The autumn term doesn’t officially begin for another fortnight, but last night a bunch of us hit The Black Prince to plan our set list and rehearse for a great pre-term gig.Continue reading “Gig! Mini Moderns Remixed: Southbank Centre Shop”
We’ve been rehearsing at The Black Prince pub in Kennington for years, and Mark, the Prince’s landlord, is one of most saintly patrons. So on Tuesday, our last rehearsal of term, we nixed the rehearsing bit, and did an impromptu gig in the pub for him.Continue reading “New video! The Chain at The Black Prince”
When I first moved to London I went to a Finsbury Park festival called Rise. In a tent, I saw an elderly woman dressed like she’d been dragged headfirst through the Victorian era, rapping.Continue reading “Masters of Pop – 24-hour countdown! Meet our compere, Ida Barr”
I love that picture of Jamie Martyr, and I love her song, Circles. Listen to it. Now. Go on, it’s beautiful.Continue reading “Masters of Pop: Meet Martyr Electric’s Jamie Martyr”
Last night we rehearsed in our venue for Saturday’s Masters of Pop gig as part of Camberwell Arts Festival – the beautiful St Giles Church in Camberwell. For those of Pop-Up who missed our gig there last summer, it was their first time back since singing at Tom and Jordana’s wedding, two of our members who met in choir!Continue reading “Masters of Pop: Meet Camberwell Community Choir”
It’s all we can do not to fast forward time until next Saturday, but given that our powers don’t extend that far yet, we thought it would be good to introduce you to the acts performing at our Masters of Pop birthday gig.Continue reading “Masters of Pop: Meet Chaps Choir”
There have been some wobbly lips among the Pop-Up roster over our MASTERS OF POP birthday extravaganza gig on Saturday June 14. Will we miss England V Italy? WILL WE?Continue reading “Join Pop-Up Choir in their own pub for England V Italy!”
A blog from your trust web moderator, Kat from the Alto 2s. That’s me in the back row to the left of the mics! Yes, I really am that tall.Continue reading “What do you do when you think it’s all gone wrong?”
After last week’s post from the stalls, here’s Charlie (Alto 2s) on what it was like performing at the epic Pipes V Mics.
The trouble with most mornings is that they’re in the morning. I confess I’m not a morning person, it takes a lot of caffeine to get me up to speed. So it was without gusto I left my flat at 7am last Sunday morning (please regard the time and then deduct an hour for daylight savings) for our first rehearsal at the Royal Festival with Shlomo, Reeps One and organist Tom Bell.
And what was it all for? Well, it was for this:
Continue reading “Gig Report: We sang at the Royal Festival Hall. That is all.”
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