Who stole the last two weeks...own up !

[spikesnn]

Ok, I know where the last two weeks went ...it went mostly on watching pretty things on the telly :) I had to do it to get over my phobia about widescreen tellies and how ginormous everyones bum looks in this format..no, really , even skinny Season 6 Spike has an arse you could serve a dinner party for twelve off , though I doubt they'd complain

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[bendy1]

Oh that sounds fabulous, is it a film I can rent?

LMAO at the jumping sound techs - I'd pay good money to see that, they're usually way too smug ;)

[spikesnn]

Oh that sounds fabulous, is it a film I can rent?

You can..it was recently released on DVD:)
It was filmed in 1968 wholly on location in Brighton ,mostly on the West Pier ( parts of which fell into the sea in 2003 , and three months later was totally destroyed by a fire in the pier theatre ) and was Dickie Attenborough first attempt at directing .
The cast of luvvies in the film is immense...Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Gielgud, half the Redgraves , Maggie Smith, John Mills ...name any British acting great and they're in it and they all ham it up beautifully !

You won't see any graphic details of the fighting , you won't see the intensity of say, All Quiet On The Western Front , but you will see a film the whole family can watch, and understand exactly how the devastating result of one idiots wish for glory decimated Europes sons :(

Hee... sound tech's soon learn to give V quarter power on her mike
or risk burst eardrums :)

[haffy]

I'm going to look out for that sounds very interesting.

sings it's a bit like Charlotte Church ..on steroids the first image that brought to mind was a huge hulk lump of muscle Charlotte Church.

So glad J passed the theory, good luck to him for the practical.

[spikesnn]

Its definitely one to see ...as I say, its a strange film but also a very moving and powerful one . I knew little about WW1 , apart from knowing that my Grandad was injured on the first day of the battle of the Somme , and I know all the songs in the film becaise he sang them to my mum , and she sang them to me ..but this film more than any other on the subject shows you how futile it all was :(

Heh, V makes Charl sound like a Church mouse :)

So glad J passed the theory, good luck to him for the practical.

Thank you my lovely, I'll pass it on :)

[deborahw37]

Congrats to V

It sounds like a great production of a great, and, as you so rightly say, very moving piece of theatre

[spikesnn]

V says thank you !

For a very small theatre company with very little money they put on some really good productions, and are never afraid to attempt the seemingly impossible :)
I call them Guerilla 64 cos they move in on different schools and colleges in the hols and take over their facilities *g*

[spikesnn]

LOL...I have a few Classical albums that I like to listen to sometimes , and they played Faure at the end of the show...and I cried again !

Bless him, J was on nights before the test , and had to get the bus to Aldershot at 10 the next morning ...I'm amazed he could even see the test papers !

I was a warbler during my school years , even won some trophies in local Music Festivals, but V has much more power behind her voice , and that must come from P ...or 'Foghorn' as we call him cos you can hear him on the phone 3 doors away *g*

[trishyb]

Congrats to V and her powerful lungs... lol, seriously give her my best *hugz*
and well done to J hopefully P wont be playing taxi driver for too much longer :)

P ...or 'Foghorn' as we call him cos you can hear him on the phone 3 doors away *g*
lol.......I can sympathize luvvie, I live with someone just the same *g*

[gishlane]

The movie is excellent - very moving. Lots of revisionists historians around these days who talk lots about the learning curve of the British Arny etc. but but they can't write away the millions of individual tragedies.

Your grandad did really well to survive the first day of the Somme.

V sounds wonderful :)