As the session draws to a close, energy starts to flag.<\/p>\n
“Can you bear to do one more of those, ladies and gentlemen,” pleads Dunkley, “while there’s still blood left in your top lips?”<\/p>\n
In the control booth, mixer Daniel Hayden suggests the high notes are taking a toll.<\/p>\n
“If it was down a fifth, it’d be easier,” he observes.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, well, I love F sharp,” laughs Smith.<\/p>\n
The trumpeters valiantly persevere but, by the end of the day, everyone’s wrung out.<\/p>\n
“We had to do a lot of music very quickly, so we’re tired and emotional,” says Henderson, “but the band were incredible.”<\/p>\n
“My least favourite thing in music exams was sight-reading, so these guys are just amazing,” adds Smith. “They need one take to get the feel, and the second take sounds perfect.”<\/p>\n
Thanks in part to The Flight’s music, the game is so cinematic that fans have been petitioning for voice actor Patrick Gibson to play Bond in the forthcoming, Denis Villeneuve-directed film.<\/p>\n
The potential for a real-world crossover puts Smith in a philosophical mood.<\/p>\n
“It’s funny,” he says, “because on a computer game, often the only thing that’s actually real is the music.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the session draws to a close, energy starts to flag. “Can you bear to do one more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}