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December Christmas Tour 2016

Our day began with a few well-deserved drinks in the bar in the early hours of the morning upon a very late arrival to the hotel. Unfortunately, this meant that two of our writers missed breakfast in order to get their all-imortant 7 hours of sleep - however, Harriet “Smoked Salmon!” Caisley as always turned up faithfully at 8:30am for her only solo of the tour, breakfast for one. At the leisurely hour of 12:15pm, the choristers rolled one by one into the coach, where it was discovered that Kit “Dude where’s my car?” Holliday was blissfully unaware of the location of his music, much to the chagrin of Jess “I Need a Ladder” Kinney, who had picked up his abandoned folder from the church in Amstelveen over 12 hours earlier. Following a swift telling off, music and aloof basses alike boarded the coach intact, and on we went to Apeldoorn.

December Christmas Tour 2016

Another day, another concert, another round of Grahamography™. Controversially, our first concert in the Netherlands featured some radical changes to the now legendary routine. Nick “I didn’t like the postlude anyway” Morris and Tom “Allain” Ashton valiantly rose to the challenge of assimilating previously unseen moves into their stellar performances, including the ground-breaking ‘step forward’ and the arguably more revolutionary ‘step backward’. Earlier in the day, Harriet “onboard entertainment system” Caisley had greatly contributed to the choir’s holistic education with a comprehensive video review of the many fashionable and pragmatic advantages of woven turtleneck jumpers in the form of a compulsory group viewing of Love Actually.

December Christmas Tour 2016

Sunday morning started with (in some cases) a wonderful cooked breakfast courtesy of our homestays, before meeting to get the coach from the church in Leamington Spa. A short coach trip later we arrived at the stately school of Stowe, making time for Alex “The Throne” Porteous to buy some new concert shoes, having forgotten his in London. Despite our Worshipful Director (PBUH) proclaiming that he would have enough time for a cup of tea before Alex and Holly “Power Behind The Throne” Holt returned, he still managed to hold the coach up for several hours following their speedy return. The shoes themselves, incidentally, were a steal at only £20 in the Next Clearance sale, are made of a fashionable black leather, and can be purchased from all good Next stores throughout the country.