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We are not amused...

Hopefully there won't be a performance as bad as this at Symphony Hall for the British Open... All stand please...

The Queen
  Her Majesty may not be smiling if she gets to hear this lot again...

If any band drawn number 1 at the British Open forgets to bring their parts of the National Anthem to Symphony Hall, then hopefully the organisers won't ask this lot to give a quick rendition instead....

Her Majesty may not be amused...

Go to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/41048880/the-uk-s-national-anthem-as-you-ve-never-heard-it-before

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