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Driving rain, frigid winds and flood warnings; it can only mean one thing, it's Irish festival season once again.
The Stradbally love-in that is Electric Picnic is one of the highlights of the DGC calender. So it was for the forth year, the gang clambered aboard the boogie bus in the early hours of Sunday morning for the drive down to Ireland's coolest music festival.
Nerves were a little rattled as the coach headed out of Dublin into the Wicklow countryside. Taking to the main stage in front of thousands of screaming and unwashed festival-goers is enough to shake even the most battle-hardened performer but this year we had an added ingredient. In preparation for the recording of our live album the choir had taken a few of our favourite traditional Irish tunes and rubbed a bit of DGC soul on them. This was to be their first public outing and the thoughts of reinventing these songs that are so close to every Irish heart was a big ask.
As the bus slopped its way through Gate 6 into the artists' enclosure the excitement hit fever pitch. The band were already in place setting up. The vast empty field was eerie as sound check finished. Would anybody venture out of the warm seclusion of their tents into the torrents of rain and deluge of mud that was the Stradbally arena?
Venture they did!
Clad in a spectrum of waterproof protection and shielding their eyes against the brightness of daylight after a late night before, the hoards came forward first in a trickle and then in a flood.
An hour was gone in an instant and the choir gingerly crept down the stairs, exchanging celebratory smiles and half grins of nervous pride. Desperately working to keep their new robes out of the mud, they tip-toed through the murky puddles back to artists' area for a well-deserved rest rubbing drenched shoulders with the great and good of the music industry.
A few hours soaking up the atmosphere and it was back on the coach for a the long haul back to church, as headlights danced past the windows some dozed, pockets of resistance chatted and sang but all had a sense of a job well done and, as our Musical Director Orla would say, that 'Enid Blighton feeling': Tired but very, very happy.
Roll on 2010!!
Check out the new outfits! :)
http://2fm.rte.ie/blogs/ep/2009/09/dublin-gospel-choir-raise-spirits.html
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