Scott Walker. (RIP March 2019)

Might be more listenable than his last few records

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08z2x62

This one.

The Proms: Scott Walker. It's on 6Radio tonight, and on BBC4 on Friday. Link above to the TV prog.

Link doesn't work, but holy shit.

Is that from a few years ago or a new proms?

link seems fine here.

prom is TONIGHT, hawley's just been talking about it with maconie.

there've been a couple of walker-centric programmes recently btw

Late Junction Jarvis Cocker Scott Walker mixtape
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xcxms

Freak Zone Scott Walker Special
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08yx7wt

oh, there's a page with them all on, some recent, some archive, some clips...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0590947

Going to this tonight, extremely excited, although I can already tell that Jarvis is going to be the weak link here. I'm guessing they'll give him some of the more knockabout material though.

if someone can audio capture this i'd be etc etc

i'm in a classical news group that has been capturing all the classical ones but IDK if they'll upload this one

I'm assuming this will be on the telly at some point? I hope.

It's on Radio 3 tonight, I know that.

... 'This programme will be available shortly after broadcast', says the Beeb website.

the max richter show was rather lovely on sunday morning.
he has a lovely radio voice, and his selections were perfect for the hour of the day and my physical state.

like I say, it will be on BBC4 on Friday

Oh right, didn't notice that.

Am I the only one who prefers earlier Scott?
Some of my favourite tunes are on his later records
Like sleepwalkers woman, farmer in the city and Clara but I can't imagine feeling like putting drift on anytime soon. Whereas I'd put on Scott 3 or 4 in a heartbeat

Scott 3, Climate and Tilt are honestly dead even for me, each deeply satisfying to hear all the way through but the parts of me they satisfy are v different

Going to this tonight, extremely excited, although I can already tell that Jarvis is going to be the weak link here. I'm guessing they'll give him some of the more knockabout material though.

... aaaaand he's opened up with "Boy Child", which is about as far from knockabout as you can get. He seems to be doing it as Jake Thackray though and not Scott Walker.

Sound quality rather better on R3 than on R6M for this, FWIW.

Would like to hear Susanne Sundfør have a bash at Scope J. Any time, perhaps.

Another time, perhaps, I meant.

Everyone is doing fine, but only Susanne should go near Such A Small Love.

A friend has posted the programme on FB. No one is doing SASL. Wise.

Yes, if anyone hadn't realized before, these songs are hard to sing.

Going to listen the shit out of this when it surfaces afterwards.

Matt DC I am soo jealous, would love to hear how it was being there!

(didn't i read somewhere that radio 3 were doing lossless streaming (flac) for the proms? Website mentions binaural but not lossless)

29 days left to listen

Enjoying Hawley's very downbeat "Two Ragged Soldiers."

Seems very apt that Jarvis is doing the 'Til the Band Comes In material

Sundfør killin it on "The Amorous Humphrey Plugg"

Will check this out later but scanning the track list can't help thinking it's a bit disrespectful to ignore nearly everything post Scott 4. No one's expecting 'SDSS1416+13B(Zercon, a flagpole sitter)', but some acknowledgement of where he is now would have been nice.

Simon Raymonde reflecting on the evening including Scott's presence

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This was fantastic. Jarvis was pretty obviously out of his depth but he had a choir to help him with the difficult bits, he's got a way of phrasing that worked with the more downbeat material though. Susanne Sundfor's higher register is astonishing and her voice has WAY more power than I would have expected - there's still something a bit off about her lower register though that I can't put my finger on. John Grant just has the right voice for this and his Seventh Seal was incredible, he can't quite get at the sadness of some of the songs though (his own stuff is extremely sad but there's often a distancing layer there). Whereas Richard Hawley isn't anywhere near as good a singer (and I've never engaged with his solo material) but he got a certain beaten down vibe really well.

Essentially these songs are pretty much never going to be performed like this again and the goodwill in the venue was obvious.

Sundfør killin it on "The Amorous Humphrey Plugg"

This was the highlight of the night for me. Listening on the radio, that is.

Frankie Boyle!

I no.

I feel like if cocker were really a fan of these songs he would have un-blagged his way out of this programme but what can you do, he's just about tolerable I guess (speaking as someone who's attended his performance of a song from the drift and experienced the true nightmare of albarn attempting "farmer in the city")

I thought it was all a bit straight, too reverent. Trying to capture the feeling of these songs requires the opposite approach but then again faced with a voice like Scott's what're you going to do? The Old Man's Back Again was fucking awful: Hawley sounded like he was reading it off a piece of paper, and it was missing that "James Jameson in the Eastern Bloc" bassline. Too much separation between the backing musicians and the singers: it felt like they both happened to be in the same place at the same time but didn't really gel.

It felt like a eulogy for a guy who's more alive and creatively present than, say, Jarvis is.

I'd say even Jarvis would agree with that.

It may be heretical to say this, but Sundfors take on 'Angels and Ashes' was just better than the original - each lineverse had differences whereas the original doesn't so much.

Not by much, but.

Jarv was ok, John Grant was the best bloke voice, Richard Hawley managed to get close to a cigar to Scotts voice.

Some songs worked better than others.

And now Reginald..

The arrangement of "The Seventh Seal" might have been better than the original, it had a nice coda. The rest were probably a bit too reverent, John Grant was good but stuck so close to the recorded versions if Scott had sneezed in a song he'd have sneezed too.

but that was on 'The Drift'

just listened to the prom. made me want to listen to all the original versions again...

Oddly, while I could hear the shortcomings of the voices and the overly-reverent arrangements (but still mostly enjoyed it) listening live on R3 on Tuesday, when I watched it the TV version on iPlayer late on Friday night, I found it tremendously moving. It was perhaps only Grant's performances that didn't grab me, as he was the most nearly-Scott; everyone else had to do something different.

But, yeah, Saturday was spent packing boxes to the entirety of the Five Easy Pieces boxset.

gutted i missed this

it's on iplayer, radio and tv

Haven't got a TV license :-/ and the BBC radio app insists I log in now, which is a bridge too far for me

You can skip that login at the moment, look underneath ...

get_iplayer...

you need a tv license

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMnTBzbpGKI

Yeah, its all over YouTube.

ah that's okay then. thanks all