Vivianne Westwood gig
On Tuesday night I did a gig at Banqueting House down in Whitehall for a Vivianne Westwood catwalk show. When I say I, I mean as part of a pretty large band comprised of a 35 piece orchestra, 3 brazilian rappers, a champion beatboxer, vocalist, two ballerina’s and a virtuoso violinist ( playing a £1,500,000 violin! ) and two rather scruffy rock guitarists ( one of which was me, the other my good buddy Martin Goulding ).
The whole thing was in aid of the NSPCC which is a great cause. It’s apparently the first time that there has been this sort of musical extravaganza at a catwalk show so it was cool to be involved. The music varied from South American rap, classical, rock and funk. The whole thing was conducted by top man Mark Stephenson. All in all a fun night.
It was attended by lots of famous people ( yawn! ) including Claudia Schiffer, the Jagger mob and I think I even saw Nigel from Eastenders ( from back in the day )!
Here’s a pic of with some of the band. From left to right: Ana Paula Aranjo, Fernanda Bussinger, Gabriel Currington ( composer ), me, Martin Goulding, Bellatrix, Alyusha Chagrin.
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Posted on Thursday, November 20th, 2008 at 6:11 pm.
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