Dr No kicks off in early January. All are present and correct, including the latest No Time To Die.

Unlike my suggestion to the cinema on Twitter, no double bills or themed all-nighters. But all seem to be in the downstairs cinema, so that's good. I may catch the first three, I won't be revisiting the ones I saw last time but there's a good few to catch anyway - Diamonds Are Forever I skipped last time as the cinema was a bit full and it was Covid still.

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The first half of the evening included anniversary tributes to TB, AVTAK and GE. The two John Barry scores were remembered in well curated instrumental suites topped by the films' title songs. Warren prefaced the evening's 60th anniversary TB spot with a shout out to LaLaLand's recent CD releases, an appropriate plug given that many of us will have recently received our stunning new TB CDs through the letterbox. 

For me, Warren's Barry suites are always the highlight of these evenings. 'Death of Fiona' from TB's Club Kiss Kiss sequence brought all the excitement of blended diegetic and non-diegetic music, mounting to a lethal climax, while 'The Bomb/ The Spa/ Fight At The Chateau' evoked ambient stealth, eerie menace, funereal gravitas and the fast-paced bombast of Bondian action. Whether deliberate or serendipitous, the stage lighting during this segment suggested the film's chopper-view imagery of netting covering the wreckage of a NATO plane in the turquoise shallows of the sea...

Warren's souvenir programme includes articles covering both the tangled production history of TB and the story of the film's alternate title songs. Kerry Schultz seemed to channel simultaneously both Dionne Warwick and Shirley Bassey in a terrific performance of 'Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' - a synthesis accomplished enough to resolve any by-gone rivalries - while Matt Walker gave his customary, powerful rendition of 'Thunderball'!

On to 1985. In his article on the music of AVTAK for the souvenir programme, Warren acknowledges the limitations of that score as well as it strengths, but his AVTAK ensemble certainly played to the strengths. The suite began with the sublime 'Wine With Stacey' before sampling a selection of haunting ambient and action cues, including the mimetic theme for Zorin's airship.

And so to 1995. The concert opened with the first phase of a celebration of GE: the James Bond theme in the Starr Parodi & Jeff Eden Fair arrangement, as for Pierce Brosnan's original trailer. This segued into the disco-brass nostalgia of Marvin Hamlisch's 'Bond 77'. It was a bold choice to go on to tribute GE with a performance of Eric Serra's 'The Experience of Love', a track unloved in isolation but which, in cinemas, functions serviceably as a wind-down over GE's end credits. On stage, Walker lent 'Experience' credibility, with a Serra-like nasal tone, supported by Kerry pitching in with backing vocals. Kerry, of course, trumped 'Experience' when she returned to belt out 'Goldeneye', giving that classic title song its full Tina Turner heft. 

The first half of the evening was buttressed by standalone hits including 'Diamonds Are Forever', 'The Man With The Golden Gun' and 'Licence To Kill'. For 'Golden Gun' guitarist Dan Booth obviously relished going wah-wah, while the Gladys Knight ballad clearly remains Kerry's showpiece tribute. The second half of the evening opened in stirring style with an OHMSS arrangement, no anniversary needed as pretext to celebrate that film's landmark score. The music covered the drama leading from Bond's morning ski with Tracy to the avalanche and its aftermath, before easing into Walker's performance of the poignant 'We Have All the Time in the World.' From there, the concert featured some clever back-to-back pairings: 'You Only Live Twice', followed by 'The Writing’s on the Wall'; 'You Know My Name', paired with 'Another Way to Die'; and 'Skyfall', answered by 'No Time To Die'. Several more classics were presented as standalone highlights: 'Goldfinger,' 'Live and Let Die', 'The Living Daylights' and 'Nobody Does It Better'.

Then came a surprise. Before the encore, David Arnold - no less! - took to the stage to join Warren and Zaritsky, creating a real sense of occasion and engaging everyone with his comic wit. Looking casual in a baseball cap, the composer cut a delightful contrast to the sea of tuxedos and evening gowns surrounding him. Then Warren announced that next year’s concert will be a celebration of Arnold's Bond scores, news that was met with rapturous applause. Tickets, we were told, will go on sale in January. The plan is that Q the Music will be bolstered by the RAF band, and the concert will contribute to the Help For Heroes charity. 

The evening closed with a high-octane preview of next year's Arnold-themed extravaganza. First was 'Come In 007, Your Time Is Up', then Kerry returned for 'Surrender', a powerhouse track that never made it to TND's opening credits but which has since become a fan favourite. I'll be buying my next ticket in the New Year!

I have 1 ticket for sale James Bond Concert Spectacular located at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Sunday 12 October 2025, 5:00 PM

Stall B17

Please let me know if your interested.

Our MISSION DOUBLE-O SIETE event was a blast! Janine Sherman and I are so grateful for the many friends and helpers who made 2024's Mexico Bond Tours possible. Event highlights from MISSION DOS included:

* Mexico City sightseeing and shopping for the fan group (cathedrals, ancient temples and archaeology, the city's Centro Historico, and much more)

* Locations tours featuring dozens of scenes plus deleted scenes, and private visits to closed locations, from A VIEW TO A KILL, LICENCE TO KILL and SPECTRE

* A half-day inside Churubusco Studios to watch live production, and to see filming sites and crew from LICENCE TO KILL and SPECTRE

* In-person visits with Alejandro Bracho, "Perez" in LICENCE TO KILL, and Colin Thurston, legendary EON PRODUCTIONS PROP MASTER, the men who gunned (and rocketed) James Bond!

* Daily trivia challenges and games over tea, coffee and cookies, with Bond prizes and giveaways

* Group lodging and dining at the GRAN HOTEL, used by top cast and crew from LICENCE TO KILL and SPECTRE

* Mexico City's regional cuisine, from dollar tacos to Michelin star dining, and also Argentinian, Italian, and Japanese cuisine, and phenomenal Spanish food--inside the museum used as the casino for LICENCE TO KILL! Plus there was fabulous food at the Gran Hotel (think ice cream desserts set on fire at your table or chilaquiles verdes and made-to-order quesadillas for breakfast)!

THANK YOU to the fans in attendance in Mexico, as always, enthusiastic people, and so helpful with video, photos, games and more! Some excellent event photos are now at www.bondfanevents.com/osiete . . .

Next year's tours in Italy are filling fast! See Jeff Marshall's artwork (thanks, Jeff!) and get the "full scoop" at our new site, https://bondfanevents.com/ciao

As the title signals, 'John Barry: From York With Love' is made in a similar documentary style to Jack Cocker's 'From Roger Moore With Love'. It consists largely of stills and movie clips; what's lacking is any 'home movie' material of the sort that Cocker was able to access in the case of Moore (and which gave him the reason to make his film). Parkin covers Barry's career until 1971, without making it really clear why that should be the cut-off date. It's a less ambitious documentary in the sense that, by Parkin's own admission, its narrative is based principally on one source - Barry's musical biography, 'The Man With The Midas Touch' - and it contains no content which would be new to anyone with more than a passing interest in Barry's career. There's not much sense of York in the film, either, beyond references to Barry's early schooling and his father's picture house, though the glamour of London in the swinging sixties is atmospherically evoked. There is, however, a richer use of movie and TV clips in Parkin's film than in Cocker's. Every Bond movie from DN to DAF is represented, sourcing trailers and some of the titles sequences as well as moments from the main body of the films - together with clips from Barry's other major movies, his lesser known films, his early TV appearances with The John Barry Seven, his work with Adam Faith and his later TV material, including the Sunsilk ad and 'The Persuaders!' If the quality of the film clips is inconsistent - some are rather grainy - the material is inventively re/edited to Barry's original hooks and soundtracks. The whole thing is 'unauthorised', but apparently the writers of 'The Man With The Midas Touch' have given their blessing. I don't know how far Parkin's support of 'Future Talent' as a charity helped with rights to make liberal use of soundtracks and movie clips. Anyway, I certainly enjoyed watching bits of classic Bond re-purposed on the big screen, free of corporate packaging. After the screening I congratulated Charlie Francis on how well he'd voiced Barry. Unlike Steve Coogan in 'From Roger Moore With Love', Francis doesn't attempt a direct impersonation of his subject - he's not an actor - and his contribution feels less intrusive.

This was an enjoyable evening. Apparently the film is due to stream soon, and I'd encourage fans of Barry and Bond to catch it if you can. 'Future Talent' is worthy of support too.

I've booked to see 'A Role To Die For' in late July in the Marylebone Theatre in London. It's a satirical comedy about the process of the casting of the next James Bond - and possibly already out of date if the play's protagonist, Deborah, is meant to be based on Barbara Broccoli, who has recently ceded creative control of Bond to Amazon. The production, which has had its intial run in Gloucester, is playing in London till the end of August.

I wonder if the writer, Jordan Waller, perused this forum's own 'Imaginary Conversations' for ideas! Or if they've hurriedly added a new final Act for the London dates about BB's and MGW's relinquishment of control?: there'd be enough material there for David Hare!

"all introduced by a series of soon to be announced special guests" 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/02/sean-connery-bond-movies-007-edinburgh-film-festival-programme

https://www.edfilmfest.org/whats-on/

List of screenings & more info about the film is here:

www.dartmouthfilms.com/from-roger-moore-with-love

I've just seen this and thought it might interest:

On Sunday 12th January 2025 at 7pm at Chichester Festival Theatre there is an event called An Evening with Rob Wade. Rob co-wrote the screenplays for Casino Royale and Skyfall among others, and will be being interviewed by Ian Haydn Smith, an author and long-time interviewer for the BFI. Tickets are £25 and include a glass of fizz, and all proceeds go to The Nest Appeal. More info here: https://www.cft.org.uk/events/an-evening-with-rob-wade

GF and TMWTGG were especially tributed as this year's anniversary Bond films. GF was evoked visually on stage by a gold-painted mannequin of Jill Masterson draped on a bed [no: she was a real person!*], next to a stack of faux gold ingots, while TMWTGG was celebrated in style with live appearances by Maud Adams and Britt Ekland, each briefly interviewed by affable compere David Zaritsky. Not to mention a pair of giant golden gun props at the back of the stage, barrels angled towards each other as if in a salute. It was lovely to see Maud and Britt in person, of course; Zaritsky's experience at keeping things pacy and upbeat when chatting with Bond luminaries who are advancing in years came into its own right here. Ringham and vocalist Matt Walker were both impressively attired in sponsor Anthony Sinclair's line of tuxedo as originally designed for Sean Connery in DN; Ringham admitted to spoiling his high-end trousers by getting a splodge of gold paint on them when making earlier backstage adjustments to the position of the mannequin [correction: Emma!*], to ensure its [her!*] pose was exactly the same as the 'golden girl' model's in GF!

The evening's music opened appropriately enough with a GF suite, strident and suspenseful by turns: 'Bond Back In Action Again', 'Into Miami', 'Golden Girl', 'The Laser Beam', 'Oddjob's Pressing Engagement', 'Dawn Raid On Fort Knox' and, of course, the GF title song, belted out by Kerry Schultz. Shivers ran down my spine during the 'Raid' cue. There's something gloriously nervy, for example, about those chords which accompany the moment in the film when we see Felix Leiter among the apparent victims of the Flying Circus's aerial mission; the music ratchets up the tension in a uniquely Bondian way.

It was also exciting to hear 'The Laser Beam' in live performance. 'Q The Music''s glossy brochure for the concert, a thoroughly engrossing read, contains a couple of excellent articles by Ringham on the music of GF and TMWTGG, including some discussion of 'The Laser Beam'. Ringham offers fascinating insight on the pragmatism of John Barry's artistry: "One of the things which I've always felt Barry did for Bond music, and really established [in GF] ... is what I call a 'modular' way of ... film score writing. ... I can only imagine the frustration of a film composer who spends months crafting a beautifully constructed piece of music for a scene, records it, then finds the editor has changed the length of the scene and so your music has to be carved up to fit the new length. [To avoid this problem, Barry would] write a 4-bar idea, then just repeat it again [and again] and layer something else on top." Expedient - but done superbly!

If TMWTGG's leading ladies were able to grace the evening in person, a memory of that film's male leads was conjured by performances of the jaunty 'Let's Go Get 'Em' - complete with penny whistle - and the quirkily sinister 'Scaramanga's Fun House'. I was particularly delighted by the inclusion of the latter, which I've previously enjoyed when browsing 'Q The Music''s online uploads. The stage and the band were bathed in blood-red light for 'Fun House', as if channeling the post-Dracula Christopher Lee's stalking presence as a deadly villain. I have to say, though, that, for me, the Barry highlight of the evening was a wonderful addendum to last year's FRWL anniversary celebrations: 'James Bond with Bongos', a piece which conveys all the atmosphere, subterfuge and cat-and-mouse menace of FRWL's Flemingesque Istanbul.

David Arnold's action music was well represented during the evening by exhilarating performances of 'Ice Bandits', 'Backseat Driver' (ooh, shut that door!) and, in the encore, 'Come In OO7, Your Time Is Up'. The latter was, as much as anything, a celebration of the O2 venue's Bond location, the site of the Millennium Dome where TWINE's PTS climaxes. For me, 'Q The Music''s renditions of Arnold's heady set pieces of the Pierce Brosnan films resolve the counterpoint between orchestral music and burbling electronica in favour of the orchestra, which is really how I prefer it.

The core of the evening was comprised, as ever, of performances of a wide selection of Bond songs, including all the big iconic numbers. Vocalist Kerry Schultz deserves special credit, managing convincingly to cover everyone from Shirley Bassey to Billie Eilish to Simon Le Bon to Carly Simon to Jack White to Alicia Keys to Tina Turner to Nancy Sinatra to Lulu to Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (duetting with Matt Walker's Morton Harket) to Adele to k. d. lang to Paul McCartney to Shirley Manson to (especially) Gladys Knight... (but not to Madonna: the techno 'Die Another Day' number isn't on the 'Q The Music' roster, for understandable reasons.) As for Walker, he matched Sam Smith's falsetto admirably for 'The Writing's On The Wall' and held the long, final note of 'Thunderball' with consummate cool. The highlight of Walker's evening was surely the chance to rock it up with 'You Know My Name' but Schultz managed to top even that with a truly bombastic performance of 'Another Way To Die'.

I've been to three of these concerts now and always enjoy 'Q The Music''s take on the Bond songs. The set list is circumscribed by the Bond canon, of course, but there isn't enough time to include all of the songs in any one evening alongside the other items; there's always a question of which songs might not make the cut for a particular show. I love them all and am happy to listen to them repeatedly but I wonder whether it isn't perhaps time for 'Q The Music' to open the door a little further, for the sake of even greater variety, and admit some of the great 'unused'. How about a Ringham innings for the Julie Rogers demo of 'You Only Live Twice', for example; or Alice Cooper's 'The Man With The Golden Gun' (freaky bits included), or Blondie's 'For Your Eyes Only' (a pretty little post-punk song) or Arnold's 'No Good About Goodbye' (the Bassey-meets-Craig ballad that 'never was' - except covertly - but which always should have been canon)?

It was a large audience for Sunday's show. 'Q The Music' loyalists were out in force; Bond enthusiasts of varying degrees of fannishness (Zaritsky certainly played to the fan gallery with a smattering of esoteric gags); doubtless a few 'plus ones' and probably a substantial number of casual concert-goers attracted by a spectacular O2 outing for headline Bond songs. For me, as I suspect for many fans, the main interest of these concerts remains in the more obscure choices of instrumental cues from the body of the films, Barry's cues in particular.

I very much look forward to the next one.

*Note:

Warren Ringham has been kind enough to reply to this review and point out the following:

"It wasn't a mannequin! You are not the only one - everyone thought she was, cause Emma was bloody still for half an hour. Incredible. 

We had been planning and discussing this for months, down to how the arm is draped, the fact the pillow is next to the head not under it, how we would get her on and off with the curtain closed....and she bloomin nailed it.

I got paint as last minute i went to just speak to her and adjust, and she brushed my knee...!"

😀

Hotel is sold out for the Day of the Dead Parade! Contact us as we have a room block!

Mission: Double-O Siete

Contact @thebondbrain on IG if you are interested in joining us.

Janine Sherman and I are excited to invite all AJB'ers to a special concert and car show featuring Bond themes next month.

We have a unique opportunity to offer you exclusive access to an event at Sinclair College's theatre in Centerville, Ohio, on Sunday, July 28. Our friend Cindy Fleming, the soloist performing Bond theme songs with an orchestra, will be there, and we'd love to take you backstage to meet her and the brilliant concert maestro. Additionally, you'll have the chance to meet another good friend of ours who appeared in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER.

The concert will take place in a 1,500-seat theatre, with dual giant screens showing Bond clips. The day before, there will be a car show featuring an Aston Martin. If you're interested in joining us for this exciting event, please let us know.

I am so excited to announce another Bond-Community event like no other! Imagine an evening, suited and booted, under the stars and by the shore. Some iconic cars/bikes you may recognize, live music with songs from your favorite films. Oh yeah, a chance to be part of a 3 hour luxury yacht excursion! All culminating around raising money and awareness for a local non-profit. We bring you "From San Diego with Love"!

More info/tickets can be found at: https://fromsdwithlove.com/

November 9, 2024!

Most importantly we look forward to having an evening around all things 007, in celebration of the franchise AND the fans! I hope to see you there, but if you can't make it, It would help so much to spread the word!

Who is the guy in the suit shaking hands with Maud Adams?

Picture is taken during recording of The Man with the Golden Gun.

Operation: Midas - Shaken Not Stirred's 008th James Bond event commences on Friday 23rd August 2024 at The Pinewood Hotel and finishes on Sunday 25th August 2024. This mission will be raising money for The Royal Variety Charity whose mission it is to raise funds to aid those who have worked in the professional entertainment industry and financially assisting those who are impoverished. This mission celebrates the anniversaries of 004 James Bond films:

Goldfinger (60th)

The Man with The Golden Gun (50th)

Moonraker (45th)

The World is Not Enough (25th)

Check out last year's event highlights here for a taste of what to expect at our events: 

Tickets available here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/shakennotstirred/1210902#

We have some very rare guests heading to the UK for their first ever Shaken Not Stirred event. This will also be the biggest Moonraker and The World Is Not Enough reunion in the UK for many years.

We will be joined by an incredible 0015 special guests from these four films:

* Irka Bochenko (Blonde Beauty in Moonraker) - Rare guest

* Michel Berreur (Henchman & Stuntman in Moonraker) - First UK Bond event

* Alexandra Dane (Part of Pussy Galore's Flying Circus in Goldfinger) - Rare guest

* John Richardson (Oscar winning special effects Supervisor)

* Paul Weston (Legendary Stuntman)

* Rocky Taylor (Iconic Stuntman)

* Norman Wanstall (Oscar Winning Sound Editor)

* Anthony Waye (Line Producer of The World Is Not Enough)

* Greg Powell (Prolific Stuntman)

* Sean Cronin (Renard's Henchman in The World Is Not Enough) - rare guest

* Eileen Roberts (Doubled for Britt Ekland in The Man with the Golden Gun) - rare guest

* John Grover (Editor)

* Terry Madden (Assistant Director)

* Graham V. Hartstone (Sound Editor)

* Colin Miller (Sound Editor)

(please note all guests attending our events are subject to their working commitments and because of this guests can cancel their appearance)

* Exclusive hour Bond show on the Friday evening - The Magic & Music of Bond

* Exclusive Q&A with all of our guests

* Operation: Grand Slam - a chance to win replica gold bars from completing various missions throughout the weekend

* Prize Raffles

* Informative panels hosted by the James Bond community

* 3 course dinner

* Autograph signings

* Entry to exclusive James Bond themed casino

* Free props to take home

* Location tour

* And many more added extras to be revealed...

Friday (Evening) - "The Magic & Music of Bond" James Bond magic and music night - socialise with fellow Bond fans over a drink or two in the restaurant area of the hotel, mingle with some of our rare guests and enjoy a one hour entertainment show with The Magic & Music of Bond.

Saturday (All day) - Join us for an all day extravaganza where you will meet and mingle with our special guests, a chance to participate in Q&A's, dine on a delicious 3 course meal, Operation: Grandslam - a chance to win replica gold bars from completing various missions throughout the day, grab a few autographs and take part in our James Bond themed casino. We'll end the day with a charity raffle and our ever popular quiz.

All guests will be present on Saturday, however please note some will not be staying all day - there will still be an opportunity to gain an autograph from every guest.

Dress Code: Smart casual during the day and optional black tie for the evening casino event.

Sunday (All Day) - Join us for a location tour as Matt & Nick take you around many locations that feature in James Bond films. Please note transportation is required and you will need to have access to a car, or someone who can give you a lift.

Ticket Types

Operative Ticket (Friday Evening Only - Limited to 25 tickets) - The Operative Ticket includes entry to the Magic & Music Bond show and a chance to mingle with our rare guests the night before.

Agent Ticket (Saturday Only - Limited to 15 tickets) - The Agent Ticket includes entry to all of the Saturday activities including Q&A, 3 course meal, autograph signing session, James Bond themed casino, quiz and many, many more surprises. 

00 Agent Ticket (All Weekend - Limited to 40 tickets) - The 00 Agent Ticket includes entry to all of the weekends activities and a chance sit on a table with one of your preferred guests (first come, first served basis - please provide 3 choices)

Terms and conditions:

001 - Tickets purchased are for entry to all of the weekend festivities , this does not include accommodation, transportation costs, drink or food (a 3 course meal will be provided on the Saturday evening).

002 - Tickets are non-refundable.

003 - Shaken Not Stirred accepts no responsibility for any injuries sustained whilst on the walking tour and event.

004 - Any person or persons causing trouble, or being abusive to guests or other attendees will be asked to leave.

005 - Attendees are required to make their own transportation arrangements for the event.

006 - Tickets cannot be exchanged or re-sold, any attendees caught doing this will be banned from future Shaken Not Stirred events.

007 - This is a not-for-profit fan event and is not affiliated with EON, Danjaq Amazon or Ian Fleming Publications.

LOCATION

The Pinewood Hotel, SL3 6AP

On 6/2/2024 there is a talk being given by Bob Stanley, the season's curator, followed by a screening of YOLT, which might be worth a look.

OPERATION BRAD SLAM ON 25 & 26 MAY, 2024

Saturday 25 May at 7pm - Q The Music Show - James Bond Concert Spectacular at Bradford Theatres St. George’s Hall

Tickets via: https://bit.ly/49QYl78 

Saturday 25 May at 10.45pm: After show drinks at Great Victoria Hotel - Bradford

Sunday 26 May at 11.30am: 60th anniversary screening of GOLDFINGER at The Light Cinema, Bradford

Tickets via: https://bit.ly/3OVIn3y

Sunday 26 May at 1.45pm: Lunch and drinks at City Vaults

(To join us at the Great Victoria Hotel and/or City Vaults, please DM Sophia Kupse who’s also secured a special discount room rate at the Great Victoria Hotel for the weekend).

Many thanks to Philip Dewhurst, Emmeline Dewhurst, & Miles Winterburn at 007GB, to Warren Ringham, to Thomas Thomas John Pickup & Ciaran Brown at Really, 007! To Steven Dasgupta for taking the time to chat. And to Scarlett Sotiris, Calum Hopkins & Chris Swalmius-Dato for helping out with filming. Legends, one and all!

#007gb #jamesbond #goldfinger #thebondvivant

Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham, UK

Due to our 'Spy Who Loved Me' screening, to celebrate International James Bond Day 2024, selling out so quickly we will be keeping the Bond fun going with a special matinee event on Saturday October 5th 2024 with a screening of 'Live and Let Die' featuring an appearance and Q+A with Special Guest 'Bond Girl' Madeline Smith (Ms Caruso).

Madeline Smith was the very first Bond Girl of the Roger Moore era and we are delighted she can join us for this special day.

She will be doing signings/photos(charged extra) following the Q+A and film. 

Once again your host for the event will be DJ Jacqui Carroll who will be chairing the Q+A and playing all the best tunes to get you in the 007 mood.

All attendees will receive a commemorative wristband and one lucky person will win a prize of a signed Madeline Smith International James Bond Day event poster. 

Only 80 tickets available for this event in the intimate surroundings of our independently owned Cinema priced at just £28 each.

This is going to be an exciting James Bond day for all fans- 2 films, 2 guests, 1 day.

Bond dress optional. 

Doors open 1230pm - event finishes 500pm

Tickets available at the link.......

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mockingbirdcinema/1133519#

More details via the BD007 Facebook page via:

and

International James Bond Day Sat Oct 5th 2024

To celebrate International James Bond Day on Saturday October 5th 2024 we will be hosting an exciting 007 event at the Mockingbird Cinema in Birmingham.

We will be screening what is considered the most iconic of all the Bond films, The Spy Who Loved Me in glorious 4K (who can forget the Union Jack parachute scene) and we will be joined on the day by Bond Girl from the film Caroline Munro who played Strombergs assistant Naomi, and will be taking part in a Q+A and autograph/photo session (Photo/autograph charged separately).

The event will be hosted by DJ Jacqui Carroll who will also be playing all the best songs from the era.

There will be a pre show Pianist playing Bond themes and a Lotus Esprit S1 displayed to get you in the 007 mood. 

All attendees will recieve a commemorative wristband and one lucky person will win a prize of a signed Caroline Munro event poster. 

Only 80 tickets available for this event in the intimate surroundings of our independently owned Cinema priced at just £28 each.

Bond dress optional. 

Tickets available from https://www.mockingbirdcinema.com/production/the-spy-who-loved-me-with-caroline/

You can find out more about it, and at the very least read the enjoyable entertaining interview with him, on this link here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-6758846