By Mr Lachlan Coventry, Director of Ensembles

On Wednesday, 11 June, our annual Radford Rocks music evening was held in the Performing Arts Centre, featuring five bands from the co-curricular music contemporary ensembles program, as well as two guitar ensembles.

The program started at 5.30 pm with the Zappa Guitar Ensemble playing an arrangement of the Coldplay song Clocks. Next, Year 7 band The Coworkers took to the stage to play a rocking original song Gasoline Dreams to great applause.

Year 10 band The Currents delivered an energetic version of Blur’s Song 2, followed by The Greeks Freaks (a name inspired by the heritage of their bass player), which wowed the audience with Gravity by Against the Current.

Montgomery Guitar Ensemble played acoustic versions of Everybody Wants to Rule the World and Chasing Cars. Year 8 grunge band Ouch! was inspiring in its delivery of the Pixie’s Where is My Mind and Radiohead’s Just.

Finally, Year 12 jazz fusion group Is the Ocean a Soup? rounded out the night with three instrumentals by Japanese band Casiopea.

Thank you to Mr David Burcher who masterfully ran the sound desk and to the Media Crew and Mr Stephen Rose for providing professional lighting.