost friends, and all were delighted that we were there to sing... and they were indeed pretty good at joining in with The Lambeth Walk!
But clearly, we were a side-show:- there is marvellous up-lifting spirit in this charity's heart...
Highly moving, of course, and everyone with such a positive outlook, as they share their stories of Breast Cancer... a disease that affects so many people each year; 50,000 new diagnoses in the UK alone.
We were treated like long-lost friends, and all were delighted that we were there to sing... and they were indeed pretty good at joining in with The Lambeth Walk!
But clearly, we were a side-show:- there is marvellous up-lifting spirit in this charity's heart...
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Kortrijk
Wonderful theatre, and excellent audience to watch Best of British - and now for something completely different première...
Joined by trusty Chris Hatt, and with brolleys and bowlers, we showed them a thing or two, eh what!?
Off to Leuven tomorrow to do it again... with added mountie hats... [any ideas why we need them?]
More cricket CDs have been spread amongst the unsuspecting mainland Europeans...
Joined by trusty Chris Hatt, and with brolleys and bowlers, we showed them a thing or two, eh what!?
Off to Leuven tomorrow to do it again... with added mountie hats... [any ideas why we need them?]
More cricket CDs have been spread amongst the unsuspecting mainland Europeans...
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Herent
Another balmy night in Europe last night... excellent audience at Herent in Belgium; just a few miles from Steve's hometown... many were, however, surprised when he revealed his citizenship, and just how near he had grown up.
The bells of the church [striking every hour and urging people to services from 8am] were very forthright in our hotel 15 metres from the church door... not quite up to Swiss standards however, as it was only the one church!
First night of 'Best of British - and now for something completely different' tonight in Kortrijk, before the première in Leuven on Thursday... looking forward to it - and gloriously Chris Hatt has arrived off the Eurostar.... and we'll all be home this evening as tonight's show is at 5pm...
What a small world we live in...
The bells of the church [striking every hour and urging people to services from 8am] were very forthright in our hotel 15 metres from the church door... not quite up to Swiss standards however, as it was only the one church!
First night of 'Best of British - and now for something completely different' tonight in Kortrijk, before the première in Leuven on Thursday... looking forward to it - and gloriously Chris Hatt has arrived off the Eurostar.... and we'll all be home this evening as tonight's show is at 5pm...
What a small world we live in...
Saturday, 1 October 2011
Zurich
Wonderful evening in an unusually balmy late September Zurich...
Singing at a restaurant after the opening of Marco Perego's new exhibition at Galerie Gmursynska
... it just goes to show what a footballer can do after his career [I am being serious - look him up! Slight warning, he is explicit and courts controversy with his views on the way society 'devours itself'...]
We have now been entertaining for Krystyna and her Gallery for well over 20 years, and this night was even graced by UK royalty... tho' of course I cannot tell you whom... She and her friends were suitably gracious about our contribution to the evening...
Now in (still summery-hot) Herent, BE awaiting the next concert; must admit to being grateful for our schedule, as it meant I was saved watching England struggle their way to a limping victory over Scotland in the Rugby WC - much better to be in mid-air...
Singing at a restaurant after the opening of Marco Perego's new exhibition at Galerie Gmursynska
... it just goes to show what a footballer can do after his career [I am being serious - look him up! Slight warning, he is explicit and courts controversy with his views on the way society 'devours itself'...]
We have now been entertaining for Krystyna and her Gallery for well over 20 years, and this night was even graced by UK royalty... tho' of course I cannot tell you whom... She and her friends were suitably gracious about our contribution to the evening...
Now in (still summery-hot) Herent, BE awaiting the next concert; must admit to being grateful for our schedule, as it meant I was saved watching England struggle their way to a limping victory over Scotland in the Rugby WC - much better to be in mid-air...
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