Excellent Sarah-Ann debut...

She was brilliant, of course!
Noisy and splendid evening at Lemmensinstituut, Leuven (Belgium, if you need more info)...
...and Sarah-Ann's first gig with us, as a guest in 6 songs.

...this was a try-out of much of the Showtime show for next year...
We will do this twice more on the 11th and 13th December in Wemmel and Aalst (yes, still Belgium)... before Richard leaves the TLQ stage with his final turn at Esch, Luxembourg...

Lots of new stuff, of course... Abba, Guys and Dolls, Batman, O Mio Babbino Caro, He's a Tramp & Michel Legrand... just to name a few... you'll just have to come and see the show!

As ever a most ferociously enthusiastic response from the students - a lovely atmosphere... great for Sarah-Ann's first concert... and they all joined in with Always Look on the Bright Side of Life splendidly & loudly at the end!

Edwin Risbourg did a fine job on sound and lights, and Chris Hatt was excellent as ever at the piano... great to have such a team working with us.
Thank you, BE agent, Thomas VdS of course too...

STOP PRESS: Forgot to mention that we were also joined by some students from the college to sing the chorus parts in Can You Feel the Love Tonight? from Lion King - tremendous to have their contribution too...

A great evening....
A few precious days off now, before we start the Xmas rush on November 29th!!

DE tour then pastures new... with Sarah-Ann

Last two dates of the November outings to Germany... in Nienburg/Weser & Bremerhaven...

Two more performances of Best of British with the splendid Paul Plummer at the piano...

This was our second show in Nienburg, and the place was full to the brim, and much flag-waving and excitement ensued!
Our fellow Magenta artists, Medlz are here in Nienburg next Saturday (22nd November)!
Do go along... they're cool...

Then we went up to the fishing port/harbour of Bremerhaven... and ate lots of wonderful fish... (it is difficult not to eat fish here!)...
...and to a theatre we have not been in for ten years... excellent to be back...
Excellent staff and support and an audience prepared to let their hair down!

Now it is a totally new venture... we have never done this before when we have changed members, but we have three Belgian gigs where both Richard and Sarah-Ann will perform together... it will be our new show for Belgium - Showtime! (This will be called Memories in Germany)... where we celebrate music for the stage...
Sarah-Ann will be our guest for a few songs on Thursday at the Lemmens Instituut, and then in December at shows at Aalst and Wemmel. All details on our site.

From the 29th November we are ferociously busy... (more details anon - tho' you can look at our site)

Hooray for all that!

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...