Last night was the return of Gig Night - what a fantastic evening and thank you to all the families that attended - we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! Our talented pupils gave some absolutely outstanding vocal, drum, guitar, saxophone and piano performances of songs by Radiohead, Blur, Bruno Mars, Imagine Dragons, Ashe, Adele and Bastille among many others - Niamh hitting the high notes at the end of 'Moral of the Story' was definitely a highlight, as was Mitzi who gave an amazing debut performance of her new song, Pretty Boy. Henry performed a brilliant version of Creep by Radiohead while Toby's drum and sax solos were sensational, not to mention all our other musicians who really put their all into their performances - you could see they really enjoyed being up on the stage having the opportunity to perform in their own style - and Will who was an excellent compere.
It really was a great team effort, from delicious street food provided by Adam and the catering team, professional event management headed up by Mrs Conway to ensure the evening all ran smoothly and truly amazing performances by our talented pupils, all organised and led by Mrs Sadler-Smith, not to mention an abundance of help from our fantastic pupils setting up and breaking down for the event – some of them even stayed until 10pm!
Mr Shephard-Blandy, one of our parents and the Director of Illuminate Design, a specialist lighting, sound, staging and AV products, very kindly offered to provide all of the sound and lighting for the event – he was here from 9am setting this up and it was certainly worth it as it looked and sounded fantastic and gave the event a really professional feel. We cannot thank him enough for this as it was all done voluntarily and really did transform the evening atmosphere - aside from the Assembly Hall looking brilliant, he also worked with some of our older pupils, teaching them about the kit and how to programme everything so that they could be in charge of it on the night - thank you!
