VE Day 80 Concert BBC 1

[Aquarius1234]

I have nothing else to do/ watch tonight..
Anyone wanna moan about the acts feel free.
8pm BBC one.

Samantha Barks is doing well, especially considering she is very pregnant, I have a cousin who is a classically trained singer and it can affect the voice I think.

Samantha Barks is very good!
I do like this song though ..

I liked dad's army, man from ghosts was good

She is good and yeah 9 months pregnant

If that's what happening it's probably down to the acoustics being a bit dead.

I disagree

Britain's Got Talent, X factor, etc., have a lot to answer for

The letters was the best bit and also the stories

I want to know what Charles and Harry were talking about, that's the happiest Charles has looked since I turned on.

I haven't seen any of this concert but sing in an acapella choir so know they affect things.

It can be harder to sing outdoors, but I think some of the singing was quite poor. The White Cliffs of Dover was shockingly bad

Charles and Camilla looked like they literally had gritted teeth during most of it.

Yeah of course but the over singing was stylistic not technical

I think all of the music selected should have been the wartime music that was played at the time. Music must have been so important to everyone then. Didn’t seem like much though went into it.

Yes this would have been better

I think it was absolutely beautiful and done so well. Really moving stories. Lest We forget their sacrifice for our freedom.

I too thought the whole concert was amazing, I loved the stories and the singers. I thought the letters were very emotional and the song by Freya Ridings was a perfect backdrop to it.

I really enjoyed it after what I thought were useless jubilee and coronation concerts. Very well done and all the performances done by proper professionals. It’s a lie we tell ourselves these days that everyone can act, sing, play music, perform. No they can’t. Proper paid people can and very good amateur's. It is lovely to see a show performed and created to be top notch. But then everyone thinks they can do everything these days.

Samantha is one of my favourite singers so glad she was chosen to close the show and she did amazingly to sing like that at 9 months pregnant

Also glad it wasn’t Katherine Jenkins - they usually like to drag her out for things like this

I did enjoy watching Camilla looking like she wanted to be anywhere else. She does have the resting bitch face down to an art at these events

i agree about some of the singing and i had to mute the tv when Toploader came on, but i guess it got people dancing.
all those people sitting in blankets, must have been cold

We enjoyed it but it was definitely random! I loved Tom Walker - beautiful song. The Darkness murdered their most well known song! I thought Fleur East sounded like she had a sore throat. I had to google Calum Scott & he wasn’t the right choice for “ White Cliffs of Dover”.

I've now watched the concert and think only Justin of the Darkness oversang, but then he's not a singer on a par with the others. There were voices I wasn't keen on, but the performances were good and singing outside is always challenging. I wonder who was lined up as potential stand in for Sam Barks as she's so heavily pregnant?

I’ve heard of Sam barks , but I’ve never heard her sing.
She was good.
It was a random show, but they have to try and cater for everyone. I was surprised that Ed Sheeran wasn’t there as he is a Royal favourite usually.

Not retired, but he does more DJ sets these days than meowing singing. I like him. Seen him live a few times and always been good value.

I think there's been too much moaning about Jon Newman, the Darkness, Toploader (all acts from the last 25 years so not that new) and Calum Scott & Tom Walker. I was more irritated by Roman Kemp saying that he could hear Sweet Caroline. That has nothing to do with the war, football, or most things but is a horrid earworm that's yelled and chanted at absolutely everything these days.