New entry at Storytellersunplugged -

[anghara]

- you can read it here.

So tell me, Oh LJ Friends, is there a place that YOU would recognise if you saw it as background on a movie screen?...

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[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

The Libertine is on TV next week. Must watch it.

Wells Cathedral Chapter House steps appeared in the first Robin of Sherwood (circa 1978) as the inside of Nottingham Castle. The courtyard of Norringham Castle is Alnwick Castel, so in the scene Robin (Michael Praed) is escaping from the dungeons for the very first time and he's being chased by Guisbourne and his guards along the curtain wall of Alnwick. Robin runs through a door in a guard tower and - by magic - he's on the chapter house steps at Wells. He runs up the steps, through a heavy wooden door and into Marian's chamber(their first meeting and probably a studio set).

Alnwick was also been used for the Costner Robin Hood and for Harry Potter and many more things. It seems to crop up regularly - as does Wells.

Various parts of Toronto are also really easy to spot in Blood Ties, the telly series from the Tanya Huff books. Of course the CN tower is a dead giveaway. But apparently a lot of films that are supposed to be New York are filmed in Toronto.

[charlieallery.livejournal.com]

He runs up the steps, through a heavy wooden door

The door at the top of the steps leads into the chain gate which crosses the road beside the cathedral. At the far end is the Vicars Hall which is a beautiful wood-panelled hall where the vicars choral used to eat and gather and it connects to Vicars Close. The chain gate was constructed so that the vicars choral would not have to brave the 'ladies of ill-repute' who would hang out nr the entrance to Vicars Close, on their way from the gated close to the cathedral. We used the hall and the chain gate to form up before the celebration and to cross then to the chapter house while the audience came in from the cathedral.

Yes, thanks, I had a great time at that school. *g*

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

You went to Wells Cathedral School? Oooh. I love that place. I was jaw-droppingly gobsmacked the instant I walked into the nave and saw that honking inverted gothic arch. After that I was putty in its hands. (Do Cathedrals have hands?) I have no affinity with the religion whatsoever but the building is just plain breathtaking.

Once when we were on tour we went into the chapter house and there was no one in there so we sang... I can even remember what we sang... it was 'After the Goldrush' in three part harmony.

Orgasmic I tell you...

[charlieallery.livejournal.com]

I have been fortunate enough to sing and play in both the Chapter House and the Nave (both ends). Best memory is probably playing in Carmina Burana on scaffolding at the west end of the nave. My lips were numb and the scaffolding was vibrating. Yes, orgasmic pretty well describes it ... *g*

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Oooh (Green with envy)
:-)

[anghara.livejournal.com]

I sang at a concert at St Asaph Cathedral - but it doesn't compare to Carmina Burana at Wells...

[charlieallery.livejournal.com]

It's a great privilege to have the chamce to perform in any of these great buildings. The surroundings, let alone the acoustics, are half the experience and I treasure those memories greatly. I was very, very lucky. :)