...to see if they are sufficiently tone deaf to warrant exclusion from the Club Choir that will be performing most Saturday nights during the season. “The auditions will be quite tough” says former running Rhonda chorister Colin Sinclair, “because we don’t really want any exemptions from singing in the clubhouse after the game”. “Solos are one thing and may require a more lenient approach, but for ensemble verse singing we will demand that only a ‘chronic crooner’ will be able to ignore the baton”. Admittedly Paul Murphy is an automatic exclusion but the rest of the committee will have to subscribe to the audition process along with everyone else. Song sheets will be provided but while, unfortunately, there will be no musical accompaniment, singers can expect plenty of inadvertent descant and inappropriate harmonies in the background.

Auditions might be held at any time throughout July and August in preparation for an opening choral rendition early September. Refusal to sing will be punishable by an unpleasant drink or maybe two.