Chair: JL
Present: WT, JB, MS, LS, MM, SE, RM, DC
Apols: KM, DD
After some Ha He Hoing and a little warm-up ditty offered by Duncan
Mravalshamier – well remembered everyone, good warm up song for getting all your bits vibrating!
Run – Sounding good on second outing, spent some time working on whoas and ohs off beat sections
Patrick Spens – Another good run through. Remember that the last four lines have the melody of the second half of the verse – please revise and learn how to come back in. Need to starting working on some dynamics.
My Johnny – Very good first outing as people had obviously learned parts. Managed to sing through parts and do mall groups. Well done everyone.
AOB
1. Sign off AGM – KM’s comments on constitution noted and all agreed.
2. Goring – confirmed not enough numbers for this one. Agreed at this stage it was difficult for several people commit to Autumn/future dates due to care commitments etc.
2. Gig – general agreement that format for gig would be similar to Xmas, but with music for dancing rather than the band afterwards. Also felt that lighting is desirable. Wendy will sound out David, but we do not want to overstretch his generosity and would rather keep him for Xmas. With that in mind Matt will also check out possibility and costs of hiring lights for July if we need to.
3. Reminder next rehearsal brought forward to 24th so that we can check out Hackney open mike night 31st – ADDENDUM TO MINUTES – Hackney is happening on 24th not 31st, so we have reverted rehearsal to 31st. Madrigals still intending to check out Hackney on 24th.
SONGS FOR 31ST – Lonsome Road, Johnny was a Shoemaker and we substituted Bad Moon for Patrick Spens due to Wendy not being there on 24th – Mercedes/Wendy may wish to revert back?