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Band Hears Organist Rehearsing At 1AM, Convinces Her To Perform During Live Show

March 29, 2023

After wrapping up their 4th performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, band members from Bonobo heard someone rehearsing on the hall's enormous 9,999-pipe organ at 1 a.m.

They convinced her to join in for their last performance and wrote her part in secret. The audience was not informed.

"I often do middle-of-the-night practice sessions at the Royal Albert Hall, and have grown rather fond of hall staff calling up to the organ with requests. At 1am on Friday 20th, someone called up asking me to play Bach's Toccata in D minor. It turned out it was Bonobo's band. 12 hours later they had written me an organ part, and 18 hours later I was helping them close their show to an audience of 5000. This was, undoubtedly, the best moment of my life so far," Anna Lapwood wrote.