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Posted by
Tim Pinder February 5, 2015 -
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I go along most Tuesdays to The Sing at the Edge Theatre,Chorlton, Manchester.
This week someone who hadn’t been for a couple of weeks mentioned how much they’d missed it.
It got me thinking how much I enjoy it too. Having tried another choir where the repertoire comprised largely of radical songs from around the world; it came as light relief when Simon Waters who leads The Sing described it as being “more of a radio 2 Choir!”
Whilst I know what he means, it’s really a little more eclectic than that.
On my first night as two of the three part harmonies started their “da doo wom, da doo wom”I thought I recognise that song. It then struck me that it was one of my all time faves; Oblivion by Terrorvision. It was then that I realised that this was the choir for me. I couldn’t quite imagine Terrorvision on radio 2, nor the Brian Eno song that followed.
Ok, we’ve subsequently covered “Tthe Man who sold the World” and “California Dreaming”; but however familiar they may sound on the radio, there’s something uplifting bringing it to life as part of a choir.
Simon’s great at getting us from scratch with a new song to singing with gusto in three part harmony and making a reasonable fist of it in no time. He and the rest of the choir are very patient when it takes some of us a little longer to get it, or stray into another harmony part other than our own or not quite get the right note first time.
It’s a non-performing drop in choir, meeting on a Tuesday evening 7.30-9.30. Come along and give it a go,
And nearly liking the Beatles ? I’ve had a lifelong aversion to the Beatles,and as such I’d never come across their song “Rain” before. But what a great song to sing. Though I say so myself, I think we did rather a great version, so good I can’t quite believe that The Beatles did it any
