Open Mic Night

23 March 2016

On Sunday 13 March the Ugland Auditorium hosted this year’s second Open Mic Night. Whilst open to the whole School, most of the talent was drawn from the Third, Fourth and Fifth Forms, but they gave performances way ahead of their years!

With over twenty items it could have been a long evening, but the attention of the audience was held throughout and the witty compering of Mali Aitchison (Fifth Form, Nugent) and Henry Gauvain (Fifth Form, Temple) enhanced the renditions and kept things moving swiftly along. The range of styles was broad, encompassing everything from jazz improv from Theo Hayes (Third Form, Chatham) on piano with Sean Carslaw Tricot (Third Form, Grenville), to some serious rock drumming from Dan Jolker (Fifth Form, Cobham) and his band-mates, Henry Gauvain and Max Campbell-Preston (Fifth Form, Grafton).

There were a great many solo song performances interspersed with duets from Tom Fras (Fourth Form, Walpole) and Helena Vince (Fourth Form, Queen’s) and also Bella Coldstream (Lower Sixth, Lyttelton) with Starzie Grafftey-Smith (Lower Sixth, Queen’s) and Florrie Antoniou (Third Form, Lyttelton). I would like to thank all the performers for their involvement and we look forward to next year’s events.

Miles Nottage, Head of Rock, Pop and Jazz