Orkestra del Sol's Transglobal Winter Heriocs!
****Please read this with your freezer compartment wide open****
Dear friends of the frozen north,
We, the amazing ORKESTRA DEL SOL have played in various climactic conditions......Battling through MONSOON conditions in India! Barely holding on to our hats and beards in a NEAR HURRICANE in Winchester! Running for cover during HAIL STORMS in Falkirk! Sweltering in a SWEDISH SAUNA SIMULATION at the Caves, Hogmanay! (Happy New Year by-the-way) .....but NEVER have we played our polkas, waltzes and danceable sousaphone-fuelled classics in such SUB-ZERO temperatures as at the incredible Highland Lights Torch-lit Procession in Inverness where the temperature was MINUS EIGHT DEGREES!
ICE CREAM! NORWAY! MOTHERS-IN-LAW!........Are all at their best below zero.
SAXOPHONES. FINGERS. TOES.......... Are not.
In fact, they are the most temperaturely challenged of our extremities, especially as SINCERO MINIMO occasionally prefers to play his saxophone with his feet, to impress his friends. After an over-excited punter spilled beer Lorenzo's accordion in Inverness, his fingers became frozen to the keyboard during a solo and he could only play one chord for the rest of the set! (If anyone would like to knit him some fingerless gloves, please could they get in touch.)
But our troubles are not over…!
On the 4th of Febuary The Orkestra are heading off to woo Beijing crowds with their winter olympics as part of the festivities for the CHINESE NEW YEAR where we temperatures are rumoured to be plummeting to MINUS 11 AT NIGHT. Gregovic is currently modifying all of the band’s instruments with central heating so that none of us get frostbite and Capitanji Tomas is hunting round for many extra pairs of red and black long-johns!
What's more none of us speak much Chinese apart from 'Ni Hao', so everything will have to be non-verbal. (It's lucky most of our tunes are, in fact, instrumentals).
On our return we will be putting the finishing touches to our FANTASTIC new second album 'The Moveable Feast' which will be launched in a MUSICAL SPECTASTICLE at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh on May 18th to kick of our second WORLD TOUR OF THE UK, so any of you who can’t join us in Beijing, we look forward to warming you up over the coming year! Keep an eye on the website for details.
Best Wishes
Orkestra del Sol
Dear friends of the frozen north,
We, the amazing ORKESTRA DEL SOL have played in various climactic conditions......Battling through MONSOON conditions in India! Barely holding on to our hats and beards in a NEAR HURRICANE in Winchester! Running for cover during HAIL STORMS in Falkirk! Sweltering in a SWEDISH SAUNA SIMULATION at the Caves, Hogmanay! (Happy New Year by-the-way) .....but NEVER have we played our polkas, waltzes and danceable sousaphone-fuelled classics in such SUB-ZERO temperatures as at the incredible Highland Lights Torch-lit Procession in Inverness where the temperature was MINUS EIGHT DEGREES!
ICE CREAM! NORWAY! MOTHERS-IN-LAW!........Are all at their best below zero.
SAXOPHONES. FINGERS. TOES.......... Are not.
In fact, they are the most temperaturely challenged of our extremities, especially as SINCERO MINIMO occasionally prefers to play his saxophone with his feet, to impress his friends. After an over-excited punter spilled beer Lorenzo's accordion in Inverness, his fingers became frozen to the keyboard during a solo and he could only play one chord for the rest of the set! (If anyone would like to knit him some fingerless gloves, please could they get in touch.)
But our troubles are not over…!
On the 4th of Febuary The Orkestra are heading off to woo Beijing crowds with their winter olympics as part of the festivities for the CHINESE NEW YEAR where we temperatures are rumoured to be plummeting to MINUS 11 AT NIGHT. Gregovic is currently modifying all of the band’s instruments with central heating so that none of us get frostbite and Capitanji Tomas is hunting round for many extra pairs of red and black long-johns!
What's more none of us speak much Chinese apart from 'Ni Hao', so everything will have to be non-verbal. (It's lucky most of our tunes are, in fact, instrumentals).
On our return we will be putting the finishing touches to our FANTASTIC new second album 'The Moveable Feast' which will be launched in a MUSICAL SPECTASTICLE at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh on May 18th to kick of our second WORLD TOUR OF THE UK, so any of you who can’t join us in Beijing, we look forward to warming you up over the coming year! Keep an eye on the website for details.
Best Wishes
Orkestra del Sol
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