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08/09/2006

Last Night of The Proms – praying for rain

Tomorrow's Last Night Of The Proms is set to attract a global TV audience in excess of 100 million. But few grown-up music fans will be anywhere near it.

The famed Last Night has virtually nothing to do with music. The flag-waving audience of a-musical Young Fogeys and superannuated Boy Scouts are a blot on the cultural landscpe. They give a great musical festival a bad name. They should be incarcerated for the duration.

And we can only hope it rains (heavily) on the hordes of jolly petit bourgeois picnickers who’ll be taking part, semi-vicariously, via genteel p*ss-ups in parks throughout the UK, watching the action from the Albert Hall on big screens, interspersed with tedious middlebrow crossover lite entertainment.

The annual Proms season is a joy. The last night is an offensive coda. Avoid like The Plague!

Gerry Smith

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