[Forest]

Feeling briskly British today! Just finished watching "Last Night of the Proms" and it was fantastic. There was a splendid rendition of Gilbert and Sullivan's "I've got a little list", with added lines such as:

"....and teenagers who don't listen, with headphones on their heads! But they can email, text and download, while still asleep in bed!"

My best wishes to Sir Andrew Davies, for whom it is the literal "Last Night of the Proms". Good luck to him in his future ventures.

There were also some sea shanties which were great fun to clap along to and hear the fog horns blaring at their best.

So, to all my fellows out there, be you English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh, I warmly and simply say, "Be Proud. We own the Proms!"


~Forest, still feeling oddly proud and patriotic

[Panneth]

I was at Proms in the Park in Hyde Park and it was fab! It only rained for about 3 minutes! We got there just as Bjorn Again were on, which bode well for the rest of the evening. Evelyn Glennie was a bit weird, but the orchestra and the Corrs were very good, except there was a female trumpeter who looked like Elton John. We joined the Albert Hall for Liberty Bell and the rest of the traditional last night pieces. 40 000 people doing kareoke Rule Brittania and Jerusalen was amazing

Incidently, it wasn't Sir Andrew Davies's last night, he left 3 years ago, but Leonard Slatkin (sp?) and also the orchesta's leader who'd been there for 13 years (can't remember his name). Clearly there were brass players amongst the Prommers organising his leaving present because there was definitely some alcohol changing hands!

I'm definitely going back next year, we had such a great time.