About the Club
2nd May VIII Song 2025
M2: The Musical
Starring:
| Toby Ng as Tracy 2 | Hugo Woodhouse as Penny 2 |
| Oscar Allen as Tracy 1 | Archie Bentham as Penny 1 |
| Patrick Fleming as Joly | Thomas Gaertner as Danny |
| Daniel Edwards as Grantaire | Luke Barratt as Enjolras |
| and Will Whitton as Marius/The Cox |
Directed by Patrick Fleming
Act 1: Blue and Gold
set to ABC Café from Les Misérables
| Enjolras |
The time is near. So near, yet Alex has flown off to Spain. And yet, beware, Don't let the splits go to your brains! We need a call: To rally the rowers, To get them to catch, To bring them in time! |
| Joly |
Will, wake up, what’s wrong today? You look as if you’ve seen a ghost. Have you been dreaming of the gun? |
| Marius |
A ghost you say, a ghost maybe, Pem 2 were like a ghost to me. One minute there, then they were gone. |
| Grantaire |
I am agog, I am aghast! Pembroke 2 are kind of fast. I’ve never seen them push and bump You talk of races to be won, Yet they can now beat Homerton. What if our campaign’s a flump? |
| Enjolras |
It is time for us all to decide who we are. Do we fight for the right to get hold of those coveted blades? Have you asked of yourselves what’s the price you might pay? Is it simply a sport for rich young boys to play? Our technique and our splits should be changing day by day... |
| All |
Blue – the blades of First and Third. Gold – return to glories past. Blue – the river that we row. Gold – the bumps that start at last. |
Act 2: You Can’t Stop the Bumps
set to You Can’t Stop the Beat from Hairspray
| Tracy 1 |
You can’t stop our 804 as it races down the course. You can try to stop our racing oars but you know we’ll never pause. |
| Tracy 2 | And you can try to stop our swinging backs but we just cannot sit still. |
| Prechorus |
And our hands keep spinning round and round, And my heart’s keeping time to the speed of sound. I was scared till I heard the gun, then we start to race. |
| All |
And you can’t stop the bumps! Ever since this campaign began FaT M2 found out that Pembroke were too fast for us to catch. And so we’re gonna shake and shimmy it until we row through the end, ‘Cause you can’t stop the motion of the First and Third, second men’s crew. Jesus wanna row away but we will bump them down soon, And if you try to hold us back we’re gonna celebrate early and say. That you can’t stop our bump! |
| Penny 1 |
You can't stop the river as it rushes to Ely. You can try to stop the guns of bumps, but you know it just can't be! |
| Penny 2 | And if they try to fine us, good luck, we’ve got Mr CUCBC. |
| Prechorus |
And our hands keep spinning round and round, And my heart’s keeping time to the speed of sound. I was scared till I heard the gun, then we start to race. |
| All |
And you can’t stop the bumps! So another bumps day began, Homerton tried to pull away but we still gained on them fast, They said they’d broken us but we would still then have the last laugh today, ‘Cause you can’t stop the motion of the First and Third, second men’s crew. Corpus wanna row away but we will bump them down soon. Clipping Wolfson’s blades will still not put us off and our bow gets scratched, 'Cause you can’t stop our bump! |
Act 3: We Row Together
set to We Go Together from Grease
| Danny | A-bom-bom-a-bomber, |
| All |
It’s FaT M2! We row together, like ‘catch’. One crew forever, like ‘square’. Splash splash, splashity splash splash. |
| Cox | Let’s rhythm down in 1! In 2! In 3, now! |
| All |
We catch in time, like ‘in’. Move up the slide, like ‘float’. Row-row, rowity row your boat. We’ll always be FaT M2. Two, two, two, two! |
