Alexander Armstrong

[IcedVanillaLatte]

Seriously man. What were you thinking?

Every time I hear you singing "Golden Brown" I feel pain.

YABU. Stop it.

Just stop.

Stop.

[Alicekeach]

Vanilla, does your "inside information" tell you whether Miller is mercilessly ripping the piss out of AA's album? I do hope so!

[VanillaSugarAndChristmasSpice]

Armstrong and Miller are recording a programme for radio 4 tonight. taps nose cos she is in the know

[StrictlyPan]

Maybe AA's voice his affected by his Vulcan ears i.e. he hears things differently to everyone else. To his Vulcans he sounds perfect.

[StrictlyPan]

Somewhere Over The Rainbow - about being thoroughly off your tits.

[VanillaSugarAndChristmasSpice]

I still want to hear him sing "My Lovely Horse" - he's already made the video.

[FizzBombBathTime]

My lovely Mozza

Armstrong is a cringy little odd ball
Moz is the bestest

[BuntyFigglesworthSpiffington]

Never did I think I'd see him compared to Moz!

[WouldHave]

He's probably crying about the opinions on this thread all the way to the bank.

[WouldHave]

Maybe he could sing for the next tory party political broadcast?

He isn't Tory. As pointed out above, he says he's voted for every party in his time and emphatically doesn't support the current government.

[FizzBombBathTime]

TheHigh how dare you compare armstrong's terdy singing to that of the mozfather!!!

[TheHighPriestessOfTinsel]

he really is hilariously awful
we heard his version of Firestone on Greg James and nearly died laughing at "weeeee light up the wooooorld".

He has the same nasal, also Morrissey-esque quality as Eddie Redmayne's Marius in Les Mis - is that an Eton speciality?

[VanillaSugarAndChristmasSpice]

Oh yes. The Sound of Music Live. AA played Max. The only NON signing part.

[JoffreyBaratheon]

Maybe he could sing for the next tory party political broadcast?

'Annie's Song' whilst he does a long soft focus walking shot, then goes indoors to a cosy log fire and plays with some puppies or kittens; played over a montage of soft focus pictures of Theresa May, looking 'caring'? (If they can find that footage).

Although I prefer the Sex Pistols idea.

Does he twerk?

[WhatALoadOfOldBollocks]

"What about Pretty Vacant"

Oh yes..."Alexander Armstong Sings the Sex Pistols" out Christmas 2017 That would be comedy gold

[BertrandRussell]

Just wasted some time on utube. Found a couple of rather lovely Christmas Carols, if you like that sort of traditional style for traditional carols. And some Gilbert and Sullivan and some Noel Coward.

As I said. There is much to criticise him for. Not least his politics. And his choice of material. And his teeth grinding sense of entitlement. But his singing is on the top side of good.

[bananamonkey]

AA is a Tory?! I'm not sure what's worse, finding this out or the music. Loving the Songs of Addiction

See also Laurence Fox, his dreadful Coldplay-lite music totally killed my crush

[phoenix1404]

I think that's fair comment Mondegreens, particularly about his diction.

[Mondegreens]

I think he has the kind of good voice and obvious musicality you would expect from an ex-Oxbridge choral scholar - people with bad voices don't become choral scholars! - but I do think there's an audible mismatch between his vocal type and training and the MOR repertoire he seems to end up singing now. His training was in crisp choral diction, for one thing, and he sounds deeply comfortable singing anything slangy, informal or with contractions, and he was trained to project, unmiked, in a church space, rather than sing solo into a microphone etc. His voice shows itself at its best and most 'natural' in much more formal/choral repertoires.

[BuntyFigglesworthSpiffington]

I've just listened to a snippet of his version of Golden Brown. 'Never a fwown with golden bwowwwwwwn'. Oh dearie me, I might need some heroin after that.

What's next? Aled Jones doing a grime track?

[JoffreyBaratheon]

His fans are scary. Mind you, so are Cliff's.

[BuntyFigglesworthSpiffington]

I too initially thought his dad like crooning was part of a comedy sketch. When I realised he was being sincere in his crooning I found it far more amusing than any comedy sketch. I'm sure he has an adequate voice if you're into that kind of thing (who exactly is into this kind of thing?) but the cheesiness, oh the cheesiness. And you say he's covered Golden Brown?!

[phoenix1404]

OK Joffrey, you stick to your bollocks. Whatever you say.

[Cary2012]

To the poster who wanted to throw something at the ad for the new Cliff Richard album - I feel your pain. Loathsome little weak voiced lizard man. Should have retired fifty years ago when he was middle aged.

And when I first saw AA sing at the end of Pointless one year, I thought it was a comedy sketch, half way through I realised it wasn't, and cringed on his behalf. Put me right off him.

Maybe Jeremy Kyle could do an album, 'The DNA results reveal' or something.

[JoffreyBaratheon]

His voice is awful. No two ways about it.