If you wanna have a good time

It's a conga line!

We're heading off tonight for a bit of culture (with a capital "K"), as a little gang of us have booked tickets for Mozart's The Magic Flute at The Royal Opera House, no less!

Meanwhile, it's All Hallows Day today, also known as All Saints...

...so let's have some appropriate music for the occasion, shall we?

All Saints - I Know Where It's At

Fuck. That song is 28 years old! It's the same age as Sydney Sweeney, Max Verstappen, Zara Larsson, Jacob Elordi, Raye and Channel 5...

Take me to the place I love

We're counting down the hours to our mini-break in Sitges this weekend [Madam Arcati and I fly out at the crack'o'doom on Saturday and fly back on Wednesday]! It's "officially" to celebrate our friend Paul's 70th birthday [hence why I call him "Jurassic Paul"] - but it's also unofficially a little treat to round-off our 25th anniversary month.

Speaking of which...

...whoever would have thought that this little slice of brilliance was a quarter-of-a-century old this week?!

All Saints - Under The Bridge

Time flies... scarily.

And did those feet...

We've been having a bit of a "recovery day" here at Dolores Delargo Towers, after the excesses of yesterday's Proms in the Park celebrations - and what a fab event it was, too!

OK, we could have done without the rain, the "amateur orchestras", Tim Minchin and the precocious brats from the cast of his musical Matilda, School of Rock The Musical and, for that matter, The Feeling (who weren't bad, just not "our type of music"), but the rest was excellent.



What a joy to sing along in a torrential downpour to Rick Astley - like this lot did (whoever they are):

BBC Proms in the Park 2016 - Rick Astley

Only in Britain...

After the break, ABC brought back happy memories of that golden era of the early 80s:

ABC - Poison Arrow - BBC Proms in the Park 2016

Despite not performing our fave Under the Bridge, the re-formed All Saints were in fine voice:

All Saints - Never Ever - BBC Proms in the Park 2016

And speaking of voices... even at 82, Frankie Valli's still got it!

Frankie Valli - BBC Proms in the Park 2016

The "pop bit" dispensed with, it was time to go over live to the Royal Albert Hall ["Hello Hyde Park" Hello, Hall!"] for the grandest of grand finales, with the massed talents of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Sakari Oramo, and the star of the show, Peru's finest [hence the costume!], tenor Juan Diego Flórez:

Rule, Britannia...

Juan Diego Flórez - Rule, Britannia - BBC Last Night of the Proms 2016

...Land of Hope and Glory...

Land of Hope and Glory - BBC Last Night of the Proms 2016

...and [in its centenary year] Jerusalem:

Jerusalem - BBC Last Night of the Proms 2016

And, with God Save The Queen, Auld Lang Syne and the fireworks, that was it for another year (and another summer, sob)...



Utterly unforgettable!