The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
One advantage of launching the world's greatest musical festival with the world's worst piece of music – Strauss's preposterous Festival Prelude – is the certain knowledge that the only way is up. Unless, of course, you end with the second-worst piece of music – Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, where the sustained release of hot air and queasy harmony induces an untimely deflation of the spirit.
BRANDING UNBOUND (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Who says mobile consumers don't want to party like it's 1699? Brand Republic is reporting that classical music site Classical.com is using Bluetooth marketing at the Royal Albert Hall. Concert goers with Bluetooth enabled on their phones will receive a...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Geoffrey Norris reviews Prom 6 with Olivier Latry at the Royal Albert Hall
The Independent (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Englishness came under close scrutiny in the second Prom of the season: the refulgence of Bax, the mysticism of Finzi, the attitude of Kennedy. Actually, there were two Kennedys at this BBC Concert Orchestra programme under Paul Daniel. The tenor Andrew Kennedy led the BBC Chorus in Gerald Finzi's wonderful setting of Wordsworth's ode, Intimations of Immortality, where past memory and present consciousness...
XO's Middle Eight (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
This week Darren Hayes releases the concert film of 2007's Time Machine Tour . Though the show sold out London’s Royal Albert Hall, it wasn't possible to bring it to the States, so the DVD will be of particular interest to American fans unable to see the full spectacle. The tour featured Darren's most theatrical stage show, primarily designed to present This Delicate Thing We 've Made , his 2007 double...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
DON’T let the title confuse you, the Pops are not yet over, instead the concert was named after the grand finale of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
We join 3000 voices at the Royal Albert Hall for the annual Big Sing event; praise bands in Minehead; and there's the story of a lifeboat rescue which deeply affected a community on the east coast of Northern Ireland.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
The 2008 Proms season will begin later with a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
The Royal Albert Hall launches a corporate sponsorship programme for the first time in its history.
currybetdotnet (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Having mentioned listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival in today's " Lifetime of lost playlists " post, I thought I'd follow up on my moan about the John Fogerty show I saw whilst I was in London a few weeks back. To recap, I was very excited to be around and to get the chance to see John Fogerty live, especially as I was able to go in the company of my dad, who'd introduced me to the band with...
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
British rocker PETE DOHERTY had to be rescued by security at his recent solo gig in London - after the crowd invaded the stage. The Babyshambles frontman was wrapping up his show at the city’s Royal Albert Hall on Saturday (12Jul08) when hundreds of fans rushed forward and climbed onto the platform. Doherty’s security team was forced [...]
websound.ws (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
From the "Remember That Night: Live at the Royal Albert Hall" concert DVD. Author: flojdtube Keywords: Gilmour Coming Back to Life solo Remember That Night Royal Albert Hall Added: July 14, 2008
websound.ws (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
From the "Remember That Night: Live at the Royal Albert Hall" concert DVD. Author: flojdtube Keywords: Gilmour Fat Old Sun solo Remember That Night Royal Albert Hall Added: July 14, 2008
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Pete Doherty's solo show at the Royal Albert Hall ends in chaos as hundreds of fans invade the stage.
