Convention

Sound Check Chorus sign-up

 

THURSDAY 24th October, evening

The signup form is now closed.

If you signed up for the sound check chorus, you should have now received an email confirming your participation (sent on Friday 4th October around 6:35pm).

Please check your spam folder if it's not in your inbox.  If you still can't find it, please email soundcheck@labbs.org.uk to confirm your status, thank you.
 

Please read the below information carefully, so you know what you have signed up for and are committing to!

 
OBSERVERS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN THE AUDITORIUM.  Non-singers, or those not on the official sign-up list will not be allowed in to the auditorium, and if any do manage to sneak in they will be politely asked to leave. Please do not put LABBS volunteers in the position of having to enforce this.
 

TIMINGS

7:45pm - The nominated sound check quartets and registered sound check chorus singers must report promptly to the auditorium door, to be checked in by the Events team. Only those on the list will be admitted at the appointed time. Late entry will not be permitted, so be on time!
8:00pm - Sound check starts for the engineers to complete their technical setup, with scratch chorus and one nominated non-competing quartet (already chosen).
8:30pm approx - E&J sound check judges to assess setup and work with engineers to optimise. No other judges are allowed in the auditorium.
9:15pm - Anticipated finish time - if any issues arise, the sound check may need to continue until all issues are resolved.

Please do not attempt to access the backstage area at any time, and be prepared to leave the auditorium promptly and swiftly at the finish time, as the technical staff will be continuing with setup and no observers are allowed for Health and Safety reasons.
 

Important: please do not chat/talk once you are in the auditorium, as the techs will be working at all times and communicating across distances and need to be able to hear each other.

If on the day you are unable to take part for the whole process start to finish, please email soundcheck@labbs.org.uk to let us know, and please do not attend at all.

Please email any questions to soundcheck@labbs.org.uk.
 

What is needed from you:

Your voice, confident knowledge of more recent polecats*, patience and discipline on the risers (strictly no chatting, including on arrival, as this will hamper the technicians' ability to work efficiently).

* These will be the following polecats, which are all available on the members' polecats page

  • With a Little Help  from My Friends
  • You Gotta Be
  • Make Your Own Kind of Music
  • Anthem
  • If I Can Dream
Note that the only males who can sign up are:
  • MDs of competing LABBS choruses
  • male/lower-voiced members of competing mixed quartets
You must be able and prepared to sing in the female range, and if you are a mixed quartet "MQ" LABBS member who is not also a FULL member of LABBS with a web site login, please contact soundcheck@labbs.org.uk for access to relevant polecat music.

Sadly due to licensing restrictions, we cannot accommodate other non-LABBS members who are attending convention.


What you will get in return:

Experience of the stage and acoustics, which you can report back on to your chorus (and any chorus who asks, who is unable to take part in the sound check themselves).