Experiment IV

Sound is an interesting thing - it can provoke so many things depending on what mood or perhaps even what thoughts are in your mind at the time.
A few years ago, late one night I was watching a rendition of Tosca with Bryn Terfel as Scarpia, the villian of the piece. Well it was just sort of background noise until at the beginning of Act 2, when Bryn emerges onto the stage dressed all in white, singing of his intentions towards Tosca, and well, the sheer thrill that passed through my brain was completely unexpected and disappointingly not repeated upon repeat viewings - the next with a different cast, which I wasn't that surprised at not receiving the same aural thrill, then the same one with Bryn again, which I was quite disappointed at, having been waiting for the moment.
Well I had another moment tonight watching Good News Week - Ronan Keating was one of the guest stars and when it came to his turn to sing his team's song clue, after forgetting what song he was supposed to be singing, he came out with a very bluesy, jazzy torch version of Madonna's Like a Prayer (which I didn't recognise as such until he sang it again later in the show), but it was a real "Omigod mrrrowwrrr" moment - Paul McDermot (the host) described it as being like sexy honey, and that pretty much nails it. The thought that went through my head was "now I know what those girls have been going on about" (and yes it was just as good when he sang it again for longer).

The title of this post by the way is the title of a Kate Bush song - where a group of scientists are working for the military to come up with a weapon based on sound (which goes horribly awry).