10/02/2026
As mentioned, best EQS ever. It's time to thank not 4, but 8 coaches this time as on top of the four faculty members to fortify the Fanboys, Mickey's second quartet had another set of 4 to teach them
The other quartet is called Fourth Element and will debut in contest at BIBA, the Spanish convention, in april, where the Fanboys will sing first.
We're thankful of all our coaches!
- David asked what we would want from the session. Seeing as he coached Fruity Island Boys riiight before their big win in March, we said we wanted to be able to beat them. We joked of course (or did we🤨?)
- Sean had immediately demonstrated his ability of singing with optimal overtone creation. Three of us were very lucky to be able to book individual singing lessons with him.
- Mike, we had seen before and were aware of him being a Singing Judge. Then it lightly blew our minds when he said he'd been aware of us as well and even said he'd been eager to work with us😲 that means... Fanboys are getting FAMOUS😱🤩
-Jay Dougherty!! Surely a huge name in Barbershop. Idk, I wasn't in the room, must have been great
-See our previous post to see how we feel about Ali
- of us four, Mickey holds the distinct pleasure of having been able to work with Alexander Koller for a third time! We can only say that about very few.
- also was not a witness to Duncan coaching Fourth Element, but I just know it was great. He coached us once on a video call I think 🤔 and I saw him coach Fyra back in the day.
- having Ryan was a pleasure. He and Duncan being half of a ranked-28th-in-the-world Quartet, Fifth Element (6th highest European Quartet in the current BHS rankings) made it very meaningful for us to have him rate us and our abilities.
There must have been many jokes on the table on Fifth Element coaching Fourth Element but for the life of me I couldn't find 'em
📷 Eric Ideler