Sense of Sound

My mate Jo is currently at Glastonbury, with the Sense of Sound Choir. She'll be performing on the Jazz stage sometime now. . .

(edit:- The coach never turned up which meant Jo didn't get there. . . Only about 5 of the choir made it :(.. . )

Sense of Sound, have also got through to the finals of BBC's Last Choir Standing. It's a sort of Pop Idol for Choirs, if you know what I mean?
You check out the BBC page HERE The show will air every Saturday night from 5th of July, That's next Saturday. The show is hosted by Myleene Klass and Nick Knowles, So tune in to BBC1 at 19.45. It's not all Hymns and religious standards. . .
I've just taken a look at the audition & application videos and to be honest, I think Sense of Sound will walk it, they will change the way you think about choirs.

Links:- Sense of Sound on Myspace - Joanne Roberts Photography - Last Choir Standing

Shiverpool

I went on a ghost walk on Friday night. The tour, entitled "The Hope Street Shivers" is one of three ghost walks, run by the Shiverpool Tours company, based at The Albert Dock.
We met at The Philharmonic Pub and were taken on a walk by two masked characters, who entertained us with tales of tragedy and murder from Liverpool's darker past. The whole thing was really well done. Both tour guides were actors and never came out of character for the whole tour, which lasted about an hour and 15 minutes. There were a few surprises thrown in for good measure.
It was a lot better than the tour, i was expecting. I'm not giving anything away cos i don't want to spoil it for you.

They also do two other tours; The Auld City Shivers, which is based in the business quarter and starts and ends at The Slaughterhouse Pub and the Shiver Me Timbers tour which starts from Anchor Courtyard at the Albert Dock.

Prices are £8.50 for adults and £7.00 for kids.

Shiverpool Tours

What's been happening . . .

Last week was a bit crap.

I still can't believe that Derek has gone! It's weird, I was just talking about him a few days before it happened. I got the news by text, which is not the way you want to be informed about a friends death. (thanks Phil). I found a christmas card that he had sent me, but i never received until March or April. He asked me why I didn't turn up to his wedding, I felt really guilty, I kept meaning to phone him, but i never did. It's his funeral tomorrow. Maybe it will hit home, then?

I went back to work after having a week off. I'd spent all week in "night mode". My body clock is back to front. I'm sleeping during the day and I'm wide awake every night. Anyway, when i returned to work at 10 pm, on Tuesday, to start another week of nights. I found someone else sitting in my chair.
While I was off work, the powers that be, decided to transfer me to a completely different job in a different building. So much for communication. I start my new job today at 2 pm. I also applied for another position, I applied for the same job last year. Maybe this time I'll be lucky.

To get myself out of my weird sleep pattern, i stayed up when I got home from work on Saturday morning at 7 am. I decided to spend the day fiddling with my website. I added a new "gallery" page. You can access it from the sidebar of my photo blog page. There will be more gallery pages added in the future.

By about 2 pm i was knackered and had to go to bed., but I forced myself to get back up at about 8 that night. It seems to have worked. Sunday was the same as Saturday. I was washing my mini at 6 am. I got up at 5 am today and added another page to my site. It's a downloads page. I've decided to make some of my photo's available as desktop wallpapers. And that's that really. I might go out for a walk. The weather's fantastic today.

Derek Hannah R.I.P.

My mate Degsy - Col de la Faucille - Friday 4th November 1995 - Here he is, with probably his third or fourth Grolsch of the day.

I did the Italian Job charity run three times. The second time I did it I took Degs as my co-driver. It was the most memorable of the three. He was the worst navigator, in the world. Although he did manage to direct us out of Paris using a street map of Milan!!! He also managed to save my life quite literally. . . But that's another story.

We left the Dieppe ferry at midnight to drive through the night via Paris. We stopped in a rest area on the motorway for a kip and then set off, in the rain at 6.30am for Switzerland. By about 9 we were descending the Col de la Faucille and the sun was shining. We pulled over, by the side of the road, to take in the view of Lake Geneva, below us. All was going well and we spent a leisurely day driving the Swiss alpine roads. We shared a ski lodge with the rest of our convoy and got smashed in a little alpine bar. I was feeling generous and got everyone's meal on my credit card. By the time we reached Italy, the following morning, we had both run out of money and my credit card bounced at an Italian service station. Derek had spent the last of his cash on beer. We were both banking on our wages being paid in, the Thursday before, but they hadn't been. Either that, or we were both completely overdrawn. (This is more likely).
We borrowed about £20 off Phil Sullivan to pay for our tank of fuel (I'm still not sure if I paid you back Phil?) So we were without cash until Monday. But on Monday we discovered that we couldn't use a British switch card abroad. Luckily for us we were staying B&B in our pre-booked hotels. We were guaranteed at least one meal a day. But we needed money for drinks in the bar and fuel. I phoned up my credit card company and got my limit upped to £1500. When I got home, 10 days later, I had lost about a stone and had a credit card bill for about £900. Most of it was for hotel bar tabs. It took me another couple of years to pay it off.

Everyone who met Degsy on the Italian Job in '95 has never forgotten him. As Tony Fidoe put it; "Degsy's a star!".

I'll miss you Matey! You're a Star. . .