Look Out! - Performance Reviews.
Super performance yesterday; wonderful songs & music - well done! You
manage to appear extremely relaxed - it's as though the stage is your
real home!! Amazing!
Well done to you, also Sandy. Welcome smiles and hospitality are
essential for a successful show!
Just had to rush home and write to you all to say ‘well done, it was bloody fantastic’!!! Best thing I’ve seen in ages! (And I was at the brilliant Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival last weekend !!)
The songs were marvellous and so very powerful - poignant lyrics and wonderful melodies, and shivers went down my spine so many times. Put together as a song suite, ‘the whole’ was simply superb, telling a very sad story in a most moving manner. I learnt things I hadn’t known before. I remember that newspaper vendor in Poundtree Rd and, as the song said, had no idea about his sad history. Sam and I both agreed that (in our humble opinions) it was well researched, sensitively handled, and incredibly emotive. It’s a long time since a performance brought me to tears as this one did.
We both thought that Jeff was a well-cast ‘Fred Fleet’. He was obviously moved by Fred Fleet’s story and we had no idea he had such good acting skills. We also very much enjoyed the performances of the girls – they also ‘acted’ their parts so well and sang so beautifully. Indeed, everybody was great and the instrumentation was neither too much nor too little – again just right. And the commentaries were also just the right length. Congratulations on absolutely everything!
Our grandchildren also loved the show. 12 year old Mitch gave his verdict as ‘wicked’, whilst 8 year old Kerri, who was singing along with the choruses, thought it was ‘really, really good’. Even 14 year old Rhys who declares that he ‘doesn’t like folk music’ and only came, somewhat reluctantly, because it was about the Titanic and ‘might be a bit interesting’ declared it ‘very good’. Indeed, he has been talking to his granddad about it whilst I’ve been writing this and he had obviously listened to every word and learnt a great deal.
You have just got to get a CD out very, very soon. I want it yesterday. And how about Barry doing a Titanic song book? We need both! Any chance of a copy of the video? I’ll buy it and still buy the CD and songbook when they come out!
The only negative about the evening was something out of your control – the acoustics in the church. Also two of the mics didn’t seem to be working very well. From YOUR left it was mic numbers 1 and 3. Mic number 4 was definitely the best. This slightly marred the performance because I couldn’t hear ALL of the words. Yes, I know I’m hard of hearing, but Sam didn’t hear all of the words either. Then again, maybe it was because of where we were sitting in relation to the speakers? Although some friends who were sitting right over on the other far side, also had problems with the sound system, thinking it was the balance. Like us, though, it didn’t mar their enjoyment of the performance.
Sam and Sandy
Steve & Ros Dean