Originally posted by MrGongGong
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The 2016 Proms Season: what are your thoughts?
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostI'd hate to think of what would happen to ..... Londoners, if they were teleported to a rural spot 200 miles from the capital."...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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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostAdapting is what I'm suggesting might be the problem.
. . . if getting from central London to Peckham is really so troublesome.
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Originally posted by Prommer View PostCan we not all get a charabanc from Belgrave Square and make a jolly trip of it?
The Blitz spirit and all that. Pip-pip!
But hang on ... what are they actually playing in Peckham...?"...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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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostI don't know why this 'Peckham thing' has grown legs and is running all over this thread. Peckham is easy to get to, even if you're coming from Istanbul!
Cancel my charabanc ticket, Prommer. I'll be otherwise engaged!"...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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Re. the non-classical Proms: To me, it doesn't feel like last year, where they were being deliberately provocative with it. ("We're playing Ibiza music; go stuff yourself!" was very much the approach) Bowie was certainly on the artsier end of the pop spectrum, and the others are more traditional dance music (Strictly) and jazz (Cullum, Jones etc.), which, we must remember, Radio 3 cover as well. So I'm not too bothered by those concerts this year.
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostEven easier to stay away from.... seeing that they're playing Reich, Reich, and then some Reich...
Cancel my charabanc ticket, Prommer. I'll be otherwise engaged!
('them lot', American Minimalists)
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostAdapting is what I'm suggesting might be the problem."...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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lets hope they haven't organised any Peckham proms for a Millwall home " Matchday", as the trains from the safety of London Bridge station go through the heart of Lion Country.
South Bermondsey is not a place for the fainthearted on footy days.....
Not to suggest that prommers heading to a gig in a car park are necessarily fainthearted, of course.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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