Swindon Arts Centre COMPLETELY SOLD OUT

If you wanted to get a ticket for tonight's show in Swindon, TOO LATE,  Swindon Arts Centre is COMPLETELY SOLD OUT.

We will find out tonight if those Swindon girls from the Big City really can dance the polka!

Oh you Swindon girls, can you dance the .... ?

And now, back safe from our cross-border raid into the badlands of Glos and the very warm welcome we received from all at the wonderful Sub Stroud Rooms, we head South to the big city lights of yonder Swindon town, to join forces with the might Swindon Community Choir.

Many of The Magnificent AK47 have very close ties with Swindon CC over many years, and we are not just talking about one or two of our current and past members who are married to some of them!

And many of them have been staunch supporters of our own merry band and we are very much looking forward to joining them all at the very lovely Swindon Arts Centre this coming Friday 22nd - have a look at their website for more details but hurry!  Less than 10 tickets left!  

So, join us if you can and find out the answer to our question of whether Swindon girls can dance the ....

Thank You Sub Rooms

Thank you to everyone who turned out in considerable numbers to support us and partake of a memorable evening at the very lovely Stroud Subscription Rooms.

Hopefully it was not too crowded for everyone as it was a pretty sizeable audience in that venerable old venue - what a history and important part of the town it is!

And thanks also to the ever marvelous and vocally inspiring The Croutons, always a delight to hear what you can do with three voices and a good deal of musical imagination.

Never ones to pass up the opportunity to purchase new hats, it was good to see a new crop of toppers wheeled out for a wonderfully received home town version of Unsung Hero No. 10, the homage to Edwin Beard Budding.

Knowledgeable audiences are on of our specialties,  but the Stroud crowd surpassed all others in their familiarity of the oeuvre of Mr Budding.

So, farewell Stroud and next up Swindon - let's hope they like the chorus of Ashton Keynes Land Shanty and we live to tell the tale.

Big Gig at Stroud Sub Rooms tonight

Last week The Voices Now Festival in the London Roundhouse and appearances on the BBC Radio 3 show The Choir, this week a cross border raid to the badlands of Gloucestershire and the People's Republic of Stroud as we line up and voluntarily sing at the Subscription Rooms with the immensely talented and tuneful The Croutons.

We hope you can join us and at what promises to be a very special "Afters" which we will announce at the gig.  

Book from here and save enough money to nearly buy one of us a pint.

Turnips make cross border raid into Gloucestershire badlands

CartoonMeister has been at it again regarding our cross border raid into Gloucestershire badlands for our gig at Stroud Sub Rooms with The Croutons  - get your tickets from http://www.subscriptionrooms.org.uk/general.asp?pid=12&pgid=972

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 Magnificent sound of Voices Now Part 1

One of the great joys of last weekend's Voices Now at the London Roundhouse was the range of material sung by the very different choirs and also the fantastic way that the various groups collaborated.

This led to some great programming for the three nights and one of our very favourite moments was us old lumbering lumps sharing a song with the spritely little chaps from BoyBand.  A great example of how you can #getmensinging even if they aren't quite men yet!

And you can hear a snippet to good effect of this as part of this little medley of Magnificent recordings from the more shanty orientated material we performed at the weekend.

In passing, if you attended the event and would like to leave your feedback the organizers would be pleased to hear from you via https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BP3TRNF.

Re-live some of that fabulous weekend of singing by clicking on the Play button on our Soundcloud.