The Magnificent AK47 on the radio!

A nice moment for the Magnificent Scrapbook, a very decent mention for The Magnificent AK47, our belovéd ChoirMeister Mr Samuel and dear old BlokeFest, on The Choir with Sara Mohr-Pietsch's interview of Philip Read and Dave Mountain.

If you missed it first time round (shame on you!) check back at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dkbzd or your BBC Radio app for the replay.

BlokeFest on the Radio?!

Now here's a phrase you don't hear every day "Karl Jenkins's Adiemus, BlokeFest" on @Radio3's The Choir...

Featuring The Magnificent AK47 singing on national radio...

Tell everyone to tune it to Radio 3 on Sunday at 16:00.

Spooky Men on the Radio

In case you had facebook switched off yesterday, or just don't do that sort of thing, you may not have noticed that a crack team of black clad sonic operatives descended upon the nation's hallowed institution that is the BBC, Radio 3 no less, to do some singing and chatting stuff.

But, be ye not sad, the sounds of Spookyness on the airwaves can still be heard via your favourite digital device, or failing that, computer or smart@rse phone via http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06402ny.

And you can, and really should, catch them in the flesh in the real world via their on-going sojourn suffering over-generous breakfasts across these lands - see http://www.spookymen.com/gigs.php for a full list of where you can catch them.

Unlock your inner minstrel with us at Stroud Sub Rooms

Far be it from us to suggest that this is an old photo with ancient copy and that we have moved on massively since this was all put together, but 'tis true.  

When this pic was snapped around 1/3 of our current crew were not on board and since then we have sung in caves, castles, coaches, clifftops, quaysides, inside Stonehenge, multiple times at The London Roundhouse at the Voices Now Festival and appeared TWICE on National Radio, including being a main feature on BBC Radio 3's The Choir program.  

We also have more songs that speak of the dilemmas facing thoroughly modern men and how we strive to release ourselves by #getmensinging.

Having said all that, 'tis also true, we have been praised by many as "surprisingly good" and hopefully you can see for yourself this coming Saturday as we unleash our Radio 3 approved set along with the infinitely more talented The Croutons this 16 May from 8.00pm at the very wonderful Subscription Rooms in The People's Republic of Stroud.  

Avoid disappointment and save yourself nearly enough money to buy us a pint from their website at http://www.subscriptionrooms.org.uk/general.asp?pid=12&pgid=972.

The Choir and Voices Now snippet

Thank you to the bloke that tipped us off about this snippet from an earlier edition of BBC Radio 3's The Choir that features us from around 0 mins & 31 seconds onward with a mysterious member being interviewed and the interviewer commenting "Delilah sounding very Magnificent".

Tune your browers to http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02jrz2s for the snippet and to http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnw5 for the regular show.

The VERY Magnificent sounding...

As it is not every day that we are name checked on national radio we are sure you will forgive us a little indulgence of basking in the fact for a few more hours and feeling rather excited that we were indeed mentioned BBC Radio 3's The Choir program and described by a very knowledgeable lady as sounding "very magnificent"!

You can hear for yourself if you point your Worldly Wise browsing device (as the young people apparently call it) towards http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051ccr8 to hear a very full and comprehensive report of the Voices Now preparations that we had the great pleasure to attend the other weekend.

They rather conveniently have little markers indicating the principal sections of the show and you can find the report on the Voices Now preparations from the 2nd marker.  

For those of you who particularly like to get to the point where you hear about your humble singers, then slide towards roundabout 11 mins and 32 seconds and you will hear a mystery voice from a mystery member of our mysterious group declaiming the fact that we are not "The AK47", we "THE Magnificent AK47".  (Cheers Doug!)

And judge for yourself with the rather splendid snippet from Delilah.  More news about Voices Now preparations emerging soon.

Listen to The Choir on BBC3

 

Following on from the excitement of last week's Voices Now pre-event jaunt there should be a mention or two about that day and the evolving event itself on this afternoon's edition of The Choir on the venerable BBC3 presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Those who were there at the event last week may remember Sara as she was wandering around capturing the day on a rather impressive bit of kit and hopefully will make mention of that and some interviews with people on the show the today.

Point your browsers to http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051ccr8 for more info.