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A lot of people who buy tickets for Circle seats don't realise how high it is.
I went once with a friend and at the interval she felt quite unwell because if the height, and we asked the girl on the door if we could sit somewhere else. She was lovely, called someone on her phone and along he came with a fist full of returns!
We sat (at no extra cost) in seats alongside the choir, brilliant.
The girl told us of one woman who, when she saw how high it was as she went through the opening, almost fainted.
They literally had to peel her off the wall!
It's the feeling of nothing below you. We went to see McEnroe play and I had a front seat in the box. I really did think I was going to pass out, my hands were sweating and I really did feel ill. When the tennis started though, I forgot about it and enjoyed the game.
I watch TLNOTP every year and did last night burt I think that will be iut for the future. It is not the music, however predictable, that will always be worth listening to. It is the totally unspontaneous, same old, same old 'funny' antics by some of the promenaders. Ooh! Let's blow a hooter, that will be funny and original, won't it? Let's do this, do that, exactly as it is always done, everyone will laugh because they have been schooled to not because they still find it funny, surely???
I find it all so tiresome, predictable and along with the pseudopatriotic, manufactured fervour, recalling a past that never existed, I think I will give it a miss in future.
Thank goodness we all view things so differently.
Seeing people taking part and enjoying themselves is all part of the experience of the Proms and I for one would not like to see that disappear no matter how old hat it comes across to some, including yourself.
For the sake of cameras some Prommers may have been asked if they wanted to bob up and down but many did and they sure as heck enjoyed themselves whilst doing so