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anteros_lmc in following_sea

More Musical Officers

Sep 14, 2011 23:27

I don't know about you, but I think that since Mr Bush has had his dodgy boy band past dredged up, it's only fair that the other officers step into the limelight. After all a good captain should lead by example and Captain Pellew was well known for never asking his men to do anything he was unwilling to do himself! So allow me to present the fine ( Read more... )

actor: jamie bamber, actor: ioan gruffudd, other, actor: robert lindsay

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eglantine_br September 15 2011, 03:19:43 UTC

I can so imagine EP whistling with his fingers like that. (I myself cant do it. I have tried and tried...)

Also IG and his friend are delightful, especially the part where they make little boy shooty noises.

anteros_lmc September 16 2011, 22:21:05 UTC

No I can't whistle like that either and it's a talent I covet!

IG and his friend are delightful, especially the part where they make little boy shooty noises.
Aren't they delightful? :)

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eglantine_br September 15 2011, 06:03:06 UTC

Yes. I did notice that.

mylodon September 15 2011, 07:48:40 UTC

I have that whole cast CD somewhere. Maybe it needs to do a tour like Shifting Sands did?

anteros_lmc September 16 2011, 22:29:09 UTC

Which cast CD? Me And My Girl or Very Annie Mary?!

Talking of Shifting Sands, a very dedicated fangirl has posted edited highlights of a whole host of JBs more obscure appearances on Daily Motion here. Now you too can enjoy highlights of JBs in Peak Practice XD

charliecochrane September 17 2011, 16:17:12 UTC

Me and My Girl.

Highlights or lowlights?

anteros_lmc September 17 2011, 18:32:59 UTC

Erm... some are certainly more for the completist :} The clips of Lady Audley's Secret and Poirot are very cute though!

shezzawatto September 15 2011, 09:19:50 UTC

I never fail to get an enormous kick out of watching that Lambeth Walk number. Lindsay is fabulous in it ( ... )

anteros_lmc September 16 2011, 22:40:50 UTC

Lindsey is a real hoofer isn't he?! What a pro!

As for Ioan - he is also a trained musician and singer
I would expect nothing less! i was trying to find a decent clip of Ioan singing Amazing Grace but sadly it doesn't seem to be on youtube.

I've not come across any Bamber musical stuff either
esmerelda_t maintains that he has said in interviews that he can't sing. Perhaps it's the single talent he lacks!

Particularly made me think of nodbear and her Archie sonnet writing.
Oh yes! Thanks for the link, I haven't heard those before. PG has a beautiful singing voice, did you see the clip from Monocled Mutineer here? *sigh*

nodbear September 15 2011, 12:01:12 UTC

Whilst resolutely trying to remain undistracted by the comments of volgivagant and eglantine_br above

though I did feel I needed to try and check their point by watching again

I got to thinking about EP and dancing. Certainly he recognised the value of music snd danicng for the men and nencouraged it, but himself ?

The European magazine and London Review of provides an interesting snippet in evidence.
There is a poem whose author publishes under the pseudonym "John the hermit" on the subject of retirement. It contains the lines:

and with the active foe of France
with bold Pellew to join the dance

and to these lines there is a footnote : "the author and Sir Edward were at the same time under the tuition of a dancing master at Dover"...

so somewhere on the spectrum between the frail twin thought likely to die at birth and the oversize and tough boxer of his middy years there was a dancing master ..nice to imagine a 6 or 7 year old EP being taught dancing...