News
3rd Sep 2010
#90: Possibly Will's first ever gig with the Ukes?
2nd Sep 2010
#89: The first ever tv appearance of the Ukes!!!
28th Aug 2010
#88: A date for your diary if you're in London - Hester Goodman (UOGB )
first solo album launch gig.
15th Sep 2010, The Horseshoe Pub, Clerkenwell Close, London, EC1R 0AG3. Doors 7.30. £7.00.
A chance to see Hester and her band featuring Hester on vocals,
uke and bones,
Andy Hamill on double bass, Justin Woodward on
drums, vibes and Marimba, Dan
Teper on Accordion, and George Hinchliffe on uke
and piano. With some wicked backing vocals from Lizzy O'Connor, Rebecca
Hollweg and Pando. Oh, yes, and
a touch of Trombone from Lucas Hollweg.
Also a chance to buy the cd at a budget price of £7.00. Subsequently,
It will be available on the 
UOGB website at the normal price.
Support by The Hot Potato Syncopators
Party like it's 1927..........Brilliant and hilarious!
See also the website of The Hot Potato Syncopators
The Horseshoe pub is tucked away down a lane off Clerkenwell Green, and can be tricky to find, so here are some directions:
nearest stations:
- Farringdon (400m) - zone 1,
- Chancery Lane (680m) - zone 1,
- Barbican (720m) - zone 1
- City Thameslink (870m), Angel (940m) - zone 1
How to find it:
Turn Left out of Farringdon tube and left again up Turnmill Street. Cross Clerkenwell Road at the top, then right and left into Clerkenwell Green. Walk across the green (which for the uninitiated is not green at all) and walk down the road at the side of the Crown Tavern, you should see the pub in front of you.
Source: Hester Goodman The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
8th Aug 2010
#87: Recording of the Cambridge Folk Festival 2010
If you don't want to wait for your next Ukes gig you still can listen to one of their new pieces until next Wednesday, 11th Aug 2010 at 10:02pm BST (23:02pm CEST) via the iPlayer on the BBC website.
The recording
is part of a programme about the Cambridge Folk Festival 2010 on BBC Radio 2 and
starts about after 2 hours, 12 minutes and 40 seconds..
iPlayer BBC Radio 2
8th Jul 2010
#86: Hearts of Oak and Pluck now available again!
From today you can order the UOGB-Albums "Hearts
of Oak" and "Pluck" again on the website of the Ukes.
See also 
News
No 84 und Albums.
3rd Jul 2010
#85: UOGB on German tv again
- 14th Jul 2010,
- 19th Jul 2010,
- 24th Jul 2010,
- 29th Jul 2010,
each time at 21:05pm CEST (8:05pm BST) and the
- 6th Jul 2010,
- 11th Jul 2010,
- 16th Jul 2010,
- 28th Jul 2010,
each time at 0:35pm CEST (11:35pm BST)
28th Jun 2010
#84: Hearts of Oak and Pluck available again!
The Ukes have decided to reissue their early, currently not available albums for their 25 year anniversary. Sometime after the 4th Juli 2010 the first two of them will be available on the Ukes' website for £10 each.
With new cover design, but otherwise completely unmodified content there will be "Hearts of Oak" and "Pluck" soon.
"Hearts of Oak" was originally published in 1990 and consists nearly exclusively of original compositions of George Hinchliffe und Kitty Lux.
"Pluck" offers mainly the popular mixture of cover songs in rare versions of 1997 instead.
Source: Will Grove-White The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
For more information see Hearts of Oak and Pluck on the albums page.
28th May 2010
#83: UOGB on the Radio!
On Saturday, 29th May 2010 at 3pm BST (4pm CEST) BBC Radio 2 will broadcast an interview of the UOGB with Shaun Keaveny, who stands in for Dermot O'Leary.
You can listen to the show from anywhere in the world via the iPlayer on the BBC website.
Siehe: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00skmxk
Direct link to the iPlayer for BBC Radio 2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/radio2
EDIT 30th May 2010: Here you can listen to the programme for another 7 days BBC iPlayer
21st May 2010
#82: UOGB and Jake Shimabukuro in Costa Mesa, Californien
Photo: Danny ClinchOnly a couple of months after the upcoming USA tour next fall the Ukes will travel
to the West Coast of the USA for a joint performance with the equally famous
ukulele player Jake
Shimabukuro.
As part of the JapanOC festival the Ukes will share the stage with Jake Shimabukuro on 24th March 2011 in the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, Californien.
The JapanOC festival celebrates Japanese and Japanese-American
arts from October 2010 until April 2011 and takes place in Orange County
Performing Arts
Center and other venues in South
California.
Sources: Jodi Cartwright The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain,
JapanOC website,
Los Angeles Times - Culture Monster
18th May 2010
#81: News from Hester
Recently Hester finished the recordings for her first solo album. Therefore we can expect an early release, presumably next June.
EDIT 18th May 2010: Unfortunately
there will be some delay, but the album is going to appear this summer. If
you can't wait that long, you can enjoy three of Hester's songs on her
MySpace page already.
Source: Hester Goodman The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
5th May 2010
Information from the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
It has been brought to the attention of The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, that another organisation, claiming to have been playing in the UK and Europe since 1998 and to being "the cult sensation from London" is being promoted in Germany and Austria.
This show is using publicity text and photos similar to that used by the UOGB, and has indeed been promoted online using an actual photo of the UOGB. A publicity quote for this other organisation is said to come from "The London News". We do not know this newspaper.
In addition, the other organisation has announced that Peter Moss has "taken over the musical direction of the orchestra". Please note that Peter Moss has no prior or current involvement with the UOGB.
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain would like to make it clear that it has nothing to do with this other organisation.
At the very least this is all confusing, and it is known that some ticket buyers, ukulele fans, and venue managers in Germany have already been given the impression that they were dealing with the UOGB.
The UOGB however continues to tour all over the world, with many dates in Germany and Austria in 2010 and 2011; and will be performing in the Theaterhaus in Stuttgart on October 2nd and 3rd 2010.
The other organisation has announced that it too will be appearing in Stuttgart at the Liederhalle on 19 March 2011.
We understand that approaches have been made to ukulele players in the UK and Germany as well as to a number of German and Austrian theatres. Some of those contacted have, we understand, been left with the impression that they were dealing with the UOGB and have felt very uncomfortable when the situation became clear.
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, (which has been in existence for 25
years),
www.ukuleleorchestra.com
would like to distance itself from the other organisation:
The United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra, (whose website appeared on Wednesday
5th May 2010),
www.ukulele-orchestra.co.uk
The agency which is promoting this other orchestra and which has registered
this other website is
www.yellowconcerts.de
This organisation has no connection with the UOGB.
The UOGB has no problem with someone putting on a ukulele (or any other) concert, of course, but if the public or professionals are left with the impression that they are dealing with the UOGB when this is not the case, then we are very concerned.
5th May 2010
#79: The Ukes back in UK
After their successful tour through Sweden and Finland and despite the flight chaos the Ukes have savely returned to UK again. Here a few impressions from Scandinavia:
- Interview with
Hester and Peter in Ilta Sanomat, the biggest tabloid in Finland (Flash Video)
- Interview on
Swedish breakfast tv, "Nyhetsmorgon" on
TV4 in Stockholm on17th Apr 2010 (Flash Video)
- "Setting the Woods on Fire" - "Nyhetsmorgon",
TV4, 17th Apr 2010 (Flash Video)
- "Rock Around the Clock" - "Nyhetsmorgon",
TV4, 17th Apr 2010 (Flash Video)
20th Apr 2010
#78: The Ukes now on Twitter
If you are interested in the Ukes thoughts and insights, you can follow them from now on via the micro blog service Twitter.
Let the musicians of the UOGB keep you up to date
via the following link: http://twitter.com/theukes
2nd Mar 2010
#77: Next Thursday: TheUkes in the series
"Skins"
On Thursday, 4th Mar 2010 at 10pm GMT (11pm CET) the channel E4 will show episode 6 of the fourth series of the programme "Skins", where the musicians of the Ukulele Orchestra (all but Jonty) will have a cameo. They provide musical support to the hero of this episode, JJ (Olli Barbieri).
EDIT: Unfortunately quite a bit of the Ukes'
appearance has been cut. But the rest has appeared on YouTube by now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xauE9tp1m5I
official
trailerepisode
synopsis including cast list1st Mar 2010
#76: LUMMY DAYS - Stackridge Podcast with George Hinchliffe
On the current Stackridge podcast "LUMMY DAYS" Jim not only centres the topic "ukulele", but could also convince George Hinchliffe of theUOGB to help out presenting it.
Here George not only chats happily about schooldays, music and theUOGB , there are also twoUOGB-Songs amongst others: "Ironing My Goldfish" from the currently unavailable album "A Fistful of Ukuleles" from 1994 and "The Good, The Bad & the Ugly" from the new live album "Live in London #2".
LUMMY
DAYS March 2010
28th Feb 2010
#75: Ukulelescope - 2nd March Berlin
For the coming German premiere of the new UOGB
show "Ukulelescope" at the Babylon cinema in Berlin
there are a few excerpts from the show on YouTube (recorded at two
performances on 6th June 2009 at the BFI Southbank, London)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60RqE8-Eel4
The Babylon opposite to the Volksbühne at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Place offers the appropriate surroundings for Ukulelescope with its long history as a cinema and the old building.
The Ukes set here a highly interesting collection of short films from the early days of the silent film to music, with original works of Hester Goodman and George Hinchliffe, the typical Ukes humour and a number of cover versions from the larger part of the twentieth century.
See: http://www.babylonberlin.de/stummfilme.htm
and http://www.kinokompendium.de/babylonmitte.htm
and Ukulelescope
- the new Ukes-Show - email from Hester Goodman
and Ukulelescope
at Barnstaple - a report by Nathan Cooper
and #72:
German premiere of Ukulelescope in Berlin
15th Feb 2010
#74: TheUkes in the USA
This year finally the American fans get their chance to
experience a live concert of theUkes in their
own country! On 2nd Nov 2010
a concert will take place in the Carnegie Hall
in New York.
Source: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
See also:
Website of
the Carnegie Hall, New York
30th Dec 2009
#73: TheUkes tonight on BBC Radio 3
Tonight at 10pm GMT (11pm CET) BBC Radio 3 broadcasts a repeat of the concert of theUkes at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall from18th Aug 2009.
In case the usual reception ways are not available to you, you can also listen to the programme directly on the website of BBC Radio 3.
EDIT31st Dec 2009 : Presumably the recording will be available on the BBC Radio 3 website for another 7 days. See links below.
Source: George Hinchliffe The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Siehe auch:
BBC iPlayer: Audio on demand -
presumably available until 6th January 2010
Prom
45: Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - BBC Radio 3
#50:
Prom 45 - The Ukes at the BBC Proms 2009
30th Dec 2009
#72: German premiere of Ukulelescope in Berlin
On Tuesday,2nd Mar 2009 a German audience gets the first chance to see "Ukulelescope", the new show of theUOGB in the Babylon-Kino in Berlin.
Ukulelescope is all about a collection of short silent movies, that Hester Goodman has compiled from the archives of the British Film Institue and so the music of the show is complementary to the stories, that the short reels from the first days of the silent film tell.
But it weren't the Ukulele Orchestra, if they'd do "only"
background music for the movie. With a wonderful mixture of original
compositions of Hester Goodman and George Hinchliffe, very carefully
chosen cover versions from all imaginable genres and the humour, that
Ukulele Orchestra is so famous for, they contribute their very own
accent to the charming, amazing and strange footage.
Quelle: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Hester
Goodman über die neueUkes -Show
'Ukulelescope'http://www.babylonberlin.de/ukolelescope.htmThe
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain: New Shows 29th Dec 2009
#71: Another 3sat broadcast of 'Anarchy in the Ukulele' from the Tipi
Berlin 2007
Tonight, at 0:55 Uhr GMT
(1:55am CET), that's the night between Tuesday, 29th Dec and Wednesday
30th Dec 2009 3sat again broadcasts the concert of theUkes from the Tipi am Kanzleramt in 2007.
3sat
- The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain: Anarchy in the Ukulele
22nd Dec 2009
#70: Hester Goodman starts to work on her first solo CD
Finally Hester has started working on her first solo album and
we can hope for it to be available from about spring 2010. On her
MySpace page she offers a little appetiser.
Source: Hester Goodman The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
20th Dec 2009
#69: Concert recording on radio Deutschlandfunk
This year radio Deutschlandfunk offers a very special Christmas present for the fans of theUOGB: On Christmas Day, Friday,25th Dec 2009 at 20:05 GMT (21:05 CET) the channel will broadcast a recording of the concert at the Glatt & Verkehrt Festival on26th Jul 2009 in the Austrian city Krems as part of the programme "On Stage".
Radio Deutschlandfunk can be received by satellite, cable oder terrestrially. If none of these options is available for you, you can listen to the live stream on the website and there are even four different audio formats to choose from. Deutschlandfunk also offers a free recording software for download.
See also:
Deutschlandfunk - On
Stage (German)
Deutschlandfunk
- frequencies for satellite, cable, terrestrially (German)
Download
dradio-Recorder Beta-Version (German)
Deutschlandfunk Live
Stream - Flash
Deutschlandfunk
Live Stream - Windows Media Player
Deutschlandfunk Live
Stream - OGG Vorbis
(no additional plugin needed to play in Firefox 3.5)
Deutschlandfunk Live Stream
- MP3 Stream
Source: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
10th Dec 2009
#68: TheUkes in the tv series
"Skins"
The Ukes' managerin, Jodi with George and Olli - click for a larger view
There will be a cameo appearance of theUOGB in an episode of the fourth series of the tv programme "Skins", which will be broadcast from around January 2010 on E4. The programme is about a group of teenagers and their relationships. Shot in Bristol the series has already won several prices and it even was nominated for a BAFTA in 2008.
TheUkes (all but Jonty)
went to the shooting in Bristol on 6th Oktober and they'll appear as
members of "some ukulele-club" in one episode, which centres around the
character of the autistic JJ.
Certainly their instruments also play a very important part and there
will be a song, that has never been heard from theUkes before (unless you have listened secretly backstage in Karlsruhe when
they rehearsed it last September...).
Kitty, Richie, Will and Hester and the film crew - click for a larger view
George (left) and JJ (right) at the shooting - click for a larger view
Skins on German tv
The German pay tv channel Fox has started broadcasting the series, using the title "Skins - Hautnah". on
the associated website you find a short description of the
series (in German)
including future broadcast dates which for the time being go up to the17th Jan 2010where the broadcast of episode 2 of series 3 is announced for. So there
is hope,
that theUkes -episode will be available
soon in Germany
too.
Source:Ukes The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain,
Photos: Peter Brooke Turner tonypenultimate.com
See also: website
of E4 about the series Skins
and: website of
Fox from the pay tv services of Sky Germany (German language)
29th Nov 2009
#67: Lobby Lud the "Mystery Man"
On the website of Paul Slade, http://www.planetslade.com,
there are two versions of "Lobby Lud the Mystery Man"
offered for free download, which have
been recorded by George Hinchliffe
of theUOGB . There is
one vocal and one instrumental version.
About the background of the story and the recordings:
In 1927 the Westminster Gazette, a London newspaper, invented a novel scheme to stimulate their readership's interest. A photo and a vage description of a man were published, who was visiting selected British cities where the readers were meant to find and recognise him.
When somebody said the words "You are Lobby Lud. I claim the Westminster Gazette prize" to him and had a copy of the newspaper with him, he won a grand amount of price money. The role of this "mystery man", who travelled through the country for the newspaper using the fictitous name "Lobby Lud" was taken over by a reporter, who also reported regularly about the adventures with his pursuers in the Westminster Gazette.
Now the London journalist Paul Slade has recently attended to the story and has published a very extensive and highly entertaining report about it. While doing his research he also stumbled upon the sheet music for the "official Lobby Lud song", composed by Fred Sandford and Fred Malcolm, which also has been sold by the Gazette while this campaigne.
Since it said, the piece had been written for ukulele
accompaniment, he simply sent it to George some time ago, and asked him
to record it for him. The result is offered now with George's consent on his
website for download, where you also can read the full story
about Lobby Lud.
Source: Paul Slade http://www.planetslade.com
25th Nov 2009
#66: Update: Radio
interview on rbb radio 1
Radio interview on rbb radio 1 on Wednesday25th Nov 2009at 18:40 GMT (19:40 CET).
EDIT29th Nov 2009 : As I had been informed about the planned interview only on the day before, I couldn't write the present announcement on my own, because I also was in Berlin. I apologise for the very brief information.
In the meantime the rbb has added a link to the web page
below, where you can listen again to the Interview as a
Real Audio Stream. You'll need the Realplayer
or another realmedia-compatible player software.
Dave, Hester and George had been invited for the interview and there hadn't been any space left for anybody else in the tiny studio in the Admiralspalast. I stayed in the corner with Viola and made a few photos.
Source: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
see also: rbb radio1 radioeins
- Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
17th Nov 2009
#65: Concert in the Tipi on23rd Nov 2009cancelled!
The concert of theUOGB on 23rd Nov 2009 in the 'Tipi am Kanzleramt' in Berlin has unfortunately been cancelled, because the promoter has transferred another event to the Tipi on that day.
On
all the other days the concerts will take place as planned!
Quelle: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
16th Nov 2009
#64: Pre-orders accepted for Proms-DVD!
From now on the DVD of theUOGB' performance at the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall can be pre-ordered on the website of theUOGB .
Apart from the complete concert there are also some extras, like interviews and scenes of music-making by members of the audience, backstage videos of the Ukulele Orchestra from before the concert, 5.1 Surround Sound and sheet music for the "Ode to Joy" for playing along. . Presumably it will be available from3rd Dec 2009 .
EDIT: Here the official video advert
for the DVD on YouTube
See also: entry
from16th Aug 2009 and
Miscellaneous:
#4: The Proms - more than just their "Last Night"
Source: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
14th Nov 2009
#63: 3sat tv broadcasts 'Anarchy in the Ukulele' from the Tipi Berlin
2007
If you have watched the recording of the concert from the Tipi from 2007 only on YouTube so far, you can watch it again in appropriate video- and audio-quality on your tv set. The German/Swiss/Austrian channel 3sat broadcasts a repeat of the programme in the night from Tuesday,17th Nov 2009to Wednesday at 0:45am GMT (1:45 Uhr CET).
3sat tv is broadcast in Germany, Austria and Switzerland via
cable and terrestrially, but it also can be freely received via
satellite from many other European countries with common analogue or
digital equipment. See: 3sat
receiving frequencies (German) or 3sat Footprint (PDF)
3sat
- The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain: Anarchy in the Ukulele
9th Nov 2009
#62: DW-Interview from the concert in Karlsruhe
http://www.euranet.eu,
a website, that is run by several European radio stations, offers an
interview with theUkes for download which has
been recorded on30th Sep 2009before the concert in Karlsruhe
for Deutsche Welle Radio. It was conducted in English and has not been
overdubbed.
Source: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
31st Oct 2009
#61: Attention! Today
15:05am (GMT) - WDR Comedy Gala on German Radio WDR5
Today from
15:05am (16:05am CET)
there will be a broadcast of the WDR
Comedy Gala including the performance of theUOGB from25th Oct 2009 on German
Radio WDR5. For further details about the programme and how to receive
the channel see entry from14th Oct 2009 :
30th Oct 2009
#60: Additional concert in Dortmund on27th Feb 2009
Owing to the great demand for the concert on Saturday27th Feb 2009 in the Konzerthaus Dortmund an additional concert will be offered in the afternoon at 4pm (CEST).
Source: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
23rd Oct 2009
#59: Attention!
TheUkes tonight on
German Radio WDR5
This morning between 10:05 and 12:00am (MESZ) Radio WDR5 broadcast a feature about theUkes as part of the programme "Neugier genügt". If you have missed that, you get yet another chance to listen to it tonight.
Tonight, that is the night of Friday, 23rd to Saturday, 24th October 09 from 3:03am BST (4:03am MESZ) a repeat of the current episode of "Neugier genügt" will be broadcast.
If you can't receive the channel on the radio, you can listen to the programme on the website of Radio WDR5 or if you don't want to get up in the night for that, you can download their free software and let it record it comfortably for you (Windows XP or Vista only).
Details about the programme:
WDR5 - Neugier genügt: broadcast of 23.10.09 (in
German)
Details about the airtimes:WDR5
- Neugier genügt (in German)
Reception and recording via Internet:
WDR
RadioRecorder - Short
introduction and Download (in German)
21st Oct 2009
#58: Additional concert date for Hallein, Austria on2nd Nov 2009
Owing to the great demand for the concert on Tuesday,3rd Nov 2009 there will be another concert a day earlier, on Monday,2nd Nov 2009 , at the Stadttheater in Hallein, Austria.
Tickets for both dates can be ordered at Tourismusverband
Hallein, Pernerinsel, Tel. +43(0)6245 85394 or online on
http://www.forum-hallein.at
Quelle: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
14th Oct 2009
#57: WDR Comedy Gala in Cologne and Radio WDR5
For those, who couldn't get tickets for the concert on24th Oct 2009at the Comedia Cologne there is another chance to see theUkes live at the WDR Comedy Gala at the Schauspielhaus Cologne. Other guests are Nils Heinrich, Matthias Egersdörfer, Weber/Beckmann, Wilfried Schmickler, the show will be presented by Dieter Nuhr. There are still tickets left!
Furthermore a recording of the event including the complete performance of theUkes will be broadcast on Radio WDR5 on31st Oct 2009 .
The complete programme can be listened to from 15:05 to 16.55 BST (16:05 - 17:55 Uhr CEST) on the usual radio frequencies or via the WDR5 Website. The performance of theUkes will take about 30 minutes and is expected to be broadcast at the end of the programme.
The WDR5 website offers a free software for download, which enables you to record the programme directly via the website.
Source: Viola Streich The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
WDR5 - Unterhaltung am
Wochenende: Voll auf die Ohren
Cologne
Comedy Festival and tickets
WDR
RadioRecorder - Short introduction and Download (in German)
6th Oct 2009
#56: 'Ukulelescope' at the 28th Pordenone Silent Film Festival - The
Ukulele Orchestra in
Italy
The advance sale for all events of the festival has started on 3rd Oct 2009, however tickets for Ukulelescope can only be bought from Thursday, 8th Oct 2009 on location at the box office of the Theatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi in Pordenone. Unfortunately it isn't possible to make a reservation by phone and it's recommended to try for getting tickets early, as only about 200 are left.
Source: Le
Giornate del Cinema Muto, XXVIII ed.: 3-10 October 2009
(Italian and English)
booking Info: INFOFESTIVAL
2009 [English]
Further information about Ukulelescope: Ukulelescope - the
new Ukes-Show - email from Hester Goodman
20th Sep 2009
#55: 2010 - news about the 25th anniversary
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will celebrate their 25th anniversary in October next year.
For this reason they plan to release as many old recordings as possible
over the course of the year, including e.g. Hearts of Oak,
A Fist Full of
Ukuleles and the Punk CD Anarchy in the Ukulele.
Additionally a few videos from 1989 and earlier are to be
published. It hasn't been ultimately decided yet, in what form these
things will be offered, but a box set is the mainly discussed option.
Source: George Hinchliffe The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
20th Sep 2009
#54: UOGB soon on iTunes
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will make their music
also available on iTunes soon. At the
moment the details still are negotiated and therefore no date can be
given yet, from when a download via iTunes will be available.
Source: George Hinchliffe The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Anyhow, the complete album "The Secret of Life" from 2004 has been available on iTunes for quite a while already.
8th Sep 2009
#53: Update - Live in London #2
From next Friday,11th Sep 2009 pre-orders for the new CD 'Live in London #2' can be placed.
However at concerts the new CD won't be available before 25th September.
3rd Sep 2009
#52: Three newUkes discs even before
Christmas!
http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com.
A date from when pre-orders can be made, will be announced soon. Like
the previous live CD it will contain 16 popular tracks from theUOGB-Repertoire. There will be two new DVDs on offer before Christmas.
There will be a recording from both performances of the newUkes-show "Ukulelescope"
from the BFI from6th Jun 2009
and
a recording from Prom 45, the first
Proms-concert of theUkes in the Royal Albert
Hall in London from18th Aug 2009.
Sources: Viola Streich, Will
Grove-White The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
28th Aug 2009
#51: Sunday 30.08. - TheUkes on
SWR TV (Germany)
On Sunday30th Aug 2009at 10am (CEST) an interview with theUkes will be broadcast on the German channel SWR
Fernsehen. It's part of the programme "Cool Britannia -
Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz", and has been pre-recorded
on 24th July 2009 at the Horizonte
Festival in Koblenz.
see: http://www.swr.de/tv/-/id=2798/nid=2798/did=5290832/xutngi/index.html