A day out is organised to visit Create Studios in Swindon. The lads are driven up by Mrs Leach and Bev - the idea is work with Barry Andrews, Music Producer & Musician, the studios are part of the Wyvern Theatre, so the lads hope to get on stage and make a spontaneous short play. Jill had also organised to take some of the Questarians over to do a radio broadcast at Swindon 105.5 fm, all between the hours of 10 - 3.00 pm. It was time for fun and action, a race against the clock! Quest 1 worked brilliantly well as a team, producing edgy rap & a moving rock anthem - exploring the power of lyrics, music and mood, to tell a story, from dark to light. They all bring something to the creative challenge, for instance, Charlie found his voice, drawing from his recent experience of visiting Glastonbury festival, "you've given birth" I cry, as they all slump in the chair at the end of the day, happy but exhausted. Andrew goes home to write a fantastic report of the days events.
Did you know Barry has a mention in Wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Andrews_(musician) |
Ali leads on drums... Thanks to Create Studios, Swindon, for supporting our project! http://createstudios.org.uk/ Now this did make me and Charlie anxious because now Ali had to leave to go to Young Musician of the Year at our school- Good luck to Ali! So me and Charlie had to some how find almost 2 minutes of song somewhere in an hour. We thought the best thing we could do was to plod on with the next verse. In this verse we managed to make it double as long as any of the other verses, this would really help make the song go on longer! In between the 3rd verse and the 2nd one we added a long instrumental with a guitar solo. By this time the song was nearly at the 2 minute mark. The group that were downstairs were finished and they were curious on how we had got on. They were amazed at how much we had done, but there was one more thing to be done. The needed to finish the song with an outro, we though that for this we could simply just repeat the chorus whilst the music fades out for about 20 seconds. We recorded this with everyone singing- It had a great effect and it really expressed the energy that we put into that song! It was almost time to go, we all had one more listen all the way through. Before we went we all thanked Barry for really helping get this music together in such a short amount of time. In the car on the way back we had the song ringing in our heads! It was incredible how we had to start the song again at 12:30 and managed to finish it in time, and it was such a catchy song!!! Wow almost a thousand words! Report by Andy |
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