Shoop Shoop Song

Traditional opening to fine concert

A LARGE and enthusiastic audience enjoyed a varied programme at Arbroath Instrumental Youth Band’s annual concert on Saturday.

The event held at the Panbride Church hall in Carnoustie featured the young group and some extremely talented solo playing.

The concert opened in traditional style with ‘Colonel Bogey’, the famous march.

The programme had something for everyone including songs from the musicals ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Whistle Down the Wind’, film music from ‘Dances with Wolves’ and popular songs ‘The Shoop Shoop Song’, ‘Something Stupid’ and ‘Mamma Mia’.

There were also original compositions for brass brand by Edward Gregson and Jan De Haan which proved a technical challenge for the young people, which they surpassed.

The concert also featured some wonderful solo playing from Jordan Robertson (12) on trombone who played ‘Morceaux Symphonique’ and Christopher Flynn (11) on euphonium who played Andante and Scherzo.

Both of these soloists are the younger members of the band and the technicality which was displayed during these solo spots was particularly impressive.

Two older members of the band, Chris Robertson (euphonium) playing ‘Bluebells of Scotland’ and Scott Ness (cornet/trumpet) who played ‘Fantasia on Tico Tico’, also provided a high standard of entertainment to the appreciative audience.

The band has 39 members ranging from 10 to 17 years but the bulk of the youngsters are between 10 and 15 years of age.

They are conducted by Ann Ness and all are taught by Mr Michael Robertson, musical director of the senior Arbroath Instrumental Band and the British Youth Brass Band Champions, Carnoustie and District Youth Band.

Ann said: “These young people are the cream of youth today and show immense dedication and commitment to perform at such a high standard.

“Credit must go to their teacher Mr Michael Robertson and the inspiration and quality of teaching that he provides.

“I have the easy job of pulling them all together at the end of the day but the real work is done at home and in their lessons. I am so proud of them all.”

The Youth Band will be having their usual featured spot at the Arbroath Instrumental Band concert in Arbroath’s Webster Memorial Theatre on Friday, September 2, at 7.30 p.m.

CHER – “The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)” | FreakyTrigger

This puts a different spin on the record – teen romantic belief becomes enjoyably bad parental advice as bellowed by Cher, a performance that will brook no appeals (“NO NO THAT’S JUST HIS ARM”). It’s also rather funny, particularly as Cher simply steamrollers her meek backing singers in the second verse, breaking in with “No no that’s not the way!”. “The Shoop Shoop Song” is no classic, just an affectionate throwaway vamp through an old hit, but Cher is always an entertaining presence and in a year of draggy hits this one had a likeable gumption.

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#26: Yep, that is correct. Daggy wool is worse news than simply being a bit shitty too – Australian farmers have to be careful to monitor the dags, because sheep in Australia very often get ‘flystrike’ (flies laying eggs in the general region of the dags, which is particularly unpleasant for the sheep).

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Only ever seen bits of Mermaids, but it’s vaguely notable for establishing the connection between Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci, who (although having a thoroughly dissimilar screen persona) would eventually inherit her mantle as Hollywood’s indie/goth girl of the moment, confirmed by appearing uncomfortably blonde opposite Johnny Depp in a Tim Burton movie (Edward Scissorhands for Winona, Sleepy Hollow for Christina). And they would both go on to have disappointing* careers, possibly due to the fact that Winona is actually rather rubbish and Ricci has a pretty restricting shtick.

*Supposedly, Winona is BACK BACK BACK due to Darren Aronofsky and his penchant for scrawny brunettes, but I’ll be surprised if Black Swan really is the start of something big for her.

fatgit – I wonder if Wichita took that from the comments under the YouTube video, where someone says “I love Cher’s face at 56”. I thought it was odd that two people got the age identically wrong, then realised the poster was talking about “her face at :56”, ie 56 seconds into the video, where she’s pulling a “love you guys but you’re jerks” face at Winona and Christina’s moves. Actually it’s a lovely video, they’re all having great fun with each other and barely performing at all, which is why I always looked forward to it on TOTP. As for the vocal, it’s Cher being Cher but in a more relaxed mode than the overblown power ballads, and none the worse for that. In fact the only thing that annoyed me about this was the title – the bloody “Shoop Shoop Song”. What’s wrong with the proper title?

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