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Doctor Who concert - BBC Proms 27th July 2008

General Discussions » Doctor Who concert - BBC Proms 27th July 2008 (Posts 1 to 24 of 24)

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      CommentAuthorFalkirkBairn
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2008 edited
    I wanted to start a separate topic away from the general meeting topic.

    Here I'd like to get a sense of how many people plan on attending this concert on Sunday, 27th July. This is to see if it is possible for someone to take on the responsibility of buying the tickets for everyone who's going (if the numbers are not too great).

    As a reminder, the concert looks like it lasts about 1 hour:

    Music from the Doctor Who series - ~40 minutes
    Fanfare for the Common Man - 3 minutes
    The Planets: Jupiter - 8 minutes
    The Torino Scale (Mark Anthony-Turnage) - 4 minutes
    Die Walküre: The Ride of the Valkyries - 5 minutes

    http://tickets.royalalberthall.com/seas … ear=7-2008

    Could people who are planning on going to this concert make their voice heard here.
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  2. It seems that it's not possible to order tickets but it's more of a "request" for tickets. Here's a quote from the Royal Albert Hall site:

    ADVANCE BOOKING
    By post and online – Monday 21st April - Monday 19th May
    Use the Advance Booking Form or visit bbc.co.uk/proms

    To take advantage of the Advance Booking Period – and enjoy your best chance of securing the seats you want – you must use the official Advance Booking Form in the Proms Guide or the Online Ticket Request system on the Proms website.

    Note that all postal, fax and online bookings received before Monday 21st April will be treated as if they had arrived on that date and that Express Bookings will then be handled first.
    http://www.rahrequests.org/acatalog/info.html

    I may be wrong but does this mean that, at the moment, people apply for a certain amount of tickets and after the "Advanced Booking Period" these tickets will then be allocated if there is an oversubscription?
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2008
    I gather you can order tickets from May 27 onwards, but as noted in the "UK Gathering" thread, I'm having some second thoughts as the concert seems to be specifically directed at (and, one would fear, tailored for) small children... slant
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  4. Martijn wrote
    I gather you can order tickets from May 27 onwards, but as noted in the "UK Gathering" thread, I'm having some second thoughts as the concert seems to be specifically directed at (and, one would fear, tailored for) small children... slant

    If this concert is anything like the Cardiff concert then there will be a few daleks and cybermen wandering the stage at well-chosen moments and maybe Martha will do some sort of linking role between pieces. Not too bad.

    It just seems that organising a group descent to the Royal Albert Hall and getting a hold of tickets for a group of us isn't going to be as easy as just ordering them and having them sent out.

    The tickets for the Cardiff concert sold out with 1-2 hours and I would expect these tickets to be very difficult to get a hold of. Maybe the concert will be aired on TV that weekend and we could watch it in the confort of someone's front room - or persuade a sports bar to switch channels on their big screen from whatever sport is on to the concert?
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008
    "persuade a sports bar to switch channels"? shocked

    That's just asking for death and destruction dizzy
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  6. At least we could provide the appropriately dramatic underscore for the scene that would ensue!!
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    At least we could provide the appropriately dramatic underscore for the scene that would ensue!!


    Hah! biggrin

    'Bim Bam Smash' from Bourne Supremacy perhaps? wink
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008 edited
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    or persuade a sports bar to switch channels on their big screen from whatever sport is on to the concert?

    LOL!

    That's a great one. I'd love to join that idea.
    Our status as Belgians has neverbeen lower, so it wouldn't hurt anyway.

    biggrin
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008
    Change the telly in a sports bar?

    You've got to look past the hair and the cute, cuddly thing - it's all a deceptive facade.
    A few nights ago Rory's Roger iron's rusted, so he's gone to the local battle-cruiser to catch the end of his footer.

    Nobody is watching the custard so he turns the channel over. A fat man's north opens and he wanders over and turns the Liza over. 'Now fuck off and watch it somewhere else.'

    Rory knows claret is imminent, but he doesn't want to miss the end of the game; so, calm as a coma, he stands and picks up a fire extinguisher and he walks straight past the jam rolls who are ready for action, then he plonks it outside the entrance.

    He then orders an Aristotle of the most ping pong tiddly in the nuclear sub and switches back to his footer. 'That's fucking it,' says the guy. 'That's fucking what' says Rory. Rory gobs out a mouthful of booze covering fatty; he then flicks a flaming match into his bird's nest and the man's lit up like a leaky gas pipe.
    Rory, unfazed, turned back to his game.
    His team's won too.
    Four-nil.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008
    ^
    punk

    Now just how many other here will a) know what the fook yer on abaht and b) know what it's from?

    biggrin wink
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  11. I'd no idea what you were on about and I was suprised to find this passage scattered all over the internet, being quoted from a specific film!!
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 22nd 2008
    Sounds like A CLOCKWORK ORANGE to me...
    I am extremely serious.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 23rd 2008
    Thor wrote
    Sounds like A CLOCKWORK ORANGE to me...


    Nope! Try again?
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  14. Final playlist for the concert featuring Gold's music:

    Murray Gold: Concert Prologue
    Copland: Fanfare For The Common Man
    Murray Gold: All The Strange, Strange Creatures
    Mark-Anthony Turnage: The Torino Scale
    Holst: Jupiter
    Murray Gold: The Doctor Forever; Companions: Rose and Martha; David Tennant Scene (video)
    Wagner: The Ride of The Valkyries
    Murray Gold: Dalek Suite and Davros; Companions: Astrid, Donna, Girl In The Fireplace and Cassandra
    Prokofiev: Montagues and Capulets
    Murray Gold: This is Gallifrey; Ood Song; Doomsday; Song For Ten; Doctor Who Theme

    Not sure how the non-Gold pieces are going to seem mixed in with the Doctor Who stuff but some of the selections from the show sound good: Rose & Martha's themes, Dalek Suite, Girl In The Fireplace, This Is Gallifrey, Doomsday and (of course) the Doctor Who theme (hopefully the Series 1-3 version rather than Series 4).
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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2008
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    Final playlist for the concert featuring Gold's music:

    Murray Gold: Concert Prologue
    Copland: Fanfare For The Common Man
    Murray Gold: All The Strange, Strange Creatures
    Mark-Anthony Turnage: The Torino Scale
    Holst: Jupiter
    Murray Gold: The Doctor Forever; Companions: Rose and Martha; David Tennant Scene (video)
    Wagner: The Ride of The Valkyries
    Murray Gold: Dalek Suite and Davros; Companions: Astrid, Donna, Girl In The Fireplace and Cassandra
    Prokofiev: Montagues and Capulets
    Murray Gold: This is Gallifrey; Ood Song; Doomsday; Song For Ten; Doctor Who Theme

    Not sure how the non-Gold pieces are going to seem mixed in with the Doctor Who stuff but some of the selections from the show sound good: Rose & Martha's themes, Dalek Suite, Girl In The Fireplace, This Is Gallifrey, Doomsday and (of course) the Doctor Who theme (hopefully the Series 1-3 version rather than Series 4).

    Nice pieces from Doctor Who, wish I colud attend! Hopefully those of you that go to the concert will provide a report wink
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you
  16. I don't think that anyone from this forum is attending.
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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2008 edited
    Oops, no report then tongue (I thought you were attending the concert during the UK meeting this weekend smile ).
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2008
    Timmer wrote
    ^
    punk

    Now just how many other here will a) know what the fook yer on abaht and b) know what it's from?

    biggrin wink


    A bit late in the day but it was Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels wink
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2008 edited
    Alan and anyone else interested.....

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7527728.stm
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  20. Did they show the concert on TV?
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2008
    I think it's on this weekend. wink
  22. Oh, that´s great! Thx for the quick info.

    We´ve been in London on the 19th and went to the Doctor Who Exhibition at Earl´s Court, which was really great and - between us - much more interesting than Madame Tussaud´s... (and far less crowded, of course). We went for some DW stuff on sale later, and my wife got herself a small Tardis for her desk and a Sonic Screwdriver. I guess I´m screwed, then. biggrin
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      CommentAuthorRalph Kruhm
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2008 edited
    I just discovered streams from the radio version...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cq3vg/
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cq5lt/

    My personal highlight: Part 2, Minute 57. From episode 4.13, obviously. Wow, just wow. Can´t wait for the CD!!!
  24. I managed to get someone to record it off their DAB radio. After editing out the "classical" pieces and all the talky bits in between (as well as the Song For Ten), it all condenses down to just under 45 minutes.

    A lot of the music is familiar from other sources such as the CDs but it's nice to have some slightly different orchestrations/emphasis, etc. There's also some additional music that's not yet available separate from the programmes: some music from the episode(s) featuring Davros, some music from the 2007 Christmas special as well as the Ood's "Song For Freedom"(?)
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