20 January, 2014: First group rehearsal

Overall punctuality was lacking and so we lost a considerable amount of valuable rehearsal time (over a 1/4). In addition to this, one of our group members who is a guitarist was not present and so we could not rehearse "Golden Brown" by The Stranglers as planned.

Instead, we started on Seal's "Kiss from a Rose" and managed to get up to the second verse. We arranged our rendtion with accompaniment from a keyboard, guitar and a cajón, as a full band (as featured in the original recording) would be unsuitable for the relaxed, live lounge setting we are aspiring to create for our final event.

We harmonised very well together by the end of the rehearsal, by which point we had split the first verse between myself and Serena whilst Kian led the chorus and I harmonised with him. As a group we collectively harmonised the introduction which is a recurring motif in the song but we opted to sing only the vowel "ah" as oposed to the "ba-ya-ya" that Seal sings in his original arragement.

The original 1994 music video released for "Kiss from a Rose"