Sarah Returns to the Pop-Up Choir after a rather looooong sabbatical. With just a few weeks under her belt, she is performing her first gig: “The Stokey Sessions” – yeah baby! “Held in the resplendent Old Church in Stoke Newington – it was a small but perfectly formed venue. High ceilings, stone walls and generalContinue reading “Returning to the fold: Stokey Sessions”
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Pop-Up Video: Sledgehammer on the 172 bus to Waterloo
Thanks to everyone who came to Masters of Pop on Saturday – you were INCREDIBLE! Easily our favourite gig, possibly ever. We were honoured to open the Camberwell Arts Festival for the second year running. The festival runs for the rest of this week and is packed with brilliant events, so check out the line-up.Continue reading “Pop-Up Video: Sledgehammer on the 172 bus to Waterloo”
Why we love Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off
FOUR DAYS TO GO TIL MOP! Chris arrived at choir to a great list of songs shortlisted by the choir – his choice? Shake It Off. While the majority of singers were really excited at the prospect, there were quite a few eyebrows raised, and a few from people who hadn’t heard the song, andContinue reading “Why we love Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off”
Gigs this weekend: Pitch Perfect 2 @ Ritzy Cinema and Voices Now @ The Roundhouse
This weekend! Saturday 9 May: Picturehouse Podcast’s 5th birthday party screening of PITCH PERFECT 2 at the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton – tickets and info here! We’ll be debuting a take on Taylor Swift that the Bellas would be proud of. Sunday 10 May: Voices Now festival at the Roundhouse in Camden. 3.30pm Camden Markets stage 5.30pmContinue reading “Gigs this weekend: Pitch Perfect 2 @ Ritzy Cinema and Voices Now @ The Roundhouse”
Gig update! Masters of Pop with The Buzztones and Tina C – June 20th
Oh it’s on, acabitches! Kick-ass a capella choirs? Check. Catchy, clever pop covers? Check. Brilliant compere? Check. 8pm, Saturday 20 June, St Giles Church, Camberwell – it’s MASTERS OF POP! Roll up, roll up, get your tickets here From Taylor Swift to Nineties classics, South London a capella favourites The Pop-Up Choir are backContinue reading “Gig update! Masters of Pop with The Buzztones and Tina C – June 20th”
Gig update: Pitch Perfect 2 at the Ritzy: it’s on, acabitches!
We’re thrilled to announce that we will be singing at Picturehouse Podcast‘s 5th birthday screening of the a capella comedy Pitch Perfect 2 next Saturday. Our perfect gig? HELL YES. If you didn’t see the first film, get on it. Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson star, and it’s about college-level a capella groups. In Pitch Perfect 2 their group,Continue reading “Gig update: Pitch Perfect 2 at the Ritzy: it’s on, acabitches!”
Hugging strangers at the Southbank Centre
My fellow performer handed me her phone. She had just received a text from a friend, and it turned out I had been hugging that same friend in our last performance. I read the text and my breath caught a little: “He sang just like my uncle, who’s passed away. And it felt like IContinue reading “Hugging strangers at the Southbank Centre”
Gig update! OMA launch party on Sunday March 8th
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that our first gig of the year will be on Sunday March 8th with the wonderful a capella group OMA to celebrate the launch of their video for THE ROAD, which features in Oliver Warren’s film Cusp. Esmerelda Ruiz, who sings in OMA, recently led Pop-Up’s spring workshop at the UnionContinue reading “Gig update! OMA launch party on Sunday March 8th”
My Top 5: Break-Up Songs
January is a terrible time for break-ups. Not that there is ever a particularly good time for it, mind, but good grief: everyone seems to be at it at the moment. (Do not get us started on Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter.) But look. You can’t beat a good breakup song. They’re therapeutic toContinue reading “My Top 5: Break-Up Songs”
Auditions, workshops and meet our new MD!
It’s a lovely thing, mulling over the year while full of turkey leftovers (seriously: that thing was cooked on the 25th, it should be finished by now or we’ll all die). The blog has been quiet this term while we’ve got to the important matters of auditions, new workshops – and hiring a new MD. AndContinue reading “Auditions, workshops and meet our new MD!”
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