The Old Landmark

Cross-over time. Let's see if you can guess the connection between the title of this post (it's from a movie soundtrack) and the photos.

That is all.

How many parts?!

It was Sunday. Rehearsals were taking place. The song du jour was What do you do? "OK", you think, "I can do that." Errrr - OK, try six-part harmony, each part with different lyrics, with a few Ooohs and Aaahs thrown in for good measure. It's a good job that other people were doing this song and not the author of this epistle.

It sounded impossible to nail it, but nail it the team did. And it was almost the same as the soundtrack a la Dundee Rep.

There's no facility to upload audio on Blogger, so you'll have to make do with some photos instead. Enjoy...

Elaine

Lynne

Myke, Lynne, Vicky & Elaine

Myke

Vicky

Alice &Gill Donaldson 

Vicki doesn't get it

Ceri

Vicki

Ceri, Mary Macdonald, Gail & Elaine

Director (Vicki) counting 'em in

Vicki gives up(!)

Gabi enjoying a joke

Alice keeping time

Photos

Hi all. Your erstwhile blogger is on holiday at the moment so has no idea how things are going. Mind you, with Victoria in charge things should be going from strength to strength.

In the meantime, to keep you going, here are some photos so far.

Director's Assistant Amanda

Director's Assistant wondering if it'll ever end

Director (Victoria) & Jean (Alice)

Jean (Alice) & Rab (Glen)

Yvonne (Rachel)

Ally (Gordon) & Davey (Alan)

Liz (Lynne) & Yvonne (Rachel)

Director (Victoria)

Davey (Alan) & Yvonne (Rachel)

Liz (Lynne) & Ally (Gordon)

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

Shakespeare you say? Fortunately no - that might be a bit too high-brow for us.

Nope - our director was off this Thursday with the lurgy. So Claire, our pretty d*mn good piano player, took over assisted by the ever-present Daniel on guitar. Went through all the ensemble pieces so far, right up to Let's get Married. We were going to move it this week but our director also being our choreographer...so we all sang our hearts out and did the twiddly bits in Let's get Married.

Going to the Chapel?

OK, we're late with this entry to the blog. But then, aren't many brides fashionably late to their own wedding?

And if you're a fan of The Proclaimers you may well have guessed the song we did this last Thursday. Aye, 'twas Let's get Married. In terms of harmonies it's relatively easy for the majority of the tune. About 50% in unison, with a 2-to-3 way split at some points. But relatively easy...

Except for Myke. When Myke heard the part that our esteemed director wanted him to sing...well, we can't remember his exact words but they went something like "You have got to be kidding!!" Heh - can't wait until next week when we put it all together.

And Vicki, our director, also tellt us that the band's coming together and sounding great. That means we'll have to raise our game further still.

We also got shown the result of the previous Sunday's scene rehearsal - Throw the R Away. Och aye, pretty braw rendition.

More news when it arrives. Might even be able to let you know about dates for actual performances soon :-)