I tend to listen to vocals with my eyes shut and only open them if I hear something making an impression on me. In that respect I guess I'm like that awful TV programme 'The Voice' where the judges only turn their chair round to see the vocalist if they like what they hear.
I'd not heard of the vocalists as I don't do musicals (apart from a long ago attendance at the original line up of 'The Rocky Horror Show').
I do think Lulu was staggered by the reception she got but it was about 70% through the prom so I'd have thought she'd have recovered by the end

We watched it as well Mick @Newportnobby and enjoyed it for the most part.

I agree that the singers were mainly unknowns (until I looked them up) and Omar was awful and ruined "You Only Live Twice" and "We Have all the Time in the World". The remaining singers for us were pretty good. Lulu looked emotionally overcome at the end of "The Man with the Golden Gun" which might explain her not coming back on-stage at the end.

I suppose that like a lot of the things some of the Bond themes are so iconic listening to another singer doing it can be disappointing. Most of the other singers are successful West End musical performers. The singer who did "Skyfall", I couldn't find out much about out her, certainly had a powerful voice. It was odd that a few numbers were not Bond themes were included and the programme shows a couple of themes were edited out. The Radiohead alternative to "Spectre" was not great at all.

The BBC Concert Orchestra were good.

Tim

Having always been a devotee of John Barry's music, I watched the BBC James Bond prom last night. However, I found it to be very similar to the Prog Rock prom in that the vocalists, all of whom I'd never heard of, were just not up to scratch. The single exception to this was Lulu who, basically, showed them all how it's done at the age of 77
There were the odd tracks like the theme from 'Man from UNCLE' and 'The Avengers', although the latter had a tenuous Bond link as Diana Rigg ( ) was in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
Strangely, at the final curtain call Lulu was not there  

Quote from: Tank on August 29, 2026, 04:59:20 PMI chased TWY about this last weekend, but I'm still yet to hear back.

My guess is that they are busy building up stock ready for TINGS.

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Quote from: ntpntpntp on August 28, 2026, 04:53:04 PMAll good for me.    I'm not interested in switching to a passkey so I ignore/close that prompt when it comes up on any site.

Same here!

Likewise!

Quote from: RailGooner on August 29, 2026, 04:49:23 PMTurn it off, and on again.

Yes, I always try that first. Tried again this morning and it still didn't work, BUT... I usually use Opera as my search engine and find it very good, but something made me try a different one, namely Bing, and it worked this time. Very odd. Paypal is the only program that Opera has thrown a wobbly over so they've obviously had a bit of a domestic argument at some point. Anyway, thanks for the replies, gents.

Cheers,

Chris

Thanks Ian.  Unfortunately that always happens.  I've found that the best way is to press search, and then 'right click' and open a new window for that link.  Then close the window when you're done and the list was still be there.  Hope that helps.

I chased TWY about this last weekend, but I'm still yet to hear back. 

Turn it off, and on again.

The coffee table Kato test track, more like! Me back's so bad I can't make it to the garage!