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Shlomo’s Glasto diary 09 – Part 4 – JARVIS COCKER

shlomo — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:47:14 +0000

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

Shlomo’s Glasto Diary ’09 – part 1 – the Vocal Orchestra

shlomo — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:30:55 +0000

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/

Latitude 2009

shlomo — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:28:16 +0000

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!

my glastonbury

shlomo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:53:09 +0000

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!

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