I Heard It Through The Grapevine...

...oh and I'm just about to lose my mind.

As we are entering the final stretch before the concert it is rather hard to think about what the next season holds. The Pink Insider is not prone to posting rumour, but after a bit of digging and careful investigation, we've come up with a tentative list of new songs the Pink Singers are likely to be jiving to for summer 2008.

1. Introit from Karl Jenkins' Requiem
This is the last full choral song in the Requiem, and since the sheet music cost in the region of a tenner, we'll have to get our money's worth out of it! Seriously though, of all the pieces from his Requiem, Introit is the most famous (at least, it is a Classic FM favourite), and we will at last be tackling it.

(P.S. The video has nothing whatsoever to do with the pictures. It looks like someone was performing the Elephant Man, took loads of pictures and set it to an abbreviated version of Introit).

2. Motown Medley and Son of A Preacher Man
One style of music we've never really attempted is Motown. Our actual motions may be stiff, but our rhythms are not, and this may well get us into a foxxy mood. We're also pretty good at medleys, so this seems like a great choice.


3. Somewhere from West Side Story
Hmm. I'm not sure about this one. I mean, I love the song, but there is a real tendency for any performance of it to be overblown (I'm lookin' at you Babs). Simon has a version of Ms. Streisand performing it with Il Divo, quite possibly the most traumatic combination I have ever heard for this piece of music. Gimme Natalie Wood any day.

Mmmm... Yummy! And with karaoke lyrics to boot!

There is other music we attempted in the past but which never made it into a stage performance. Age of Aquarius anyone? Perhaps that will sneak it's way into summer? Will there be others? Undoubtedly, but for Pink Singers it is still not too late to get your requests in!