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Hidden Fate. Watch out for em!
After Brad swore black and blue that he would never go in Tournament of Minds ever again guess what he has just gone and done? Yep, along with Louise, Noah, Josh, Ben and Katherine they entered into the Social Science section of this years event. The theme for their presentation was based around a newly formed rock band called Hidden Fate and their attempt to make it onto the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. The central part of the presentation was a performance of an original song that they all wrote together in the weeks leading up to the event. They didn't have time to work out the songs name, but "Tomorrow's another day" seems to fit. Brad played lead guitar, Josh did the vocals, Ben was looking after the drums, Noah took control of bass and Louise was their number one fan!
It was always going to be too hard to setup all the gear required on the day so they decided to record the song and then mime it for the judges, but the school stage performance was on that week and all of the teachers, equipment and music rooms were busy or in use so the guys had to improvise and ended up recording it on a portable cassette player (remember them!) with a Playstation Singstar microphone in the shed at Noah's place.
It was all meant to be tied together by Katherine, their narrator, but unfortunately she didn't turn up and the phone number we had for her was incorrect so we were unable to contact her. On top of that Josh was playing in a footy final and arrived one minute before they had to go "on stage". Brad didn't have time to fit his guitar strap so he had to sit on a chair to do his piece and Ben's cardboard drums were a bit low to the ground.
To their credit they put all of that aside and went ahead anyway, but it all fell apart without the narrator being there to tie everything together and they had to pull out. The judges were great and encouraged them to perform the rest of the piece anyway, so another Kingston High guy from the audience offered to read the narrators piece from the script.
They all did an awesome job and I could tell from the comments the judges made afterward that they were very impressed. They especially liked the fact that they wrote and recorded an original song all on their own and I think they would have scored well if they had all been there.
You can listen to their song by clicking on the little play icon below. Just remember that it was done by a bunch of resourceful 12 year old's on a little portable tape player with a toy microphone in a backyard shed (isn't that how all great rock and roll bands start?), so please excuse the quality! If any of the others want a copy of the mp3 then just ask Brad as he has it on his phone.
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