yellow pages

the Yellow Pages for Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth & Lichfield landed in the office last week. On page three you'll find a photograph of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain at last year's Festival taken by Michael Barr. The Ukes of course are coming back for two silent film shows, both of which sold out ages ago, but if you are a hard core Uke fan, I would recommend clocking their Proms performance, and the online lessons so that you can join in what will no doubt be a new world record for the largest gathering of Ukulele players.

a well deserved proms debut

finally, one of Britain's finest orchestras will receive its BBC Proms debut this year. The small but perfectly formed Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, well known to Lichfield audiences for their 2006 and 2008 performances, will perform at the Royal Albert Hall on 18 August, fresh on the heels of two more dates in Lichfield. The full Proms programme can be found here.
They return here on 14 and 15 July with their new show Ukulelescope, about which more can be found here while we wait our website goes live next friday. Ukulelescope is the hilarious result of the Ukes being allowed to plunder the BFI archives. After hearing about the show from various conversations with George Hinchcliffe, it was fantastic to finally see it at Bristol's Slapstick Festival earlier this year. I predict that Lichfield tickets will quickly become scarce, so it is heartening to see that it is also due to receive its London debut at the BFI Southbank in June.