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Last night of the Proms

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 13/09/2014 20:28

Who else is settling in for the evening? Missed most of the first half due to Doctor who but we have lots of cheese and biscuits and wine and hooray!

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 13/09/2014 22:16

He does have a bit of Farage about him :(

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Fiddlerontheroof · 13/09/2014 22:17

Yup a bass.... I used to take it on the tube!!

ItsNotEasyBeingGreen · 13/09/2014 22:18

On the tube. Blimey. That must have been hairy on the escalators.

florencedombey · 13/09/2014 22:18

I would say my soloist friend gets a bit nervous but not cripplingly so. I also know that a massive amount of preparation (even more than I had imagined, and I am a keen amateur musician married to a professional musician) goes into being a solo performer for something like tonight. I guess if the preparation is that thorough, there is less to be nervous about.

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 13/09/2014 22:19

Great Rule Brittania, I never really like it with female soloists.

Picturesinthefirelight · 13/09/2014 22:20

Hear hear Mr Oramo

MrsRosetree · 13/09/2014 22:23

I couldn't agree more!

ItsNotEasyBeingGreen · 13/09/2014 22:24

I'm conducting waving my arms around frantically away here.

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 13/09/2014 22:24

Land of Hope and Glory.....

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Lesleythegiraffe · 13/09/2014 22:27

Well that's almost it for another year - personally I hope for a big fat NO on Thursday as i love being part of all this Britishness

ItsNotEasyBeingGreen · 13/09/2014 22:29

Me too Lesley!

Picturesinthefirelight · 13/09/2014 22:31

Dd is dancing to it still.

alemci · 13/09/2014 22:33

Jerusalem taking me back to end of term school assemblies

NerfHerder · 13/09/2014 22:33

By jingo, there's no other song in the world to equal Jerusalem, is there?

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 13/09/2014 22:33

It's just all a little sad this year.

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HesterShaw · 13/09/2014 22:34

Except I can't help singing the Scarlett from Four Weddings version. Every. Single. Time.

mausmaus · 13/09/2014 22:34

beethoven 9th maybe?
but 'tis beautiful.

HesterShaw · 13/09/2014 22:35

Was anyone else air conducting like a maniac?

Please don't go Scotland. Pleeeeeeease. We love you.

ItsNotEasyBeingGreen · 13/09/2014 22:35

Proud to be English AND British.... Hopes Scotland vote to stay with us.

Will definitely let DS watch next year!

joanofarchitrave · 13/09/2014 22:35

i hope they sing this version at the Queen's funeral

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 13/09/2014 22:36

Yes, half Scottish and living in England here, feeling quite anxious about it all

HesterShaw · 13/09/2014 22:37

I can't bear to think of the Queen dying. I'm not even a royalist. It's just her.

NerfHerder · 13/09/2014 22:37

Beethoven's 9th isn't technically a song though! Wink

Lesleythegiraffe · 13/09/2014 22:37

Oh a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat at Jerusalem.

Alex Salmond - stick your Yes vote up your arse!

joanofarchitrave · 13/09/2014 22:38

Googling 'prebook Proms for kids 2015'

see you next year

it's been truly emotional