I Want You Back went off without any major incidents, whereas we performed Respect in a somewhat more...creative manner.
Lindsay was not going to stand for any such shenanigans, and so we spent the rest of the day memorising book I of drill.
After another colourful attempt at our drill book, Lindsay and Dane decided that we should move off into sectionals and practice our music for yet another attempt to complete part I of our endless drill book.
The mildly dreaded memorisation test took place, and wasn't as horrible as had been expected. The best representatives of each section were sent to the front of the field and each person in the lineup played a bar or so before the drum majors moved onto the next person. If anyone made a mistake, their entire section had to do ten pushups.
In the afternoon, the student executive groups met in order to further their work; and while that happened, the rest of the band had a drilldown on the field.
Following that, there was a full band rehearsal in the hall, which was later joined by the colourguard as it became dark outside and they could no longer see what they were practicing.
At 5.30, the rehearsal for the day had finished, but the fun was only just beginning, as there was still movie night to come. As everything was set up, Dane put the colourguard practice DVD on the projector.
It consisted of a middle aged American man performing the routines with far more enthusiasm than was healthy. The sheer extent to which it looked like he loved his job of demonstrating colourguard routines was worrying. His happiness levels were somewhat scary. His smile was disconcerting... It gave us an understanding of what colourguard have to go through every time they practice.
With the arrival of the pizza, we all ate on the floor of the hall as various people plugged their ipods into the speaker system, providing music.
Before the movie started, there was the parade and judging of all the people who had dressed in rainbow. Dane and his Lurid poncho were unfortunately barred from competition, but the array of band members was still impressive. Jacob won the dress ups by turning up to band wearing no less than eight shirts, carefully ordered so that when he removed them to the tune of stripper music, he was wearing them in the order of the rainbow. Lockie (apologies if you prefer Lachie, when abbreviating it's hard to tell) who wore his sister's fluorescent pink skinny jeans and Jake in a reggae shirt received honourable mentions.
The movie we watched was Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and despite some issues with the DVD player, a great time was had by all.
We returned on sunday to find that the weather was actually rather nice in the fact that the sun was making appearances.
After a slightly late start we marched to the field for a massive sectional relay. During the course of said relay, we got to observe the interesting manner in which some band members do sit-ups. Flailing abounded. Following some poisonball, we got our instruments and started to play through the second drill book, with mixed results.
The rest of the day was spent first practicing Papa was a Rolling Stone and Aint No Mountain and then practicing the whole show in order. Lindsay was able to tell us that we were of a standard in which he would have no objections with us performing, and mentioned that there was the possibility of us performing the show twice next month at football matches.
Just before dismissal, everyone in attendance was given Play Your Part wristbands to remind them of their ongoing commitment to the band.
We worked hard this month, and it paid off in the form of our being able to perform the field show top to bottom without issue. Remember to wear your wristband all month and until next rehearsal, play your part loud and proud.
