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.

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.

The Choir is back

It's back! Encouraging everyone to sing at work, he's everyone's "favourite Choir Master" (apart from us as we have our very own belovéd ChoirMeister), Gareth Malone and his clean cut choirness.

According to the blurb on the BBC Website, "Choirmaster Gareth Malone returns to create harmony in five of Britain's biggest workplaces. As the contest to be crowned 'best workplace choir' begins, he sets sail with P&O, the UK's longest-running cross-Channel ferry service. With choir members based at sea and on both sides of the English Channel, can Gareth create a musical entente cordiale." 

Well good luck to him in encouraging ordinary people to start singing - it's never done us no harm!
The program is on Mon 4 Nov 2013 21:00 BBC Two - More info from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hhwb4.

The Choir

Not being one to normally have time spare to indulge in the luxury of sitting down of an evening, it was an unexpected pleasure to happen across the second episode of "The Choir" on what we believe is call the iplayer, a new fangled device from that august body, The BBC, which apparently allows one to travel back in time to when a program was first broadcast to be able to see it again.  This technological revelation reminds one of the first days of VCRs when one used to be able to "tape" a program.  Nowadays if one mentions this terminology to the young they give you quizzical looks, much as they did when they first saw a vinyl LP record!

But we digress.

In short, the choir was one of those occasional gems one finds in amongst the normal slurry on modern TV and soars above the likes of "Made in Shouty Cook's Essex Gypsy Wedding Kitchen".  Quite simply, it was inspiring.

It takes the simple premise of dropping that lovely choir master chappie, Gareth someone-or-other, into a modern workplace where there is nothing but talk of "change management", bosses vs workers, general grumpiness and by starting up a choir they rapidly break down all sorts of barriers, uncover all sorts of talents and fundamentally make a pretty decent sound in a very short time.

Much like us blokes!  To be even more inspired visit The BBC iplayer thing.