Well, it does seem my blogs are getting further and further apart!
The reason, for once, is that I've been really busy... I've set up a new group - Bear Explosion. We're a bunch of gay guys based in Manchester, making comedy music videos. We also have an offshoot doing live performances. As a group, we've been hard at work since about November, and last Sunday we premiered our first two videos during the karaoke night at the Outpost.
It was in the middle of the Great British Bear Bash, a huge event for the Bear community (hey, look up bear (gay slang) on wikipedia if you're confused!).
The evening was very busy, and as well as showing our first two videos ("Baby Got Back" and "Bearband Medley"), we also planned to sing a couple of songs - an adapted version of Katy Perry's "California Girls", plus the Bear Explosion theme song, which I wrote, my friend Gary arranged and another friend, Will, created the backing track for.
Just to clear it up - yes, we do know the words to our songs :-) But since we knew it was a karaoke night, we thought it would be fun to put our lyrics on the screen as if they were karaoke tracks - that way the audience could follow us, or even join in!
So we had five nervous performers, some well rehearsed songs and some fun, crackingly well-edited videos... and they were all received really well. I was massively proud of the boys, who gave some brilliant harmonic vocals and even managed to enjoy what they were doing, despite any butterflies they were feeling... well done lads!
We're going to start putting the videos online sometime in early June, so watch this space for details - or find us on Facebook, Twitter, or on our own website. Our website is only just started, and doesn't contain much for now, but we are working on it!
The evening was very busy, and as well as showing our first two videos ("Baby Got Back" and "Bearband Medley"), we also planned to sing a couple of songs - an adapted version of Katy Perry's "California Girls", plus the Bear Explosion theme song, which I wrote, my friend Gary arranged and another friend, Will, created the backing track for.
Just to clear it up - yes, we do know the words to our songs :-) But since we knew it was a karaoke night, we thought it would be fun to put our lyrics on the screen as if they were karaoke tracks - that way the audience could follow us, or even join in!
So we had five nervous performers, some well rehearsed songs and some fun, crackingly well-edited videos... and they were all received really well. I was massively proud of the boys, who gave some brilliant harmonic vocals and even managed to enjoy what they were doing, despite any butterflies they were feeling... well done lads!
We're going to start putting the videos online sometime in early June, so watch this space for details - or find us on Facebook, Twitter, or on our own website. Our website is only just started, and doesn't contain much for now, but we are working on it!
Then at the end July, we'll be performing at the Belfast Bear Weekend organised by Men Of The North - we're really excited about this, so hope you'll consider being there!
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