An Evening

The Helen & Walter Ross Assembly Hall was transformed for the Music Department’s Spring Showcase - Bond. Our pupil performers spent hours rehearsing to perfect their performances and their efforts paid off. From the moment the lights went up, the audience members were treated to a spectacular show.

The playlist included Bond theme tunes spanning the decades. The show opened with The Hutchie Bond Band performing the signature James Bond theme-tune music.

Daniel (S5) performed From Russia with Love, Bow (S5), sang Goldfinger, Lara (S4) sang Thunderball and Rachel (S3), performed You Only Live Twice, before Andrew (S6), sang We Have All The Time in the World. All classic Bond hits from the 1960s. Sally (S3), and Iona (S4), performed 70s hits Diamonds Are Forever and Nobody Does It Better respectively.

Following a short interval our talented pupils performed an equally mesmerising second half. First up was S5’s Vincent and Zainab who performed The Living Daylights with S3’s Sarah.

They were followed by Nikitha (S4), who gave a stunning vocal performance of Goldeneye Tomorrow Never Dies was performed on the first night by Ilaria (S3), and Leila (S3) provided the vocals on the second night. Isaac (S5), Mariam (S3), Orla (S3), and Rowan (S2), performed You Know My Name from the 2006 film Casino Royale. The song Another Way to Die from 2008’s Quantum Solace, featured the vocals of S2’s Scarlett, Rachael and Sheer. Annvita (S6), gave an impressive performance of Skyfall while Kyle (S4), showed off his amazing vocal range with The Writing’s On The Wall from the 2015 Spectre movie. S5’s Laura closed the show with her version of No Time To Die.

We were delighted that Grange Aston Martin Edinburgh supported our Bond event by bringing their DBS Superleggera into the school grounds on the Wednesday night - the model which featured in the last Bond film “No Time To Die”. For a £2 donation, guests had the chance to have their photo taken beside the supercar with all money going to our school charity Cure Leukaemia.

Both nights our performers excelled and certainly raised the bar for the next event. It was an incredible evening to showcase Hutchie talent.