I haven’t been to a Proms concert for six or seven years now. I must see if I can fit one in before they end in September.
What is a Prom? See here.
The music, quite fittingly, is Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance.
Below are are a few of the original pencil sketches of Jones conducting which I used as the basis for the poses in the final comic.
This year’s calendar at work is a strange beast. It’s from ‘Best of British’ magazine – a publication for nostalgic old men who can’t cope with the fact that it’s no longer 1957. Really it should be subtitled ‘why is everything different from when I was a child – why why why?’. The calendar pictures old toys, which tell you everything you need to know. It also picks out anniversaries which it considers to be of particular importance. Strangely, it chose to major on Britain winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967 with a song which Sandie Shaw herself postively hated.
Google actually ignored the anniversary, which was yesterday. It probably wasn’t obscure enough. Google’s style would be more to wait till the 53rd anniversary and then celebrate the man who made the microphones the song was recorded with.
August 10 2006
Kenny G is huge in China, it appears. How they can tell the difference between any of his insipid tootlings is anyone’s guess. It was reported recently that there’s one tune of his in particular, ‘Going Home’, which is played in every Chinese shopping mall just before closing time, to let shoppers know it’s time to leave. That sounds about right. If I heard his music over the tannoy system I’d try to get as far away from it as possible.