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Womad festival at Charlton Park was INSANE this year.
The Malmesbury Beatbox Allstars: We opened the festival mainstage on the Thursday night with a group of 20 local schoolkids who had been learning beatboxing.
quite a big crowd had gathered for our ‘workshop’ on Saturday afternoon but we still got some kids up to learn some beatboxing
Saturday night and the VO gather their wits before the headline slot in the Siam tent
the crowd was scarily big before we went out.. they were tripping because Peter Gabriel overran on the mainstage and we had to wait for him to finish… they were chanting and slow clapping.. adrenaline fest!!
The VO were on ridiculous form…
It was amazing, easily show of the year so far!!!!
very end of our set
shlomo the chef… bacon and scrambled egg sarnies all round at the campsite… rock and freakin roll.. cannot wait for next year… but next up it’s the big chill festival….. yay!
On the way to latitude, we stopped off at Skyfest to perform with the newly formed Sky Choir. This was their first gig (at a festival for 7000 soaking wet sky employees!) and they were great.
Next morning, we were up early to record for BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends with Clive Anderson. It was Eerie walking round the Latitude festival site at 9am when not a soul was around.
We were playing on the tiny Outdoor Theatre Stage in the woods. It was rammed – the stage manager told us it was the biggest crowd the stage had ever had!
The Vocal Orchestra get their Superman on
Jestar* is down with the kids
The next day it was over to the Film and Music stage where I was doing a show with Cape Farewell alongside my fellow Arctic explorers David Buckland, Marcus Brigstocke and Jarvis Cocker.
Me and Jarvis onstage
We ended with a version of Purple Haze. Latitude was great, next stop Womad!
Big love to all involved in the closing show of the summer term at the BAC Beatbox Academy. The young people created the entire show themselves and it was a hit! These pics are by Gemma Riggs, more here.
Shlomo will be at Latitude Festival this weekend, and you can hear him live on Radio 4 at 6.15pm on Saturday 18th July. BBC Radio 4 – Loose Ends, 18/07/2009.
If you are going down to the festival you can also catch Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra on the Outdoor Theatre Stage on Saturday at 4.30pm, and Shlo is performing again on the Sunday with Cape Farewell, Jarvis Cocker and Marcus Brigstocke in the Film and Music Arena at 5.25pm.
went down to the eden project in cornwall this week to support razorlight
Setting up the campsite.. lush views of the coastline
I was there with Cape Farewell who were hosting an event called “Cool Sounds from the Frozen Arctic”. They set up a special performance area inside the mediterranean biodome, which was essentially the biggest greenhouse i’ve ever seen
did a quick interview for eden project
beatbox workshop in the afternoon
eden is an amazing place, it’s like a live environmental experiment.. a massive reclaimed clay pit turned into an incredible green space
marcus brigstocke was there doing his comedy thing, talking about our trip to the arctic.. i shared a cabin with him and one of his main jokes seems to be about me beatboxing in my sleep. which is definitely not true.
then off to see razorlight
campfire til dawn
yum.. cooked breakfast from the camping stove... thanks to my lady wife !
here’s a little headsup – there’s going to be a massive africa express gig happening next month! a huge free event in the centre of paris, part of the Festival FnacIndétendances.. will include 7 hours of jamming and improvised collaborations with some rather large names, both african and western. don’t miss out
Come and see the Beatbox Academy performing at BAC on July 11th!
This year’s Glasto was one of the best yet. I ended up doing three shows and saw some incredible live music. My favourite bits were getting lost on random all night adventures and watching the sun come up over the site. We have video and podcast coming soon but in the meantime here are some pics from the weekend…. love from SHLO x
For our Saturday show on the Park Stage we had some special guests, completely unrehearsed as usual. We had a quick run-through up in the campsite because it was too noisy by the stage.
Park Stage was rammed... 10,000 people?? I've played there every year since it started three years back, really feels like home 
First guest was supremely talented Imogen Heap who joined the Vocal Orchestra in an improvised circle jam
next up DJ Yoda battled the Vocal Orchestra whilst rocking some gangsta wellies
Then radio 4's Marcus Brigstocke did his best to strip Bellatrix of her crown (she recently became World Beatbox Champion). His beatbox donald duck was quite impressive but no match for her crazy "chicken drumming".
Last but not least was the legend that is Jarvis Cocker.. i can't believe i introduced him with 'his name starts with cock'.... someone shoot me
Jarvis was a last minute addition to the show after another guest had to pull out. He agreed to sing 'Fat Children' with us on condition that 3 of the vocal orchestra girls sang backing vocals for his headline set that night. Fair deal!
that night i did another show in the early hours... it was called Africa Express Soundsystem, where African musicians jammed with Europeans... it was amazing...
My highlights were dueting with Bashy, and jamming with an amazing fiddler whose solo was incredible until i accidentally stood on his lead, which pulled it out and it all ended with a painful crunch
Me and Imogen at sunrise
Sunday night was one of the biggest highlights for me... watching the prodigy headline the other stage... INCREDIBLE!
After the prodigy i got a call saying that Foreign Beggars were about to play in the Bassline Circus and did i want to jump up… it was a lot of fun being up with the beggars again as i’ve not played with them for years… then we raved out to some drum and bass in Shangri La until the sun came up and it was time to go home. Ah well only one more year till the next one!
Shlo gets 3D
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