“If music be...” UK Cathedral Vaccination programme

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  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    Sparrow wrote: »
    Huia wrote: »
    Thanks Boogie. I really enjoy the Marsh Family. Did they have a public profile before they started sharing their lockdown music?

    They seem to have a lot of stuff on Youtube. Have you heard their latest - based on Total Eclipse of the Heart.


    "Totally Fixed Where We Are"
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    Sparrow wrote: »
    Huia wrote: »
    Thanks Boogie. I really enjoy the Marsh Family. Did they have a public profile before they started sharing their lockdown music?

    They seem to have a lot of stuff on Youtube. Have you heard their latest - based on Total Eclipse of the Heart.


    That was brilliant. I think I read somewhere that a number of them do study music.

  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    This cheered up Mr M’s breakfast no end. 😁
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56261397
  • AnselminaAnselmina Shipmate
    No Cathedrals in my area to act as vaccination centres. Just town halls. My turn today! Welcomed into the lobby by a cheerful Hand-Sanitising Steward singing along to his CD player belting out Rod Stewart's 'Do you think I'm sexy'! Ah, happy memories of a slightly misspent youth.
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    Anselmina wrote: »
    No Cathedrals in my area to act as vaccination centres. Just town halls. My turn today! Welcomed into the lobby by a cheerful Hand-Sanitising Steward singing along to his CD player belting out Rod Stewart's 'Do you think I'm sexy'! Ah, happy memories of a slightly misspent youth.

    Sigh 😁

  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    Not long done. Pharmacy. No Rod Stewart but the chap that did it was cheery enough.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited March 3
    The cathedral choir should sing, "Begone, unbelief" by John Newton. Its last verse seems particularly apposite:

    Since all that I meet
    Shall work for my good,
    The bitter is sweet,
    The medicine, food;
    Though painful at present,
    ’Twill cease before long,
    And then, oh, how pleasant
    The conqueror’s song!


    BTW did anyone else see on the news Dolly Parton's updated version of her song "Vaccine"? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56261397
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    The cathedral choir should sing, "Begone, unbelief" by John Newton. Its last verse seems particularly apposite:

    Since all that I meet
    Shall work for my good,
    The bitter is sweet,
    The medicine, food;
    Though painful at present,
    ’Twill cease before long,
    And then, oh, how pleasant
    The conqueror’s song!


    BTW did anyone else see on the news Dolly Parton's updated version of her song "Vaccine"? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56261397

    We did indeed!
  • kingsfoldkingsfold Shipmate
    edited March 3
    Anselmina wrote: »
    No Cathedrals in my area to act as vaccination centres. Just town halls. My turn today! Welcomed into the lobby by a cheerful Hand-Sanitising Steward singing along to his CD player belting out Rod Stewart's 'Do you think I'm sexy'! Ah, happy memories of a slightly misspent youth.

    Bit difficult with fixed pews, and narrow side aisles - it doesn't allow for too many places where you can have a jabber and jabbee meeting over a desk/table to do the paperwork bit (even if electronic), and one way flow of bodies is also a challenge.
    One is also led to believe that TPTB wanted the building for a year. We're nowhere near the same size as Lichfield/Salisbury etc and it would impact a) when online recording could be done and b) would make services in person more awkward (as & when).
  • From the pictures I've seen on TV, at least one cathedral seems to be using its cloister and another its crypt, rather than the main worship spaces.
  • kingsfoldkingsfold Shipmate
    From the pictures I've seen on TV, at least one cathedral seems to be using its cloister and another its crypt, rather than the main worship spaces.

    We do actually have a crypt, but only one door to it, and down an external stair which is narrow & slippery. No cloister. But in terms of size, our local cathedral would probably fit inside some of the larger English Parish Churches.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    Well, when NZ gets going with the bulk of the vaccinations Christchurch Anglican Cathedral won't be used as it is still being demolished and re-built. The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, (Catholic) has only one storey left, while the new site is being used by rare gulls that have a breeding colony there. I think building may start in autumn when the gulls move out. St Francis of Assisi would definitely have approved.
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