OH and whilst I remember...

... whilst not a huge fan of reality TV in general, I have been watching Last Choir Standing on the BBC. Whilst 'off the blog' earlier in the year Chateau Angevin was besieged by various researchers at the Beeb, pestering me to enter 'my' choir, Dodecantus. A swift perusal of the time commitment required meant I had to say 'No' - I couldn't expect our singers to troop up to London EVERY Friday and Sunday plus learn a whole new piece to concert standard every week whilst holding down full time jobs. So that was that.

With hindsight, I'm glad I didn't because our repertoire, although including some light entertainment numbers, is composed of largely traditional, classical, music. That is what the vast number of choirs in this country are into, it's indeed what embodies the 'English Choral tradition' (a term I have mixed feelings about, being Welsh!). However, what was getting the rave reviews and voted through on Last Choir Standing seemed to be pop-songs, ballads and show-hits rather than more sombre stuff, so we'd have been fish out of water. We don't 'do' choreography - we sing.

All this having been said, I was really chuffed when the choir of a few of my Welsh pals - Only Men Aloud! - was up there and doing well. After a really fab performance, and an awful lot of hard work on the part of the boys they actually won the whole shebang. A bottle of Burgundy's finest was cracked open at Chateau Angevin and a number of scurrilous Facebook messages and texts sent to the protagonists. Let's hope at long last they'll get some true financial reward for all the years spent at the coalface of music college and doing jobs they don't like just to keep alive rather than what they were good at and trained to do.

...oh and now off to find the incriminating photos so I can flog them to the News of the World. Well, you surely didn't expect me to lock them in a drawer, did you? No, the world NEEDS to see Steve pole dancing in my back garden and illegally skinny dipping in the local trout lake....hehehe