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graham b · Joined: 23 Sep 2010 Posts: 211 Location: Wakefield

I didn't realise until today that this event was to be held on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I hardly think that it will be appropriate to have the raucous behaviour of a certain DJ on that day.

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

Knowing him, I'm surprised he didn't choose to do it in Central Park in Manhattan

Now that I would love to have seen

Put it this way I think that very soon there might have been another memorial there as well as the Lennon one Smile

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

I knew the date a while ago and was very surprised, but maybe another date wasn't available.

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Ian Robinson · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:56 pm Post subject:

A very odd day to do it, I agree.

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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19333 Location: Cheshire

They always do it the night after the last night of the Proms though......

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MadeinSurrey · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:20 am Post subject:

Is Prawns in the Pork happening on the Saturday?
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19333 Location: Cheshire

I'm not sure MiS, I haven't heard anything about it.

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MadeinSurrey · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:29 am Post subject:

That's what I feared, no doubt the Shouty One told them to ditch it in favour of his "Look-at-me-I'm-so-fabulous" event Rolling Eyes

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The Great Gildersleeve · Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Posts: 249 Location: North East England

It always displaces my Sunday night music programmes.

I'm all for people enjoying themselves but they usually mix the sound so the screaming of the crowd there spoils the music we are supposed to be enjoying anyhow.

PJ in Kent · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!

They probably feel enough time has passed to hold other events, other than memorials to 9/11, which is largely an American "thing" anyway. We (the UK) got dragged into it as Blair saw it as his opportunity to be seen as a "Great World Leader". Evil or Very Mad

After all, where where the Americans when we were holding memorials to IRA terrorist attacks in the UK for decades? Oh, how forgetful of me- they were helping to fund the IRA weren't they..... Sad

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ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

Your point is very well made PJ and I agree with you

It just seems a shame that we have to put up with something even worse than the memorials of the last few years Sad

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Do the Americans worry about holding anything on July 7th? no? thought not. What about the dates of countless IRA attacks? what about the Libyan Embassy siege? (R.I.P Yvonne Fletcher) What about the Omagh Bombing?

I could go on but I think I've made my point.

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Do the majority of Americans actually know where the UK actually is? A few years back I had a telephone conversation with a guy from New York who - when discovering that I was calling him from England - asked: "England? Is that anywhere near London?".

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19333 Location: Cheshire

Well on American at CNN doesn't know where Libya is, as on a map they had Tripoli on the coast of Lebanon................ Rolling Eyes

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Ian Robinson · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:40 am Post subject:

aviddiva · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:30 am Post subject: Radio 2 in the Park

I heard this trailer just before the Pete Townshend documentary! 9/11 also happened at a time when my family were trying to deal with the loss of my brother, and the eventual loss of my aunt.

I was on holiday with my mum the year the 7th July bombings happened and my sister rang our hotel to ask us if we were all right!
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PJ in Kent · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Wogan still doing the Prawns in the Park on the Saturday I see. He's also doing a few bits for the Sunday concert. A couple of fools on the stage over those two days. Laughing

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PJ in Kent · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19333 Location: Cheshire

Wogan's no fool, the other one? ........... Well I know what I think, I'll leave you to guess.............

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Smooth Radio are doing some 9/11 specials during Sunday afternoon.

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It's a key date for the people of Germany - Schicksalstag (the "fateful day").

The Great Gildersleeve · Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Posts: 249 Location: North East England

Its been said by someone on Digital Spy that Lionel Ritchie has cancelled his appearence but no mention if someone else is taking his place or the rest will perform for longer...

I also discovered today that tickets for the event are not free but are costing approx £33.

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3415 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Is this the gig, currently being trailered, where you get shouted at by Evans? If so then I wouldn't pay 33p, never mind £33 for that dubious 'privilege'!
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PJ in Kent · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!

Lionel Ritchie has indeed pulled out due to illness. Chic have been called in as emergency replacements and the Ginger Goit will be announcing another additional act on his show in the morning.
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Angus McCoatup · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:11 am Post subject:

Imagine turning up to a gig/live festival and finding out it was being hosted/shouted by Chris Evans....

Now that would be my own personal 9/11..... Shocked

The Great Gildersleeve · Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Posts: 249 Location: North East England

Some of the concert has been put on the red button feature on digital platform from 6am this morning.

And on the BBC website too.

I haven't heard much of the concert but will work my way through it in coming days...I wasn't impressed with what I did catch.

As has been said I wouldn't have parted with £32.50 to stand there for the whole day and not for Chris Evans. Not really sure with so many BBC presenters there that he needed to do as much as he did.

And using Gary Barlow's appearance, why did we not hear his set from the beginning?

Still unsure whether the event was at Hyde Park and broadcast by the BBC or a BBC event held there and the tickets were a kind of payment to those who who run Hyde Park.

They could've dropped the interview with Lenny Kravitz to hear him from the start.

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19333 Location: Cheshire

Didn't hear any of it and certainly wouldn't waste my time listening again to it.

I'd guess we'll hear bits in various shows this week anyway.

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Ian Robinson · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:27 am Post subject:

The Great Gildersleeve · Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Posts: 249 Location: North East England

Helen,
I'll skip great chunks(I think the better music seemed to be on earlier in the day)

Ian,
I'd forgotten about the charging to see ISIHAC at certain venues around the country, it happened when the show was staged at a local theatre...

Yes, the interview with Lenny told us nothing of importance except that he'd enjoyed playing the event and he'd been ill with flu but made the effort to appear...not nice but that was really all he said. It had been recorded earlier by Ken Bruce so they played it it only laste maybe 2 minutes if that.

When it ended, Gary was already in the middle of what I assume was his opening song.

To be honest they dragged the event out and it probably could have been done in five hours rather than seven.

I think that I enjoyed the Proms In The Park more the previous night(I remembered about the red button and it being shown live)I haven't bothered other years and Mum enjoyed seeing Russell Watson, Rold Harris and Katherine Jenkins. And we still had the most important part of the Last Night Of The Proms included too.

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

I certainly have no wish to listen to any of Radio 2's output from yesterday and on the subject of the Last Night of the Proms I thought that was also pretty disappointing

For one thing what in the name of sanity were Westlife doing anywhere near the place?

What happened to the selection of British sea songs which for years has been part of the long standing tradition of the last night?

And just to cap it all when the young conductor came to the point of doing the traditional speech we did not hear a large part of it owing to microphone failure

Sadly yet another great British tradition going rapidly downhill Rolling Eyes

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The Great Gildersleeve · Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Posts: 249 Location: North East England

You'll notice I never mentioned Westlife Razz

The problem with the mikes was Embarassed

I couldn't decide if it was a mike problem or more some problem getting the radio signal into the system back stage.

Yes it would've been great to have the sea shanties still included...I think they were done at the Proms in the Park...

The Proms at the Albert Hall had some long piece with Jenny Agutter narrating it...

It seemed the first half was much heavier than usual?