As the session draws to a close, energy starts to flag.
“Can you bear to do one more of those, ladies and gentlemen,” pleads Dunkley, “while there’s still blood left in your top lips?”
In the control booth, mixer Daniel Hayden suggests the high notes are taking a toll.
“If it was down a fifth, it’d be easier,” he observes.
“Yeah, well, I love F sharp,” laughs Smith.
The trumpeters valiantly persevere but, by the end of the day, everyone’s wrung out.
“We had to do a lot of music very quickly, so we’re tired and emotional,” says Henderson, “but the band were incredible.”
“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.”
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.
The potential for a real-world crossover puts Smith in a philosophical mood.
“It’s funny,” he says, “because on a computer game, often the only thing that’s actually real is the music.”
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