Brian Bennett & Alan Hawkshaw Talk + KPM All Stars gig

[seedhouser]

Hi I've just notice that Brian & Alan and John Cameron are talking at Spriritland in Kings X on Film & TV themes and scores- tickets are £11.00. On Sunday 7 October at 7.30pm . Jonny Trunk is the host.
http://spiritland.com/events/spiritland ... -all-stars

[George Geddes]

Sounds interesting! Had I known about it earlier I might have stayed on after the KPM gig... But I will be back home by then

George

[Iain Purdon]

I have the same problem - bother

[Iain Purdon]

Meanwhile it was great to see Alan Hawkshaw and the utterly brilliant KPM All Stars. Brian Bennett and Clem Cattini were only a few seats away from us.

[George Geddes]

There are not words to describe the gig... You had to be there. Musicianship of the highest standard. Well worth the 800 mile round trip!

George

[alewis41]

I was there. It was wonderful to hear that music played live by the best in the business. The place was packed! A great evening.

Andrew

[flingelbunt]

I was there at the Saturday concert at the British Library also along with Iain Purdon and George Geddes who I hooked up with before the gig and eventually sitting alongside with a view from above of this extraordinary group of superlative musicians. You had to be there to appreciate the level of musicianship; many well known and lesser known themes were played with, in most cases, the particular composer taking the conductors position frontstage. Alan Hawkshaw came on to play some of his works, mainly on a Hammond C3 and recounted the story of how he composed the 'Countdown' clock music; very funny (and lucrative!) how it came about. Brian B was in attendance sitting alongside Clem Cattini- all in all, a tremendous night of high class music and composers and their compositions. Some examples of the themes played were 'Coast', 'Grandstand' and many others whose working titles were totally unrelated to the item they were used for! Great night!
Maurice

[iefje]

I was there at the Saturday concert at the British Library also along with Iain Purdon and George Geddes who I hooked up with before the gig and eventually sitting alongside with a view from above of this extraordinary group of superlative musicians. You had to be there to appreciate the level of musicianship; many well known and lesser known themes were played with, in most cases, the particular composer taking the conductors position frontstage. Alan Hawkshaw came on to play some of his works, mainly on a Hammond C3 and recounted the story of how he composed the 'Countdown' clock music; very funny (and lucrative!) how it came about. Brian B was in attendance sitting alongside Clem Cattini- all in all, a tremendous night of high class music and composers and their compositions. Some examples of the themes played were 'Coast', 'Grandstand' and many others whose working titles were totally unrelated to the item they were used for! Great night!
Maurice

Sounds like a wonderful experience! Has this concert been recorded?

[Iain Purdon]

There were plenty of amateur attempts going on: I was one of them!

An audio recording of the whole performance was made by Soho Radio and has been published here https://www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/the-kpm-all-stars-live-at-the-british-library-06102018/. To recreate the experience of the occasion you will need to play this as loud as you can stand on the best stereo system you can access! I am sorry to say, though, that there is distortion on the recording.

I don't know whether any professional video was shot. YouTube is filling up with stuff though. Here's a clip for example.

[George Geddes]

Excellent --- but now I have the Grandstand theme as an earworm...

George