JOJ OMG.

[tenlittlebullets]

My friends, due to the amazingness of a trading partner on PFN, I am now the proud owner of, not only two bootlegs of John Owen-Jones as Valjean, but a very exotic specimen captured wild from the London stage: a John Owenjolras. Dear God. *faints*

Also, I tried to stay up again last night but failed miserably. I keeled over in the middle of my Arabic homework and woke up at six AM still groggy from a dream about academic credits and Victor Hugo's poetry.

Comments

[mollisher.livejournal.com]

It's okay. I broke into my makeup tin, and that distracted me for a good few hours. Then I conked out.

[duva.livejournal.com]

Is it the one that goes "HAHAH FUUUUU" at his lines in One Day More?

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Er... I don't think so, no... would I know if it were? It was recorded 15 March 1997 and sounds like it was transferred from a tape--the pitch keeps wavering. And JOJ sounds a lot like Anthony Warlow.

[duva.livejournal.com]

That's probably the one. The one I have clips from goes kerazy at his lines in One Day More, all HSD and squeaky and VERY BAD TIMING.

Warlow? You think?

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Is it this?

Hmm... not necessarily on ODM, but in the final battle and a couple other places I can't remember, he definitely made me think Warlow. This is not a bad thing.

[duva.livejournal.com]

Yiss. (It's tape distortion, he does NOT sound like that.)

Hmm, never made that connection myself. (I personally think Warlow's voice is better than chocolate and sex, but I don't really care for his Enjolras. Apart from the "riiiiiiiise" because... well. Hi, orgasmic note.)

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

(Even distorted, his voice is pure sex.)

It's not so much a matter of interpretation as a certain quality to his voice. It made me die of squee when I heard Warlow's E! even though his habit of shouting random words irked me, and it made me die of squee when I heard JOJ doing it. Hmm.

[duva.livejournal.com]

(True that. You heard he's doing Showboat this summer?)

"On his funeral day they will HONOURHISNAME! With the light of rebellion ABLAAAAAAAZE in their eyes! From their candles of grief we will KINDLETHEFLAME! They will see that the day of SALVATION is near!" you mean? (That part drives me mad.) I think it's more a problem with the CSR being odd, though. I'm sure he was a hella lot better onstage. He just doesn't sound like E! to me, though. It sounds like Anthony Warlow singing Enjolras' bits and sounding rather bored doing it.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Yes, that. XD The whole CSR is like that, really--my suspension of disbelief is dangling on a narrow string for about the first five minutes, and then it comes crashing down and never gets back up again. Never "aw, poor Fantine," always "gee, listen to Debbie Byrne" and the like. Maybe it's because they weren't with the orchestra when they were recording?

....wow, I just had a thought, which is that the CSR is essentially high-tech Les Mis karaoke.

[duva.livejournal.com]

Or with each other. I wonder what it's like, doing a love duet with someone who's not there. Hmm.

...wow, I just had a thought, which is that the CSR is essentially high-tech Les Mis karaoke.

With some horrible singers. Just like real karaoke!

[tyriangalley.livejournal.com]

. . . . . . . .*wants* I hate you. In the special way where 'hate' means 'zomgLOVE'. Because AAAAHJOHNJOLRAS!!!! *swoons*

[josiana.livejournal.com]

......
ZOMG WIN.