Last Night of the Proms ...Tonight!!!!!

[theironduke]

Who will be staying in and watching?

[4sure]

Just you then

[Mobile Chicane]

Nope.

Looking forward to Renée Fleming - one of my favourites.

[4sure]

Puccini, lovely

[Mobile Chicane]

I don't rate Kiri Te Kanawa though and never have.

She's also very arrogant and refuses to perform in her homeland 'since it doesn't have a venue large enough to display her prodigious talent'.

FFS.

[dwspirit]

Full marks to the Beeb! It is worth all the licence fee! Renee Flemming was lovely!

[Sheets Tabuer]

I've tried but I can't put up with the tutting and piss taking from the family.

[4sure]

Proud to be British

[Mobile Chicane]

Question: why can't we have 'Jerusalem' as the national anthem?

Even a professional choir can't elevate the tuneless dirge as is.

Edited by Mobile Chicane on Saturday 11th September 22:34

[snotrag]

I remember this topic from last year. It's one of my favourite bits of telly all year. Having a good sing along!

[V8mate]

And why was the majority of Jerusalem taken up with footage from the outside broadcast in N. Ireland? Where, of course, no-one was singing.

Typically fking retarded production by the BBC.

[tuffer]

Pink Union Jacks......just WTF? If you want to declare how gay you are go and prance about in a pair of PVC pants waiving your handbag. Don't deface our National flag you F'kin wkers, you might as well set fire to it.

[williamp]

Great fun, but...

..where are the sea shanties?? These wre played every yeara a while back, but noe they dont bother. It would be nicer on teh last night o play allf avourites, rather then the new stuff...

...If you're going to have subtitles for the chorus only (ie for those who want to sing along, rather then for the hard of hearing...) hen make sure they are corrent, and in time!

Other then that, a great night

[TubbyTommy]

Rather than sitting at home watching it I came to see it. The atmosphere was fantastic, never knew how involved the crowds really got.

[FourWheelDrift]

Mobile Chicane said:

Question: why can't we have 'Jerusalem' as the national anthem?

Even a professional choir can't elevate the tuneless dirge as is.

God save the Queen in the United Kingdom's National Anthem. At the Commonwealth Games where England is represented on it's own Jerusalem is used for gold medal winners on the podium.

[Mobile Chicane]

FourWheelDrift said:

Mobile Chicane said:

Question: why can't we have 'Jerusalem' as the national anthem?

Even a professional choir can't elevate the tuneless dirge as is.

God save the Queen in the United Kingdom's National Anthem. At the Commonwealth Games where England is represented on it's own Jerusalem is used for gold medal winners on the podium.

Cool - I didn't know that.

[FourWheelDrift]

Mobile Chicane said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Mobile Chicane said:

Question: why can't we have 'Jerusalem' as the national anthem?

Even a professional choir can't elevate the tuneless dirge as is.

God save the Queen in the United Kingdom's National Anthem. At the Commonwealth Games where England is represented on it's own Jerusalem is used for gold medal winners on the podium.

Cool - I didn't know that.

I just checked it will be used from this year onwards. (I thought they used it last time).

England's commonwealth games site news - http://www.weareengland.org/page.asp?section=210&a...

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Sunday 12th September 10:54

[V8mate]

williamp said:

Great fun, but...

..where are the sea shanties?? These wre played every yeara a while back, but noe they dont bother. It would be nicer on teh last night o play allf avourites, rather then the new stuff...

...

Indeed. And a septic - waving a bloody Stars & Stripes - is unacceptable too. The LNotP must surely be the last legal bit of jingoism we're allowed.

[onomatopoeia]

williamp said:

Great fun, but...

..where are the sea shanties?? These wre played every yeara a while back, but noe they dont bother. It would be nicer on teh last night o play allf avourites, rather then the new stuff...

Fantasia on British sea songs has been gone for about three years now . Only the final song remains (Rule Britannia).

[DJC]

V8mate said:

williamp said:

Great fun, but...

..where are the sea shanties?? These wre played every yeara a while back, but noe they dont bother. It would be nicer on teh last night o play allf avourites, rather then the new stuff...

...

Indeed. And a septic - waving a bloody Stars & Stripes - is unacceptable too. The LNotP must surely be the last legal bit of jingoism we're allowed.

Cobblers.

I love the fact that the accepted tradition now is that flags from anybody are welcome and encouraged to be shown and waved.