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I really enjoy being part of a choir. Even if I didn’t work towards any performances in front of an actual audience, I still think it w...

Metallica have just released their first studio album since 2008.  It's receiving some decent reviews , but Metallica being Metallica...

Sunday was the climax to the Spring season at choir, with a big concert at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre.  The choir actually did two p...

The real show-stopper in this my choir's repertoire this season is a medley of songs from Les Mis.  They've sung it before, and w...

On Tuesday evening, I took part in a singing Christmas Tree. We’ve been learning the winter season at choir now for something approachi...

I’m an atheist. Although it might sound ridiculous, I try not to use religious turns of phrase in my every day vocabulary: oh my God, Jesus...

My friend Tony is something of a photography buff, and he took many fantastic photos documenting our time in Scarborough (his wife is in the...

The view from the castle The salad I had for my lunch today had a lovely sticker on it proclaiming “Tastes of the British Isles”. Thi...

When I first joined the choir, I hadn’t really done much thinking beyond thinking that it might be quite fun to do a bit of singing. What I...

The current season at choir is celebrating the first five years and is a "best of" selection of the most popular songs from every ...

Back in January, I joined a choir.  On Saturday night, I was one of two hundred singers performing with a live rock band in front of a sel...

Those of you that know me, may well know that I take a perverse amount of pleasure from the list of films that everyone has seen that I have...

I don't know whether you think I spend my time either working, running or sleeping... but that's definitely how it feels to me at th...

Tonight was the last session of the season at choir.  It's my first season, of course, and over the last 12 weeks I have been given the ...

When I was seven years old, I became a chorister.  I don't remember being an exceptional singer, but I was picked out fairly early on...