My band The Preachers performed at the Ashcroft Arts Centre upon Tuesday the 26th of March as part of the Fareham College Easter Showcase.
Along with many other inferior bands, we performed our tribute to the iconic album ‘Purple Rain’ by Prince and The Revolution, which I have personally grown to love. I turned up in full costume which was something special, we definitely stood out amongst a crowd of normally dressed people. We were flamboyant to say the least.
The gig was epic, I was brought chocolate and pizza afterwards from my partner for doing such a good job. During our performance, the crowd seemed to be enjoying themselves and singing along when I trying to scope out Chris hidden all the way at the back. Afterwards we were praised big time from both the audience and our lecturers. I felt like it went really well and I was proud of how confident I have became leading up to that very moment.
Our playing was spot on, and so was our presentation, now I own a full on Prince costume to whip out whenever…
However, no one is perfect unless you’re in my band, but we didn’t play throughout the whole set without a slip up or two. The worst trip would have been right after our drummer tripped up a bit during the drum solo.
The beginning of the guitar solo, our bassist struggled counting the bars whilst trying to engage with the audience and our singer at the same time. This has gone well in rehearsal may I add, but on the night he fell behind by half a bar at the start on the guitar solo. I instantly noticed and instantly turned away from the crowd and straight to our drummer, because I know she is the keeper of time itself. We held onto the original bar for a short while but our bassist still hadn’t noticed, so we both halted to go back to him.
This change happened quite simultaneously, and I’m fairly certain nobody else noticed apart from each other afterwards. Not only am I proud of each and every member of my band but I am proud of everyone who took part that evening an for how well we all played whilst representing our College.
I have linked our performance below if you would like to check it out!
Ellie Thornton Music 