We are all James Bond, only in our minds. I’m guessing you are a bit of a James Bond fan.Ībsolutely. I’m really hoping that people are going to respond to that and say “I remember that in the film now. A lot of people will be wanting to see ‘ Diamonds are Forever‘, and all the ones that everybody would know, but in concerts like this I think we always have to offer a tiny bit more than something that the average concert wouldn’t have. But in Hull, you’re going to hear it in the concert hall. And then the only time you ever hear it isn’t in the concert hall but in the film. The ski chase, there is a fantastic piece of music and nobody ever plays it. There is one in particular From Russia with Love there is a really great scene that was never used as the title music but used within the body of the film. But the good thing about it is there is some fantastic background music within the films that nobody ever remembers.

I mean you would expect us to be doing ‘From Russia with Love’ and ‘Writing’s on the Wall’, and ‘ Skyfall‘, so there are the modern ones, with Sam Smith and Adele, and the Shirley Bassey belters as well which everybody loves. Well I think what you would call a USP is that it’s not just all the James Bond songs.

What can we look forward to when you come to Hull?

I’m looking forward to ‘The Music of Bond’ in June. Ahead of him conducting The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in ‘The Music of Bond’ at Hull New Theatre, he discusses working on the music for Star Wars, one of the most acclaimed Bond songs, and answers that often unasked question: what does a conductor actually do? David Arnold has crafted some of the best loved music of the past few decades.

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