ORKESTRA DEL SOL'S COMPETITIVE STREAKS

Ladies and Gentlemen,

****Please read this in a silly accent****

EXTREME RIVALRY and ONE-UP-MANSHIP in Orkestra del Sol has pushed recent shows TO THE LIMIT! In Norwich, following a second successive defeat in the AGILITY category, MARCO attempted the worlds first 'STAGE DIVE whilst WEARING A SOUSAPHONE'. Thankfully, several NOR-FOLKS cushioned his fall, save for a few dents to his bell. VEROVANYA suffered RUPTURED BELLOWS whilst trying far too hard to MEASURE-UP to BAD TIM BONES in Frome's maximum INSTRUMENT LENGTH competition. Moving at Top Speed, BERNARDO'S WHIRLING STICKS briefly became a FLIGHT RISK in the London area. Friends, attending one of our shows is likely to be RIDICULOUSLY GOOD FUN, but there are HAZARDS! However we do urge you to TAKE THE RISK.

Your friends, The Orkestra.

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TOUR DATES THIS MONTH

Your favourite Brasstronoughts are GOING ABOUT the UK once again!

30th May BATH The Bell

31st May BRISTOL The Croft

3rd June BURY The Met

4th June BLAIRGOWRIE sTART Festival

10th June EDEN FESTIVAL, Dumfries and Galloway.

Mainstage 17:45

19th June CAMBRIDGE Emmanuel College May Ball

24th & 25th June GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL:

Arcadia 19:30 Friday

Theatre and Circus Fri/Sat/Sun 17:55

....and later in the summer at:

29th July CAMBRIDGE Cambridge Folk Festival 22:25

30th July BIRMINGHAM 13:00 and 15:00 FREE GIGS!

Six summer Saturdays

8th, 10th, 15th, 17th, 22nd August EDINBURGH FRINGE

Assembly Speigeltent - full programme announced 9th June

19th August STIRLING The Tolbooth

20th August ABERDEEN The Lemon Tree

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LET'S SEE YOU HONKSTEP!

Friends, it's come to the time when WE NEED YOUR HELP to define what our new dance style, HONKSTEP, actually is! Please video yourselves HONKSTEPPING to our music and send them to us. Remember, this is a COMPLETELY NEW dance form - so get in there early with your GENRE-DEFINING MANEUVERS! We have a prizes UP FOR GRABS for the best new HONKSTEP routines that make it onto our website. Here's a short vid from the last tour where some PRELIMINARY HONKSTEPS were tested....


http://vimeo.com/24275663

It's our May 2011 tour dates!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

**** Please get excited in a silly accent ****

ORKESTRA DEL SOL, your favourite BRASSTRONAUGHTS from the PLANET HONKSTEP, are on the road this month bringing a great deal of OUTRAGEOUS MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT to a venue NEAR YOU. Come on down, tell your mates, tell your neigbours, colleagues, realtives and even pets: the ORKESTRA is COMING!

Sat 7th May DONCASTER Hothouse Festival launch
Sat 7th May SHEFFIELD A Taste of Eden (Oooo! SECRET location)
Mon 9th May NORWICH Norfolk and Norwich Festival
Wed 11th May BRIGHTON Komedia
Thur 12th May FROME Cheese and Grain
Thur 13th May OXFORD Bossaphonik
Sat 14th May IPSWICH Manor Ballroom
Sun 15th May LONDON, BRIXTON Hootnanny (FREE!!)
Tues 17th May LONDON Southbank Centre (FREE!!)
18th May CAMBRIDGE The Junction
21st May DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY FESTIVAL
31st May BRISTOL The Croft
3rd June BURY The Met

And to counter any fears that this SMORGASBORD of LIVE HONKSTEP ACTION may not be enough to WET YOUR APPETITES, you can join us on the AIRWAVES and tune in to a live radio session or two:

Wed 11th May Brighton Festival Radio Live session (2pm)
Sun 15th May BBC 6 Music Cerys Matthews Live session (11.30am)
Tues 17th May BBC Radio Cambridgeshire live session (8.20pm)

and, if you haven't already seen it, have a GIGGLE on our behalf at our latest music video:
http://vimeo.com/22074441. More dates will appear soon, so for full details and tickets for the 2011 LUNG CAPACITY TOUR, visit: http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/gigs
Best wishes from your friends,

Orkestra del Sol

PS our new album 'Lung Capacity' is out now!
http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/shop.html

Orkestra del Sol's YORKSHIRE GIG SHORTAGE

Ladies and Gentlemen,

****Please read this int' Yorkshire Accent****

YORK! PONTEFRACT! HARROGATE! SHEFFIELD! HUDDERSFIELD! DONCASTER! HALIFAX!

Fans of Orkestra del Sol in the NORTH of ENGLAND: we need your assistance. Your friends the Orkestra, find themselves ADRIFT in the county of YORKSHIRE with no gig to play on the evening of Sat 7th May. Try as we may, we just can't find a home that night for our OUTRAGEOUS HONKSTEPPIN' TUNES.

Can YOU Help?

The Orkestra will consider ALMOST ANY OFFER, so long as is comes from THE HISTORIC COUNTY OF YORKSHIRE, or nearby. Venues, Student Unions, Pubs, Fundraisers, Openings, Closures, Half-Marathon Finish-line Entertainment - our SKILLS TO ENTERTAIN will DO YOU PROUD. Perhaps you have a FRIEND in LEEDS who can put us on? Or an UNCLE in ILKLEY or AUNTIE in OTLEY with a nice little venue. Please, PASS THIS MAIL AROUND - we need YOUR Help!

Your friends,

Orkestra del Sol

OFFICIAL UK Tour Dates were LEAKED!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

**** Please read this in a sensational accent ****

You may have received BREAKING NEWS last week through the major channels.
ORKESTRA DEL SOL, your favourite musical banners billowing from the brassy
pole, 'ANNOUNCED' their 2011 tour dates in not ONE, but TWO emails. But was
it 'ANNOUNCED'....or 'LEAKED'???

Well ladies and gentlemen, in this email we are COMING CLEAN. Those tour dates were
in fact LEAKED last week in a hapless attempt to gain the attention of YOU, our LOYAL
FANS. And we're sorry. Sorry to not have accompanied it with the SOPHISTICATED
HUMOUR or WIT that you have come to expect from us. OUR PROBLEM is that we still
haven't worked out which member of Orkestra del Sol, or its army of helpers, is
responsible, and where to find HIM or HER:

http://vimeo.com/19926945

As if pondering this video, then hurriedly BOOKING YOUR TICKETS FOR UPCOMING
SHOWS isn't enough, feel free to ALSO CELEBRATE! In an unprecedented show of
COMMUNITY SPIRITS and SUPPORT, Orkestra del Sol’s LOYAL FANS came to the
rescue just in the nick of time. On Thursday 27th January we REACHED OUR TARGET
with Pledge Music! THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO PLEDGED!

And so it gives us the chance to give you, our mailing list, a second EXCLUSIVE
WICKED LEAK EXPOSÉ - our new album ‘LUNG CAPACITY’ will be RELEASED on
Monday the 18th of April 2011. How’s about that??!!

For those of you who don’t know WHAT we’re talking about, the Pledge Music campaign
is STILL OPEN! Pledgers receive a download of the album in advance of the release date…
Have a look!

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/orkestradelsol

If anyone out there has any leads on who was responsible for the TOUR DATE LEAK,
please email the band with the subject heading 'DICKYLEAKS'

Your friends,

Orkestra del Sol

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Lung Capacity Album Launch Tour 2011:
Tickets on sale NOW

Thurs 7 April – PAISLEY TOWN HALL
0141 887 1010

Fri 8 April – BIRNAM ARTS CENTRE
01350 727674

Thurs 14 April – LONDON - DINGWALLS, CAMDEN
0207 428 5929

Fri 15 April – GLASGOW - SCHOOL OF ART
Tix on sale very soon!

Sat 16 April – EDINBURGH - LIQUID ROOM
Tix on sale very soon!

Fri 29 April – KNOYDART FESTIVAL
01687 460113

Sat 7 May – DONCASTER - HOTHOUSE FESTIVAL LAUNCH
(free street event)

Mon 9 May – NORFOLK & NORWICH FESTIVAL - SPIEGELTENT

Weds 11 May – BRIGHTON KOMEDIA
0845 293 8480

Thurs 12 May – FROME - CHEESE & GRAIN
01373 455 420

Fri 13 May – OXFORD - BOSSAPHONIK @ THE CELLAR
Tix on sale very soon!

Sat 14 May – IPSWICH - PEPPERY PRODUCTIONS @ THE MANOR BALLROOM
01473 295900
Tix on sale very soon!

Weds 18 May – CAMBRIDGE - THE JUNCTION
01223 511511

Sat 21 May - DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY ARTS FESTIVAL
01387 253383

Tues 31 May – BRISTOL - THE CROFT
0870 444 4400

Fri 3 June – BURY - THE MET
0161 761 2216

Sat 4 June – BLAIRGOWRIE - stART FESTIVAL

First UK Tour Dates Announced! (with fixed link)

The first of our UK spring tour dates to launch the new album Lung Capacity are out!
Sorry that Link didn't work. Here it is:
www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/gigs.html

We still need your support!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

****Please read this in a silly accent****

The world SPINS, the Orkestra TURNS, and we still need YOU to help US, ORKESTRA DEL SOL, release our next CD by PIROUETTING your way to our pledge page.

We can only release our new album if each and every one of YOU pledges to buy a copy when it is ready. But we also like to make you SMILE, so we made this SPECIAL VIDEO.


http://vimeo.com/18644180

Current pledges are at 64% with only 2 weeks of our campaign to go, so we’re PULLING OUT ALL THE STOPS to get you, our beloved fans, to pre-order the album, a T-shirt, a ringtone or more, so that we have the funds to release “Lung Capacity” in April 2011!

And so long as ONE OF YOU (just one) orders his JOKES BY TEXT, Martello will continue to consider himself funny. So GO on, it’s quick ‘n’ easy… just a couple of clicks away. THE ORKESTRA NEEDS YOU!

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/orkestradelsol


Your friends,
Orkestra del Sol

PS – VERY big thanks to everyone who has pledged so far. Your support is enabling us to release new music independently. Hurrah!

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UPCOMING GIGS FOR YOU!

Sydney International Arts Festival:
Wed 19th & Thurs 20th Jan – Sydney Town Hall
http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2011/All-Events/Troc-Party-Nights-Orkestra-del-Sol-City/

Fri 21st Jan - Parramatta Park
Sat 22nd Jan – Parramatta Town Hall
http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2011/Dance/Troc-Party-Nights-Orkestra-del-Sol-Parramatta/

Sat 29th Jan – Celtic Connections, ABC2, Glasgow
http://www.celticconnections.com/whatson/event/104055-Tom-Fun-Orchestra-and-Orkestra-del-Sol-and-Mystery-Juice

…and from our forthcoming UK Tour…

Thurs 7th April – Paisley Town Hall
Fri 8th April – Birnam Arts Centre
Thurs 14th April – Dingwalls, London
Sat 16th April – Liquid Room, Edinburgh
Fri 29th April – Knoydart Festival
Weds 11th May – Komedia, Brighton
Weds 18th May – The Junction, Cambridge

…more details to follow soon!

And remember all our CDs, T-shirts and special edition Top-Trumps flyers are available from the shop:
http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/shop.html

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HAPPY NEW YEAR from Orkestra del Sol!

Ladies and Gentlemen

****Please read this in an Aussie accent****



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HAPPY NEW YEAR and a belated Happy Christmas from all of us on tour here in Aus. The weather down here has been quite peculiar!

Remember, Ladies and Gentlemen, if you've not yet pledged support for our new album - please DO IT NOW by following this link:
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/orkestradelsol
Maybe we could even come and play in your Living Room?!

And remember all our CDs, T-shirts and special edition Top-Trumps flyers are available from the shop:
http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/shop.html

Follow us on:
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Myspace
- Youtube
- Vimeo
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