Our son, Terence and his chum Tom Martin kicked off the proceedings with Marc McCabe, a young Lady called Laura, then our lad himself joining in with the vocals for the last of their three songs.
Every act was preceded by bitter sweet films from the 'Teenage Cancer Trust' I had never heard of before but which strives to give the youngsters as much teenage normality as possible amongst their peers while they are treated for their disease.
Next on stage was a shy young lady, Azariah, with a weak speaking voice which as soon she began to sing, became almost comparable to Adele.
Although mostly performed by scholars from St. Ninians High School Year 10, they also drafted in some other artists, Peter Bridge, a young dance troupe called Represent with guest appearances from Tom Callow and Charlie Yau.
Marc McCabe with backing from Henry Sayle did covers of Ed Sherran, David Gray & Tracy Chapman.
There was a dance band, Full Moon Fallout, who did their own compositions and really had the crowd bouncing, then Chileas Redwood-Sawyer doing his 'Black Eyed Peas bit, followed by Yesterday who managed to silence the boos when they announced they were a 'One Direction' number by transforming it into a rock song as part of their really tight set.
Panic Land brought the evening to a close, nearly an hour over schedule but I certainly didn't notice the time flying past.
On the whole it was a great evening and it counteracted my earlier gloomy countenance when I realised looking around that in the 15 years or so since we first sent a child to that school we'd grown from being young parents to old ones.
For more information on the charity, see:
www.teenagecancertrust.org/
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