Ex-Bermuda Music Teacher On Hit UK TV Show
A former Bermuda School of Music teacher’s band has featured on the most-watched television show in the UK on Christmas Day.
Zacc Rodwell, 36, taught piano at the Bermuda School of Music at the Berkeley Cultural Centre from 2011 to 2014 before returning to his native London, England, where he teaches at a primary school.
Mr Rodwell’s band, Stratus, gained national attention when their rendition of Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know was featured in a pivotal wedding scene during the final episode of Gavin and Stacey, one of the most beloved British sitcoms.
The BBC show drew an impressive 12.5 million viewers.
In an interview with The Metro newspaper, the three-piece band shared how their song ended up on the hit show.
“Our band manager received an email in September from someone at the BBC, simply asking if we were willing to allow one of our songs to be featured on a BBC comedy,” they said.
“We had no idea what that was. We were just like, ‘Oh, cool. BBC, that’ll be fun!’
“We were excited about it, but when we found out it was on Gavin and Stacey, we were like, ‘Oh, that’s really cool’.
“Even while we were watching the show, we didn’t know at what point we would be featured, how much we would be featured, or anything like that.”
The band speculated that the show’s producers may have discovered their music on Spotify, where Stratus boasts more than 35,000 monthly listeners.
“It’s pretty good advertising for a wedding band, as a lot of the other music was only featured for five or six seconds,” they said.
“We’re going to be recording again in February, so it’s a good chance to use this as publicity to give it a boost.
“We started out as a wedding band of sorts; those were the first few gigs we had.
“We’ve done a few concerts here and there, but we’re hopeful that there’ll be lots of people who would like to have the band that featured on Gavin and Stacey playing them down the aisle.”
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