Michelle Loubon

Singing pop/rock songs like Be­lieve You Can and 10 80 miles, The Flick en­sem­ble placed sec­ond in the fi­nals held at Space La Nou­ba night­club, San Fer­nan­do, on Sep­tem­ber 2. The Mouse­trap emerged cham­pi­ons. As a dou­ble wham­my, The Flick claimed the cov­et­ed Peo­ple's Choice award at An­chor­age, Ch­aguara­mas, on Sep­tem­ber 24. They are gear­ing up for a spe­cial con­cert on Oc­to­ber 20, at Lit­tle Carib The­atre, White Street, Wood­brook. Apart from their up­beat mu­sic, The Flick en­sem­ble came in for ku­dos since they epit­o­mise youth en­gaged in pos­i­tive ac­tiv­i­ty. On Oc­to­ber 7, they en­ter­tained pa­trons at­tend­ing a coun­try-styled har­vest at Mara­cas RC School.

In­ter­viewed on Wednes­day, man­ag­er Noel Am­ing, son of vet­er­an mas­man/band­leader Neville Am­ing, said he was bent on en­cour­ag­ing ado­les­cents to de­vel­op their mu­si­cal abil­i­ties. Am­ing was ac­com­pa­nied by co-or­di­na­tor Michael Roberts and gui­tarist Daniel Roberts, 15. Daniel is a Fourth Form stu­dent at Fa­ti­ma Col­lege, Mu­cu­rapo. They were drawn from oth­er schools like Bish­op's, Trin­i­ty, St Joseph's Con­vent, Port-of-Spain and Prov­i­dence Girls'.

Am­ing said, "The band com­pris­es 13 to 16-year-olds. They are at­tend­ing school. So I?have to be cog­nisant of that when they prac­tice. They prac­tice at Glen­coe and Fa­ti­ma Col­lege. The fact they are in school means I?have to choose prop­er venues for them to per­form. We grav­i­tate to more com­mu­ni­ty and church events. I just want to en­cour­age them to do some­thing pos­i­tive with their lives. They are young and they can go places.?They have nat­ur­al tal­ent."?

Am­ing added, "They com­pose most of the songs in their reper­toire. My job is to help them pol­ish the per­for­mances. I help them with the vo­cals. I?help in the blend­ing of the voic­es." Ze­ro­ing on the im­mi­nent con­cert, lead gui­tarist Roberts said their fans can ex­pect "more mod­ern songs." Pat­ting him­self on the back, he said, "We com­pose our own songs like Last For­ev­er and Can't Stop. We are still work­ing on our sig­na­ture song."

He thanked his moth­er Lisa, a gui­tarist at St Fin­bar's RC Church, for in­cul­cat­ing a love of per­form­ing with­in him. "I would help her out by play­ing the gui­tar. I even sang songs like Hosan­na."?

Mean­while, the se­nior Roberts as­sists in trans­port­ing equip­ment and en­forc­ing dis­ci­pline. "I?have to keep them in check. I feed them. They have vo­ra­cious ap­petites," he said. The Flick is work­ing as­sid­u­ous­ly on a CD which should hit the mu­sic stores by No­vem­ber. "By then we should have a sig­na­ture song. I?told them you can iden­ti­fy 3 Canal with Blue. ?Shad­ow Has Pover­ty. Stal­in has Sun­dar Wey the Song. Otis Red­ding has Sit­tin on the Dock of the Bay."

Mem­bers of The Flick en­sem­ble

Daniel Roberts–lead gui­tarist/vo­cal­ist

Don­a­van Clay­ton–Rhythm Gui­tar

Adriel Shear­wood–drum­mer

An­drew Scoon–gui­tar/bass

Jus­tice Fer­reira–drum­mer

Monique La Chapelle–key­boardist/song writer

Marisa Sargeant–lead vo­cals

Chelsea Fras­er-lead vo­cals

Sarah Seuk­er­an–gui­tar/bass

More In­fo

The Flick pop/rock con­cert takes place on Oc­to­ber 20 at Lit­tle Carib The­atre, Wood­brook

Time:?6:30 pm

Tick­ets:?$75.

Con­tact:?688-8960 (c) 766-0039

email:?mtrobs@hot­mail.com