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« Reply #15 on: 15:20:18, 25-02-2008 » |
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NO! Nobody can sort the Proms out. It's just a fact of life Rod. Baz  I wouldn't mind seeing Jonathan Swain and Rob Cowan having a try at it, though  Well thanks chaps, as I said last year's was dire beyond belief. If the Proms modus operandi is to continuously promote rubbish classical music (of which unfortunately there is a lot) it does it well. Then even the good stuff is made a mess of. Too many old farts doing the decision making no doubt, no doubt only to be replaced by younger old farts in due course...  If I could smuggle a few rocket propelled grenades into the hall this year who's up for a bit of trouble making? |
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« Reply #16 on: 16:27:04, 25-02-2008 » |
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Whom are you intending to kill?
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Rod Corkin
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« Reply #17 on: 17:10:03, 25-02-2008 » |
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The Proms Director will be my first target, he's bound to be there on opening night. After him.. well.. anyone who gets in my way or performs silly music...
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« Reply #19 on: 19:52:42, 25-02-2008 » |
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Uh oh, now I'm in trouble...  Aaah, so it was you I've seen driving around in that white van with 'Oliver: Purveyor of Silly Music' written on the side panels. |
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« Reply #20 on: 19:53:41, 25-02-2008 » |
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No no no. Ollie's the new director of the Proms. Hadn't you heard?  |
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« Reply #21 on: 19:55:26, 25-02-2008 » |
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Uh oh, now I'm in trouble... Aaah, so it was you I've seen driving around in that white van with 'Oliver: Purveyor of Silly Music' written on the side panels. ...only because I was advised that 'Purveyor of Silly Noises to the Gentry' might have been over-egging it a bit. Cripes, me in charge of the Proms. You'd hear some squealing then...  (mostly offstage) |
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Rod Corkin
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« Reply #22 on: 12:52:07, 26-02-2008 » |
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Cripes, me in charge of the Proms. You'd hear some squealing then... (mostly offstage)You'd be squealing if you felt a rocket propelled grenade up your arse.  |
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« Reply #23 on: 13:13:04, 26-02-2008 » |
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Cripes, me in charge of the Proms. You'd hear some squealing then... (mostly offstage)You'd be squealing if you felt a rocket propelled grenade up your arse. Gosh! |
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« Reply #24 on: 14:27:46, 26-02-2008 » |
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Gosh!
Really the whole RAH needs to be raised to the ground, it's the only solution I'm afraid. |
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« Reply #25 on: 14:38:55, 26-02-2008 » |
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Gosh!
Really the whole RAH needs to be raised to the ground, it's the only solution I'm afraid. I think you mean "razed", but yes: as a space for performing music in it's basically useless. I would recommend keeping the shell and building a proper concert hall inside it, then you'd have a distinctive-looking building which actually fulfilled its intended function. |
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« Reply #26 on: 16:32:00, 27-02-2008 » |
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Gosh!
Really the whole RAH needs to be raised to the ground, it's the only solution I'm afraid. I think you mean "razed", but yes: as a space for performing music in it's basically useless. I would recommend keeping the shell and building a proper concert hall inside it, then you'd have a distinctive-looking building which actually fulfilled its intended function. Yes you're quite right, "razed". Good idea about keeping the shell though, but wait until the last night, during the silliest of the silly music, and I'll blast away the whole interior and everyone in it with my rocket propelled grenades. I will survive of course. |
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« Reply #27 on: 17:51:43, 27-02-2008 » |
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Rod,
You may think it's all fun on here but typing out what in effect reads as a conspiracy to launch a terrorist attack on the Last Night of the Proms is not my idea of fun.
Rather than me send a complaint to the mod team, or a PM to you, can I ask you, as a fellow Forum-Admin person with the interests of this forum dear to my heart, to edit your own messages and remove ALL the grenade nonsense?
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« Reply #28 on: 18:08:02, 27-02-2008 » |
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Rod, I support John on this. The tone of your posting could be dismissed as rather "Boys Own" in tone but, given the spambots that scan these sites, the Moderation Team would ask that you remove your potentially inflammatory comments from the post cited by John W.
Use whichever tone/language you wish to on your own site, but we would ask that you respect the general tone on this Forum.
Morticia
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« Reply #29 on: 22:29:03, 27-02-2008 » |
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I am personally acquainted with performers who have themselves been the victims of actual terrorist attacks during the performances they were involved in. One is so badly affected that he can't perform any longer. I find these "funny ha-ha" remarks of Mr Corkin's in extraordinarily poor taste, and I would ask the Moderation Team to consider deleting them if the member himself doesn't do so within 24 hours.
Mr Corkin runs a forum of his own. Let him take his offensive bilge there. It's not wanted here. There is a law in the UK about incitement to acts of terrorist violence, and I believe his remarks here have breached that law.
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