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The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain Recortes de prensa Producciones Lastra S.L The best musical entertainment in the country... worth traveling a thousand miles to hear." The Independent "Wonderfully clever." David Bowie "They demolish the pretensions of the pop industry with flourish... The ukulele has found its avant garde." The Guardian "A musicologist's nightmare. Excellent." Music Week "For sheer fun and outright daffiness tied to first-rate musicality and comic timing, few concerts this year matched this ensemble’s November performance [at Carnegie Hall]." New York Times "Virtuosic". Guitar Magazine "Absolutely the Best of British." Monty Python's Michael Palin "They are among the great entertainers". London Evening Standard "Plucking brilliant!" Sunday Times "Most people have to die before they become immortal. These ukulele superstars have no such worries." New Musical Express "Subversive, rare and very precious... Frighteningly talented and awesome." Time Out "Impressive solo voices and an absolute mastery of strum, pluck and twang ensured the sheer joy and beauty of the music was never lost in the comedy... Perfectly polished professionalism." The Independent "The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain may well turn out to be one of the turning points of 21st Century Art. But then again..." Brian Eno Producciones Lastra S.L C/ Estrella Polar 12, 5º Izq. 28007 - Madrid - Spain ● Tel: +34 91 521 77 23 ● E-mail: [email protected] [1] Links to Online Articles New York Times pick the UOGB's Carnegie Hall concert as one of the best of 2010 - click here http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/arts/music/19kozinn.html?_r=3 New York Times piece about the UOGB 2009 - click here http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/arts/music/30ukulele.html?_r=1&hp Howard Jacobson (Independent) on our Proms performance 2009 - click here http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/arts/music/30ukulele.html?_r=1&hp Guardian Piece about our Proms debut 2009 - click here http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/aug/16/ukulele-orchestra-great-britain-proms Telegraph Piece about our Proms debut 2009 - click here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/proms/6016991/The-Ukulele-Orchestra-of-Great- Britain-interview-for-the-BBC-Proms-2009.html The Guardian Editorial 2008 - click here. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/24/2 Independent Review of BBC Radio 4 Ukulele Orchestra Documentary 2008 - click here. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/the-ukulele-orchestra-of-great- britain-radio-4-856386.html German review 2007 - click here. http://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/journal/article842550/Tschaikowsky-Nirvana-Die-Ukulele- schreckt-vor-nichts-zurueck.html Telegraph article 2007 - click here. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3353980/Striking-a-chord-with-children.html Time Magazine review 2006 - click here. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1174748,00.html The New Statesman review 2006 - click here. http://www.newstatesman.com/200602270036 Producciones Lastra S.L C/ Estrella Polar 12, 5º Izq. 28007 - Madrid - Spain ● Tel: +34 91 521 77 23 ● E-mail: [email protected] [2] The Times, 2006 - click here. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article716021.ece The Telegraph 2006 - click here. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3641924/Nirvana-meets-George-Formby.html BBC reviews 2006 - click here and here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2006/06/12/ukulele_orchestra_review_feature.sht ml http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2006/07/17/ukelele_orchestra_gb_review_0706_feature .shtml Transcripts Editorial from The Guardian Published 24th June 2008 In praise of... The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Playing with music is not the same thing as playing music. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain are masters of both. They don the formal attire of a philharmonic, yet take to the stage armed only with bonsai guitars. The eight-piece ensemble, which is on near permanent tour after 23 years in the business, can turn their talents to literally any composition, from hip-hop to baroque. Tchaikovsky has his place in the repertoire, so too does Kurt Cobain. Ukeleles and vocals are the only ingredients, but they are mixed in versatile ways. The oohs, aahs, whistles and plinky-plonk strumming in their rendition of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly add up to a textured wall of sound that justifies the band's orchestral title. The sound of the ukelele is somehow inherently funny - and cheering. George Formby played the (slightly different) banjolele and, along with Churchill's speeches, it was his pizzicato that kept wartime spirits, well, plucky. It's impossible to listen to the Ukes' play Je T'aime ... Moi Non Plus without smiling. Well, impossible except for those who like their records deadly earnest, and presume musical humour is always a safe and self-satisfied form of wit. The Ukes, however, never fall into that trap: indeed, part of their purpose is punk. Time and again, their deadpan delivery of egotistical lyrics demolishes the pretensions of the pop industry with flourish. A Radio 4 show at 1.30pm today is given over to their unique craft. If you've not the pleasure before, tune in and soak it up for yourself. Article from The Arts Telegraph by Amy Rosenthal Published Wed 22 Feb 2006 By the time you read these words, the roses will have faded, the chocolates melted into your midriff and St Valentine's Day will seem long gone... we can't orchestrate fate? Speaking of orchestrating, I spent St Valentine's Eve watching The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Eight performers, each bringing an individual warmth and wit, as well as virtuoso skill, to the playing of this tiny toy-like instrument. They performed a fabulously diverse set, from Miss Dynamite's Dy-na-mi- tee to Neil Diamond's You Don't Bring Me Flowers Any More. At one point, they were all playing a different song at the same time; at another, in an intricate embrace, all eight were plucking the same ukulele. They were clever, funny and fully deserving of the adulation they received from an audience Producciones Lastra S.L C/ Estrella Polar 12, 5º Izq. 28007 - Madrid - Spain ● Tel: +34 91 521 77 23 ● E-mail: [email protected] [3] ranging in age from the pensionable to the newborn. Couples, singles and clusters of friends dissolved into one beaming crowd, and by the end we were all standing, begging for an encore. Love, without a doubt, was in the air. Article from The New Statesman by Natalie Brierley Published 27rd Febuary 2006 “It’s a small guitar”, says George Hinchcliffe when I ask him what a ukulele is exactly. “There are ukulele enthusiasts who will bristle at my saying that, but that’s what it is. A small guitar with four strings.” And easier to play? “No”, he insists. We agree that it is like speaking Indonesian — if that comparison makes the point any clearer — easy to make yourself sound quite decent, but to make exquisite music you need sweat and hard toil. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain then, has obviously had a good workout. When they did a gig in Japan, barricades had to be put up to stop them from being mobbed. On their website, girls promise them their knickers. And when fans come out of their concerts they look like they’re on happy drugs. Their compositions can transform old men with a long-term attachment to slippers into party animals. “I haven’t seen my husband enjoy himself so much for years”, said one supporter. “That’s a bit worrying, isn’t it?” says George, lead man of this worldwide phenomenon. I have to agree, but I point out that actually, there is something strange about their gigs. You do come out grinning. You do have to share the experience with everyone you meet. It does feel a little like you’ve joined a sect. So what’s their secret? Is it sex appeal? “I mean, even you George have been described as a sex god”, I say. We’re five minutes into our hot chocolate and cookies in a civilised London bar, and already I feel I can be this impertinent. George laughs. “Well, each of the seven band members does have their own following. We are all such different characters. But I think it’s more to do with what we represent. I think people see a good social model in us. We’re a big family who work well together and help each other. We’re like a political concept put through action rather than theory and talk.” But that’s not how it all started. It began when George, having finished a fine art degree decided he wanted to go and experience life in South America before embarking on a teaching career. He never made it passed London. He became a secretary, bought his friend Kitty a ukulele, a group of them started jamming and in 1985, they had their first gig at The Roebuck pub in Southwark. It was packed and was shortly followed by radio and television appearances. When I first saw them (five men and 2 women) step on stage, in smart black tie outfits, I imagined that they were all ex-city slaves who had turned their backs on capitalism for the love of a good sing-song. Alas, not so, but George insists that “there’s too much emphasis today on the distinction between art and business.” “The best accountants I know”, he says “are the ones who work creatively. And then there’s us. We are a tin-pot outfit really; ordinary people who just like to get into the nitty-gritty of the music we play.
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