Posts tagged “festival”

Final part of Shlomo’s Glastonbury diary featuring Jarvis Cocker singing Fat Children with Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dm7RvxTp88

Part four of Shlomo’s Glastonbury diary featuring BBC Radio 4’s MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE challenging BELLATRIX (World Female Beatbox Champion 2009) to a battle of the beats. Ouch.

Part five is out next week!

Watch it HERE.

Part three of Shlomo’s Glastonbury diary featuring an improvised collaboration between IMOGEN HEAP and SHLOMO AND THE VOCAL ORCHESTRA!

Part four is out next week!

Video by http://www.asdescribed.net/

WATCH IT HERE

Part two of Shlomo’s Glastonbury diary featuring a live battle between DJ YODA and SHLOMO AND THE VOCAL ORCHESTRA!

Part three is out next week!

Video by http://www.asdescribed.net/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWnl1VCFAmI

This was our last festival show of an amazing summer

Was lovely to play on the mainstage

The Vocal Orchestra smashed it!

Here’s a little video of us in our masterclass earlier that afternoon

Shlomo and The Vocal Orchestra from Greenbelt Festival on Vimeo.

Part one of Shlomo’s Glastonbury diary featuring his beatbox choir THE VOCAL ORCHESTRA, plus JARVIS COCKER, IMOGEN HEAP, DJ YODA and MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE.

Part two is out next week!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNjL6sXwibE

Video by http://www.asdescribed.net/

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

J

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!

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.

We had a fantastic (sold out!) three-night run at Udderbelly, the upside down purple cow theatre venue that seats 400 people. It was so much fun.

Standing ovation!

We were trying out a new aspect to the Vocal Orchestra show, with a more theatrical style to it.. Over the next couple of years I’m planning to create a full theatre show, along the lines of something like Stomp, but using only the voice.

The Evening Standard described the show as ’slick theatrics’ which is amazing considering how little time we had to throw it together, with no budget whatsoever, just a lot of goodwill and talent! so big thanks to all who have been involved, and to those that came down to support. Cannot wait for phase 2!!!

Next stop GLASTO!

Shlo and Billy in front of the Cow