Despite the scorn levelled at the singer, in the end Smith delivered a superb performance
, addressing the BBC Radio 3 audience at home, “don’t worry – I’m not going to get my bum out. Even I know there’s a time and a place”.
That Smith’s supposed offences weren’t terribly convincing, pretty tame and quite old hat – Mick Jagger was dressing up as the devil in 1968 – didn’t seem to matter; even the BBC Proms organisers were moved to assure people that the show’s “look and feel will be entirely appropriate for the audience in attendance”. Won’t somebody think of the children.
Perhaps aware the album’s deep cuts would be a stretch for a general audience, we got two covers; they brought their old vocal coach Joanna Eden out for a somewhat dull version of “Hushabye Mountain” by The Sherman Brothers and an affecting cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” worked far better. But the highlight was “Writing’s on the Wall”, their Oscar-winning Bond theme that sounded like it was built just for that moment, adding a dense drama that was otherwise missing.
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