Sooooo… Yes…. Well Mia and I managed to get a ticket to this closed event which Gwen went to with her school yesterday. It sounded like a music concert but really it was a recording session and the famous groups and singers were just there to make the whole thing a little more palatable for the 9000 children. In between the songs was a poor woman with a flag and a microphone trying to coordinate the singing of 9000 children in a football stadium. ‘On the count of 3, la la la la la la laaaa.’ ‘Now we need to all start at the same time this time.’ ‘Fantastic… but there was just one little thing – so let’s do it one more time.’ ‘OK, it’s a wrap!’
Some of the boys around us took great delight in screeching disharmoniously rather than singing which annoyed me greatly. Then I found out that they’d been selling T-shirts saying ‘I screeched the loudest at Verdens.’ so then I stopped feeling sorry for the organisers and thought they’d brought it on themselves.
The event was featured extremely briefly on the Danish news in the ‘and finally section’ when the singing sounded very good. I won’t give a link to this because it is an extremely involved process and all in Danish to get to this video extract.
All I can say is that I expect record producers are very good at extracting the best out of their performers so I am sure that your CDs will all sound tip-top. You DO remember that you signed up for these Christmas song CDs don’t you?