Missed the first episode of Dr. Who last week (probably due to some Prom!) but glad the awful Pond creature is to be jettisoned from the Tardis shortly. Inspector Montalbano, only watched one, not impressed. I might break habit of a lifetime and watch LNotP just to see if it's as awful as has been suggested.
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Complete waste of viewing time, imho. But wait - "The Thick of It" returns on BBC2 at 9.45, and has received one or two plaudits from reliable sources"!Originally posted by Anna View PostComment
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Are we to be spared the dreadful scenes of audiences in Cardiff/Belfast/Salford etc singing out of sync in the rain? There appears to be a separate programme for these regional extravaganzas in the next few days? It's always those that make me switch off.Originally posted by Anna View Post
And what about the BBC's policy of what part of the audience is shown to the watching millions? Visions of swaying Prommers seem to have been avoided in recent years (too old? possibly eccentric-looking?), but replaced by the awful groups in the posh seats who clearly are there for the spectacle and not the music.
Wasn't the Last Night just after 9/11 so much better?Comment
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Who was it that was due to conduct the last night and said he wouldn't be including all that jingoist stuff and was promptly relieved of his contract? I'm thinking Edward Gardner but can that be right?Originally posted by VodkaDilc View PostComment
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Mark Elder I think. But it wasn't 9/11 year. (Surely that was Slatkin, which made it even more poignant.)Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostComment
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I guess there is more spectacle than music in this event anywayOriginally posted by VodkaDilc View Post
It's got a useful pedagogical function though ..................
the whole BBC "round the country" thing is always a classic Frank Bough moment (and I'm not referring to the unfortunate "lingerie incident"
) where the technology fails completely and everything becomes out of synch or falls over ............
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Can't bear the arch knowingness of the New Who...Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
YES YES YES to "Thick of It"
Featuring the actor I have wibbled on about here on various occasions, Mr Roger Allam
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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And I believe that in 9/11 year and the year of Princess Di's death Short Ride in a Fast Machine was programmed and promptly dropped!Originally posted by VodkaDilc View PostComment
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It only takes me about 5 mins to cycle to within earshot of the Prom in the Park. Mostly ghastly... But using the TV coverage as a guide, I may cycle out on this balmy summer evening to catch the final Jerusalem bit - it's fun and ever so slightly creepy to hear a massive crowd singing those patriotic numbers in the dark among the trees - like some sort of cult rally... But largely bracing and I may try and take it in this evening...Originally posted by Anna View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I'm sorry for this butOriginally posted by VodkaDilc View Post
nothing like a bit of "gallows humour"Comment
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Last Night rehearsals used to be fun with a sort of end of school feeling in the orchestra. I only sat through about 2 LN concerts and once left half way through when the music was being ignored by the prommers.Comment
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Ah the voice of experience!Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostI guess there is more spectacle than music in this event anyway
It's got a useful pedagogical function though ..................
the whole BBC "round the country" thing is always a classic Frank Bough moment (and I'm not referring to the unfortunate "lingerie incident") where the technology fails completely and everything becomes out of synch or falls over ............
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Well done, that man!!Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post Evening viewing - sorted.
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I do indeed have the experience of standing in a field with 50 teenagers playing random instruments in the rain while a phalanx of BBC technicians try to get the satellite truck to work for long enough for our part of the "Beat This" chain of music round the country to appear on TV for more than 1/2 second without soundOriginally posted by amateur51 View PostAh the voice of experience!
(and I wasn't even wearing my wife's knickers
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I think it has become a cult thing.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I abhor all forms of chauvinism. And William Empson, I think it was, who ridiculed the Blake words... How do you hold a bow, arrows and a sword, all at the same time? (I believe a certain Tory politician tried once....)
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