BRIAN TYLER

But if you were only 6 hours away that would only make a twelve hour round trip, on the plus side doing the trip twice sorts that out. win win situation.

That was his sister.

Meh... they probably won't get a phone signal in London.

fucck off.

Brilliant night!

He was disguised as the Indian waiter!

Damn. Glad for you guys, of course. But quite disappointed I missed that.

it IS nice hair though

Well, I have no details. Apparently 5 minutes after I left out everybody got to be best pals with Brian and forgot that I ever existed.

Henceforth and forever I shall refer to you all as "estranged acquaintances".

The concert was extremely enjoyable and wildly energetic.
Brian seemed in very good spirits and was very "into" the whole thing, tapping and moving along to the beat while conducting, although from time to time he seemed to forget he was doing a concert rather than a recording session as more than once he had to remind himself to turn around to introduce the next piece.

He mostly conducted, taking to the drums only on one occasion for a bit of Modern Warfare 3. He IS good!

Starting off the concert with a bang, he gave us Thor, Avengers and Iron Man, and it basically never let up from there. MAN, does Brian like his decibels!
But the real power came from the massive setup in the orchestra with five trombones, six double-basses...and SEVEN percussionists, mostly ALL of them hard at work simultaneously.

Most of the tracks were -as is no surprise- percussion-driven, which gave the whole thing a very "rock concert" .Brian seems to quite enjoy that rock star thing anyway coming up to conduct in a body-hugging T-Shirt, showing off his well-trained body most unsubtly. But yeah. The bastard DOES look good.

Some surprising choices throughout the concert (a rather dissonant and disturbing suite from Constantine) as well as omissions (no Bubba Ho-Tep ), but overall the program was a very good cross-section of his 15-year oeuvre.

There were two guest vocalists: Tori Letzler, who -in a stylish dress that was not hard on the eye- did a beautiful job vocalising for Children Of Dune (which still held up very, VERY well!), and Lola Marsh, singing Drift And Fall Again from Criminal (quite pleasant if not overly memorable as a composition). Good sets to break up the onslaught of high-octane, heavy-rhythm suites the concert mainly consisted off, and which blew the roof off multiple times!

Although the consensus was that the insanely powerful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the best bit of the evening -the orchestra and (massive!) choir really nailed that one!- , my personal favourite was the beautiful, ever-so-slightly Poledourissy The Greatest Game Ever Played. A beautiful and thoughtful theme, well paced and deeply lyrical. I was not surprised to learn that this was also the favourite bit of Brian's parents...who were actually in the audience, witnessing their son's very first concert. Which I thought was really quite touching.

The John Williams tribute was a rousing (and BIG) rendition of Superman (I can honestly say I have never heard a larger version played live), executed very well in a tempo slightly quicker than the original (which was HARD for the orchestra! They REALLY had to work at it!)...and the bigegst surprise to me was a rendition of the Hawaii 5-O theme (which just happens to be my favourite TV theme ever), which was executed splendidly!

...the only 'faux pas' here was, as Alan rightly remarked, is that Brian clearly wasn't aware of British concert etiquette, as he suggested people would 'clap along'. One does NOT clap along. One listens quietly and applauds afterwards!
(I was still shimmying and doing the mashed potato in my seat though...how can you sit STILL with music like that? )

The concert was about two hours long but never felt a minute too long. In fact, the audience seemed quite disappointed when it was over (and Tyler NOT doing an encore...what was up with THAT???).

We had a drink afterwards, which -at least for me was QUITE necessary, as the mad energy of the concert had my blood pumping adn my heart racing, so I really needed some cooling down before returning to the hotel- and then APPARENTLY 5 minutes after we actually did break up (after some good meetings of minds on music) everyone else happened to actually meet Tyler.
I hate you all.

Some think so. I just hear Poledouris' style, really.

Social mingling? Film music fans are all nigh-Asperger scale social misfits who fear interaction and avoid even eye contact as much as possible! Social mingling indeed. That'd mean at least five or six additional sessions with our respective therapists next week!

Some think so? The main theme couldn't be a more obvious Legends of the Fall temp if it tried!

'course, Legends does remind me a bit of Lonesome Dove, so I can see how this all fits together.

No Steven? I could have swore he was going.

My regret is that I could have come.