Monday October 26th 2009 15:19

Take Refuge Concert

I was recently asked if I would play percussion at the Take Refuge concert. One rehearsal later I joined the other musicians at Walsall Town Hall with bits of my drumkit and assorted hand percussion instruments borrowed from Belle & Sebastian.

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The room was huge and was a bit of an acoustic nightmare as it had a very long decay.

As I was supposed to be playing I only took photographs in the rehearsal.

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I purposely travelled light and only took 2 lenses with me and no flash gun. Instead I tried to make use of the stage lights to back light subjects:

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The concert sold out and the room was packed. Here's how the room looked from where Richard was sat:

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As I was only able to take photographs in between song rehearsal's I didn't manage to photograph the entire band.

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The choir sounded amazing:

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A rare action shot:

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The stage light in this photograph was bright red:

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Does playing the 'Cello give you good posture, or does good posture help you play?

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The odd blobs of light here are caused by the 14mm lens picking up light from windows:

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On the night it was announced that so far, roughly £15,000 had been raised. This figure will hopefully increase with sales of the DVD.

It was an amazing experience and a privilege to be involved in what was a truly uplifiting evening of praise.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.