Dear Debs,
Tiz the season to play almost no Christmas tunes at all.
East Steel's fetaured tunes for the Town Hall Concert are
Magic Moments,
Scarborough Fair,
My Grandfather's Clock and
Jar of Hearts. Over the prize giving we play [in honour of the West Park Centre, recently and pointlessly closed]
We Shall Not be Moved and
The Red Flag [aka
O Christmas Tree]. Here's some sound check pics before the choirs and other bands take to the stage.
This year we are me, Bex, Joyce, Karen, Anne, Lynn, Cathy, Peter, Jeanette, Trish, Wendy, Becky, Cheryl, Katie, Vicky and Bart.
Both my schools today were closed to me [Allerton Grange has a training day, and Quarry Mount is replacing its windows], so I can spend all day packing the little blue Transit and wondering why I agreed to lend Nat the Foxwood drum kit today [durr!]. Anyway we nearly have two kits these days, and in the end, Bart plays for us with no hihat, and the snare balanced on a metal strip balanced on top of the cymbals inside their bag. Rock and roll, hey! Bart sounded great hihat-less, Anyway think all drummers should play thus; metal only give them ideas.
Now, Debs, it has taken me ten or even more years of playing Leeds Town Hall to discover that band leaders etc can park at the front. So, it's unload, van round to front, play gig, take pans to loading bay again, bring van back round, load back up. Got the edge on coming back the next day with one other person! Also, it really is so much nicer setting up at leisure and not bewteen schools.
After that some of us leg it down to the Viaduct to see Nat play with the
Declines. Nice drum kit! Shame about the photo. [But I think you get the idea.]
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