That was Amazing MkII

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Brisbane Roar Gig

That was AMAZING!!!

Congratulations to all of you for a VERY slick performance tonight. Before the game, in the stands, on the field, it all worked out beautifully. I sometimes have to remind myself that some of you have never played an instrument before. Congratulations!

Special congrats to Warren and Darren, they played surdo very well after only two classes. Well done guys!

Now, I also have some not so good news. Both Vitor and Martim are going back to Sao Paolo in the next couple of weeks, this was their last performance with us. Thank you guys for everything, you have inspired us very much in the past few months! Also, Peter is going to go to Germany for 6 months or so. Fortunately he'll be back after that!

Guys, again, well done for tonight, and thank you for helping me to make my dream possible!

Details for Saturday gig

I'll keep updating this post with details as they'll become available:

• Dress code: Roar shirt, white pants. Please no jeans/black pants. Our own white pants with the pink & green stripes are OK. I've got some spare ones if anyone needs them
• Be there: 5pm - at Inform car park opposite main vehicle entrance on Castlemaine Street
• Parking at the Inform carpark has been arranged for Erin, Denis, Claire, Lynne, Patty, Elwin and myself ONLY. We will get all instruments from the trailer, and won't have a dressing room. You can leave stuff in my car if you want.
• Guest tickets - I'll distribute those shortly after 5pm at the car park.
• The event is a big deal - TV all over the place. Please be on time and take the time to listen to instructions, we only have a few days to organise this.
• We'll play during the game, at half time, and most likely also before the game on both north and south plaza. During the game, we'll have our own section (for the whole samba school, not limited to 6 this time). We'll get assistance from 200 kids.
• Keep checking the blog for updates please

Here are some of the calls we'll do when in the stands:

• Crowd1
• Crowd2
• Crowd3
• Crowd4

This is the break we'll do once we're all gathered at the centre of the field.

And this is the grand final at the end of our half time performance.

Instruments

First Surdo: Mike, Will

Second Surdo: Brian, Darren

Third Surdo: Fernando, Martim, Artur, Warren

Caixa: Denis, Vitor, Jason, Peter

Shaker: Sarah, Gail, Lynne, Patty, Elwin, Zelia, Miki

Tamborim: Claire, Erin

Grouping for pre-match performances

Caxton Street side: Jason, Vitor, Claire, Gail, Fernando, Lynne, Will, Elwin, Miki, Darren, Warren

Milton Road side: Remko, Erin, Mike, Sarah, Denis, Brian, Patty, Peter, Martim, Artur, Zelia

Aisles/sectors for half time performance

339: Denis, Gail, Brian

340: Vitor, Miki, Darren

301: Fernando, Lynne

302: Patty, Martim

303: Artur, Zelia

304: Erin, Claire, Warren

308: Mike, Sarah, Peter

309: Jason, Elwin, Will

(refer to map for location)

Gig THIS SATURDAY - SunCorp stadium

As discussed on Thursday, we've got a special event at SunCorp stadium this Saturday 30 January. Brisbane Roar has made an announcement about a temporary coach for a couple of weeks. He happens to be Dutch, but has got roots in Surinam and Curacao, two places I lived when I was a child. His name is Patrick Kluivert.

I am currently discussing exactly what we'll do, but it will involve the whole samba school, playing on the plaza, in the crowd (looks like we'll get our own section) and on the field. Again, details to be confirmed.

Because of time constraints, I would appreciate it if you could let me know asap if you can be part of this - via email.

Kick off will be at 6pm, I think we'd need to be there 5pm.

UPDATE: well we will do something very special indeed! What do you think about a paradinha with REAL fireworks????!!!!!

Gig alert

I am currently discussing a few gigs, here are the details so far for your information:

• Sat 30 January 6pm - the last Roar game of the season. This is going to be a special one, and if all is going ahead we would have the whole samba school perform in a very, very special way, maybe supported by 400 kids. I would love to be able to do this with ALL of you. I have further details that I'll discuss tonight as I shouldn't put these on the Internet...
• Somewhere in June, we might play at the Eumundi markets, during a body painting festival, leading a parade of, well, painted people. Might result in some good pictures! And maybe we can paint Brian as well. It's a bit of a drive, but maybe we can make a day of it. I can only do this if enough people are interested in this - let me know. We could car pool, and maybe combine with a Noosa visit.

Happy new year - first rehearsal 2010

Everyone HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hope you all had a great break and a nice Xmas. I have been pretty much isolated from the rest of the world down in Tassie, with no email and no mobile phone for weeks. Refreshing...

The first rehearsal for this year will be next week, Thursday 21 January. I know I said earlier we would start the 14th but we still have interstate guests and I am also busy with a few other things this week, so best to start relaxed the week after. I know most of you are keen to get going again so apologies for that, and see you next week!

Remko