- Year: 2009-09-21T05:11:02+10:00
- Length: 5:53 minutes (5.4 MB)
- Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
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Audio: The Stampadown Choir
Choirs...who knows where they belong in this pop-cult world of fleeting trends.
They either conjure up traumatising images of school, heavy robes and teachers letting their wobbly bits fly during their manic attempts at conducting; or a tear creeps into the corner of your eye, nostalgic over that heart warming ABC series, The Choir of Hard Knocks.
Determined to establish the presence of singing groups on the radar of cool, I headed around the corner during an unusually warm Wednesday evening to hang out with my "local" - The Stampadowns - to get the lowdown.
"You think that the 70's were wild," warns the charismatic Stampadowns choir director, Peter, and indeed, the choir revealed itself to be embroiled in scandal*
Whether it be in a dementia ward, or a metaphorical bed of hot, wanton lust, this random ensemble of 14-40+ year olds certainly left me to reconsider any aspersions I may have cast prior...Check it out and sign up!
* Concept of scandal should be considered in relative terms
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11.11.09 — Claudia Taranto
They sound like such a fun bunch of people - you're really captured the spirit of the choir, they all sound like they're smiling as they're talking. I would have liked to hear a bit more of their singing and for the grabs of interview to be a bit longer - it was just a bit too busy and moving over topics too quickly. You have a lively presentation style that works well with the busy, chaotic sound of the rehearsal. It's a shame the room is so reverberant where they rehearse - maybe taking the interviewees out into a quieter space would have worked better, laying the sound of the choir and rehearsal underneath them. He's a pretty cheeky choirmaster and how fantastic to hear children singing with adults.
31.10.09 — GB
This is fantastic - congrats on a great piece. Yes, choirs do get a bad rap - I was going to join the local one but am held back by the dagginess of it all - but now I'm thinking twice about it. I think with the shows on TV and things like this posting that people may engage more with the local choirs. I think people should move away from the term choir - singing group or just a cool name like Stampadown would be good.