Private School News

Boomtube

On Sunday 28 February coach-loads of excited Q girls and a posse of proud parents descended on the West End for a concert of a life-time: Boomtube. The event was staged at the famous Phoenix Theatre and masterminded by Harrow School pupil Charles Y and his family to raise funds for the charity ‘Room to Read’ (www.roomtoread.org). This amazing rock music concert allowed the special musical talents of teenagers from Harrow, Wycombe Abbey and Queenswood to be show-cased, supported by two professional bands: Red Box and Magazine Gap. Over six groups plus soloists gave thunderous performances to rapturous applause on the night and a phenomenal total of £23,000 was raised in the process.

Our super-cool band, Interno (Spanish for ‘boarder’), comprising Nikita H, Caroline S, Danny A-L, Jane A, Lydia A and Emma N, soon had the appreciative fans rocking and rolling in the rows. Their vivacity and obvious love of rock music, coupled with hours of practice, paid off and their flawless, funky and fabulous performance flowed. We all thought our girls were the best – bias had nothing to do with it! At the end of a fun and fulfilling evening all the ‘rock chics’ and their adoring supporters wended their way home, content in the knowledge that they had done their best. Rock on girls!