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Ladies and gentlemen, courtesy of Guy Barry/Rob Mansell entertainments, please click below to see the debut performance of:

The Underground Can-Can

I trust I've done it justice. Sound quality is not great, but you get the idea. And you can see the stations pop up on the screen as I sing them.

To view it from a different angle, you can watch this truncated version, which also includes some of my introductory oration (including a credit to Guy Barry). However, this recording unfortunately dropped out at the end of the Jubilee Line.

And loadsa money was raised that day for our building project, including £10 when I auctioned off a signed copy of the notes I'd used at the piano to perform this!

Enjoy, and get dancing!

OK, this is actually quite impressive! Shame about the visibility of the Victoria on the screen, though.

RobbieM wrote:Ladies and gentlemen, courtesy of Guy Barry/Rob Mansell entertainments, please click below to see the debut performance of:

The Underground Can-Can

I am speechless with admiration. Didn't realize there were going to be visuals as well. I don't think I could have sung it as well as you!

It was really good! Top marks to the both of you

Thank you all! I thought I'd leave you to discover the visuals for yourselves. Many thanks to Rachel who appeared in the video as my 'scorekeeper'. She also created the Powerpoint.

I have a feeling I may be asked to perform this again a few times...

It's taken me all this time to realize that a much better title would have been "Orpheus in the Underground"

GuyBarry wrote:It's taken me all this time to realize that a much better title would have been "Orpheus in the Underground"

Of course! Never occurred to me either. I've now added this alternative title to the write-up on YouTube. Nearly at 100 views, and they're not all my mother...

A couple of them were me.

About half-a-dozen of them were me! Also my own mother, who suggested I should send a copy to Boris...

It's spurred me on to consider performing a couple of my own songs at a local open mic night next week, so thanks to Rob for giving me the inspiration.

'Tis my pleasure; hope your performances go well if you decide to do them.

And please feel free to forward the Underground Can-Can link to Boris, TFL, The Queen etc.

Seems as though I wasn't the first person to have this idea!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVi59az997o

But yours might be the first version with all 270 stations in it!

For those who weren't there, I'll just mention that RobbieM and I gave an impromptu performance of this at the Zone 1 social last night - him on piano, me singing. Despite fluffing a few stations I thought it went down reasonably well! (I'd like to rehearse a bit next time though...)

Superbly done gentlemen

I will add my kudos to the performance after the Z1 challenge. I loved it!