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...hours to go before the champagne is popped...! But let's still break that £10k - only £800 to go - we raised that in about an hour yesterday!! So let your friends and family know this is their last chance to be involved, that they're helping to... (Read More)

Okay this is the last chance to try for something BIG with this campaign.  Reddit is the no1 place on the internet that internet stuff that goes viral starts going viral.  All you have to do is click on the UP ARROW next to this post:... (Read More)

Further to the last email please do let people know this is the last chance for them to get involved in helping to create this project.  I'd like to list all the backers names (unless you don't want yours included) in a roll of honour for helping... (Read More)

This is a ruddy marvelous feeling... really had my doubts we'd make it even just a day or two ago - all I can say now is  THANK YOU TO YOU - THE NO.1 PEOPLE INVOLVED IN MAKING THIS PROJECT HAPPEN. BUT... LET'S BREAK £10K !!!  This will: give me a... (Read More)

...days to go and we've had a flurry of splendid backers this morning - welcome guys! Still looking very tight though (about as tight as the the feeling in my throat right now as it inches closer to the finish line) so please, please, please keep up... (Read More)

...days left and minutes to go before HIGNFY starts hosted by someone I might have mentioned once or twice already in these posts. Sorry bit late notice this one - been under the cosh - but TV time now... And welcome all you brilliant new backers! ... (Read More)

...days left and what a cracking day it's been! Very lovely facebook post from Mr Blessed, some excellent plugging by you splendid backers and the various rounds the project's been doing on social media have pushed us up to 77% funded - we're in very... (Read More)

...days to go and a few new backers today thank you! One of whom I stumbled across online through a clever itunes widget he had designed, and was very impressed by his various tinkering projects here: http://jamesmedd.tumblr.com/ Nice work James!... (Read More)

...that's the start of the countdown for the number of days left for the campaign, and it looks like it's going to be a tight one....! BUT as the age old saying goes "five days is a long time in kickstartering".  No really, they've been saying... (Read More)

Good morning Backers! Here's the link to Rory's article in The Times:  http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/music/classical/article3732484.ece Brighten up everyone's Monday by sharing with all your friends, family, colleagues etc! Best wishes Matt  (Read More)

Dear Backers Easter is traditionally the time for catching up with family, old friends and for telling each other about all the great Kickstarter projects you've been backing recently.  Okay maybe not the last part, but here's an opportunity to... (Read More)

It's Monday afternoon, you've caught up with all your emails this morning, now you've some free time to leave a quick comment for this project!  It'll only take two minutes...... (Read More)

Okay so I'm starting to get some good press leads but will have to keep quiet about this until it's confirmed!  But fingers crossed we might see something about this project in the news... Something that all you current backers can really help me... (Read More)

Sorry TechMash - nearly missed you out there in the big-ups thank yous... http://techmash.co.uk/2013/03/08/musical-project-starring-brian-blessed-hits-kickstarter thank you!  (Read More)

I can only start by saying a massive thank you to all you early pledgers!  The generous support shown by family, friends, friends of friends, friends of family, and family of friends (still making sense?!) ...AND people randomly discovering this... (Read More)

I have a love for orchestral and classical music (albeit mostly score soundtracks) and I also have a love for the 1001 Nights or Arabian Nights stories and so to me, backing this Kickstarter project was a no-brainer! (Read More)

Last year I reviewed a really interesting recording designed as an educational tool for children, encouraging them to listen to classical music. As I’m sure you know by now, if you regularly read my blog, I’m always keen to highlight a project such as this because, in my opinion, children have relatively few opportunities to absorb classical music. (Read More)

know it was through listening to the Flash Gordon soundtrack and a lot of stuff by John Williams as a young boy that gave me my a taste for orchestral music and made me go off hunting for more soundtracks. Soon after that I stumbled into the world of classical music and didn’t look back. The idea of a project to try and gets kids listening to classic musical is not only cool in it’s own right but added to that is, as part of the project, the team are trying to produce a graphic novel as well. (Read More)

Brian Blessed, king-sized star of such films as Flash Gordon, Star Wars: Episode 1 and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, is part of a Kickstarter campaign to develop some subversive children's stories - set to classical music - into comic books and multimedia productions, as a way of introducing kids to this awesome soundworld. (Read More)

A music teacher in England wants to get kids interested in classical music, and has figured out that the best way to do that is have Brian Blessed and comedian Rory Bremner enact an audio play with a related tune in the background, in this case "Scheherazade" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Then he wants to turn it into a comic book, which presumably defeats the purpose of listening to the music, but anyway...Brian Blessed yelling about baboons and buttocks! (Read More)

This one is just too good to not write something about. It is a project aimed at getting children interested in classical music, and it stars Brian Blessed, the Hawkman Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon (1980). They are looking to make a graphic novel to accompany the audio program they already have on CD, so kids can follow along and to help spark their imagination. The whole thing is set to the classical music composition Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. (Read More)