News
16th May 2013
#163: UOGB in Saint Denis D'Anjou
If you don't want to miss the only opportunity for this year to see the Ukes in France, you should quickly order tickets for the Festival d'ukulélé de Saint Denis d'Anjou next weekend. The concert of the Ukulele Orchestra will take place on Saturday, 18th May 2013 at 9pm and on Sunday, the 19th May 2013 George Hinchliffe will offer a workshop at 11am.
Apart from that, the weekend will keep you busy with open mics, ukulele sellers and makers, a Tahitian dinner with music by Yan Yalego, Adrien Janiak und Le Grou(m), a tahitian dance demonstration with Mana'o Tahiti, a Tahitian dance workshop with Maimiti Florentin und on Sunday evening a dance party with the Ukulele Social Band.
For further information see: 
http://www.ukeasaintdenisdanjou.org/
7th May 2013
#162: UOGB on BBC Radio 2
Next Friday, on the 10th May 2013 the Ukes will do a live workshop and will play some live music on BBC Radio 2. Sharing the title "2day", all programmes from shortly after 7am to 9pm will feature the topic "orchestra". On the BBC website the Ukes' workshop is currently announced as being part of the programme from 12pm with Jeremy Vine. This may not be correct, it is expected, that the Ukes' workshop and their performance will take place after 3pm and 5pm.
EDIT 10th May 2013: As the Ukes have just announced on their facebook page, today's performance will take place today between 2pm and 3pm GMT (3-4pm CET).
You can listen to the live stream of BBC Radio 2 on the BBC's website from everywhere in the world.
See also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/programmes/schedules/2013/05/10
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_two
15th Apr 2013
#161: Early-Bird Offer - Admiralspalast Berlin
Photo by XAMAX/Max SchröderOrdering within the next two weeks will get you a 10% price reduction on all tickets you buy for the UOGB's concert on the 26th Oct 2013 at the renowned Admiralspalast in Berlin. Simply say "A fistful of Ukuleles" when calling the ticket hotline +49(0)1805-2001. The offer is valid up to and including the 28. April 2013.
Source: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
24th Mar 2013
#160: Ukes on US tv
EDIT 26th Mar 2013: Apparently this report about the Ukes has been postponed and is supposed to be broadcast tomorrow.
On the occasion of the upcoming USA tour the CBS breakfast tv show "This Morning" will broadcast a clip about the Ukes on Tuesday, 26th Mar 2013, which has been recorded in Chatham on Saturday. CBS This Morning is aired on weekdays from 7 to 9am EST.
Most associated local stations in the Central and Mountain time zone are
broadcasting a delayed recording of the show also from 7 to 9am in the respectable
time zone (CST and MST).
A version with updated live reports is broadcast in the Pacific time zone
(PST). However, the rest of the
world has to hope for a video clip on the CBS This Morning website.
See CBS This Morning
13th Mar 2013
#159: Tonight: Ukes on German tv
Tonight from 6pm CET (5pm GMT) a 12 minute
piece about the Ukes, which has been recorded in Lübeck yesterday, will feature
the locally broadcast programme Schleswig-Holstein on the
German tv channel NDR.
web page of the NDR programme Schleswig-Holstein including media links for the last broadcasts
Source: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
24th Feb 2013
#158: Ukes on the Radio
On Tuesday morning from ca 8:30 Uhr NZST
(Monday evening 7:30pm GMT or
20:30 CET)
the radio station Classic Hits in Hamilton will broadcast
a live interview with some of the Ukes .
The breakfast programme Bunty & Jus In the Morning is broadcast from Hamilton for the Waikato area weekdays from 6am to 9am New Zealand time.
Here you
can listen live to Classic
Hits 98.6FM (Waikato).
Source: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
22nd Feb 2013
#157: Ukes on New Zealand Breakfast tv
As is well known, the Ukes have just left Australia and are currently on tour in New Zealand. For Monday morning a short TV appearance for TVNZ is planned from about 7:30am NZST.
You can assume, that it will be part of the breakfast programme of the TVNZ channel "One". "Breakfast" is broadcast from Monday to Friday between 6am and 9am New Zealand Time. That means, from the European point of view the Ukes's appearance will take place on Sunday, 24th Feb 2013 in the evening from about 6:30pm GMT (19:30 CET).
The website of TVNZ offers a live stream of the programme, but I have no information, if that will also be accessible from other parts of the world. The recent broadcasts are available from outside New Zealand though, for 7 days after the respective broadcast. Therefore it is expected, that the complete programme from next Monday will also be available for fans from anywhere in the world not later than a few hours after the live broadcast.
Breakfast
on TVNZ One
Most recent
broadcast of Breakfast
on the website of TVNZ One.
Breakfast
live Stream (may also be blocked while the live broadcast depending on the location)
Source:
George Hinchliffe, Viola Streich
The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
11th Feb 2013
#156: Tomorrow: Ukulele Cabaret Valentine's Warm Up with Will
Tomorrow evening Tricity Vogue invites for her monthly "Ukulele Cabaret" at the Lincoln Lounge, at the north side of King's Cross Station in London. Special guests will be Will Grove-White and The Bobby McGees. Entrance is free.
12th Feb 2013 8-11pm
Lincoln Lounge,
52 York Way,
Kings Cross, N1 9AB
See: Ukulele
Cabaret Valentine's Warm Up facebook Seite
4th Jan 2013
#155: Hesters Solo CD
After I have forgotten to add Hester's solo CD to the albums page so long
ago, I'm now catching up on making the overdue entry. Of course, this album
can't be missing from the list and I can highly recommend it. If you want to
listen to more than only 30 second samples, you can listen to three of her
pieces on Hester's MySpace
page.
More information on the 
albums page. This CD is available from the Ukes' website
24th Dec 2012
#154: UOGB tomorrow on BBC Radio 4
Tomorrow on the 25th Dec 2012 at
15:15 Uhr GMT (16:15pm CET) BBC Radio 4's programme "Pick
of the Year", will present selected broadcasts from programmes
of the last year as a kind of year-end retrospecive. Here you can listen
again to the broadcast of the Ukes from the BBC Radio3 Programme "In
Tune" from the 18th Sep 2012.
As always, if you can't listen directly to BBC Radio 4 nicht
direkt (e.g. via satellite), you can also listen to the programme via the BBC
iPlayer on the BBC website.
Source: The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
BBC Radio 4 - Pick of the Year
9th Dec 2012
#153: Sydney Opera House DVD
Right in time for Christmas the Ukes in cooperation with Litmus
Films have published their
new Live-DVD of their performance at the Sydney Opera
House.
The two disk set contains 12 pieces from the concert and lots of extras and clips from the Australia tour and for those, who would enjoy to play along a special feature is offered in the form of optional onscreen musical notation.
This two-DVD set is available from http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com,
or as a special offer in
combination with "The
Ukes Down Under" (also a two-DVD set).
8th Nov 2012
#152: UOGB on German tv
On Monday, 12th Nov 2012 the Ukes will visit the ZDF Morgenmagazin, German breakfast tv. At 8:28 they will perform live and from 8:50 there will be some live talk and some more live music.
Quelle: Viola Streich The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
8th Nov 2012
#151: Limited Edition CD nur am Sonntag im Admiralspalast
On Sunday 11th Nov 2012 fans will get the chance to buy a very special limited edition CD at the Admiralspalast in Berlin. Each of these limited edition CDs are numbered with hand-made artwork on the cover, so each one is a unique piece. There are four pieces, two of which have never been published before:
- Should I Stay Or Should I Go
- Berliner Luft (Paul Lincke)
- Cancion Mixteca (José López Alavez)
- König von Deutschland (Rio Reiser)
Quelle: Viola Streich The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
30th Oct 2012
#150: Free tickets for Berlin on the 11.11.2012
The Berlin ukulele shop "Leleland" is giving away two free tickets
on their facebook page for the upcoming concert of the UOGB at
the Admiralspalast in Berlin.
Leland
competition on facebook (in German language)
Source: Leleland on facebook
21st Sep 2012
#149: George writes in Guardian
An article written by George on occasion of today's concert in the Royal Albert
Hall has been published in the Guardian today.
The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain: strings attached
Happy Birthday, George.
19th Sep 2012
#148: UOGB on itv London Tonight
For all those, who couldn't watch it last night, here is the clip about the Ukes from yesterday's itv news.
18th Sep 2012
#147 The Ukes on BBC Radio 3
This afternoon between 4:30pm and 6:30pm BST (17:30
- 19:30 CEST) the Ukes are live on BBC Radio 3's programme "In
Tune" and they have also announced a few new tunes for that. You can also
listen live to the programme in Germany, either
on the BBC
iPlayer or via satellite on position 28.2° East.
EDIT 19th Sep 2012: If
you missed yesterday's broadcast, you can still listen to it for the next
6 days on
the BBC website.
Source: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain via Twitter
18th Sep 2012
#146 Interview with Will on the French fansite
Julie, who's responsible for the French fansite for the Ukes has published an extensive interview with Will Grove-White's about his second album "small fry".
Interview
with Will (in French)
29th Aug 2012
#145 Win two tickets for Berlin!
Fans from Berlin and around watch out! The posters for the only Ukes-gig in Berlin this year are up in the Berliner U-Bahn now. When you see one of them, take a funny or somehow special photo of it with yourself (or someone else) on it and send it to mail@theukes.org and The Ukes will choose their favourite. The winner gets two free tickets for the concert on the 11th Nov 2012 at the Admiralspalast in Berlin.
Source: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
facebook-Seite des Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
21st Jul 2012
#144 Wills neues Solo Album
In the next couple of days Will's second solo album will be delivered. It bears the title "small fry" and the meaning becomes quickly accessible, when you know, that here miniature instruments are featured. Further information regarding where orders can be placed etc will follow as soon as they are available.
EDIT 25.07.2012: As always, the CD will soon
be available on the website
of theUkes.
And I find it absolutely brilliant.
Source: Will
Grove-White
21st Jul 2012
#143: Jontys neue CD
After the busy tour schedules of the last years has kept him from working on his long promised solo CD, there finally are some good news from Jonty. It's still not his own solo album, but the plan is to release a CD later this year, that he's currently working on with his other band, the "Slithey Toves", a psychedelic jazz rock formation. s
Source: Jonty Bankes
6th Jul 2012
#142: UOGB Press conference in Berlin
On Monday the 16th Jul 2012 the Ukes will host a press conference at the Admiralspalast in Berlin. Fans are also very welcome. Here the text from today's newletter of the Ukes including all relevant information:
"We’re very excited about the press conference we’re going to host in Berlin at the Admiralspalast on Monday, 16 July, between 11am and 2pm to promote our upcoming Live-CD amongst other things. We’ve invited journalists to come along and hear us strumming a few tunes from that CD live while enjoying a proper English cream tea. Should be fun…!"
Source: Newsletter of the Ukulele
Orchestra of Great Britain
12th Jun 2012
#141: 'The Ukes Down Under' - there's still time!
You can still support this, so here is an excerpt of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's recent newsletter about Litmus Films' 'The Ukes Down Under' project:
You may recall that we drew your attention to Litmus Films' observational documentary of the Ukulele Orchestra's Australian Tour 2012 "The Ukes Down Under" and the wealth of high-end broadcast quality footage they captured. Scenes include our encounters with aboriginal musicians, male strippers and cattle ranchers.
This material puts the film in the territory of "A Hard Day's Night" or "Abba the Movie".
Ukes fans can only join us on this tour if the film is completed. Here's the opportunity to chip in and make it happen.
A lot of people have signed up already for an advance copy, pledging money for the DVD, or as sponsors (with consequent credits on the film end titles and DVD cover). It's great that so many people and corporate sponsors have come on board. You deserve our thanks and congratulations for having faith in this project.
Of course, anyone can set up a video phone and shoot a few clips for next to nothing, but a professional product with an experienced production team and director will have a reasonable cost - in this case US$40,000 (around ?25,000) just for the post-production. Up to now (8th June 2012) the funding pledges have reached around US$25,000, just over halfway. If the full target isn't reached, then the film won't go to completion and we won't be able to see it. The Ukes too want to see this film (and if it's completed, sell it on our website). As our only connection to the film is as its subject matter, it's easy for us to urge our fans to support the project without sounding like we're plugging our own product. We think the film (judging by the rushes Litmus has let us see) will be great, funny and interesting, and ... ahem... will expose some of the touchy underbelly and vulnerabilities of the performers in rather stressful situations. Which could be interesting to watch. Amusing even.
We urge you to chip in by pre-purchasing a copy, sponsoring it, or getting a clip of you playing your own music on a DVD Extra. Even if you've already stumped up, you could still help by drawing it to your pals' attention.
Some people might perceive this way of funding as a rip-off. It's not. The sums are modest, and the rewards good value. The Ukes of GB always like to see people they're associated with being paid properly for good work.
Of course, we can't finance this - it's not an advert for us but an independent operation seen with an outsider's eye, which might result in a warts-and-all view. It certainly will show The Ukes in situations which the fans will never have seen before, and not made by some bloke with a pocket camcorder hanging about backstage, but by a professional production team.
The deadline is only a week away (14th June 2012). If Litmus doesn't raise the target budget then the film won't get made, and the raw material, footage and audio (so far all acquired at Litmus' risk and expense) will be wasted.
We'd all like to see the final film. It's not a video of a gig, it's an observational documentary about a group of people with an interesting, absorbing, thought-provoking way of making entertainment and music which while successful, is actually counter-cultural, independent and anarchic. The Ukes of GB are a classic "Social Sculpture" as envisaged by Joseph Beuys (World famous artist, lecturer and leader of the Green Party). You could have your name in the film credits by supporting this project now, before it becomes a legend.
Direct link to the campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/TheUkesDownUnder
Source: Newsletter of the Ukulele
Orchestra of Great Britain
6th Jun 2012
#140: Interview: Film about the Australia Tour
Julie of the french UOGB fan
website
has published a very informative interview with Robert Stern of Litmus Films
on her site, where she asks him about his documentary about
the Australia Tour of the Ukes.
The Ukes have caught Robert Stern's attention in the eighties
already and in 2006 he made the first documentary about them, "4
Strings & The Truth".
Now in Julie's interview he's speaking about his very personal experience with the band, what appeals him to make more films about them and why he chose the way of crowd funding for funding the project.
Interview
of Robert Stern by Julie from www.uogbfrogsfan.org (Das Interview in Englisch)
If you got curious about this absolutely intimate material about the Ukes on tour in Australia, you can contribute, to make sure, that it'll be made available.
On the crowd-funding website indiegogo there
is an option for any budget to support the project financially and
while the smallest possible amount of $10 is already honoured by having your
name mentioned in the credits, you can secure your own copy of a
limited edition of the DVD including extras for only $30. For a few more dollars
a digital download of "4
Strings & The Truth" is included and from $250 and more you
can send in clips of yourself playing the ukulele, which will be included
in the film. $10000 will make you an official sponsor.
3rd Jun 2012
#139: UOGB: (I was there) At the Coronation
Right in time for the diamond jubilee of Queen Elisabeth II the Ukes have put a brand new song online today.
10th May 2012
#138: funding for Australia-documentary needed
Robert Stern of Litmus
Films, who also has been responsible for the UOGB documentary "4
Strings & The Truth", has escorted the Ukes to
Australia this
spring and is now seeking funding for the completion of a nearly one hour-long
documentary about the Australia tour of the Ukulele Orchestra. Supporters
can look forward to various perks. Details, including a short, but very interesting
video can be found here: http://www.indiegogo.com/TheUkesDownUnder
25th Apr 2012
#137h: Red Hot Video Tutorial - Jonty
And here is the last video of the Hot Tamales tutorial (see entry
#137 for details):
Part 8: Jonty explains his chords...
24th Apr 2012
#137g: Red Hot Video Tutorial - Dave
Today's video of the Hot Tamales tutorial (see entry
#137 for details):
Part 7: Dave explains his chords...
23rd Apr 2012
#137f: Red Hot Video Tutorial - Kitty
Today's video of the Hot Tamales tutorial (see entry
#137 for details):
Part 6: Kitty explains her chords...
22nd Apr 2012
#137e: Red Hot Video Tutorial - George
Today's video of the Hot Tamales tutorial (see entry
#137 for details):
Part 5: George explains his chords...
21st Apr 2012
#137d: Red Hot Video Tutorial - Peter
Today's video of the Hot Tamales tutorial (see entry
#137 for details):
Part 4: Will explains his chords...
20th Apr 2012
#137c: Red Hot Video Tutorial - Peter
Today's video of the Hot Tamales tutorial (see entry
#137 for details):
Part 3: Peter explains his chords...
19th Apr 2012
#137b: Red Hot Video Tutorial - Hester
Today's video of the Hot Tamales tutorial (see entry
#137 for details):
Part 2: Hester explains her chords...
18th Apr 2012
#137a: Red Hot Video Tutorial - Richie
The first videos of the Hot Tamales tutorial are now online (see entry
#137 for details):
Part 1: Richie explains his chords...
And the final result:
17th Apr 2012
#137: Video tutorial for Hot Tamales
Presumably tomorrow the Ukes will start to publish a series
of videos about the UOGB's Version of "Hot
Tamales" on their YouTube
channel as well as on their facebook
page.
One after the other the musicians will explain their part in the UOGB's
arrangement of the famous Robert Johnson song and there will be one video per
day. Sheet music for this will be available for download from
the UOGB's
website.
EDIT 18th Apr 2012: The following link list has been updated.
See
Red Hot Video Tutorial - YouTube playlist
YouTube
channel of the UOGB,
facebook
page of the UOGB,
UOGB
website
You can make sure not to miss anything in the future by subscribing for the newsletter
of the UOGB .
25th Mar 2012
#136: Complete giglist for Germany 2012
This is the complete list of upcoming gigs of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain® in Germany in 2012. There won't be any further dates for the current year. In case you read about further Germany dates elsewhere, that information does not refer to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
Dates marked with * are not on sale yet at this time. For further details
see the official website of the UOGB.
| Wed, 11th Jul 2012 | Burg Wilhelmstein, Würselen |
|---|---|
| Thu, 12th Jul 2012 | Burgfestspiele Dreieichenhain, Dreieich |
| Fri, 13th Jul 2012 | Mosel Musikfestival, Innenhof Kurfürstliches Palais, Trier |
| Sat, 14th Jul 2012 | Musikalischer Sommer, Rockenhausen* |
| Sun, 15th Jul 2012 | Schinkel-Kirche, Neuhardenberg |
| Sun, 11th Nov 2012 | Admiralspalast, Berlin |
| Mon, 19th Nov 2012 | Mehrzweckhalle Vellmar−Frommershausen, Vellmar |
| Tue, 20th Nov 2012 | Kulturhalle, Rödermark* |
| Wed, 21st Nov 2012 | Theaterhaus, Stuttgart |
| Thu, 22nd Nov 2012 | Stadthalle Aalen* |
| Fri, 23rd Nov 2012 | Kulturhaus Schloß Großlaupheim, Laupheim* |
| Sat, 24th Nov 2012 | Stadtsaal Mühldorf* |
5th Mar 2012
#135: UOGB back at the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall London, Creator: David Samuel, image under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 UnportedAfter the phenomenal success of their first
performance at the Royal Albert Hall at the Proms in summer 2009 the
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will finally be back at the Royal
Albert Hall in 2012. On the 21st Sep 2012
the Ukes will enter the stage of the world famous London venue
for the second time.
If you want to take part in this special event in such breathtaking atmosphere, you can book a seat on the website of the Royal Albert Hall. But beware, the hall is really huge and the best seats will be quickly sold.
See:
http://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/ukelele-orchestra/default.aspx
1st Mar 2012
#134: UOGB at the Admiralspalast Berlin
As I couldn't have described this any better, here just a quote from the current newsletter of the UOGB here:
Berlin gets the green light!
Sunday, 11 November 2012, 20.00:
Admiralspalast, Berlin (Germany)
Admiralspalast Berlin Urheber: Beek100, Bild unter Creative
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 UnportedIn the 27 years of our career we have rarely played as historically interesting and beautiful a venue as the Admiralspalast in Berlin…
The Admiralspalast has been used for many different purposes throughout its history: after the opening in 1873 on top of a salt spring it was used as a public bath and, later, as an ice rink before it was made into one of Berlin’s most beautiful theatres.
After the wall came down the Admiralspalast sank into oblivion for a few years. Ever since its grand re-opening in 2006 it has been on top of the list of most exciting venues in Berlin…
Make sure you don’t miss our only date in Berlin this year and the chance to see the Ukes in this very special atmosphere.
Pre-sales for our fans start now and will last until Monday 12pm when the gig is announced to the general public.
Click this link to get your seats:
https://secure1.kartenkaufen.de/elektracms/jsp/newstep3a.jsp?system=5&event=973&show=1&block=0
Source: Newsletter of The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
If you don't want to miss any such news in the future, you can join the Mailing-list of the UOGB.
19th Feb 2012
#133: Dave Suich Solo CD!
This week Dave surprised me with the unexpected news about his first solo album. Recordings in a more or less finished state had piled up on his hard disk over the years, so it seemed likely one day, to put an album together.
Most
of the songs on "Bass Camp" have been written and sung by Dave, he's playing
the bass on all but one and also some harmonica, cuatro and bouzuki.
Musical support from the UOGB is given by George Hinchliffe on the keyboard,
but no ukuleles were used.
This album is available on the website
of the UOGB .
9th Feb 2012
#132: UOGB tonight
on
ZDF (Germany)
Urgent news flash: Tonight
(during the night between the 9.
and the 10. February 2012 at 0:30am CET (11:30 GMT) the major German
tv channel ZDF is broadcasting a short interview
with some of the UOGB and some clips from today's gig in
Düsseldorf as part of the news programme "heute
nacht". See the website
of ZDF. The clip will later also be available on the ZDF
Mediathek and it can be assumed, that the content will be fully acceccible
from anywhere in the world.
EDIT: The video of the complete programme
is available now on the ZDF Mediathek. The clip with the Ukes starts
after about 8 minutes: Heute
Nacht 9./10.02.2012
Source: George Hinchliffe, Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
7th Feb 2012
#131: UOGB Press conference - part one
From now you can watch the first part of the "UOGB Press
Conference"
on the YouTube
channel of the Ukulele Orchestra. We filmed this interview at the Tollhaus
in Karlsruhe on the
31st Oct 2011. The Ukes answer
questions that have been asked by fans. Part two will follow soon.
30th Jan 2012
#130: UOGB in Australien
In a few weeks the Ukes will go on their first Australia Tour. In 11 concerts they will work along the East coast, starting from Brisbane, until the tour reaches it's end in Perth at the West coast, after a side trip to Hobart in Tasmania.
After the previous performances in the Royal
Albert Hall in London and the Carnegie Hall in
New York they now can add a new one of the most important concert halls worlwide to their list: The Sidney Opera House.
Another highlight of the tour will be their participation in the WOMADelaide music festival
in Adelaide.
Sidney Opera House. Creator: Christian Mehlführer, image under
Creative
Commons Attribution 2.5 LizenzAdvertising for the Australia-Tour of course is in full swing already and so the Ukes have recently filmed an interview for the Australian ABC News, which was broadcast yesterday.
Orchestra with a difference.
A slightly differently edited audio version of the same interview and a transcription can be found in the category "Correspondents REPORT - The full story... Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain wows world crowds"
Tour Dates
- 29.02.2012 Brisbane, Australia
- 01.03.2012 Caloundra, Australia
- 02.03.2012 Surfers Paradise, Australia
- 03.03.2012 Canberra, Australia
- 04.03.2012 Wollongong, Australia
- 06.03.2012 Sydney, Australia
- 07.03.2012 Mewcastle, Australia
- 08.03.2012 Melbourne, Australia
- 09.03.2012 Hobart, Tasmanien
- 10.03.2012 Adelaide, Australia
- 13.03.2012 Perth, Australia
For further details see the Website of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
26th Jan 2012
#129: Biography UOGB Podcasts: No 2 Dave Suich
The second entry of the new podcast series of
the Ukes is
available. Dave Suich tells, what was in 1971
at the Danson Youth Club and also gives away a few secrets from the beginnings
of the Ukes . http://www.theukes.org/podcast/tracks/.
Source: The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
26th Jan 2012
#128: Interview on Hannover's 'radio flora'
On Saturday, 28th Jan 2012 at
8pm GMT (9pm CET) and on Saturday, 4th Feb 2012 at
9pm GMT (10pm CET) the local German web radio channel radio
flora from Hannover is streaming
an hour-long special about the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain,
in which the "usual" questions
are avoided. The live stream of radio
flora can be started via the player in the top left corner of the website: http://www.radioflora.de/
Besides the standard quality (MP3,
128 kbps) higher (192
kbps for broadband) or lower (48
kbps) quality is available. See: radio
flora - DER RADIO FLORA STREAM (in my tests both highest as well as
lowest quality sounded better than the standard stream)
If you can't wait until Saturday, you can listen to the interview in advance
on the website of radio
flora, but here without most of the music.
Interview
dubbed in German
Interview
in English
23rd Jan 2012
#127: Ein neues Video von Will Grove-White
Will has posted a new video from his living room to YouTube: Side by Side (funny version)
14th Jan 2012
#126: Historic Things: New video with Kitty Lux and her Band "REALLY"
On YouTube a new video of Kitty Lux of the UOGB and her Band "REALLY" has been published, filmed in 1982.
9th Dec 2011
#125: UOGB Biography Podcasts: No 1 Will Grove-White
The Ukes are currently working on a new
podcast series and now you can find the first part of it on http://www.theukes.org/podcast/tracks/.
It starts with Will
Grove-White, who tells anecdotes from his life in and outside the UOGB to Alex
Bingham of the Ukulele Orchestra office.
Included are audio samples of the music that has particularly shaped
his musical path.
Source: The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
9th Dec 2011
#124: UOGB on French Radio
Tomorrow on Saturday, 10th Dec 2011 between
12pm and 2pm CET (11am - 1pm GMT) the French radio station "Le
Mouv" will play a few titles of the UOGB as
part of the 58. issue of the programme "La
Collection Privée du Mouv". Among them "Silver
Machine", "Wuthering
Heights" and "Le Freak".
See: http://www.lemouv.com/...special-reprises-bizarres
Besides the conventional reception methods you can listen to the programme
live on the station's website. Here the direct link to the Le
Mouv player (up-to-date Flash-Plugin required)
Source: http://www.uogbfrogsfan.org (in French language)
22nd Nov 2011
#123: UOGB in Berlin - BILD was there....
Today an interview with the Ukes has appeared on http://bild.de,
the online version of the BILD (the
most famous German tabloid). Included is a video interview with music performed
on the top of the roof of the Tipi and
some news about next year's tour. The video interview is German dubbed.
Source: BILD-Zeitung
24th Oct 2011
#122: Ukulele Cabaret and Workshop with George Hinchliffe
On Wednesday, 26th Oct 2011 at 7:30pm GMT the Cabaret Diva Tricity Vogue invites to her Ukulele Cabaret at the Albany performing arts centre in London. Apart from George Hinchliffe of the UOGB the guests include Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer, Jo Stephenson and others.
From 6 - 7pm GMT George und Tricity additionally offer a Ukulele Workshop.
For further information and tickets see: http://www.thealbany.org.uk
UPDATE: On Tricity
Vogue's YouTube channel you can watch some videos of the
show, including one of George Hinchliffe and Nick
Browning performing "I
Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate", George performing the
Beatles' "Bad Boy"
and the big
finale with the "Ukulele Cabaret Allstars".
24th Oct 2011
#121: Neues Video von Peters Hochzeit
Not very long ago Peter and his wife celebrated their tenth anniversary and recently he uploaded this video from his wedding day on YouTube. The Ukes were all amongst the guests and here the host performed the Neapolitan song "Torna a Surriento".
12th Oct 2011
#120: UOGB on BBC Radio York
As the Ukes have announced only minutes before on their facebook page, BBC Radio York has broadcast an interview with the Ukes today at about 12:30pm (13:30 Uhr MEZ) which has been pre-recorded before the concert at the Grand Opera House York yesterday.
That's the opportunity to listen to the new UOGB arrangement of Back in Black!
You can listen to the recording of the complete programme for about seven more days on the BBC
iPlayer Listen Again feature after the live broadcast has finished (some time after 3pm GMT respectively 4pm CET today).
8th Oct 2011
#119: New video of the Ukulele Kings
As die-hard fans maybe know, in the early days of the UOGB Peter Brooke Turner had his own Ukulele band, the Ukulele Kings, where amongst others Jonty Bankes was a member. The possibly most famous cover song of the Ukes, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" has actually been taken over from the repertoire of the Ukulele Kings. Today Peter has suprisingly uploaded an old recording of the Ukulele Kings version of the song to YouTube - with Jonty (long hair and leather trousers!) playing the electric ukulele.
The Ukulele Kings are also the supporting band on Peter's, aka Tony Penultimate's
previous solo albums Mainly
Manly Music und Soppy & the
Sentimentals. See also Peters
Youtube-Channel.
31st Aug 2011
#118: Interview with George on Brooklands Radio
Tomorrow on Thursday, 1st Sep 2011 from 9pm BST (22 Uhr CEST) Brooklands Radio will broadcast a pre-recorded interview with George Hinchliffe as part of the programme "Suzanne's World of Arts & Entertainment".
You can listen to the programme on the website of Brooklands Radio (left side menu "Listen - Listen LIVE").
http://www.brooklandsradio.co.uk/ProgrammeList.asp
You will need a browser plugin for one of the usual media players or a separate media player as the ones that usually are pre-installed with most operating systems.
Source: George Hinchliffe The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
22nd Aug 2011
#117: Interview with the Ukes on NDR Schleswig-Holstein
Today, on 22nd Aug 2011 between 7:30pm und 8pm CEST (6:30pm - 7pm BST) the Schleswig-Holstein Magazin on the tv channel NDR Schleswig-Holstein broadcasts an interview with George, Kitty und Jonty from Lübeck.
The programme
will be repeated on Tuesday, the 23rd Aug 2011 at
4:15am CEST and at 10am CEST (3:15am BST and 9am BST). On the NDR website
you can watch the live stream of the broadcast.
Siehe: http://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/epg/epg1157_sid-1018271.html
12th Aug 2011
#116: free MP3 download available for one week
From today, Friday, 12th Aug 2011 until next
Friday, 19th Aug 2011 the UOGB offers
a song for free download on their Facebook
page.
http://www.facebook.com/UkuleleOrchestraofGB?sk=info
The track "Died for Love" is a preview to the upcoming album "Live at Cecil Sharp House".
28th Jul 2011
#115: Uhingen - Schloß Filseck today:
Venue changed on short notice
Due to the bad weather today's concert of the UOGB has been transferred from Schloß Filseck in Uhingen to the Bürenhalle in Wäschebeuren, about 12km nörth of Uhingen.
The address of the new venue is:
Bürenhalle
Im Beergarten 2
73116 Wäschenbeuren
Due to the current weather we have to expect, that the concert tomorrow
will also be transferred from Schloß Filseck to that place. Have a look at
the website of Schloß Filseck or
call
07161 2909-78(-79) for up-to-date information.
30th Jun 2011
#114: Historic things - new videos with old music from pre-UOGB times
"Credo Video" - post punk à la George Hinchliffe, 1979
"Pretty Girls" - an original song by Kitty Lux, originally performed with her band "Sheeny and the Goys", see Anarchy in the Ukulele
(CD, 2000)
Or here a "spooky" composition by George Hinchliffe.
And finally the famous march "Blaze Away" by Abe Holzmann, arranged by George Hinchliffe.
21st Jun 2011
#113: New backstage videos!
Obviously the Ukes had a lot of time to kill before they recently performed at the Literary Festival at Althorp. Lucky for us Peter had his camera handy.
27th May 2011
#112: The Ukulele Orchestra Podcast
The first UOGB podcast is available!
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has started producing their own podcasts
with topics regarding the Ukulele Orchestra and the Ukulele,
which you can listen to on their website on the Audio & Video page.
The first episode has just appeared and these are the topics today:
- Join the UOGB backstage at Carnegie Hall New York City
- Meet an ed- uke – actionalist who has created a uke syllabus
- Hear George talk and play with Squeeze front man Glenn Tilbrook
- Travel to the beautiful islands of Hawaii for a ukulele history lesson
The Ukulele Podcast of Great Britain (Adobe Flash player required)
27th May 2011
#111: UOGB in Paris!
THE opportunity for a short holiday in France? On Monday, 19th Sep 2011 The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will perform for the first time in Paris at the Théâtre de la Ville.
Find more information about this on http://ukulele.fr,
the major ukulele website in France or on http://uogbfrogsfan.org,
Julie's French UOGB-fansite, details here or here.
Tickets can soon be purchased on the website
of the >Théâtre
de la Ville
14th May 2011
#110: George on BBC Radio 4 - The Music Group
On Tuesday, 17th May 2011 at 1:30pm BST (14:30 Uhr MESZ ) George Hinchliffe of the UOGB is a guest on "The Music Group" on BBC Radio 4.
Host Phil Hammond has also invited fashion designer Betty Jackson and astrophysicist Lucy Green.
The Music Group is a radio programme, where the guests discuss music pieces they bring along. This programme (episode 4 of series 5) will be repeated on Saturday, 21st May 2011 at 3:30pm BST (16:30 Uhr MESZ ).
You can listen live to the programme from anywhere in the world on the BBC
iPlayer. More about the programme on the BBC
website.
26th Apr 2011
#108: "Still live" - the new live album of the UOGB
Finally the eagerly awaited third album is coming! From Wednesday, 5th May 2011, "Still
Live" can be ordered from http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com.
For those, who can't wait that long, there is an even earlier alternative:
From Thursday, 28th Apr 2011 the
complete album is available as download
from iTunes.
EDIT 29th Apr 2011: Unfortunately the release on iTunes has been postponed to the 4th May 2011
13th Apr 2011
#107: Kitty Lux - two songs from before UOGB
Before she co-founded the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain in 1985, Kitty was a member of various bands in Leeds, one of them called "REALLY".
On http://www.reverbnation.com/really the
band "REALLY" now offers two old recordings to listen
to -both sung by Kitty. Also have a look at the stunning photo!
19th Mar 2011
#106: The Ukes in Slovenia!
Finally the Slovenians can enjoy a UOGB concert as well. On 29th May 2011 the Ukes will perform in Ljubljana as part of the Ljubljana Festival!
For more details see the Website of the Ljubljana Festival (in Slovenian and English language)
14th Mar 2011
#105: UOGB now on iTunes!
From now on the music of the Ukes can also be downloaded from iTunes.
At the moment only the albums Secret of Life und Live in London #1
are available, but the others will follow one after another.
http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/live-in-london-1/id425725739
http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/the-secret-of-life/id266995706
Source: George Hinchliffe The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
22nd Jan 2011
#104: UOGB in "The Slammer"!
Next Wednesday, on 26th Jan 2011 from 11:50am
- 12:20pm GMT (12:50am - 13:20pm CET) CBBC is
repeating an episode of "The
Slammer" from 2006,
in which the UOGB performed its version of the song "Monster" (by"The
Automatic").
"The Slammer" is a light programme for children, in which the guests are prisoners of a fictional prison ("HM Slammer") where they have to compete with each other by demonstrating their musical, comical or acrobatic skills. The audience, consisting of children, will decide in the end, who is going to be "released".
The children's channel CBBC is
broadcast on the frequency of BBC
Three in the day and can be received terrestrially or on cable tv in
UK, via satellite on Eurobird 1 & Astra 2A/2B/2D reception
is even possible from neighbouring countries. In Switzerland CBBC and
other channels from the BBC's
offers are available in some cable networks.
21st Jan 2011
#103: UOGB in the felt music library!
The Ukes have recently recorded a few instrumentals for Felt
Music. You can listen to the seven pieces in the music
library
on the Felt Music website ,
they could soon appear in movies, television productions or commercials.
The following pieces have been recordeed by the Ukes for Felt Music:
- (Are You Going To) Scarborough Fair (traditional)
- Buffalo Gals (traditional)
- Liberty Bell (the Monty Python Theme)
- Morning Has Broken (Bunessan, traditional)
- Peacherine Rag (Scott Joplin)
- The Blue Danube (Donauwalzer, Johann Strauss)
- The House of the Rising Sun (traditional)
The easiest way to find these pieces, is to click
the button "IN" (instrument) and afterwards choosing "ukulele" on http://www.feltmusiclibrary.com.
6th Jan 2011
#102: UOGB finally on Amazon Germany!
Good news for the fans from Germany, Austria and Switzerland: From now on
you can order the music of the Ukes on Amazon
Germany. So that's not only an alternative source, but
finally the more usual payment options for this area are available as
well.