Chorus line

The Southbank hosted a festival of choirs at the weekend. The air was filled with harmony and everywhere you looked there was a line-up of singers sending out the message that making music together is one of the most joyous ways of connecting with your fellow humans. The choir I've been singing with since 2004, the London Bulgarian Choir, was invited to participate with a half-hour slot in the prestigious Purcell Room.

The cummerbund crew

Our mums-to-be – last gig before B-day

Our clashing otherworldly chords and vibrant trills and hiccups have been surprising and mesmerising audiences in equal measure for 14 years now. Sunday's select group of spectators settled down for a sample of our highlights, though on stage the acoustic was frighteningly dead, with one side of our curve unable to hear the other. From the audience's perspective, we were later told, it sounded brilliant, so I guess that's all that matters.