March 14th, 2024

Mes chers amis

Vroom vroom vroom 🏎️ 🏎️ 🏎️ - like a cavalcade of finely honed F1 cars, VoiceMale limbered up last night in preparation for an entertaining Saturday night in Hebron - our first gig of the season. A marathon session showed that all the hours of pre match preparation with burpees, press ups and squats had paid off as the choir launched in to Saturdays set list with gusto - methinks we sounded in fine voice  🎶🎵🥳🥰.

The Boss was however not his usual self suffering 😤🤕🤒 with an uncharacteristic croaky voice and he was clearly a tad under the weather ☔️ - needless to say his spirits revived when he heard Pit Bull Soldiers being sung with reverence and harmony 😊👍🏼 - sounded good to me. We managed to get through most of the set list without too many blips albeit, honestly, we were a bit weak on the last two verses of the Song goes on - a bit of rapid word learning and timing needed there by the tunes.

Last night we were glad to welcome a potential new member in Alan Hardiman - Alan is from Morpeth and didn’t seem too phased by you lot of reprobates - hoping you liked it Alan - it’s a daunting task to join a new choir but I’m sure you’ll have great fun with us and you are most welcome.

On Saturday we’re going to see a lot of guys doing only their first or second gig with us - good luck to you all - it’ll be great fun in a convivial atmosphere, so just relax and make sure you enjoy the occasion - the audience and your fellow choir members want nothing more than to share a good time with you😊😊👍🏼. Relax and enjoy🎶🎵😊!!!

One thing to take away from last night was Jon’s message that if you can’t hear what the guy next to you is singing then you’re probably singing too loud 😵‍💫🤮🤯 - on Saturday, although we’re expecting a good turn out of members, we will be missing quite a few of our stronger tunes and our bass’s are down to two - so it’s down to you middles to ensure we keep a good balance on the night - I’m sure Jon will make sure that happens!!!!

Great practice yesterday - let’s hope the boss recovers well for Saturday and is back to crowing like a cock 🐓 whilst the rest of us are carolling like larks 🐦 🦅 🐦 (let’s be the light that is coming in the evening to Hebron😂🥳🍺).

Onwards and upwards VoiceMale 👍🏼😊🎵🎶🥰🥳🍺👏 🚀 - howay the toon 🏁🏴🏳️ and whichever nation you’re supporting in the rugby this weekend  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇫🇷 🇮🇪 🇮🇹!!!

Cheers
Chris