Looks like the Proms will be 'interesting' this year..

[Grumpmeister]

Remember some dozy government bint in the news a while back was going on about how the proms should be more inclusive? Well it looks like the message has been taken to heart and this year the proms will include something that everyone can get behind - Dr Who. 

Part of me likes the idea of having Daleks wandering round the Albert Hall but I think I'd like it better if they were shooting the morris dancers. 

Doctor Who is to feature in this year's Proms, alongside Nigel Kennedy and maypole dancing.

Daleks will roam the Royal Albert Hall at the Doctor Who Prom in July, which will celebrate music from the popular BBC show.

Kennedy, 51, will return to the Proms for the first time in 21 years to perform Elgar's violin concerto.

The Proms will also celebrate the music of composer Vaughan Williams on the 50th anniversary of his death.

Proms director Roger Wright said the musical emphasis would be on the British Isles, with other compositions from Eastern Europe.

And he denied the presence of Doctor Who meant the world-famous music festival was being dumbed down.

Folk music

The event, presented by Doctor Who actress Freema Agyeman, will feature the show's iconic theme tune alongside other compositions related to time and space, including Holst's The Planets - Jupiter, Wagner's Die Walkure - the Ride of the Valkyries.

Doctor Who star David Tennant will make an on-screen appearance in a pre-recorded scene written by Russell T Davies.

Maypole dancing will feature in the Proms' Folk Day, which includes a series of events in and around the Royal Albert Hall.

Story-telling, folk ensembles, fiddle sessions, and maypole dancing will take place at Kensington Gardens on 20 July.

The 2008 Proms season takes place from Friday 18 July to Saturday 13 September.

[Bar Wench]

David! 

[Darwins Selection]

For some reason, probably psychiatric, I am unable to drive from my head the imagined sound of the "BBC Dalek ensemble" singing Jerusalem.

Feel free to share my virtual earworm.


"And did those feeeet, in ancient time(lord)s . . . ."

[Barman]

For some reason, probably psychiatric, I am unable to drive from my head the imagined sound of the "BBC Dalek ensemble" singing Jerusalem.

Feel free to share my virtual earworm.


"And did those feeeet, in ancient time(lord)s . . . ."

Feet! What feet? Exterminate!

[Grumpmeister]

Next year it will be the cybermen doing pieces from riverdance...