Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra at Serenata Festival, Dorset
We are appearing at Serenata Festival in Dorset as Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra on Saturday 28th August. Apparently it’s “Britain’s first classical music festival” so we’ll be sure to bring the noise!!
More info:
http://www.serenatafestival.com/
Vocal Orchestra at mFest, Scotland
Really excited to announce that we’ll be performing once again as Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra at the young people programmed mFest up in Scotland. Other acts at the festival include Tinchy Stryder, Hadouken! and The Fall.
More info:
http://www.macrobert.org/index.php?id=406
photos by Gabrielle Motola
Here are some cool pics from our shoot with Gabrielle Motola during our run of BOXED – the camera was suspended above us 
Video: Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra reworking the Prodigy classic ‘Out of Space’!!
Shlo and the VO present Out of Space by the Prodigy, reworked with 8 mouths and 8 mics.
Video: One Hit by Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra
One Hit by Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra
Shlomo’s Glasto diary 09 – Part 4 – JARVIS COCKER
Final part of Shlomo’s Glastonbury diary featuring Jarvis Cocker singing Fat Children with Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra.
Shlomo’s Glasto diary 09 – Part 4 – MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE vs BELLATRIX beatbox battle
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.
Video: teardrop by Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra
8 mouths, 8 mics. Nothing else. Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra sing “Teardrop” by Massive Attack. Lead vocals by Yvette Riby-Williams. Recorded live at the Udderbelly by Kyran Speirs.
Video: I Wish – Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra
beatbox troupe Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra sing the Stevie Wonder classic “I Wish” filmed at the Udderbelly by Kyran Speirs.
Lead vox by Billy Boothroyd and Neo Joshua
8 mouths, 8 mics, nothing else!
Shlomo’s Glasto Diary ’09 – part 3 – IMOGEN HEAP becomes honorary VOCAL ORCHESTRA member
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/
Shlomo’s Glasto Diary ’09 – part 2 – DJ YODA vs VOCAL ORCHESTRA
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/
pics and video: vocal orchestra on greenbelt mainstage
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.
Shlomo’s Glasto Diary ’09 – part 1 – the Vocal Orchestra
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 2009 ROCKED!
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!
Latitude 2009
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!
‘slick theatrics’ in a purple cow
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
Glasto photos
Check out RJ Fernandez‘s shots from the 2 hour Unconventional Means show at Glastonbury. See the full photo set here.
