Pride London 2009 Dance Party!

Things are really heating up in Pinkie land. On Sunday we ran through nearly the entire repertoire for our summer concert. Things are still a little rough, but through the rough you can see glimmers of diamond. We are on full on polish mode until the concert on the 11th of July.

The week before that happens though is Pride London, and if you don't know by now, the Pink Singers have been associated with pride London for the last 26 years. It is an important factoid that we were created in 1983 for Pride London, and some of us (i.e. Philip R) have been at every Pride since. We're here, we're queer, get used to it!

We're on stage again in Trafalgar Square, but this year will be slightly different in that Paleday, Anthony's band, will be backing us. At the rehearsal on Sunday we had a chance to play with a recorded version, and it is sounding rather exciting. Until last week we had only heard the music to 70s Dance Party, which totally transformed it from something rather lifeless to a medley I know people are going to love. On Sunday, however, we got to hear the backing tracks for California Dreamin' and America. The former works especially well, and a recording of our rehearsal is now on loop at home because it sounds fantastic! These are sure to be crowd pleasers.

The only downer in all of this preparation is that the Pride stage is now too small of cope with our expanded numbers. This means that only 11 per section will be allowed up there. This Pink Insider will, sadly, not be one of those, so there is no inside scoop from me this year about the shenanigans that go on in the artistes' tent, but rest assured one of the other Pink Insiders will! No, I'll be out front for once taking photos, blogging and tweeting like crazy. If you see a mad overexcited Pink Singer, that is likely to be me. So stop me and pick up a flyer!