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The Sound of 007 in Concert - Royal Albert Hall, Oct 4th 2022
Apologies if there's already a thread but I couldn't find one.
https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2022/the-sound-of-007-in-concert/
Anyone else going to this event in a few weeks? I managed to grab some of the last tickets, I wasn't going to go but I did figure that you don't get the chance to see Dame Shirley doing the Bonds with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra very often so it's probably worth a bash.
Celebrate 60 years of the James Bond film franchise with a charity concert that will showcase the iconic music of Bond, headlined by the legendary Dame Shirley Bassey.
Curated by five-time Bond composer David Arnold and produced by EON Productions, the concert will feature Bond soundtrack artists including Garbage, as well as special guests including Celeste, putting their own interpretation on classic theme songs, backed by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Dodd.
The date marks the anniversary of the world premiere of the first 007 film, Dr. No held on 5 October 1962.
More special guests to be announced
They're also doing concert versions of Casino Royale, Skyfall and Spectre as part of the '60 Years of Bond' series, you might have seen posters around if you're in London.
https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/series/60-years-of-bond?gclid=CjwKCAjwsfuYBhAZEiwA5a6CDJ8CCuHqLw6VAcwbufNvWdH6DyE91PPj7JWmBAN-0K2IcVBnCPVAXhoCM5gQAvD_BwE
https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2022/the-sound-of-007-in-concert/
Anyone else going to this event in a few weeks? I managed to grab some of the last tickets, I wasn't going to go but I did figure that you don't get the chance to see Dame Shirley doing the Bonds with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra very often so it's probably worth a bash.
Celebrate 60 years of the James Bond film franchise with a charity concert that will showcase the iconic music of Bond, headlined by the legendary Dame Shirley Bassey.
Curated by five-time Bond composer David Arnold and produced by EON Productions, the concert will feature Bond soundtrack artists including Garbage, as well as special guests including Celeste, putting their own interpretation on classic theme songs, backed by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Dodd.
The date marks the anniversary of the world premiere of the first 007 film, Dr. No held on 5 October 1962.
More special guests to be announced
They're also doing concert versions of Casino Royale, Skyfall and Spectre as part of the '60 Years of Bond' series, you might have seen posters around if you're in London.
https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/series/60-years-of-bond?gclid=CjwKCAjwsfuYBhAZEiwA5a6CDJ8CCuHqLw6VAcwbufNvWdH6DyE91PPj7JWmBAN-0K2IcVBnCPVAXhoCM5gQAvD_BwE
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At any rate, I’d love to see this. Going to Europe hopefully this winter but after October.
CR was superb. Note for note spot on. Arnold even played the guitar on the JB theme at the end.
SF was still really good but because the score has more electronic elements in it, this was more difficult to reproduce live, so the score didn’t *quite* line up with the film version. Good effort though.
Yes I wish they'd do a Barry film; I'd be there like a shot.
As Arnold is curating this 'Sound of' concert I'm hopeful there will be a few score cues and not just the songs.
Over the years I've seen Raiders, Jurassic Park and Superman at the Albert Hall in concert, and they were all incredibly faithful - I was amazed when the opening to Raiders began and it sounded identical. But like you I was curious about Skyfall as it seems harder to reproduce and a lot of that sound is down the production you'd think. I love the score but it's not one I'd feel the need to see.
Do a Goldfinger or Moonraker and I'd be there instantly. Imagine Thunderball being played live with those huge lush strings.
Damn that sounds awesome.
Here's the article on MI6-HQ: https://mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/event_concert_john_barry_tribute?id=2827
And here's a setlist which I can't really confirm any more (but it sounds rather plausible):
https://setlist.fm/setlist/royal-philharmonic-orchestra/2011/royal-albert-hall-london-england-1bd359a4.html
Mind you, one thing that's worth mentioning if you haven't been to one: the Albert Hall is a brilliant live music venue but a pretty terrible cinema, and the sound coming from the speakers isn't all that great- so much so that they have to put the subtitles on! :D It's fine though, because you're actually getting the finest sound quality possible for the score, in that it's literally in the room with you! :)
To be fair, I'd be happy just having the orchestra play the music. I don't need to have the film playing.
I have seen concerts at the Albert Hall (Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen) so I'm looking forward to hearing the score at the venue 👍
I would feel motivated to attend live score performances of all of the EON films, but the Barry scores would be more important to me as well. I'd just have to plan a visit to the UK to catch one of these events. I wish they would go one step further and create Blu-Rays of these performances, with multichannel audio. But I guess that would probably entail a lot of red tape and there probably isn't enough demand for it, if any. If re-releasing the actual scores is complicated, what's left for other recordings?
To be honest, I'm not sure there would be any point. The point of these is to have the scores performed live in front of you, to be in the room. If you're not there and watching it on a disc, then it's a recording of a score played along to the film, and that's what you already get watching the existing version of the film.
If they did Moonraker then yes, it'd be lovely to hear a complete version of the score which we haven't had, but I think the rumours of the original tapes being lost weren't actually true anyway.
Want that so bad!
I don't see it that way, no. If you're watching it on a disc, you get to see the orchestra performing the score, which is not the case when watching the film. That's a crucial benefit, in my opinion. Furthermore, no two performances are the same, so there's the enjoyment of having a different performance of the same music (and with a different mix). Then there's the fact the music could be in 5.1 audio or superior. In the films themselves, music, while often in 5.1, is contaminated with SFX, and in the soundtrack albums, it is in stereo most of the time.
At any rate, such a thing is not going to happen.
I was gutted I missed it the first time. Which is why I got a ticket straight away this time. I'm only 45 minutes away from the Albert Hall by train 😁 Really looking forward to it.
I would doubt it very much.
Glad to hear you're going; be sure to let us know what you think.
Will do 👍
New additions to The Sound of 007 in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 4 October have been announced. Lulu, Chrissie Hynde, Becky Hill, Ella Eyre, Jamie Cullum, John Grant and Paloma Faith will join Dame Shirley Bassey, Garbage and Celeste, accompanied by The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Dodd.
Following the concert, The Sound of 007: LIVE from the Royal Albert Hall, an exclusive recording of the live event, will be available to stream globally on Prime Video as part of the James Bond anniversary celebrations.
I feel like Paloma Faith turned up at the last thing like this I saw (can't for the life of me remember what that was- I'm sure David Arnold was there too at the Albert Hall), but John Grant is a good name to turn up.
That's a bit of a turn-up.