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Most cinemas will show an extended package o highlights, Ultimate Ad entures, but a selection o screens will broadcast the ull complement o ilms o er the course o a week. Each day has a di erent theme. Proceedings kick o with the irst cinema screening o Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's cross-continental motorbike trip in Long Way Round, with ootage not seen in the tele ision ersion. No personality, no soul - just display.BBC Proms to 9 September (020-7589 8212; www.bbc.co.uk/proms). ue Cinemas would ha e us all biking, boarding and bra ing the darkest corners o the world. But again this iercely impassioned music was rendered merely showy by Eschenbach's portentousness.

ate may ha e come knocking a day early but this conductor was hellbent on ha ing him lea e a day late.A trombone-dri en moment o rashness at the climax o the irst mo ement de elopment had me sitting up and taking note, but the rest was distinguished only by its e iciency. It sat smugly, contentedly, in a com ort zone o its own making.At least the " abulous Philadelphians" could luxuriate with impunity in Tchaiko sky's i th. The irst horn did so with great distinction in the slow mo ement. The woodwind choir might just as well ha e stayed at home or all the impression they made as a group.Solos - like the plainti e, time-stretching oboe in the irst mo ement - were exquisitely top-o -the-range, but what did they mean in context? The sense o stri ing in the piece was nowhere. Christoph Eschenbach's monumentally slick account o Beetho en's i th took the shock o the new out o the shock o the old. More retro than re olutionary, the only risson o surprise came with the opening bars, where Eschenbach's dri ing tempo seemed momentarily to ly in the ace o his otherwise stubbornly 19th-century presentation.Hard-sticked timpani might ha e been intended to sharpen the well-upholstered sound, but the natural, deep-pile luxuriance o the amed Philadelphia strings (at ull strength) were a complete contradiction in terms. The superstitious among us may now be questioning the wisdom o programming both Beetho en and Tchaiko sky's atalistic i th symphonies or Monday, in such close proximity to Schiller's "Ode to Joy". In the e ent, there was little joy and ate de initely did not play the winning hand.

On tonight's per ormance, Nutini could sell more records than both o these acts combined But he needs to de elop a body o work All in good time. Tonight, he begs our orgi eness and asks i a "pissed boy rom Paisley can dae another co er" Since you asked so nicely, Paolo.. I you typed in a URL, please make sure you ha e typed it correctly. In particular, make sure that the URL you typed is all in lower case.. ate, it seems, came knocking one day early. A small ire kept a large audience rom Sunday night's close encounter with Philadelphia's inest, the reassuring e iciency o the Royal Albert Hall sprinkler system well and truly putting the dampers on the annual Proms rendition o Beetho en's Ninth.