Music students put on a blazing performance on this year’s bonfire night. From Ash to Electric 6, there was music for everyone to enjoy. The bands could do anything they wanted as long as it made a reference to one thing: fire.

The gig was a collaboration of National Diploma second year music and music technology students, second year media students, and music students from Sunderland College. This huge collaboration was the idea of music lecturer, Leroy Johnson, along with media lecturer, Ed Cooper.

The media students were in charge of filming the gig in full, which was made into a DVD and sold to people who wanted to watch the magic over again.

‘We like to do two big shows a year and it tied in quite a lot of modules and completed a lot of projects in one go because it was on Bonfire night I thought of fire, so fire-related songs’ said Leroy

The first thing people noticed was how professional the stage was, with a handy trick of white cloth and orange light giving the illusion of fire on either side of the stage. Media students had four different cameras connected to three screens in the background enhancing the audience’s view.

The gig was kicked off by two Sunderland students giving an ace performance of The Prodigy’s Firestarter. Songs such as Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire and Jimi Hendrix’s Fire were performed by UoC students; with Roxanne Scott giving a wonderful performance of Snow Patrol’s Set the Fire to the Third Bar. The Sunderland student’s performed a mix of songs from Ramstein’s Firefly to Paramore’s Let the Flames Begin.

Music students from Sunderland College teamed up with the University because Leroy is good friends with their lecturer:

‘We’d been over to Sunderland in April to do a little gig so we invited them back to repay the favour really’

Watch a clip from the gig: