Purchase said he was surprised that his voice remained largely intact during the vocal marathon.<\/p>\n
\u201cApart from the lower register of my voice which had gone, and the falsetto part which was slightly gone, the middle range of my vocal was fine,\u201d he told SWNS.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a world record and this is what they are about. You literally push yourself to the actual limit to actually achieve that record.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under Guinness World Record rules, Purchase was required to sing continuously, with only a 20-second pause permitted between songs and a 5-minute break allowed each hour.<\/p>\n
Purchase selected 38 of his favourite festive bangers and performed them 18 times each, totalling 684 songs.<\/p>\n
The record-breaking setlist included such numbers as Jingle Bells, Wham\u2019s Last Christmas, and Mariah Carey\u2019s All I Want For Christmas Is You.<\/p>\n
Purchase was joined by guest performers throughout the event, including a children\u2019s choir and a dementia choir.<\/p>\n
Members of the public also attended, some dressed as iconic Christmas characters and carollers such as The Wombles and Mariah Carey.<\/p>\n
Purchase told the BBC before the event that he had been practising since January.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnybody who passed my flat probably thought there was some nutcase in there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Purchase, who has prior musical experience in theatre and on cruise ships, said he wanted to stage a \u201cnutty event\u201d to support local businesses and bring the community together, SWNS reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople were part of something, they made friends when we did the event because they met people they\u2019d never met before \u2013 it was a great interaction between people.”<\/p>\n
Purchase has now lodged evidence of his attempt to Guinness and is awaiting official verification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Purchase said he was surprised that his voice remained largely intact during the vocal marathon. \u201cApart from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[54328,4496,27126,121990,18399,4731,156,2082,43862,11551,78,28825,5158,11692,111,139,85520,69,1974,42591,121989,81513,12633,1613,9938,377],"class_list":["post-197776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-54328","tag-attempt","tag-break","tag-carols","tag-christmas","tag-days","tag-entertainment","tag-for","tag-guinness","tag-hours","tag-in","tag-kingdom","tag-man","tag-nearly","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nonstop","tag-nz","tag-record","tag-singing","tag-sings","tag-sleepless","tag-spent","tag-uk","tag-united","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}