The safety of Holy ground

On a day when I should have been doing not a lot of anything, we ended up doing rather more than planned.

A trip to Telford for Aaron's fitness training and to the park to occupy Owen.
Then to the cinema, after dropping the kids off, to watch No Time To Die (not a Bond film).
Nandos for a date(?) and bumping into old work colleagues.
Then to the Abbey for an organ recital.....OK, so it was an organ recital to accompany the 1922 Nosferatu, with a gin bar, and it was amazing! The film's a creepy classic anyway but adding in the organ* and the atmosphere of the abbey just added to it. Unfortunately I couldn't get anyone to pose as Count Orlock for this.



In the calm of the 1000 year-old Abbey, we revive memories and the spirits of monks past. Bass Mike Sheehan and organist Nigel Pursey present a sequence of ancient plainchants alongside organ music written around those chants, dating from Tudor times to the present day. All the colours of the organ will be demonstrated in a reflective and atmospheric presentation

After a drinks interval the evening’s serene calm will be shattered as the lights dim and we present the iconic silent horror film Nosferatu, with live organ music performed on the Hill organ by Nigel Pursey. From Baby Shark to Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, using standard (but scary) organ repertoire, well-known colourful snippets and some improvisation, he will create organ electricity to enlighten the horror unfolding on our giant screen.