The Rock Choir Flash Mobs Telford Shopping Centre for Parkinsons UK.

Shropshire Star

We catch up with the Rock Choir as they Flashmob sing at Telford Shopping Centre, in connection with Parkinsons UK.

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00:00in Telford Shopping Centre and introduce yourselves ladies. Hi I'm Rowan Richards

00:04and I run Rock Choir in Shropshire. Cool. And I'm Vicky Mountain and I live in Parkinson's.

00:09And there's a bit of a special event going to take place very shortly isn't there?

00:13What's going to be happening? Well we're going to be doing a flash mob in Telford Shopping Centre

00:19which is supposed to be a surprise. Yeah well yeah that's why we'll just say it nice and quiet here.

00:24Yeah yeah yeah. But all the singers come out from wherever they're kind of hiding around

00:29outside the shops and down the corridors and they start the song and then they come out

00:33singing Mountain by Sam Raider. Awesome and this is all raising money Parkinson's. Raising money,

00:38raising awareness, Parkinson's. It's normally just an old man's disease. Yeah yeah because people tend

00:44to think that don't they? Yeah and they think it's all about the tremor. I don't have the tremor.

00:48Yeah so how old were you when you first started getting symptoms? I was 38 when I first

00:54started getting symptoms. And what were the first symptoms that you had then? My leg drag when

00:58I ran. Yeah. I ran for more than 20 minutes. I knew I could run longer. Yeah. But I could drag mine.

01:02Oh interesting okay. And then from that point to getting diagnosed how long was that? Seven years.

01:08Seven years? Wow okay so now it's a diet of pills and... It is and I've had deep brain stimulation as well.

01:16Yeah. Which is really terrible. Oh wow okay. So what's what's what is deep brain stimulation?

01:22They put two rods in the centre of your brain and then like a pacemaker in your heart. Yeah.

01:28And it listens to your brain waves and it gives you stimulation. And that's just helped you in

01:33what way has that helped? It has helped you tremendously. Yeah.

01:37With pain and stiffness, with slowness and movement, with walking. Yeah.

01:41I can guarantee you this time I'll still open to being stuck here. No way. Well well done you.

01:47Well done science. Yeah well done science. Well we look forward to it then I shall go and

01:52subtly hide somewhere in the background. Right thank you ladies.

01:59Well done science. Ok but I can't enjoy my dreams.

02:05I'm so smart, animals that areclapping of you.

02:08And I'm so embarrassed now.

02:13So I want you to bear in the background.

02:17I know I can't control you, Lord.

02:20I can't increase my pain from burning, so that I'll be dreaming of it.

02:26I'm snapping my way to the sky, shaking my mother not me

02:31You, I know you'll resist in, you know

02:36You, I know you'll resist in, you know

02:42I love you, I know you'll kyllo

02:46You're like I don't want you to, you know

02:49I know I'm holding you on and you know

02:52I am not ashamed.

02:55Now, I belong to our heart,

02:57but I don't know the soul

02:59But I don't know the soul

03:02was larger than your time today.

03:15This is not we shall

03:20Oh, sweet child, sweet child of mine.

03:28Oh, sweet child, sweet child of mine.

03:58Oh, sweet child of mine.

04:28Oh, sweet child of mine.

04:58Oh, sweet child of mine.

05:28Oh, sweet child of mine.

05:38Oh, sweet child, sweet child of mine.

05:46Oh, sweet child of mine.

05:56Oh, sweet child of mine.

06:02Oh, sweet child of mine.

06:10Oh, sweet child of mine.

06:12Oh, sweet child of mine.

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