Some Din & Tonic For The Friday Blues

The Harvard Din & Tonics graced Victoria Junior College this morning in their impeccable tuxedos and lime green socks, treating us with a melodic dose of A capella music. 

Armed just with their vocal chords, dashing strides and a zany sense of humor, they won over Victorians' hearts with not just their music, but also with their presence. What a beautiful way to start our otherwise dry Friday mornings! 

They performed their own acapella renditions of popular jazz, doo-wop and soul numbers from the golden era (Summertime, The Lady Is A Tramp and their signature gag Sh-Boom) as well as contemporary pop (McDonald's Girl, which was undoubtedly the most loved). They even counted from 1 to 40 in a whimsical yet lovely acapella style. We were also privy to the Din & Tonic piano, popcorn, bowling and a black McDonalds logo (they formed these things ingeniously using their bodies and tuxs). 

Midway through Sh-Boom, as is their custom, the Tonics enacted a rather horsey joke :P

They take you to maybe, just maybe the first time you had ... .... .... .... a cheeseburger!

They weren't just singers with pretty faces, they were true-blue showmen. And they put on a great show. Even though I don't dig acapella and jazz, they gave me a genial introduction to it. Indeed, the group showed great pride in its rich tradition and musical roots, and I'm glad we could get a peek of it.

The current members of the Harvard Din & Tonics

Oh, and on the Singapore leg of their ongoing 10 week world tour, they're doing a very special charity concert at Singapore Polytechnic tomorrow. They plan to raise half-a-million SG$ for a very noble cause! 

After their performance they had a booth where they were selling CDs but most of us were more interested in a meet-and-greet (lol)! Even though they were ambushed by hundreds of their most recent fans, they were really nice and took like thousands of pictures with us! Me and my buddy Karan managed to take pics with some of the Dins too, yaay!

(Middle pic) Me: "What's up with the lime green socks?"
The fella on my right: "We're just cool like that."

(Bottom left pic) He resembles Paul McCartney, doesn't he, no? No (?