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School Equipment:

3 amps with power cable (at least two inputs each)
i. 1 amp for keyboard
ii. 2 other amps for the vocalists

4 music stands

1 keyboard stand

1 power strip

2 quarter inch cables

2 XLR cables

1 mic

Student's Own:

Keyboard

Cajon & shaker

3 mics

Power supply (lol)

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Hero - Mariah Carey
Imagine - John Lennon
Million reasons - Lady Gaga
Like I'm Gonna Lose You - Meghan Trainor & John Legend
Love Yourself - Justin Bieber
(Unrehearsed) Shape of You -
Ed Sheeran

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After describing the whole event, I don't think these will need any words at all.

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As you can probably imagine, by now we all were panicking heavily as we had obviously run so late with no time or ability to actually fix anything. That being said, we did manage to save the performance, but only by sheer luck. Here were our saving graces.

Grace 1: Willie showed up in school to help us pack and his dad drove the van with the equipment to the venue (as well as waited for everything after). Also Dom and Dave who helped load the van.
Grace 2: Willie manage to find another mic to loan us as well. It may have been broken, but hey, he still helped.
Grace 3: Mr Oliver met us at the venue and helped us unload our equipment and bring it up.
Grace 4: What we felt, to be the biggest saving grace. When Sam realised his power supply was missing, Mr Oliver got on his bike and rode all the way back to school to find one for him. He didn't manage to find one, but he brought a synth back with him and Sam made it work. We are all so grateful to Mr Oliver for that.
Grace 5: The emcee of the event was a volunteer, and it's not easy keeping a roomful of kids entertained for extended periods of time. But he did a great job and managed to give us enough time to set up.
Grace 6: Dave who helped us set up and test the equipment (although even his skills couldn't counter the dreadful VIP setting).
Grace 7: The kids requested a song that we hadn't prepared but everyone felt like we could do it, so we jumped right in.

Obviously, the performance could've gone a whole lot smoother, but we all felt really happy to be performing for this event and making the kids happy was amazing. We definitely learned a lot from this experience even though there were many stumbles. But through it, we all behaved with grace under pressure, (even while sweating bullets,) and at the end of the day we were proud of what we did.
THE TIME RUNNERS

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To preface, even though we didn't have a lot of time to prep for the event, we still tried our best to put our soul into the music. In the hopes that it might help a person or two. We chose older songs because we felt like they would be the most relatable. To provide some context, here was our schedule for the performance day.

SCHEDULE
10.15am: Arrive at school and load up equipment
10.45am: Leave school and make our way down to the venue
11.00am: Arrive at the venue and unload equipment
11.15am: Soundcheck
11.30am: Perform

Because of the size of the equipment, only two people could ride with the driver, while the rest of us made our own way there, which is another way to get into trouble, but I digress. Our schedule looked pretty simple and easy to follow so nobody had any issues with it during our planning. Unfortunately, Murphy likes to follow people around so of course, on performance day, we had some strokes of bad luck. So here's the schedule we really followed.

Strike 1: At 10.46am, nothing was yet packed in the van and the staff helping us was nowhere to be found.
Strike 2: One of the vocalists forgot to bring their mic and we had to get Willie to find another one for us on short notice.
Strike 3: At 11.14am, the van with all the equipment and two of our members, had only just left the school.
Strike 4: And probably the biggest strike, though not the last, at 11.20am, Sam realised someone had stolen his keyboard power supply.
Strike 5: The mic that we got from school couldn't actually work.
Strike 6: It was now 12pm, and nothing was ready yet. Also, we didn't actually start performing until about 12.30pm.
Strike 7: Because of the lack of soundcheck time, we didn't realise that the speaker we were using for vocals, was on the strangest setting known to mankind, and it only could work for one person at a time.

Unbeknownst to us, there was a setting that worked something like this. If two people were talking at the same time (or singing, because you know, there's like four singers), the channel with the "VIP" setting would be audible while the other would be muted. (What???)

And finally, Strike 8: The "older" audience that we thought we were going to be playing to, and whom we had chosen "older" songs for, was actually...a bunch of kids. And yes, I know that doesn't make their plight any less tragic, but we were in total shock and we felt pretty stupid right then. We also started freaking out because they wouldn't be able to sing along with any of our songs!

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We got offered a gig by our teacher on the 13th of March. Not a paid gig, but something for charity. At first we debated on it, but then we realised this wasn't just any old charity gig. This was something that totally opened our eyes to the other side of Singapore.

There are apparently lots of people in Singapore who are technically homeless. Something which, being in an arts school, we didn't really know much about. But here, we were being offered a chance to perform at New Hope; a community outreach which is targeted at transient, homeless families. We were immediately humbled, and took the job with the hope that, helping people with music, would count for something.

THE TIME RUNNERS

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Place: New Hope Community
Date: 18th March 2017
Time: 11.30am - 12pm