Doctor Who theme tune by Nigel Kennedy - BBC Proms 2008

[superFrontrunner]

WTF

[plink0988]

wow an electric violin! awesome sounds of doctor who!

[GOctavius1]

He played bad, but doing that was pretty awesome!

[Tardisbox2011]

Sound Awfull. Im sure they could have chosen something else.

[ThePoopsnak]

kids remember this is live out doors playing to a live soundtrak..........and to me its incredible...............he jacked a violin through a guitar tube amp and a pedal board .meant for electric guitars.............mind blowing id like to here this recorded in a studio.................soooooo­oo much potential to this its staggering to me...........

[d4sUnter]

Brilliant!? Maybe!

I am sure it was made for Dalek ears.

[Geffers58]

love it

[Flickyhecky]

That was bloody awful...even my cat had to cover his ears!

[BennyZGarrett]

That made my ears bleed. That was just bloody horrid.

[cuppateadee]

so nice to see a real cool dude having a laugh thank god he is not a boring stereotype nice one nigel made me laugh

[hotelmario510]

Well, it wasn't bad...

...but it wasn't good, either.

[ANavinFlimProduction]

My headphones blew up after watching this!

[evilguy0]

The best version of the theme I've heard.

[dandebsgmail]

That was, um, rubbish. What a horrible cacophony.

[blackmanvishnu]

the awkward moment when he says that he is the doctor

[Niksorus]

Uh, so that's what tween wave is all about.

[goblinfing]

WTF IS THIS?

[GothamClive]

370 Daleks watched this video.

[IVANNCHESNOKOV]

I can imagine a dalek hardcore dancing with its eye stalk xD

[pieman173]

i don't know how to take this.

[jumerry]

@pieman173 Haha same for me ...

[jonesfan2008]

holy crap what happend? was the doctor being murdered by daleks, cyber men, and weeping angels all at once!?

[simonking195]

soo much distortion and echo and shit

[raverdeath100]

not sure about the doctor having to regenerate after this, but my bloody ears need to!

[benlroberts]

@raverdeath100 Mine too!

[MuSeMaN1000]

people who hate this are machined, menipulated "pop" fans... this is epic.

[upyr1]

@MuSeMaN1000 I agree- I also like the 4play version

[xxmizzcrazyxx]

does any one know how to play that????

i am desprate 4 the notes

it if absloutly hipnotizing when u hear it

[DarkMatterOfFantasys]

AMAZING =D

[nagyatius]

er ist verrückt :)))) er ist Nigel

[DoctorWhoDofusien]

Wow... that's... waaaaaaw... crap ?

[bansidh]

If The Master had his own show, this would be the theme tune.

[Swellingchimp]

That was horrible

[NickyMac84]

my speakers just blew from this epicness!

[MrGalaxyPictures]

@NickyMac84 Same!

[Astrosimi]

It sound as if Pete Townshed or Jimi Hendrix somehow got a hold of an electric violin.

Whether that's good or bad depends on your tastes.

[9000pivot]

my ears need to regenerate...THE FREAKIN' LOUDNESS!!!!!

[lordofudead]

cool looking vio.....voiliny thingy...

[DavidAnstis]

This is awesome...

[MsBannaphone]

Man i want a doctor who toy that would be GREAT!!!

[mszetareticuli]

I just want to scream "EXTERMINATE!" loud all the time!

Great Nigel! :)

[joopsnoop]

You da man Nigel.

[TheHabboJack]

Go Nigel :))))

[DaTimeMeddler]

Ouch, not a nice arrangement at all

[Avalanche2114]

Is it weird that I like this? I don't really like the beggining but I think it gets better as he gets further into the song.

[cybertardis99]

He did'nt do the dun dun DUNNNNNN DUN DUN DUN dun dun Dun Dun

[MI2003]

That is utterly shit. I've heard a hundred better versions than that.

[WiseOwlOfGallifrey]

@MI2003 Have you? Fascinating............sorry what?

[thefluffinator229]

that was terrible, pssh! contempery!

[SerraFlame]

That was both amazing and awful. I was impressed with the otherworldly noises he got out of the thing, but at the same time, I wanted to cover my ears at the unmusicality in some areas. However, the instrument looked like it could belong in the Doctor's music room (particularly Matt Smith's).

[dowdowl]

why the hell they put an amplifier behind him...wtf...2 sound came out at once...the sound is great but disappointing at the same time

[nsumx]

Great! That's how to play the violin! Thanks, Nigel! 

[EoN604]

Awesome

[yumi88moebious]

è il rumore del tardis!!!

[bertxo]

Love it!!

[thornstar96]

ouuuch

[itsthequietones]

Why all the hate D: This is brilliant :D

[NancyDF30]

It busted my speakers...Im not even kidding it busted my speakers -_-

[whitelytr]

WHAT A FUCKIN LIBERTY!!! >8-(

[KageBunshin9000]

at first i thought this might be good, right up to the part where my ears started to bleed ~20 secs in

[LordSvzklx]

no, don't applaud, you're just encouraging him!

[CamiFisher]

It's like listening to multiple motorcicles.

Then alien whale sounds

Then a ruined record of improvised jazz

I think I went deaf after that...

[ageshero]

Terrible but amazing.

[742617044427]

rivera manufactures guitar, I repeat, GUITAR amplifier

...not made for electric violins out of a reason...

[KitKat1395]

@742617044427 hmm... listen to emilie autumn then, her electric violin is, in her words, "the new electric guitar" and i think its brilliant :)

[742617044427]

@KitKat1395 thanks for the tip :)

I think I should do so ;)

[KitKat1395]

@742617044427 emm, her song "unlaced" is an instrumental with her violin and harpsichord, and her song "dead is the new alive" has two solos but is mainly her singing :)

[742617044427]

@KitKat1395 just checked it out and it sounds very interesting :)

and do you know if she plays her violin through a guitar amp? because to me it sounds like she has got some sort of distortion on it.

[loser3559]

just messed up the doctor who song

[MrDarkKyle]

Hes got a guitar hero head stock on his violin :O

[stso18]

it could had been a great car alarm :)

[victom111]

u broke my headphones :/ pretty cool though, sorta

[YZB25]

doctor who's arch rival: nigel kennedy.

Nigel kennedy fact files (classified): nigel is armed with an ugly violin with the ability to temporarily deathen its opponent with its terrible tunes and nigel is also armed with a mahekan with spikes as sharp as chuck norris' beard...

[fu5h1n]

That's what dalek music would sound like...

[mewmaster151]

its hard to play on any instument other than a theramin

[felloffthebus]

I bet he's dutch

[iprice77]

Lol, well, it *was* entertaining, in a car crash kinda way... He's torturing that instrument!

[makikomi]

Bloody awful

[dalek014]

woah, bit different that

[FunnyJamieMaloney]

This is worse than what dalek would subject us to!

[zxxxy]

AWESOME !

[scarface12347]

Wtf omg i played this on half volume and it nearly broke my speaker

[mattsnan]

@scarface12347 smqe Lol

[cvrmaniac]

my ear drums have just exploded :(

[Weber1437]

@cvrmaniac The drums! You hear the drums! XD

[scarface12347]

i havent heard anyone cover a song that bad since the jonas brothers did hello goodbye. HE BUTCHERED IT SO BAD!!!

[Weber1437]

@scarface12347 The Jonas Brothers did hello goodbye!!!!!!???????? :OOOOOOOOO

[scarface12347]

@Weber1437 yesh they did and it wasnt HALF as bad as this im a who fan and this just disgraced the shit out of me

[Weber1437]

@scarface12347 Haha! Well, don't worry. There's always someone ruining what we like ;) Indeed, I couldn't listen any of these two covers, not completely, at least ¬¬

[auro1001]

Hey, it's the homeless bloke who stole my wallet!

[iMIKK]

This is fucking fantastic!

[HinchyFilms]

hmmmmm................... no

[Samileeroth]

ok, great he can play, but that amp does not do this song justice at all.

[47Spacedog]

holy!!!!!!!!



[sarahjaneclarke]

What a bloomin' racket

[PrInCeSsFBi45]

My left speaker just blew out. It's cool but OW!

[10Shivi]

My headphones were crackling over the noise!

[hamsterminator]

bad.. but probably would have been alot better without hearing the original in the background, which only went to highlight the differences...

[saintsrule]

wow!! that is bad realy realy bad

[fakeo]

HOLY CRAP ITS AN ELECTRIC FIDDLE!! o_0

[DaTimeMeddler]

way to go to ruin a perfectly good theme

[glider1713]

This is prety good, considering it's just the violin and a modern piece of music that he's imitating. You all WISH you could play like him!!!

[ChannelUmptyThree]

I think The Doctor might regenerate after hearing this

[alez78]

@ChannelUmptyThree ME 2 !

[redfeind]

God that is dreadful!!!

[FOX74647]

DELETE! DELETE! DELETE!

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

[DavidConnellychannel]

TARDIS is going to explode

[colclinkcool1]

I could play this theme better with my acoustic violin, no A-string and my right hand tied behind my back! Oh and while standing on my head.

[viikidavikingful]

THIS IS HORRIBLE!!!!! DIE IN A HOLE MATE!

[edwardkent]

not good

[BritishAlienCompany]

Parts of it are okay...most is *ears explode*

[DoctorWhoCenter2010]

God damn...I think my ears just blew up! This is a disgrace to the theme tune!

[gepsnef]

holy crap this sucks

[Supermassively]

Whoever thought it would be a good idea to get some drifter street musician to perform this theme, needs to be sacked... and then taken out to the pasture and executed for high treason.

[horseemad222]

@Supermassively Some drifter street musician?!?!?!?!? NIGEL KENNEDY, some drifter street musician?!?! You, like many others who have commented here, obviously know NOTHING about the violin, or musicianship in general.

[4MiFans]

The amp is smoking! It's gonna blow!

[Anna464]

Love the toon but this tape is horreble....and I feel really bad saying this....

[CimarronPeacekeeper]

Suck



[Curtsy208]

Hahahaha, he's dressed like a hobo hahaha

[ronnysoeberg]

I like it. I do love me some messed up sounds though.

[villion]

Shite

[ghoulia21]

my ears are bleeding.

[caplinger146]

I guess his hearts are in the right place, but this one caused me to regenerate.

[Alexoneil]

@caplinger146 This has to be the best comment I've seen in a long while XD

[doctorwhoobawooba]

Sounds like a recording of someone strangling a small rodent.... No offence to the bloke who did this but it's rather out of tune, sloppy and ear-piercingly crunchy, loud and high-pitched....

[CheshireCat1994]

rrre;gft;wiergfejfbjhdvhdfjhfd­jhg ouch i hit the keyboard with my head it hurt so much! wtf is this bullshit!

[ishallkillall]

"ugh this is horrible" its basically someone playing a small guitar but in the lowest tone u can go :P

[blackbluesilver12]

I think my computer's gonna die soon. UGH, HORRIBLE!

[Thomasbennett247]

Damn my ipod earphones broke

[JasonB1969]

I was impressed with the way Nigel Kennedy managed to play the Doctor Who theme tune.

It was good the way he used an electric violin as well as effects pedals.

[samwyse2006]

I guess you kids aren't ready for the electronic violin yet.

[Bluemushrooms13]

The music is too jumbled if it was more crisp it would sound better

[pearcyboyo]

So a violin packed with effects... Is this The Edge's spike haired violin playing cousin?

[SkyTranslation]

FAIL

[FieRyDraGoNy]

Matthew Bellamy's quitar could play that much better!)))))

[raddy26]

blummin hell that was worse than a hellcat stuck in a door >.< sorry but for too screechy! ouch.....

[matthewpeter]

dire

[TheKelpie13]

Dude, ROCK ON!!

[KnightSquared]

I do so hope that was just down to an unbelievably terrible sound setup.

[jackboyh]

This is appalling 

[Variasam2]

Ouch my ears.

[jkbogart]

He looks like he's been living on the streets....

[TheAndyinSeattle]

Is Nigel Kennedy tone deaf? Seriously, is he tone deaf?

[TSR1989B]

Quite.... Different.

Not bad though.

[highvoltagefeathers]

um... what is this? literaly anybody with no violin experience could make noise like that with an electric instrument... I don't know what the original sounded like but wow...

[Harrylechat01]

All technique and no feeling: the original theme was a breakthrough in electronic music that inspired Pink Floyd, this is just a mess.

[klisher]

aston villa coloured electric violin 

[metalictempest]

I don't care what else he has done, this is horrible!!

[tbspaceship]

@metalictempest actually it is pretty good, the video quality ruins it

[xlucindax]

@metalictempest why don't you go learn the violin first before you say anything my dear

[Jennysand81]

OMG.... my poor ears! And I love that theme.. but er.. my cat could do a better job. And I'm usually verry open to any type of music, so that's saying omething.

[TSR1989B]

@Jennysand81 I admit i made the mistake of having my Headphones on Full Power when i first heard

this (due to watching a very quiet vid beforehand) and good greif was the result Painfull (like a Banshee screaming in your ear at point blank range).

Still, at least i can say i've heard Everything (& almost never got to hear anything again too).

[SuzLa1]

I was trying to find the clip where somebody interviewed him as a child and he didn't speak mockney.

[BloodJunkieFireFly]

Fucking sPaaAAaaaaAaaaacey dude

[brianartillery]

Homeless guy? HOMELESS GUY? That, my friend is the great Nigel Kennedy, a certified genius. He must have scary amounts of money. He's rich enough to look, act, and dress how he damn well pleases. Homeless guy? Tchoh! 8-)

[ElloSweetie21]

I want 2 learn how 2 play that!

[alifeofreason]

Why did the BBC let some homeless guy destroy a wonderful theme?

[brotherjames10]

KICKASS!

[JulietBeyondGoth]

I actually love this. I have no idea why, but I press replay again and again. Maybe because it's Nigel Kennedy playing or maybe because it's the Doctor Who theme, I don't know, but I love it.

[Anna464]

My headphones stared to make this really bad cracking noice while I was listening to this x]

I really! really! love this !! :D

[padavan020]

fucking awesome.

[MYSANDWICHISEVIL]

@padavan020 i play the violin!

[myladypunk]

awesome!!!

[mrmessy1234]

WONDERFUL!BEUTIFUL!AWSOME!WHAT­EVER YOU WANNA CALL IT!YOU GOT GRADE A+++++++++++++++....... YOU KILLED IT!!!!!

[dezzyxxgir]

Wow Awesome... like im a Violinist my self .. and that song isnt the easiest thing to play on a electirc violin..... So complety Well Done.... Screw the people who thinks this video sucks .. Because i like to see them try to play that song on a Electric Violin :)

[PeppyDoABarrelRoll]

WOAH..

[rogerapu]

scream violin ahuehuhuhu

[obsessivedreamwaster]

Actually, Nigel Kennedy is a musical genius. This rendition- if you knew anything at all about music- would have a profound effect on your little brain.

[TheLordHarv]

AAAH!!! it hurts!! make it- huh? I can't hear anything, i'm... I'm... deaf?

Seriously, you destroyed it dude, you totally cut it up into little pieces and fed it to the dogs. After that you used the excretment to make it again. Sorry to let you know.

[TheSoldiersMind]

Good god what the hell is this.  It sounds a bit better but what the hell

[jr2nd]

oi kennedy... NO!

[rubberduckiesquack]

omg my ears are bleeding

[jumpdance24]

@mjestheIV

You need to look up Ron Grainer and the The BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Created in 1963, it was one of the first electronic music signature tunes for television and after nearly five decades remains one of the most easily recognised.

Plonker ! lol

[jumpdance24]

What a load of shite. I dont care who is playing it. I wish kennedy would stop trying to a cockney 'lad'. If you look at his original interviews he speaks correctly and in a different accent. Wanker !

[weavehole]

nowt wrong with that

[xkbix]

I'm all for self-realisation, but why did he have to slaughter the DW theme out of all the music in the world? Also, this caused me physical pain. Awful.

[pimpwacker]

If they didnt have the basis of the tune playing from a recording you probably wouldn't recognize it as doctor who.... god I hate contemporary arts. 

[IreneAshford]

Erm - its unique i suppose...

[keenan645]

epic!

[Ghostdeadhunterlady]

This left me grinning like an idiot. I'm impressed.

[alifeofreason]

MY EARS ARE BLEEDING!