Looking to end Spark on a high note
Spark week’s Band in a Bubble are set to end the festival with some fun and original music.
Wintec music tutor Kent MacPherson and musicians from around the country have locked themselves away until the end of Spark week.
They have taken inspiration from Band in a Bubble, which was a TV show featuring the band Regurgitator who locked themselves in a giant bubble-like structure over six months while they wrote and recorded a full album.
MacPherson, along with fellow Wintec tutors David Sidwell and Jeremy Mayall and others, have set up in Wintec’s wharenui during Spark week, where they have been writing songs which they will perform Thursday night.
“The wharenui is great, we can write our notes on the whiteboard walls, it has good acoustics and there are heaps of windows for people to peek through, or feel like they can come in,” MacPherson says.
He says that they are “very much going for a pop, country, funk type of feel.”
“We’re trying to make something that sounds sophisticated, professional and not just a load of ideas played over again like a jam session,” MacPherson says.
MacPherson thinks there is a chance to make their version of Band in a Bubble an annual event at Spark week.
“I think we could definitely do this again and maybe involve students too because it’s good for them to see the grind of the composition process,” MacPherson says
The Band in a Bubble will perform on Thursday at the Wintec wharenui at 7:30 pm.
“Hopefully it’s going to be a good environment where people can sit down, have a glass of wine and enjoy some original contemporary music,” MacPherson says.
