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Remember you're ladies

 

I went into Chapel by the side door one day and before I opened the inner door, I heard the gentle sound of voices and guitar. It was Karen Matthews with one or two friends just improvising parts to Cavatina (He was beautiful 015). She rarely used music but played by ear - very talented indeed. That piece became the signature tune to the video made by the BBC.

 

In 1978 we entered the International Eisteddfod held in July in Llangollen, North Wales. BBC Leeds was making a series about groups from around Yorkshire "going off and doing things" in the summer months. A local man was a producer in Leeds and he asked if a crew of three could come with us. Hard decision!

 

They travelled with us by coach and filmed the choir around the Eisteddfod ground and competition tent - in fact - almost everywhere.! So much so that on the return journey after about four days, they wanted to film the girls singing on the coach. The girls had had enough! And they clamped their mouths firmly shut and went to sleep. The guys reluctantly packed their gear away and as the last case snapped shut, guess what? The singing started! Feminine perversity and so young!

 

At least one romance, leading to marriage, started on that trip. But I was the last to know of course. Something about a field at dusk … ?