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The Royal Albert Hall's concert list along with photos, videos, and setlists of their past concerts & performances.
- London, England, United Kingdom
May 15, 2019 · Voices are clear; strings attack but avoid sounding too bright; deep, angry bass notes stay tight and punchy. Large-scale dynamics have surely never sounded so roomy, yet at the same time, so organised and precise, in line with the conductor’s staccato command.
We see Mitch’s limousine ride to the venue, with some funny commentary and Noel backstage, putting new strings on his bass plus many other sequences from the rehearsals,which have never seen before.
Mar 29, 2021 · So, from the flushed faces of middle England bobbing beneath their Union Jacks to the flushed lavatories reinforced for Sumo competitors, here are some of the Royal Albert Hall's highs and...
- For The First 98 Years, Its Acoustics Were Shocking
- The Krays Performed here. All Three of Them
- It Was Flooded with 600,000 Litres of Water
- It Has A Sense of Humour
- It Nearly Had Its Own Pneumatic Railway
- It Hosted The First International Sumo Wrestling Tournament
- It Shares Its Name with An Apocalypse Now Actor
The Royal Albert Hall is certainly a looker. In fact, it was designed with aesthetics in mind, rather than optimum acoustics. Because of an echo caused by the concave ceiling, it was a long-running joke that here was the only venue a composer was guaranteed to hear their piece played twice. Arf. It wasn't until 1969 that something was properly done...
Boxing, not singing. Brothers Reggie, Ronnie and Charlie all took to the ring in the middle of the Albert Hallin separate bouts on 11 December 1951. Reggie beat Clapham's Bobby Manito. No such luck for the other two: Charlie lost and Ronnie was disqualified for (literally) using his head. Bonus fact: According to an article by, er, us, the Krays we...
On purpose. Beneath the arena is space for huge water tanks. These are occasionally used for liquid epics, such as the 1998 production of Madame Butterfly. It takes about an hour to fill up the area with eight inches of water; no such luxury for draining it away: "It's difficult because... we only have 15 minutes to get it off stage in the interval...
An incensed letter from the Albert Hall's chief executive Ernest O'Follipar details a number of reasons why the Beatles song A Day in the Life has tarnished the venue's reputation, including "the wrong-headed assumption that there are four thousand holes in our auditorium". O'Follipar goes on to suggest the lyrics be changed to "I read the news tod...
Back in 1877, Thomas Rammell — a pioneer of the pneumatic railway — suggested there should be a train running from South Kensington Underground to the Royal Albert Hall. Plans were drawn up, but never came to anything. Anyone who's found themselves schlepping to and from the Proms on a regular basis will know that Rammell was onto something.
For around a millennium and a half, professional sumo wrestling only took place in Japan. Then, in 1991, the Royal Albert Hall got the gig. They went all out, mining the clay for the ring from a quarry near Heathrow. Extra large showers were fitted in the changing rooms, and toilets weight-tested.
Albert Hallplayed Chief Phillips in 1979's Apocalypse Now. You may also recgonise him from his recurring role as judge Seymour Walsh in Ally McBeal. There's no proof that Albert Hall was conceived in South Kensington, but we know he was born in Brighton. Brighton, Alabama, that is. Bonus fact: there are five 'A Hall's listed in the London phonebook...
May 22, 2019 · This guitar man doesn’t do histrionics. The audience was immediately on its feet and cheering as Knopfler, now a tad plump and bespectacled, opened the show with “Why Aye Man”, which was used as the theme tune for Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
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The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage.
