Festival of Remembrance
Bonnie Scotland
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Appreciate this isn't an entertainment show/prog as such but just wanted to mention that it's on. I further appreciate there are differing views on both war and the remembrance of, however from my perspective, the outcome of these wars over the decades has ensured that we live in a free democratic country, something i further feel is often (understandably perhaps) taken for granted. I therefore feel televised events such as this are important even though they are not entertainment.
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Good service so far, although Joss Stone was a low point as is the incessant clapping along from the audience.
Was that performed? That's a beautiful Irish folk song about WW1.....I must see if it's uploaded to Youtube.
Oh I thought that was dreadful.
Loved the War Horse scene and this ''In Flanders Fields'' is beautiful.
Oh! A German contribution. That's new and right imo.
Two of them were so nervous.
Joss's performance tonight wasn't a patch on the recorded version. That's very soulful and emotionally charged. Didn't work live.
I find the Fureys version moving and meaningful sung at a slower pace
I f think the Joss Stone version , jazzed up and shrieking , was a big disappointment
Me too -always.
It's not an Irish folk song. "No Man's Land" was written in the 1970s by a scot named Eric Bogle.
His is still the best version. Also called 'The Green Fields of France', a title it was given by the Irish group The Furies.
I've listened to all the other versions, and while they are all better than Joss Stones'sversion, I still find the haunting version by the Fureys by far the best.
I cannot imagine why Joss Stone was asked to do this tribute.
It was embarrassingly bad.
I did, iit's good, but really not as good as the Fureys, in my opinion anyway.
Even Eric Bogle's own version isn't either.
I didn't realise there were so many versions.
It's a beautiful song, and so apt for this occasion.
What a shame they asked Joss Stone to do it.
I think it's on sale for charity.
My ears! She screeched and shouted her way through that song. I heard the odd word i.e. 19, and 1916 but think that was her choir actually. I had no idea of the words she was "singing". She was dreadful. Otherwise a very moving and also uplifting Festival. In a country where it seems you're not allowed to be British any more - I'm proud to be British.
Yes they were about the only words I heard too. This ceremony rather demands clarity and the whole production of the song was never going to provide that.
Should just stick with the likes of Blake.
Joss Stone murdered her song - just awful.
The uniform of one of the Grenadier guards looked like a sack of potatoes.
Glad it wasn't just me. Her diction was awful. Mind you so is Katherine Jenkins. They need stay away from acts like Joss Stone as she jarred in an otherwise superb production.