Thank you everyone for today, I think we did pretty well, especially given we didn't have any snare players. I'm not sure about you, but I was absolutely exhausted after all that, pretty much full on from 2pm till past 6pm.
I didn't know we were going to be in such a small area, I had understood we would have all the area between the stands and the end of the field. Hope it didn't feel to claustrophobic for you. And the rain in the second half only got us a little bit wet, thanks for persisting and continuing to play.
I loved the fantastic feedback from the audience, very positive! The radio calls were sometimes hard to follow, but at the end it took the burden away from me to decide when (not) to play.
I'll have a debrief with the event organisers later this week, I'll let you know the outcome. In the meantime, please let me know any comments you have.
Thanks very much again!
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My feedback:
It was really well organised and the atmosphere was way better than in the soccer games.
It was good to play samba reggae in the stadium and you managed to play all the paradinhas. It was really good.
The bad side of it is that it was too long. I was really tired after the second half. Maybe we should play like half an hour before the game, not one hour and a half.
Copy that. I think if there's a next time, I'm going to suggest we just play 30 minutes max at the Milton Road end.
Feedback from the crowd: ( a )people are glad to see us, it's a better atmosphere . (b)One called their friends ,from the other side to the field, to let them know we would played the other side at the second half. No need to come over .
My Feedback: Remko stay in the middle among us and we facing you when playing. People ( and the baby ) on either side of Remko's repinique went home deaf that night. They didn't know what hit them.
A suggestion: Can the Koala and the Dragon mascots be taught to dance to the Samba ? :-)
Wait. Let me get this straight. You played for an hour and a half before you even went into the stadium??? Holy Mother of God!! No wonder you were tired! :)
No Patty, not quite that bad. At 2pm I got into the stadium to deal with the organisation. We started playing at 3pm for 20 minutes, then walked to the other end and did another 20 minutes. Still very tiring though.
OK the feedback from the organisation is mainly positive. Good feedback, no complaints. They'd like us to split up into two groups before the game: one north, one south.
Most important feedback is: they'd like us to look more...... tribal and raw !(?) They don't know exactly what they mean with that though.
So, let's see if we can do something with costumes, fire (next game will be at night), and other 'tribal and raw' attributes. Any (serious) suggestions?
face paint?
Blood?
" Tribal, Raw and Face Painting " Please tread carefully. People can overdue do it and it doesn't look good.
Around 6 yrs ago, Elliot did a "tribal/raw" procession for the Brisbane Biennial of around 300 drummers who dressed up tribal and did their own face painting and it looked like a circus . Not tribal at all.
Maybe we should look up "Mad Max" in "Google Images" for some ideas. :)
Agreed Brian. Anything 'tribal' (if we ever do something like that) will still need to look fantastic, no hobby-hippy stuff.
A goat on your back looks pretty tribal to me, though!
We should play using only a banana leaf as clothes. hehe
If we decided to go with face paint, we could still keep it Brazilian-tribal by having one wide band of red colour across our face across the bridge of our nose, like Indian tribes from the Amazon. That would be both a Brazilian reference, plus include the red colour for the footy team. :)
Remko, you mentioned "fire" for the next (night-time) match. Maybe there's someone in the band who knows how to do fire-twirling? (Not dobbing anyone in, here!). they could do that on the concourse while we play before the match.
Re costume ideas - "tribal" doesn't necessarily mean African. Remember the 2006 Grande Rio entry in Carnaval? They had Amazonian references with lots of black and cream and red tribal patterns. I found some photos, but don't know how to put them into my message. Anyway, we could wear a simple top in inexpensive rough fabric and screen-print a pattern onto part of it. They also had feather wrist-cuffs, which would give a tribal look, and lots of movement as drummers played.
Indeed tribal is not necessarily African - I don't think anyone suggested that?
No way I'm going to get anyone in the group involved with fire - we would work together with specialists. There's some serious insurance requirements regarding involvement with fire that I want to stay well clear off!
I was thinking big fire baskets around us. Not necessarily twirling. Maybe fire eaters? Limbo under fire?
Having said all that on reflection I would be surprised if it is dark enough before the games, unless they start around 8pm.
Face painting might be an idea but not just by itself.
do think we will have to give the banana leaf back to the qld reds after the game?
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