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Acting
UEFA Champions League Final

A monumental opening ceremony at Wembley Stadium in front of 90k mostly German football fans in the stadium plus a 150m TV audience, directed by Hamish Jenkinson and Jonny Grant. Most volunteers in this show were recruited from the Pandemonium Drummers and other volunteer performers from the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, and as I could not make the first two rehearsals due to family commitments, I did not join the 300+ group of drummers, but a much smaller group of knights, with the benefit of being kitted out with a full body armour, including shield, helmet and a long and heavy sword. Concept The idea for this opening ceremony was based on a dramatic chess game, played by two actual representatives of the opposing sides: Lars Ricken for Borussia Dortmund, and football legend Paul Breitner for FC Bayern München. The two representatives were shown moving figures on a chess board in a preproduced video, but then the game unfolded live on the grounds of Wemble...

Cover/Rearrangement
And I Will Kiss

This post includes music. Underworld 's soundtrack to the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony was undoubtedly fantastic, and the track ' And I Will Kiss ', which accompanied the Ceremony's Industrial Revolution segment, apparently was the biggest mixdown in music production history with about 1,000 tracks. Background I feel privileged to have been one of the 1,000 drummers playing along to the track as a volunteer performer, and indeed drumming in the recording, and you might know by now that this experience was so overwhelming for many volunteers that they keep being active. So when I organised the Open Mic Ceremony , which featured the musical skills of many other volunteer performers, I wanted to build on the London 2012 experience and decided to create a new version of 'And I Will Kiss' and run a spontaneous surprise jam around it. I gave my cover the title 'And Will I Kiss?' to clarify that this version would be a little differen...

Paola Pivi 1000

Tate Modern 's vast Turbine Hall was filled with the noise of 1000 people screaming in unison as loud as they possibly could. I was one of the screamers on the bridge of the Turbine Hall, contracted for these few seconds by the Italian artist Paola Pivi. One thousand people make a lot of noise, and I was hoping to listen to the reverb we would create after letting out one single scream with one bout of breath. Alas, any reverb drowned in a prolonged screaming attack stemming from the visitors, who initially joined our scream, but were not instructed to stop as we were. What was conceptualised as a short few seconds display triggered a visitor reaction that was at least five times as long as our performance - and we only realised after a few moments what was happening. To relive this moment, watch this vide from Tate Shots:

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