It’s 10am at The Great Hall, and about four hundred children are lining up outside with their schoolbags. They process in pairs, holding hands, ushered inside with military precision by teachers. Gasps of “wow!” are heard as they take in the auditorium’s high ceilings, bright lights and enormous stage. Two girls are headbanging already. Another murmurs, “I’ve never seen anything like it…”
At the door, Massive Wagons’ manager (and frontman Baz Mills’ partner) Terri Chapman waves kindly at the kids filing in, liaising with venue and school staff in between. Over the last year, she’s negotiated the considerable red tape involved with putting on a rock show for under-14s. Eight local primary schools have classes of children here today, the vast majority of them aged between eight and ten.
