Orkestra del Sol

ORKESTRA DEL SOL'S COMPETITIVE STREAKS

2011-05-27T14:47:00.001+01:00

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.

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

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!

2011-05-07T08:40:00.001+01:00

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

2011-03-20T12:45:00.000Z

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!

2011-02-17T19:04:00.002Z

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)

2011-02-10T10:09:00.003Z

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!

2011-01-18T13:30:00.005Z

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!

2011-01-06T13:26:00.007Z

Ladies and Gentlemen

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

(http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/Christmas Card 2010.jpg)

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:
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Orkestra del Sol's DOWN UNDER this January!

2010-12-11T20:13:00.002Z

Ladies and Gentlemen,

***Please read this in an Australian accent***

ORKESTRA DEL SOL, your favorite SONIC DRONES from the brassy didgeridoo, is going to be playing in 'Stralia this January! Yes, you just said AUSTRALIA in the RIGHT ACCENT! Now can you help US, your FRIENDS, SPREAD the WORD? We'll be travelling to Woodford, Sydney, Byron Bay, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Melbourne and Bulli, and finishing up at the Sydney International Festival on the 19-22nd Jan.

Almost every fan of ORKESTRA DEL SOL will, during their lives, have met, drunk with, been related to, swapped sporting anecdotes, drunk with, starred in a reality TV show, and then had a few MORE DRINKS with SOMEONE FROM AUSTRALIA. So if you have a COUSIN BRUCE in BRISBANE, a MATE in MELBOURNE or an UNCLE SYDNEY in, err, SYDNEY - tell them we're coming!

You can check out the full schedule at the Orkestra's website: http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/gigs.html

and the FB tour page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Orkestra-del-Sol/61437481162#!/event.php?eid=170025793031475

There will also be REGULAR and AMUSING tour updates on Twitter courtesy of MARTELLO!

And remember, Ladies and Gentlemen - with YOUR HELP - our LUNG CAPACITY is INCREASING by the day! 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

You pay nothing until we reach our target, and when we do, you can get a pre-release copy of Lung Capacity for £8 (download) or £12 CD in the post, BEFORE ANYONE ELSE! If we don't hit the target - we can't release our CD without a lot of head scratching and defeated shuffling back to the drawing board. Its US and YOU alone who can do this. There are no Big Guys to step in and save our album if we don't receive enough pledges. Please help to support us, your INDEPENDENTLY MUSICAL FRIENDS!

See you soon, be it down under, up and over, under an overgound or Wombling free.

Your friends,

Orkestra del Sol

Help increase our LUNG CAPACITY!

2010-11-18T14:14:00.003Z

(You MAY have received this twice - if so we're sorry to trouble you, we had to change the colours because some people could not read it in their email)

Ladies and Gentlemen,

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

We’d like to tell you about something EXCITING. REALLY EXCITING.

YES, the time has come for us, ORKESTRA DEL SOL, your representatives of bombastic brass, to release a NEW ALBUM! An album BRIMMING with those HONK-STEPPING, OUTRAGEOUS ORKESTRAL TUNES that you KNOW AND LOVE.

MANY OF YOU know us to be a hard-working, INDEPENDENT band, and up to now all our music has been self-released, by us, ourselves, in a do-it-ourself fashion. But THIS TIME we’ve decided to bite the bullet by both horns and do things a little differently. We don’t have one of those BIG BAD RECORD LABELS behind us, so (and this is where the cogs in our LEETLE BRAINS starting clunking and grinding into action)…we thought we would ask YOU, OUR FRIENDS for HELP.

We have set up shop with PLEDGE MUSIC. They are very clever and friendly people, and they are helping us TEAM UP with YOU, our FANS to release our new album.

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

When you pledge some of your HARD EARNED CASH, you choose from a range of SATISFYING and RIDICULOUS REWARDS that will make you experience WARM FEELINGS OF JOY, as you help us.

Pledges start at just £8 POUNDS – although you can of course CHOOSE to give more for some really SPECIAL PRIZES. But no matter what you give, every person who pledges will receive updates and INFORMATION from us about how the album is PROGRESSING, plus exclusive FILMS, TRACKS, and WORDS from the Orkestra. Unlike Bernardo’s CHEQUERED PAST – its completely safe and legal, but like one of MARCO’S CAKES – it makes you FEEL GOOD!

Please get involved, click on this link and also TELL YOUR FRIENDS. You can make this HAPPEN, and you can grab your own piece of historic HISTORY at the same time.

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

We’re really EXCITED about our new album, and we’re crossing all fingers and toes that we will reach our target and have the CD ready by NEXT SPRING.

Thanks!

Your friends,

Orkestra del Sol

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And for the people of EDINBURGH! We’re going to play a gig very soon!

In our good old home-town venue THE BONGO CLUB – and as you’re all PALS of ours, the ticket price has been SLASHED to a special mates’ rate - ONLY £8. Tell your friends and git on down! We’ll be revealing the identity and COPIUS SKILLS of our new accordion player too.

Get your tickets in advance from:

http://www.thebongoclub.co.uk/webpages/programme_month.php?s_month=12&s_year=2010&f_month=December&f_year=2010

ORKESTRA DEL SOL

SUNDAY 5^TH DECEMBER

The Bongo Club

37 Holyrood Road

Edinburgh

EH8 8BA

Doors: 7pm

On stage: 7.30pm

End: 10pm

Tickets: £8

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118103594918702

See you there!

We now have T Shirts, Souvenir Top Trumps Fliers and CDs available from the shop:

http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/shop.html

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Orkestra del Sol's BIG THANK YOU

2010-09-22T14:20:00.011+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

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

As we hang up our suits and hats after a busy season of TOP TRUMPS, all of us at ORKESTRA DEL SOL - your favourite SAX SHOOTERS from the BRASSY KNOLL - would like to say a big, capital-letter-sized THANK YOU to everyone who has turned out to support us this summer. From SUTHERLAND to SOUTHAMPTON, we've enjoyed EVERY SHOW because YOU'RE THERE. And your pals. Even your mum came along. Wonderful.

And we've been DYING TO TELL YOU how proud we are to have our SUPER HOT track 'ON GIANTS SHOULDERS' included on a superb new BALKAN FEVER LONDON compilation from Green Queen records, which is obtainable on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Balkan-Fever-London-Mind-Brass/dp/B003Y7348Q

"kicking real arse" The Independent
"the UK sound has a freshness and original style that make this record worth seeking out" Songlines Magazine
"a punchy round-up" fRoots
"highlights on the album are plenty" Music-News.com
"this CD is constantly top grade" Fly Global Music"

Meanwhile, we have plenty of BRASS IN THE FIRE for this winter to tell you about SOON, but for now, it's time to remember all those GREAT NIGHTS and FEEL GOOD about getting together to MAKE MUSIC. Keep it SURREAL!!!!

All the best from your friends,

Orkestra del Sol

We now have T Shirts, Souvenir Top Trumps Fliers and CDs available from the shop:

http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/shop.html

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Orkestra del Sol at the Queens Hall, NEXT THURSDAY 12th August

2010-08-05T12:18:00.004+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen

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

We're SURE YOU WOULD AGREE that every concert given by ORKESTRA DEL SOL, your favourite TRUMP CARDS of the BRASSY PACK, is a
joyous experience. Each one is memorable, perhaps for the atmosphere, or maybe for the JUMPING HEIGHT, the RANGE, or the TOP SPEED. Even if only 26 people turn up, hey it's OK, because for US that's 2.8 recurring EACH.

But, for reasons we will never fully understand, SOME gigs turn out to be UTTERLY ASTOUNDING. Next week's appearance by the ORKESTRA at Edinburgh's Queens Hall promises to be ONE OF THOSE.
The recipe is JUST RIGHT: The Orkestra on TOP FORM with TOP TRUMPS; an unstoppable FRIDGE FESTIVAL audience, attractively dressed, no doubt; A VERY SPECIAL GUEST, attractively dressed, no doubt; and hundreds of TICKETS SOLD already! NEED WE SAY MORE?

Well just one more thing, actually: advance booking of tickets is recommended - this is the Orkestra's only show during the Edinburgh Fridge Festival. It will be FULL. See you there!

Orkestra del Sol with Very Special Guest at the Queens Hall on Thursday 12th Aug 9pm.
The Queens Hall, 85 - 89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9JG.
Tickets: £14/12
Box Office: 0131 668 2019,
www.thequeenshall.net

For anyone not in Edinburgh this month, hey it's OK - we have some more delightful dates in Scotland and Northern England this month:

August 6 - BELLADRUM nr. INVERNESS Tartan Heart Festival (Garden Stage 3.15pm)

August 15 - NORTH BERWICK Fringe by the Sea (Spiegeltent 3pm)

August 27 - ABERDEEN Lemon Tree (8 pm)

August 29 - SOLFEST (Main Stage 7pm)

Unfortunately, we also have two cancellations:
20th August GREEN PHOENIX FESTIVAL, Tyne & Wear.
12th September - The Tabernacle, Notting Hill, London.
Sorry folks - we will be back in London next Spring...

Your friends,

The Orkestra

Remember that all our CDs are available from the shop:
http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/shop.html

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Orkestra del Sol in Glastonbury's longest conga

2010-07-09T11:37:00.002+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen

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

Picture a mid-summer scene: MARCO lovingly arranging his Eccles cakes as BERNARDO watches the Wimbledon ladies final. LORENZO adoringly polishes SINCERO MINIMO's instrument whilst GREGOVIC opens his latest edition of Home Distillation Monthly. Yes, ORKESTRA DEL SOL, your friends and PURVEYORS of FINE MUSICAL LISTENING and RHYTHMIC APPRECIATION are briefly putting their feet up between tours to catch their breath and wash those red shirts.

But why, you might wonder, does this ORKESTRA with its enormous LUNG CAPACITY need to catch its collective breath?

... Did you SEE THEM at Glastonbury?

See here!

Ladies and Gentlemen, dates in LONDON (Cargo, July 19th), EDINBURGH (Queens Hall, Aug 12th) and OTHER DATES AROUND THE UK are approaching very fast, and the Orkestra has just one thing to ask you: BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW, and join the band for another round of TOP TRUMPS near YOU!

Playing with you in 2010.

Orkestra del Sol

July 16 – Wellington Arms, SANDHURST, 6.00-6.30pm

July 16 – The Village Inn Pub, SANDHURST, 8.00-8.40pm

July 17 - SANDHURST Freedom Days, 8pm

July 18 - SANDHURST Freedom Days, 3pm

July 19 - Cargo, Shoreditch, LONDON, 9pm

July 20 – MILTON KEYNES MK International Festival (Spiegeltent), 8pm

July 21 – United Reformed Church, CAMBRIDGE, 7.30pm

July 22 - NORWICH Norwich Arts Centre 8:30 pm

July 23 - CARLISLE Lakes Alive, Carlisle Castle 9 pm

July 24 - GLASGOW Merchant City Festival 1 pm

July 24 - CARLISLE Lakes Alive, Carlisle Castle 9 pm

July 25 - GLASGOW Merchant City Festival 1 pm

July 31 - Aug 1 Stockton Stockton International Riverside Festival

August 6 - BELLADRUM nr. INVERNESS Tartan Heart Festival

August 12 - EDINBURGH The Queens Hall 8 pm

August 15 - NORTH BERWICK Fringe by the Sea 3 pm

August 27 - ABERDEEN Lemon Tree 8 pm

August 29 - SOLFEST 7 pm

Remember that all our CDs are available from the shop:
http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/shop.html

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Orkestra del Sol's FUN WARNING!

2010-06-10T13:38:00.002+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

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

WORRYING TIMES are afoot amongst us, and this email should serve you as a warning. This is not just any old watch-out-for-strangers type of advice. It's another sort entirely. Friends, this is a FUN WARNING.

Yes, fans of your favourite STEAM CONDUITS of the melodic vapour, ORKESTRA DEL SOL, we have written this circular as a WARNING that you run a HIGH RISK of having FAR TOO MUCH FUN at upcoming concert performances. We suggest watch the following (but please, SHIELD your EYES if you are of a ill-tempered or HUMBUGGING disposition, or are prone to infection by GIGGLING or HILARITY):
May 2010 Tour

Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, THIS is the EVIDENCE. Proof that going to see ORKESTRA DEL SOL creates a level of FUN leading to spilt pints, hoarse voice-boxes, extension, spontaneity, sore muscles, smile cramps, unforeseen romance, stitches and beaming. Please bear in mind that Marco, our world-famous SOUSAPHONIST and cake aficionado, was filming this material whilst PLAYING HIS MASSIVE INSTRUMENT, and should be forgiven any irksome camera wobble or flare.

Hidden behind those HAPPY SMILING FACES of our fans are the facts. Un-hoovered spare-rooms and neglected soap operas. Dormant facebook accounts, latent hangovers, and the wrong types of milk. Don't say we didn't warn you. To conclude: watch out on that happiness, Britain. Choose any number of ORKESTRA DEL SOL CONCERTS from the list below, arrive with your comrades in a level mood, maybe slightly jolly, and let's just see how it goes.

Your friends,

Orkestra del Sol

PS Have you got some shakey, pixellated, phone camera footage of your friends the ORKESTRA? Or perhaps you've filmed yourselves PLAYING TOP TRUMPS? Send it to us, please, and you might find yourself starring in our next film!

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TOUR DATES:

June 17 - Queen of Clubs Cabaret @ Baby Simple, OXFORD, 9pm

June 18 – Mental Elf Collective @ The Trades Club, HEBDEN BRIDGE, 9pm

June 19 - Mid Mad, ABERYSTWYTH, 3pm

June 20 – 10 Feet Tall, CARDIFF, 9pm

June 22 - The Brook, SOUTHAMPTON, 8pm

June 25 - LUDLOW Assembly Rooms, 8pm

June 26 - GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL:
Theatre & Circus Field:
Sensation Seekers Stage 14:55-15:35
Free range 18:30-19:30

June 27 - GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL:
Theatre & Circus Field:
Sensation Seekers Stage 14:55-15:35
Free range 18:30-19:30
Club Dada, Shangri-La, 02:10-03:00

July 16 – Wellington Arms, SANDHURST, 6.00-6.30pm

July 16 – The Village Inn Pub, SANDHURST, 8.00-8.40pm

July 17 - SANDHURST Freedom Days, 8pm

July 18 - SANDHURST Freedom Days, 3pm

July 19 - Cargo, Shoreditch, LONDON, 9pm

July 20 – MILTON KEYNES MK International Festival (Spiegeltent), 8pm

July 21 – United Reformed Church, CAMBRIDGE, 7.30pm

July 22 - NORWICH Norwich Arts Centre * pm

July 23 - CARLISLE Lakes Alive, Carlisle Castle 9 pm

July 24 - GLASGOW Merchant City Festival 1 pm

July 24 - CARLISLE Lakes Alive, Carlisle Castle 9 pm

July 25 - GLASGOW Merchant City Festival 1 pm

July 31 - Aug 1 Stockton Stockton International Riverside Festival

August 6 - BELLADRUM nr. INVERNESS Tartan Heart Festival

August 12 - EDINBURGH The Queens Hall 8 pm

August 15 - NORTH BERWICK Fringe by the Sea 3 pm

August 27 - ABERDEEN Lemon Tree 8 pm

August 29 - SOLFEST 7 pm

Remember that all our CDs are available from the shop, and soon there will be exclusive Orkestra del Sol T-shirts too!
http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/shop.html

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More Top Trumps!

2010-05-04T17:42:00.007+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen

***Please play this game in a silly accent***

''OK, errr, LUNG CAPACITY.... 4200cc"

"9000cc"

"6100cc"

"10cc"

"A great band but, gotcha - PHILODOPOULOS WINS!"

Ladies and gentlemen, playing ORKESTRA DEL SOL'S TOP TRUMPS is that easy. YES, it's that easy to enter the WORLD of US, your friends. To enter our MINDS. To commune with the SOULS of your favourite advocates of BRASSY BUFOONERY, their DISARMING SMILES, their UNSTOPPABLE GROOVES, their VISUAL LOOKS.

But Top Trumps may not be a concept that is familiar to all of you, our BELOVED FANS. Is it a GAME? Is it MUSIC? Is it a SHOW? Ladies and Gentlemen I have to tell you this: YES it is ALL of the ABOVE.... AND MORE!

But first, HOLD ON TO YOUR EXCITEMENT, and watch our SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL VIDEO below
(or go here)

Imagine an idea on SEVERAL LEVELS, like a house. At the ground floor lies the original TOP TRUMPS idea on whose door you have knocked - the 1980's card game, but with MUSICIANS INSTEAD OF CARDS! The next floor consists of ACTUALLY PLAYING THE GAME, like in the film. Gather around the table with a set of LIMITED EDITION CARDS and read out categories TO YOUR HEART’S CONTENT. Finally, on the roof, is the IDEA with THE BEST VIEW. You GO TO A GIG, with you FRIENDS (or family) and, OH MY GOD, all the ideas UNITE into an entire show of MUSICAL SHENANEGANS bringing you REVELRY and DANCING into your WEE SMALL hours!

Ladies and Gentlemen - CONTAIN your EXCITEMENT! Get online, find the gig, book those tickets and we'll see you for a game of TOP TRUMPS very soon!

Your friends,

Orkestra del Sol

TOUR DATES:
3rd April GLASGOW Oran Mor
18th May LYTH nr. WICK Lyth Arts Centre
19th May INVERNESS Eden Court Theatre
20th May nr INVERGORDON Milton Village Green<
21st May GLENUIG Glenuig Hall
22nd May EDINBURGH Balkanarama Studio 24
25th May BRISTOL The Croft
26th May BATH The Bell
28th May LONDON Hootananny Brixton
17th June OXFORD Queen of Clubs @ The Regal
18th June HEBDEN BRIDGE The Trades Club
19th June ABERYSTWYTH Mid Mad
20th June BRIDPORT Electric Palace
22th June SOUTHAMPTON The Brook
25th June LUDLOW Ludlow Assembly Rooms
26th - 28th July GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL Theatre and circus and Club Dada
16th-18th July SANDHURST Sandhurst Festival
19th July LONDON Cargo
20th July MILTON KEYNES Spiegeltent,MK International Fesitival
22nd July NORWICH Norwich Arts Centre
23rd July CARLISLE Lakes Alive, Carlisle Castle
25th July GLASGOW Merchant City Festival
31st Jul - 1st Aug Stockton Stockton International Riverside Festival
6th August BELLADRUM nr. INVERNESS Tartan Heart Festival
12th August EDINBURGH The Queens Hall
15th August NORTH BERWICK Fringe by the Sea
27th August ABERDEEN Lemon Tree
29th August SOLFEST

PS – you can hear an EXCLUSIVE track from the Top Trumps show on BBC Radio Scotland tonight 8 – 9pm. Listen again (available for 7 days) here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079fzf

Remember that all our previous CDs are still available from the shop:
http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/shop.html

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Orkestra del Sol's Summer Tour Dates Annouced!!

2010-03-17T16:08:00.010Z

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

WELCOME BACK, loyal fans, to the world of ORKESTRA DEL SOL! Where HAVE YOU BEEN? It’s US – your GREAT FRIENDS that you see only once or twice a year but turn out to be like NINE BROTHERS and a SISTER to you, and we might actually be relatives you don’t yet know about who move into a house down the road and then you discover you QUITE LIKE us as individual people.

And we have news. Yes, ACTUAL NEWS! We’ve been away in the Costa DEL SOL (of our imaginations) thinking up all sorts of wired and wonderful tunes for our NEW SHOW for two hundred and ten, and what’s more, we have been successful! We have dissembled rhythms, notes and excessellent harmonies to make CONTAGIOUS DANCE MUSIC - (excellent for whistling) - for you!

But what’s more, Ladies and Gentlemen, Orkestra del Sol’s new show is a musical GAME! It’s Top Trumps! Yes, TOP TRUMPS…. with REAL PEOPLE (us) instead of cards!
A musical game of play-offs, oneupmanship, unnecessarily complicated routines, dubious links and CHALLENGES where you, the audience, see us, ORKESTRA DEL SOL, pit our musical wits against each other to see who will be the show’s TOP TRUMP. Get it? … You will.

Awe and spectacle…hilarity and insinuation…. buffooning and midwifery… all will be revealed in our continuing GLOBAL TOUR this summer, which begins in GLASGOW’S famous ORAN MOR on APRIL 3rd and other places as well!
See you there!
Your friends,
Orkestra del Sol

* * * * * * *

Orkestra del Sol’s Top Trumps Tour dates so far:

• April 3rd – Oran Mor – Glasgow – 8pm www.oran-mor.co.uk
• May 18th – Lyth Arts Centre – nr.Wick
• May 19th – Eden Court (One Touch Theatre) – Inverness
• May 20th – Milton Village Green – nr.Inverness
• May 21st – Glenuig Hall – Glenuig
• May 22nd – Balkanarama @ Studio24 – Edinburgh
• May 25th – The Croft – Bristol
• May 28th – Hootananny – Brixton, London
• June 17th – Queen of Clubs Cabaret @ The Regal Theatre – Oxford
• June 25th – Ludlow Assembly Rooms – Ludlow, Shropshire
• July 16-17th – Sandhurst Freedom Days – Sandhurst, Berkshire
• July 19th – Cargo – Shoreditch, London
• July 20th – Spiegeltent @ Milton Keynes International Festival
• July 22nd – Norwich Arts Centre
• July 31st-August 1st – Stockton International Riverside Festival
• August 6th – Tartan Heart Festival – Belladrum, nr.Inverness
• August 27th – The Lemon Tree – Aberdeen
• August 29th – Solfest – Cumbria

Check back at our website for regular updates: www.orkestradelsol.co.uk

HAPPY CHRISTMAS from Orkestra del Sol!!!

2009-12-16T16:34:00.005Z

*****Please read this in a chilly accent*****

Hello our festive friends!

Our Christmas present to YOU, loyal fans, from US is the BRAND NEW video Orkestra del Sol at Exit Festival! Have a look here:

orkestradelsol.co.uk/video

We hope to see you in 2010 for more great musical shenanegans!!

Your friends

The Orkestra

Marco's Maritime Mularkey

2009-09-07T17:20:00.004+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

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

Following a recent musical beachside performance from, ORKESTRA DEL SOL, your favorite HEAVY BREATHERS of the BRASS DOMAIN, Marco and his Sousie simply WANDERED OFF, muttering sea shanties under his breath. Yes, he simply went straight on, turned right, and created what was described in the Bournemouth Advertiser as an UNPRECEDENTED AQUATIC INCIDENT. See for yourselves if you like.

Marco's Maritime Mularkey

Our Marco is still afloat. He was last seen off the coast of the little island of THERMOSA.

But fear not, dear fans of our mailing list, in the next few exciting days your friends, Orkestra del Sol, will attempt to BEACH HIM near the coast of CATALUNYA and then swim back to the EDEN FESTIVAL (dry land) in Scotland. Presuming the wind will remain a firm north-easterly, we shall paddle back to THE TABERNACLE in London's NOTTING HILL for Friday 11th Sept before a final crossing of the SOLENT to BESTIVAL. This year's concerts will finish with a nice warm BATHGATE, and the punnery shall be all over, bar the whiting.

Your friends,

Orkestra del Sol

* * * * * * * * * * *

Friday 11th Sept
The Tabernacle
7.30pm-12.30am
Powis Square
Notting Hill
W11 2AY
With support from She’Koyokh
Tickets here

Saturday 12th Sept
Bestival
Red Bull Arena – 9.55pm
Details

Wednesday 16th Sept
Bathgate Music Festival
Bathgate Regal Theatre – 7.30pm
Details

You MAY find yourself remembering this important message from ORKESTRA DEL SOL...

2009-08-06T11:47:00.002+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

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

The summer months are passing like the evening breeze through BAD TIM BONES musty locks. As MARCO removes the last of the sea water-soaked BUNS out of Sousie and CAPITANO PLATANO polishes his epithets, SINCERO MINIMO'S libido shines as a beacon of pent-up non-fulfillment. LORENZO looks at it and smiles. Yes, dear followers, THIS is a PREAMBLE. You might be feeling SLEEPY. That's normal. Now we will tell you something VERY IMPORTANT.

Loyal fans, you're FEELING GOOD. You are a GOOD PERSON. We, ORKESTRA DEL SOL, your favorite minstrels of melody, are here to tell you that the LAST FEW PRECIOUS SHOWS of the season are almost upon you and it's time to BOOK A TICKET. You haven't yet seen Orkestra Del Sol this year, and you ABSOLUTELY MUST, for reasons that will become apparent ONLY IF YOU DO IT. They are your favourite heralds of harmony, after all. LUCKY FOR YOU these shows will be performed near you or near your friends. One of them may be even CLOSER than you THINK. Look down the list, follow the links and BOOK YOUR TICKETS. It's meant to be easy because YOU WANT TO DO IT. And hypnosis works, by the way.

Click your fingers to bring yourself out of it all. Yes, it was THAT QUICK. Well done.

See you soon,

Orkestra del Sol

Friday 7th August
TARTAN HEART FESTIVAL
Belladrum, nr.Inverness
Walkabout 3pm
Hothouse Stage 5pm (yes 5pm not 6pm)
Tickets here

Tuesday 11th August
FRINGE BY THE SEA
North Berwick Harbour
On the 3.30 train from Edinburgh Waverley
In North Berwick High Street??
Old Pulteney Spiegeltent 7.30pm
Tickets: £20
Website

Friday 21st August
THE LEMON TREE
Aberdeen
8pm
Tickets: £12 + bf
Tickets here

Friday 4th September
OLOT FIESTA
Catalunya
Website

Sunday 6th September
EDEN FESTIVAL
Ae Forest, Dumfries & Galloway
Devorgilla Stage
10pm
Tickets: £55
Tickets here

Friday 11th September
THE TABERNACLE
Notting Hill, London
Support from She’Koyokh (it’s their new album launch party!)
7.30-12.30pm
Tickets: £8 advance / £12 on the door
Tickets here

Saturday & Sunday 12th & 13th September
BESTIVAL (SOLD OUT)
Robin Hill Country Park
Isle of Wight
Website

Thursday 16th September
BATHGATE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Bathgate Regal Theatre
7.30pm
Tickets: £12/9
Website

Orkestra del Sol's European Election Special!!

2009-06-12T14:41:00.001+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen of the newly elected Europe,

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

It's US! Can you see us wearing ROSETTES? RED and BLACK ones? For YOU! YOU who have voted.... with your feet. YOU who chose... with your hearts. "YOU-HOO that went with the FEELING" (sing it).

Thank you to everyone in the Czech republic, and possibly other countries, who voted ODS in last week's elections, believing it to be us, their friends, ORKESTRA DEL SOL, who entertained them so amusingly on TV last summer. The Swedish have a Pirate Party (apparently not a mis-spelling). Slovakia have the SMER campaign. But it's the Czech that have the ODS. But you don't want that ODS - you want THIS ODS! BRING ON THE BAND!

Just imagine the party - The ORKESTRA DEL SOL PARTY, PARTY PARTY PARTY! As your democratically chosen representatives of MUSICAL MAYHEM, we will unite the whole European Zone with DANCING and LAUGHTER. Bring on the tax-free GIGGLING, DANCING, HILARITY, and SWAYING (for the pensioners). Yes voters, GENERAL MUSICAL APPRECIATION is central to our policy of OVERALL FUN!

We shall polka them on the beaches. We shall waltz them in the nightclubs. We shall CARESS their EARS with joyous HARMONY and CALYPSO. Your festivals await us and WE ARE COMING to one near you.

Thank you for your vote.

The Orkestra

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
UPCOMING GIGS FOR YOU!

June 14 – Oran Mor – GLASGOW – 8pm
June 17 – BIRNAM Arts Centre – 8pm
June 20 – Colour Meeting Festival – Policka, CZECH REP – 9.15pm
June 24 - Fusion Festival – Larz, GERMANY – 11pm
June 25 – Fusion Festival – Larz, GERMANY – 1pm
June 26 – Avalon Stage, GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL – 8pm
June 28 – Club Dada, Shangri-La, GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL– 1am
July 4 – Hat Fair, WINCHESTER – 4pm & 10pm
July 5 – BOURNEMOUTH Street Event – 3pm & 5.30pm
July 11 – TYNEMOUTH Festival – 1pm & 3.30pm
July 12 – SOUTH SHIELDS Festival – 1pm & 3pm
July 16 – Cornerstone, DIDCOT – 8pm
July 17 – Interstellar Arena, GLADE FESTIVAL – 11pm
July 18 – Pandora’s Playground, LATITUDE FESTIVAL – 3.15pm
July 19 – Cabaret Arena, LATITUDE FESTIVAL – 2pm & 9.30pm
Aug 7 – Hothouse Stage, BELLADRUM FESTIVAL - 6pm
Aug 11 – Fringe by the Sea, NORTH BERWICK
Aug 21 – The Lemon Tree, ABERDEEN – 8pm
Sept 4 – Olot Fiesta, Catalunya, SPAIN
Sept 6 – Eden Festival, DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY – 10.30pm
Sept 11 – The Tabernacle, Notting Hill, LONDON – 8pm
Sept 12 & 13 – BESTIVAL, Isle of Wight
Sept 16 – Bathgate Regal, BATHGATE Music Festival

Orkestra del Sol at The Picture House, Tues 5th May

2009-04-29T20:26:00.002+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

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

We are so close we can almost smell him. PHIL PHILIDOPOLIS has ironed his shorts, GREGOVIC has charged his hipflask with MOONSHINE, CAMERON is practicing his SOCRATIC OATH, LORENZO is almost catatonic with excitement..... if you want to catch Orkestra del Sol's ONLY Edinburgh appearance of 2009 - it's on Tuesday!

Tues 5th May at The Picture House, Lothian Road, Edinburgh.
Doors 7pm
ORKESTRA DEL SOL 8pm
IVO PAPASOV WEDDING BAND 9.15pm
DJ Grandma Staflasch 10.45pm
Tickets £14
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk
0844 847 1740

We are your friends in red and black!

Orkestra del Sol

EXCLUSIVE new track (Joe Acheson mix of Passe Par Tout)
http://www.tentracks.co.uk/artist/orkestra-del-sol

Listen again to Orkestra del Sol on Radio Scotland's Global Gathering

2009-04-22T11:13:00.001+01:00

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00jz5zq

IVO PAPASOV AND HIS WEDDING BAND + ORKESTRA DEL SOL 5th May Edinburgh

2009-04-17T13:24:00.002+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

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

The world of ORKESTRA DEL SOL, your favourite MUSICAL TOREADORS of the BRASS BULLRING, is about to rupture. Yes, RUPTURE...into a KALEIDOSCOPE of CLARINETIC HAPPINESS! Friends, the Orkestra will appear for ONE, yes ONE NIGHT ONLY at the EDINBURGH PICTURE HOUSE along side one of the GREATS of BULGARIAN MUSIC - no, not OLGA, great though she is - but IVO PASASOV!!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, MAY 5th 2009 at EDINBURGH'S PICTURE HOUSE will be a spectacular before your every ears! For anyone not familiar with Mr Papasov, he is THE KING OF WEDDING BAND MUSIC -his music not only BLOWS YOU AWAY, it comes back, spins you round, dusts you down and buys you a pint. Howsabout that for a Tuesday night? Bring your dancing shoes, dancing socks, dancing trousers or skirt, dancing underwear, best dancing shirt and a hat..... for dancing in. And adjust your watches to the correct GMT - the fun starts EARLY, with Orkestra del Sol appearing on stage at 8pm. SHARP.

But perhaps in a fit of BULGARIAN EXCITEMENT you have temporarily forgotten the sound of your favorite MELODIC MAVERICKS of the drum, fiddle and bone? Has anything SLIPPED BY YOU? In case you may need a reminder!
We, the Orkestra, are proud to announce a new mix of Sincero Minimo's SEMI FAMOUS tune PASSE PAR TOUT by Mr Joe Acheson Quartet. It will be available on TEN TRACKS from 5pm TODAY. Friday. Would you LIKE to visit that website?

http//:www.tentracks.co.uk/artist/orkestra-del-sol

PLUS! your INSATIABLE ORKESTRA has penned some entirely NEW TUNES, which broke our audiences out into an actual sweat when we TESTED THEM on our recent tour in ENGLAND. Now that we know they WORK, we will be ROLLING THEM OUT across Scotland, and our Edinburgh friends will be the first to ever HEAR THEM on Tuesday 5 May when we will PLAY THEM. Live FOR YOU. And if you tune in to BBC Radio Scotland’s Global Gathering radio programme this TUESDAY NIGHT, you might be lucky enough to HEAR ONE, plus members of Orkestra del Sol TALKING FRANKLY with the presenter.

Listen on your radio – BBC Radio Scotland 92-95FM, 8.05pm, Tues 21 April.
Or tune in on your interweb browser HERE
(live, or listen again again for up to 7 days)

See you on May 5th!

Your friends,

Orkestra del Sol

PS - We, THE ORKESTRA, are sad to report that our favourite FRINGE VENUE The Famous Spiegeltent is not coming to Edinburgh this August, but staying in Australia for much-needed repair work. So the following show is PROBABLY YOUR ONLY CHANCE to catch the INTREPID Orkestra del Sol in Edinburgh THIS YEAR. It’s going to be SOME NIGHT… (advance ticket purchase recommended)…

IVO PAPASOV AND HIS WEDDING BAND + ORKESTRA DEL SOL + DJ Grandma Staflasch

The Picture House, 31 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH1 2DJ
Tuesday 5 May 2009 - Doors 7pm - Tickets £14.00
24hr Ticket Hotline 0844 847 1740
Box Office open 12pm-2pm Mon-Fri / 12pm-4pm Sat for in person bookings (no booking fee)

Buy Tickets Online

Orkestra del Sol on stage 8pm sharp, Ivo Papasov and his wedding Band on stage 9.15pm

May 8 – The Bluecoat – Liverpool
May 9 – The Barbican – London
May 10 – The Spiegeltent @ Brighton Fringe Festival – Brighton
May 22 – Knockengorroch Festival (Friday 9pm)
May 28 – The Clarence – Sligo, Ireland
May 29 – The Button Factory – Dublin, Ireland
May 30 & 31 – Dublin Docklands Maritime Festival – Ireland (free)
June 14 – Oran Mor - Glasgow West End Festival
June 17 – Birnam Arts Centre – Dunkeld
June 20 – Colour Meeting Festival – Policka, Czech Republic
June 25 – Fusion Festival – Larz, Germany
June 26 – Avalon Stage (Friday 8pm) – Glastonbury Festival
July 4 – Hat Fair – Winchester
July 11 & 12 – Mouth of the Tyne Festival - Tynemouth & South Shields (free)
July 16 – Cornerstone Arts Centre – Didcot
July 17 – Glade Festival – Hampshire
July 18 & 19 – Latitude Festival – Southwold, Suffolk
Aug 7 – Tartan Heart Festival (Hothouse Stage, Friday 6pm) – Belladrum, Invernesshire
Aug 11 – Fringe by the Sea – North Berwick, East Lothian
Aug 21 – The Lemon Tree – Aberdeen
Sept 4 – Olot Fiesta – Catalunya
Sept 11-13 – Bestival – Isle of Wight

Orkestra del Sol's WORLD TOUR OF ENGLAND!!! (and other places)

2009-03-10T20:07:00.004Z

Ladies and Gentlemen,

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

Calling Oxford!....Hailing Milton Keynes!.... Bothering London!.... Rocking Brighton!..... Getting on, Bristol!..... Hello, Bracknell!..... Ey Up Hebden Bridge!

Your friends the Orkestra are coming! Lock up your sheet music! Tether your gooses! Put those dancing boots on and join yourself to the Orkestra del Sol WORLD TOUR OF ENGLAND. Yes, loyal fans of the now locally-famous behemoths of brass, wherever you live in ENGLAND, the Orkestra are going to be within dancing distance. Set the dial to 'fanfare', look on the brass spectrum, and the Orkestra we will appear as a 10 piece carnival on your musical radar. If you would like to see what we can do to your town, look at what happened when the Orkestra were asked in to deal with an outbreak of sadness and lethargy in Ostrava last summer......

->Ostrava 2008

The Orkestra is in a very special preparation: Bad Tim Bones is polishing his Scottish-Cuban 'Thistle crisis' heels.....Sincero Minimo is polishing his libido.... and Marco is mapping bakeries en route so he's no more than 2 km from a fresh sponge cake. Olga has packed her champagne and Cameron has cleared his 7 day release from the Island. The Orkestra are ready for YOU!

28th Mar 09
OXFORD
The Isis Farmhouse
tickets 01865 243 854

29th Mar 09
MILTON KEYNES
The Stables
tickets 01908 280 800

30th Mar 09
LONDON
Cargo
tickets 08444 77 1000

1st Apr 09
BRIGHTON
The Hanbury Club
tickets 01273 605 789

2nd Apr 09
BRISTOL
The Croft
tickets 0117 987 4144

3rd Apr 09
BRACKNELL
South Hill Park Arts Centre
tickets 01344 484123

4th Apr 09
HEBDEN BRIDGE
The Trades Club
tickets 01422 845 265

And if you're not near England - don't worry - the Orkestra will be
all over other places in 2009......Including Dublin THIS WEEKEND:

15th Mar 09
DUBLIN
St.Patrick’s Festival
The Big Day Out, Merrion Square
14:15 & 17:15

2nd May 09
GRANTOWN-ON-SPEY, INVERNESSHIRE
Strathspey in May

5th May 09
EDINBURGH
MAY Extravaganza with the Ivo Papasov Wedding Band!!
The Picture House
tickets 0131 221 2280

8th May 09
LIVERPOOL
Bluecoat Arts Centre
tickets 0151 709 5297

10th May 09
BRIGHTON
The Parlure @ The Spiegeltent

22nd May 09
KNOCKENGORROCH FESTIVAL
Main Stage

28th May 09
SLIGO
The Clarence

29th May 09
DUBLIN
The Button Factory

30th & 31st May 09
DUBLIN
Maritime Festival

14th June 09
GLASGOW
Oran Mor

19th & 20th June 09
POLICKA, CZECH REPUBLIC
Colour Meeting Festival

21st – 23rd June 09
BERLIN
(check our website for details as they emerge)

24th & 25th June 09
nr LARZ, GERMANY
Fusion Festival

26th June 09
GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL
Avalon Stage

16th July 09
DIDCOT
Cornerstone Arts Centre

17th July 09
nr.WINCHESTER
The Glade Festival

7th August 09
BELLADRUM, INVERNESSHIRE
Tartan Heart Festival, Hothouse Stage

11th August 09
NORTH BERWICK
Fringe by the Sea

12th & 13th Sept 09
ISLE OF WIGHT
Bestival (Main Stage)

See you on the roads!
Your friends,
Orkestra del Sol

More 2009 gig dates announced!!

2009-02-12T10:51:00.003Z

15th Mar 09
DUBLIN
The Big Day Out

28th Mar 09
OXFORD
The Isis Farmhouse

29th Mar 09
MILTON KEYNES
The Stables

30th Mar 09
LONDON
Cargo

1st Apr 09
BRIGHTON
The Hanbury Club

2nd Apr 09
BRISTOL
The Croft

3rd Apr 09
Bracknell
South Hill Park Arts Centre

4th Apr 09
Hebden Bridge
The Trades Club

2nd May 09
GRANTOWN, INVERNESSHIRE
Strathspey in May

MAY Extravaganza with the Ivo Papasov Wedding Band!!
5th May 09
EDINBRUGH
The Picturehouse

10th May 09
BRIGHTON
The Parlure @ The Spiegeltent

29 May 09
DUBLIN
The Button Factory

14th June 09
GLASGOW
Oran Mor

24th & 25th June 09
nr LARZ GERMANY
Fusion Festival

26th June 09
GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL
6:00pm Avalon Stage

12th Sep 09
ISLE OF WIGHT
Bestival

Hope to see you there!
Lorenzo

Short notice Edinburgh gig this Friday

2009-01-21T13:48:00.002Z

Hi Folks
We are playing a gig at short notice in Edinburgh this Friday in aid of a medical charity working in Gaza

VENUE:
The Roxy Arthouse
2 Roxburgh Place
Edinburgh

Event starts at 6:30 and we should be on stage around 10

Hope you can make it!

New Gigs Dates Announced

2009-01-14T14:15:00.003Z

Hi Friends

We are amazing to announced our new tour dates for the

EUROPEAN TOUR OF ENGLAND TWO HUNDRED AND NINE!

29th Mar 09
MILTON KEYNES
The Stables

30th Mar 09
LONDON
Cargo

1st Apr 09
BRIGHTON
The Hanbury Club

2nd Apr 09
BRISTOL
The Croft

3rd Apr 09
Bracknell
South Hill Park Arts Centre

4th Apr 09
Hebden Bridge
The Trades Club

And Also Our Special MAY Extravaganza with the Ivo Papasov Wedding Band!!
5th May 09
EDINBRUGH
The Picturehouse

Start spreading the word if you are in any of these areas amigos!!

And put the Dates in you Diaries!!

Season's Greetings from Orkestra del Sol!

2008-12-30T16:30:00.004Z

See the The Orkestra's Christmas Card here!

*****Please read this in a chilly accent*****

Hello my festive friends!

Yes tis that time of year again when we, the INTREPID Orkestra del Sol, once more risk frostbite and anguish to perform for YOU our loyal friends in the freezing cold condition.

Its not too late to catch our New Year capers and marvel at the speed our numbed fingers can move as we venture out, our stockings soaked in BRANDY to keep out the cold!

Here’s how:

Hogmanay

Perth Concert Hall – Orkestra del Sol LIVE at 10pm followed by SESSION A9

Details here:
http://www.horsecross.co.uk/whats-on/2008/dec/31/hogmanay-33153/
Then…
Departure Lounge at The Caves, Edinburgh – Orkestra del Sol LIVE at 2am!
With Mungo’s HiFi, Gecko 3 & DJ Astroboy…

Tickets still available!
Details here: http://www.departurelounge.me.uk/

1st January – FEET FIRST Street Theatre Extravaganza (FREE!)

7.00-9.30pm, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh
(between George IV Bridge & Cockburn St),

Orkestra del Sol Promenade Show 7pm (starting near St Giles St)
& Circle Show 8.20pm (beside Mercat Cross)
PLUS special Musical Moment with THE AQUAPHON 8.05pm

Details here: http://www.edinburghshogmanay.org/feetfirst

Best festive wishes from your friends, Orkestra del Sol

PS- on top of this seasonal merriment, the Orkestra has other GIFTS in their pipes for you in 209!

UK Tour of England – March/April 2009
Including London, Brighton, Bristol, Bracknell, Milton Keynes & Hebden Bridge (and other places beginning with B soon to be announced) …

Keep your eyes peeled as well as your satsumas for our next email to you!

PLUS – especial long-in-advance warning:

5th May @ The Picturehouse, Edinburgh
Ivo Papasov Wedding Band
Orkestra del Sol
AND
Balkanarama DJs

Ink it in to your new 209 diary now my friends!

New shots of Edinburgh Balkanarama gig

2008-10-28T20:41:00.003Z

Check out Two Truths' great slideshow of our recent gigs at Edinburgh's club Balkanarama here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/two_truths/sets/72157608456327521/show/

New Tarrega footage

2008-10-17T16:27:00.002+01:00

Ladies and Gentilmen

See highlights of our gigs at the wonderfull Fira del Tarrega festival in September HERE: http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/video.html

Love

The Orkestra

Back in Red and Black!!

2008-10-14T21:06:00.005+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

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

I've been denying this to myself for a while (to keep GREGOVIC happy), but I think I have to come clean with you, our loyal and rather good looking fans. The ORKESTRA DEL SOL's European touring has completely GONE to their HEADS! You know what they say in on the incontinent: you give them 2.54cm and they take 1.6km. See for yourself on our new videos ONLINE at www.orkestradelsol.co.uk [you may have to refresh the page on your browser]

Have those BRASS WIELDING INSTRUMENTALISTS OF JOY totally EUROPEANISED themselves beyond RECOGNITION? Let's see now:

- MARCO BATTENBURG is now UTTERLY ADDICTED to Czech GINGERBREADS (and we all know what that means..... OSTRAVA!)
- SINCERO MINIMO now has his own CATALUNYAN FAN CLUB (we all know what'll that means if he goes out in.....TARREGA!)
- OLGA finally managed to FIND HER CHAMPAGNE (and we all know what that means in, err.... CHAMPAGNE!)
- LORENZO is permanently LOST IN TRANSLATION (and nobody knows what that means, eh, LJUBLIANJA??),
- GREGOVIC says he never went.......ANYWHERE!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the ORKESTRA went the WHOLE COCHON this summer. SO MUCH European touring was had in SO LITTLE TIME that they got 568ml into a 284ml pot. AMAZING! But now, your favorite MUSICAL EURONOMISTS have barely a note left in them. Except (JOKING!) for a few CAREFULLY CHOSEN and extremely HIGH QUALITY music entertainment extravaganzas in what's left of two hundred and eight.

Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, we're in for a penny, in for 1.2 Euros at the amazing BALKANARAMARAMA in Calton Studios, Edinburgh on October 24th. You can even see SINCERO MINIMO on the flier. He loves it himself!

As for the remaindeer of the year we'll be resting our hats, suits, winkle pickers and instrumental brass sabers until the HAPPINESS that is HOGMANAY. Before the bells we'll be at PERTH (Scotland) CONCERT HALL, after the bells at Edinburgh's very own DEPARTURE LOUNGE, and the next day (yes - THE FIRST) we'll be on the Royal 1.6km at FEET FIRST, a celebration of all things new yearly by the best of Scotlands street artists.

Hope to see you there!

The Orkestra.

Upcoming Gigs:
24th Oct 2008
EDINBURGH
Balkanarama, Studio 24

31st Dec 2008
PERTH
Perth Concert Hall

31st Dec 2008
Edinburgh
Hogmany Departure Lounge

1st Jan 2009
EDINBURGH
On the Royal Mile for Feet First Festival

September Shenenigans

2008-09-01T21:23:00.001+01:00

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

Ladies and Gentilmen!

Hello!

It is us. Again. - The Orkestra!

Coming fresh into your inboxes from Edinburgh. We hope that those of you who are far away can hear us? Do we need to shout?

ZDRAVO SERBIA! AHOJ CZECH REPUBLIC! ¡HOLA VALLADOLID!

The good news is that we are on the move again! After our SELL OUT shows in THE FAMOUS SPIEGELTENT at the Edinburgh Fridge Festival we are about to hit the roads again: Yes we may be coming to a town near you very soon, to perform for you, the peoples! Firstly we go to Spain where we will be skirting with the outlands of Barcelona to play at Olot and Tarrega (6th,11th & 12th Sept), and where the peoples there will be much dancing on the pavements on the table!

After a quick stop in France (Avignon, 13th Sept) we’ll be heading back to UK soil for our ONE AND ONLY GIG IN LONDON FOR 2008. Yes, in especial treat for you our Ingerlish friends who missed our celebratory album launch in Scotland, we will be launching our fantastic album THE MOVEABLE FEAST over you, our friends, all over again, on TUESDAY 16th SEPTEMBER.
But hurry - it is a small venue and hot tickets are selling like cakes.

Date: Tuesday 16 September
Venue: 32 Old Bailey, Blackfriars, EC4M 7HS (between St.Paul’s & Blackfriars)
Time: 7.30 (live music from around 9pm)

The venue serves great food too, so why not feast with yourelves first before the feast for the ears that is our Moveable Feast!

Then finally, in an unprecedented dash across the countries, never before attempted by a fully-fledged Orkestra, we will make one giant jump all the way to the North of Scotland to play in Wick, Skye and Drumnadrochit. See our webnet for more details…

We hope you can bump into us somewhere!

Lots of love!

Your friends

The Orkestra
www.orkestradelsol.co.uk

Upcoming Gigs:

6th September 2008
Olot Fiesta
OLOT, nr BARCELONA

11th - 12th Sept 2008
Fira de Tarrega
TARREGA, nr BARCELONA
www.firatarrega.cat

13th Sept 2008
Fanfare et Bodega
AVIGNON, FRANCE

16th Sept 2008
Club Zigana
LONDON
www.kazum.co.uk/events

18th Sept 2008
LYTH ARTS CENTRE, nr WICK
www.lytharts.org.uk

19th Sept 2008
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
nr ARMADALE, ISLE OF SKYE

20th Sept 2008
Glenurquhart Hall
DRUMNADROCHIT, nr INVERNESS

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Orkestra del Sol TV!!

2008-08-14T17:49:00.009+01:00

Ladies and lentilmen!
Have a look at our impromptu on-a-train gig as shown last night on the telly!

http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-headlines-20080813-s2-fringe/

and here is a little clip of us playing in North Berwick!

Orkestra del Sol on Radio Scotland today!

2008-08-11T09:08:00.004+01:00

Ladies and Gentlewomen!

Catch us on Radio Scotland Festival Cafe today between 1:15 and 2 pm, TODAY

Listen live:

ORKESTRA DEL SOL's in-TENT-sive Edinburgh Fridge Festival Showcase

2008-08-05T14:17:00.002+01:00

Ladies and Gentlementions,

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

Quick, quick we have so little time!

It's us, your friends, announcing that your favorite PANTALOONS of POLKA, your very own ORKESTRA DEL SOL, is back with three, yes only three shows at the SPIEGELTENT this August.

Mondays 11th and 18th at 9.45pm and Fri 29th at 8.30pm at Venue 87, The Famous Spiegeltent, George Square Gardens.

Gregovic might deny it, but our MOVEABLE FEAST is still as RIPE and TASTY as ever, and we have many special guests to serve yourself. And hey, it's OK - you don't have to try and impress your German visitors by pretending to like the Sauerkraut, just bring them along to the show! They'll never need to visit you again!

And by the way, if you're with yourself at the TARTAN HEART festival this Friday (8th Aug) you can dance with us at the Venus Flytrap Stage at 8.30pm, and at the FRINGE BY THE SEA in North Berwick on Wed 13th.

Yes, Ladies and Gentlemanners, the musical taste-sensation that is ORKESTRA DEL SOL has been properly BATTERED and DEEP-FRIED by it's incontinental voyages and is ready to hit the taste buds in your ears. This is cheese cake for the soul!

Bye for now!

THE ORKESTRA

Tickets £12/£10 available from Spiegeltent Box office 0131 667 8940 or order online here

PS, See us headlining the world music stage at Exit Festival, Serbia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsdnuHaijPQ

Other Upcoming gigs:

6th Spetember 2008
OLOT, nr BARCELONA
Olot Fiesta

11th - 14th Sept 2008
TARREGA, nr BARCELONA
Firra de Tarrega
www.firatarrega.cat

16th Sept 2008
LONDON
Club Zigana Feat. Orkestra del Sol
www.kazum.co.uk/events

18th Sept 2008
LYTH ARTS CENTRE, nr WICK
www.lytharts.org.uk

19th Sept 2008
nr ARMADALE, ISLE OF SKYE
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig

20th Sept 2008
DRUMNADROCHIT, nr INVERNESS
Glenurquhart Hall

FONKY PARDY wid de AMSTERDAMMERSH!

2008-07-07T21:30:00.001+01:00

*****Please read this in a Dutch Accent*****

Hey Guys!

Hallo Hoe Gaat Het!

It's USh! DE ORKESHTRA DEL SHOL de guysh doing dat funky mushic, and also - we're dam here! In Amshterdam! Do you want 'Am with dat? Lekker!

Sho here we are to make FONKY PARDY wid de AMSTERDAMMERSH! Groovy guysh. And den, DE ORKESHTRA to go to Berlin to be Berliners wid our German. We do dat! Dis is wot it looksh like, dis is wot it looksh like! Hello Sherbia!

Ok, where are your friends in de Dam? Tell dem to get down to:

NOORDERLICHT CAFE, NEVARITWEG 33, 1033 WB Tel 0031 (0)20 - 4922770

tomorrow nights (8 Juli) Ashk for dat FONKY ORKESTRA DEL SHOL PARDYJANI

Your guysh,

Orkestra Del Sol

Mazzel!

Listen again to our Radio Scotland Session

2008-06-12T21:36:00.003+01:00

Here our live studio session for BBC Radio Scotland's Global Gathering with Mary Ann Kennedy here!

Just a quickie from Orkestra del Sol

2008-06-02T17:21:00.010+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

****please read this very quickly ****

In a blink of our eyes we are born, love, feast, create children, grow old and die. For those of you currently experiencing any of these important moments: we wish to delay you no longer than is absolutely necessary. However, those LOVEABLE ROGUES of ORKESTRA DEL SOL will offer WELCOME DISTRACTIONS for you at almost any time of day! But for now, just take a quick nibble on the MOVEABLE FEAST that is this weeks ACTION DEL SOL:

Hear NEXT TUESDAY the 3RD JUNE, the ORKESTRA perform alive to the Nation, for the first time, on RADIO SCOTLAND on Global Gathering 8pm (Radio useful but not essential)

Tell all your Glaswegian friends and family that ÒRAN MÓR, in GLASGOW, which will be the ONLY place to host the talents of the ORKESTRA on FRIDAY 13TH JUNE, in what may be one of the most RISKY performances the ORKESTRA has ever done (dancing shoes requirement, maybe with a banana skin thrown in for good measure)

We will be seeing you soon!

Your endlessly parping friends, ORKESTRA DEL SOL

www.orkestradelsol.co.uk

Radio Scotland listen live
Radio Scotland listen again

List CD Review

Album Launch was riotous sucess!

2008-05-20T14:24:00.007+01:00

Thanks to everyone who came and supported us at the Queens Hall on Sunday - Hope you had as much fun as we did! It was better than we possibly hoped for.

You can read some reviews here:

Scotsman

Herald

It was a really great start to our World Tour of Europe 2008 - hope to catch you somewhere soon

Check out our gigs page for more info

Best wishes

The Orkestra

ORKESTRA DEL SOL's MOVEABLE FEAST out TODAY

2008-05-13T18:53:00.005+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,
*** please read this in a silly accent ***

Wondering who put that pie on your skateboard? Has your dessert trolley been swapped for a wheelbarrow? Who loaded your fish suppers into a sidecar and drove them off? Where is your MOVEABLE FEAST??

Ok, ok - enough of this. It's us.... ORKESTRA DEL SOL! But we had such a good reason for playing such ridiculous food related practical jokes because. . . .

...we are RELEASING OUR BRAND NEW ALBUM - THE MOVEABLE FEAST all over the planet….. TODAY! Order for it! Download it! Pay us, your pals, for it! - However YOU WANT IT, YOU CAN HAVE IT!

Too busy to listen to the whole album in one go? Then you can buy it ONE TRACK AT A TIME from the marvelous ORKESTRA DEL SOL WEBSITE! Enjoy each moment of expectation as you wait for the track to download, as you would cooking an egg in your new microwave or waiting for toast to pop up. These are one of the many joyous experiences you may encounter trying to listen to the music of the ORKESTRA.

Also we have in finished our CHINA HOLIDAY MOVIE which I am sure you have all been waiting to see and you can now have a look at it on Orkestra del Sol TV on Your Tubes or on OUR WEBSITE!

But life cannot be lived only through your headphones and your interwebs. No! You must take yourself along to Edinburgh's QUEENS HALL ON SUNDAY and experience the REALITY THAT IS ORKESTRA DEL SOL! Yes, we will play music that is guaranteed 100% LIVE PERFORMANCE - entering your ears and having a unique effect on the rest of YOUR BODY. You can even buy your very own copy of the album then and there because it is our OFFICIAL CD LAUNCH PARTYJANI!
See you there!

Your friends, ORKESTRA DEL SOL

Download:
http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/shop.html

Tickets:
http://www.thequeenshall.net

Video:
http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/video.html

New Album: Free Download today!

2008-04-30T18:54:00.003+01:00

Download Passe-par-tout

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

Ladies and Gentlemen,

WE The Orkestra have launched many things. Last September, the “Trinity Belle’ was sent on her merry way up the Firth of Forth to the maritime melody of the ‘Marriage Polka’. In February this year the Orkestra was the cultural experience that launched the Chaoyang Spring Carnival in Beijing. In 2005 Sincero Minimo’s ego was officially unveiled with his rendition of Maki Maki at the Galashiels Balkan Music Awards. These have been some of the launches we have ever played.

So, Ladies and Gentlemen, you can understand how your friends in Orkestra Del Sol have felt the burden of responsibility in deciding how to launch our BRAND NEW CD “The Moveable Feast”. How to do you proud, our loyal fans,.. How to really do it for our friends. How to pull it off with you Ladies and Gentlemen.

Set Menu, £10 / £7. Sitting down is an option, but it may prove difficult.

STARTER: the Den Collective. Ladies and Gentlemen, these 8 denizens of Edinburgh Afro Mafia will be lifting your spirits with Afro Beat, Fela Beat, Root Beat, Feet Beat, Beet Root and Beet Beat.

MAIN COURSE: Orkestra Del Sol of course! This main course is for you, our beloved UK Fan Base, it will be a musical spectasticle of laughter, deliria, rapture and surprise as your very own Orkestra Del Sol plays for you a staggering array of new, original and yet-to-be-tested-on-the-general-public brass bombshells from our new CD ‘THE MOVEABLE FEAST’.

DESSERT: buy a copy of the new CD, and take your exuberance to the Caves, for free! Stay up late and be merry alongside the Orkestra, and DJ Mungbean. Meet the Ladies and Gentlemen that you didn’t get to talk to earlier because you were dancing too much. Results!

And finally, head to your home, put the CD in the machine and re-live once again that happy evening until you once again next catch those mavericks of brass and groove….

BUT WAIT! If you cannot wait for yourself to hear these tunes – you can download a FREE track TODAY by going to here on your interwebs

Tell your friends, so that they too can dance to this brand new music whilst washing the dishes or surfing around the world-web!

And for those of you who won’t be at our launch party, we have some special news: You can buy The Moveable Feast in actual SHOPS, on your HIGH STREET, and ONLINE. GO here to our shop to pre-order your copy!

Album Launch Party - Sunday 18 May

The Queens Hall, 85-89 Clerk St, Edinburgh, EH8 9JG
£10 / £7 conc. Doors 7pm, Show starts 8pm
Box Office: 0131 668 2019
www.thequeenshall.net

Download Passe-par-tout

Pre-Order The Moveable Feast

See latest gig list

Orkestra del Sol Presents....The Moveable Feast!

2008-04-18T14:28:00.002+01:00

Ladies and gentlemen - our new album The Moveable Feast will be released on 18th May! Featuring all-original Orkestra del Sol sousaphone-fuelled future-classics (for dancing… and drinking!) it’s going to be the sound of Summer 2008!

Friends! Are you in a hurry to hear it? You can pre-order a copy now by going to our online SHOP page, and we’ll post it to you as soon as it’s released on the 18th of May. What a service!

But wait - are you unsure if you will like it?? Especially for you, our No. 1 fans, you can try before you buy! We will be releasing bass-bustin’, horn-blasting sure-to-be HIT SINGLE Passe Par Tout as a FREE download on this website on Thursday 1st of MAY. Then you can whistle along, when you come down to our…

ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY!

Be there for the triumphant Launch of The Moveable Feast. Get yourself a copy of the album AND see your favourite troubadours of the wind, your dedicated roguish brass mavericks live in action. With new songs and new films! In dolby stereo. On stage and on demand! And at a special party afterwards for special selected friends and guests (those in possession of a ticket to the gig or a five pound note). The details you need:

Sunday 18 May 2008

The Queens Hall, 85-89 Clerk St, EDINBURGH, EH8 9JG.

Doors 7pm
show starts 8pm
With your host and DJ Lenny Love
And support from The Den Collective and

£10 / £7 conc.
Box Office 0131 668 2019
www.thequeenshall.net

Ticket includes free entry to the Official After Party
With DJ Mungbean
Plus delicious refreshments
11pm–3am at The Caves, Niddry Street South, Edinburgh, EH1 1NS
www.thecaves.eu

WE'RE JUST BACK FROM CHINA

2008-02-20T15:05:00.000Z

Dear friends

The Orkestra has returned from its all too brief visit to the People's Republic with none of our fingers or toes lost to frostbite, although it was a close thing! We had an amasin time and were execellently hosted by our kind hosts: soon you will be able to see some of our exploits for yourself on our China Holiday Video which will be posted up here as soon as it is finished.

Our trip did not pass entirely without incident...Despite a close escape when he nearly drowned in a bowl of noodles, Phil Philadopolis was undetered from his intrepid culinary exploration and sampled some of the local delicacies including frogs scorpions and silkworms. Somewhat confused by the jetlag, Camino suceeded in almost emptying a park of pensioners early one morning when he attempted to join in a ballroom dancing lesson, however he was eventually distracted with the promise of a ride in the nearby fairground. Lorenzo's intermittant catatonia seems to have abated slightly with the exposure to Chinese language and he was to be found late into the night studying ancient chinese texts and muttering monosyllables. And finally, Thomas received at least thirteen marraige proposals from enthusaistic chinese ladies who seemed unduly impressed with the length of his beard!

While we ponder these cultural anomalies we are off to put 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 missed us in Beijing, we look forward to warming you up over the coming year! Keep an eye on the gigs page for details.

Orkestra del Sol's Transglobal Winter Heriocs!

2008-01-27T12:45:00.000Z

****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

ORKESTRA DEL SOL WINS 2 FOR 1 TICKET VICTORY for YOU!!

2007-08-01T20:17:00.001+01:00

*******Please read this message in a silly accident*******

Ladies and Gentlemen this has truly been one of the summers we have never had. Your favorite TROUBADOURS of the wind instruments, MINSTRELS of their brass, and PANTALOONS on the drum have been risking EVERYTHING to travel to LOW-LYING areas of the country. Next week we will at last be returning NORTH through the HAIL,DRIZZLE and RAIN. Returning to VICTORY at the SPIEGELTENT and other locations over your entire FRINGE festival.

Members of our exclusive mailing list, these will be one of the shows you and your friends will EVER see. Many of you will have IMPORTANT MOMENTS.But read on - it gets BETTER! Only HALF of yourselves need to PAY fortickets on the opening TWO NIGHTS at the Speigeltent. What? Yes! It'sa offer you can't re-use! All you have to say is "THERMOSA" at the Spiegeltent ticket office to claim a historic 2 for 1 ticket price VICTORY over them. Think of the number of different peoples you could bring along with yourself each night! Please remember, there are a maximum of two nights that you can claim this offer on - only Monday 6th and Tues 7th August at 10pm. Our other concerts August 13th,14th and 21st (all at 8pm) are on a strictly 1 for 1 basis or less. Remember, you cannot say this at any other ticket office or on the web or on the phone, or at the Fringe Ticket Office. You have to turn up IN PERSON to say it at the Spiegeltent Box Office.

THE FAMOUS SPIEGELTENT ----- !!! EXTRA DATES !!!6th & 7th Aug at 10pm - 2 for 1 ticket offer – usually £10 13th, 14th & 21st at 8pm GEORGE SQUARE GARDENS www.spiegeltent.net

Those of you with any unusual PHOBIAS of being in tents or temporary structures can come and watch the ORKESTRA inside BUILDINGS. We will be closing the cabaret at Club Vague at the Jam House on the 5th (opening night party) and 12th August, and gracing the wonderfu lVaudeville Cabaret at the BONGO CLUB on 22nd. www.lostvagueness.com www.vaudevillecabaretclub.com

But before all this TOMFOOLERY, you, our special friends of th eOrkestra may enjoy the PLEASURE OF MUSIC in Stockton-on-Tees amongst a range of other artists on WORLD TOURS OF THE UK. 2nd & 3rd August 073.00 & 8.30pm STOCKTON RIVERSIDE FESTIVAL STOCKTON-ON-TEES www.sirf.co.uk Please bring adequate family-sized safety equipments to these events, and consult local tide timetables.

AND FINALLY - many of you fine folks have been snapping at us with your ditigal cameras and videoing us with your ditigal video cameras and generally recording our IMPORTANT MOMENTS. We would like you toknow that we are APPRECIATING your work and please let us know when you put them on the internet, so we can show our friends and families as well.

Many thanks

Orkestra Del Sol

EP LAUNCH at The Caves, Edinburgh, on Thursday May 3rd

2007-04-19T11:07:00.000+01:00

(Please read this email in a silly accent)

Orkestra Del Sol's WORLDFAMOUSNESS getting OUT OF HAND…

Thank you once again for having enough of yourself to be on the
mailing list of ORKESTRA DEL SOL, your favorite GLOBE-TROTTERING band of itinerant POLTZERS. Now then, you're probably desperate with yourself to see us LIVE again in 2007. But WAIT SOME MORE, details of where you can see us living is at the end of this letter. We have IMPORTANT MOMENTS to share with you first…

The winter was mostly long and dark. SINCERO MINIMO polished his LIBIDO. MARCOZITO gazed hopefully into the bell of his sousaphone hoping that the bun that fell in it during last years Big in Falkirk would appear and give him nourishment. Then, suddenly, the Orkestra was invited to DELHI, where we played against the JAIPUR KAWA BRASS BAND and got about in THREE WHEELED VEHICLES and on RAJASTHANI NATIONAL TV. You can see the result of the match on our web-site.

Returning from the sub-continence, the ORKESTRA realised it had
acquired two NEW BAND MEMBERS. Boy wonder PHIL PHILIDOPOLIS, 12 year son of Stavros and Hope-Philidopolis, of Glaswegan Feta Cheese Import-Export fame had joined the band on 100 mile-an-hour trumpet.

Having accidentally fallen into the sousaphone case looking for a
sweetie, CAMEROON CAMINHO, 19 stone highland teuchter kitten from Gala had joined the band on 240 volt bass drum. They have both contributed in the Orkestra's music sounding much better than it actually is!

Buoyed by the LARGENESS and YOUTHFUL LOOKS of it's new members, the ORKESTRA has gone on to make its second, yes SECOND ever recording, in the style of a large carnival calypso polka band. Rarer than a Welshman in a jacket, these EPs will ONLY be available at our EP LAUNCH at The Caves, Edinburgh, on Thursday May 3rd and only afterwards if you are very nice to certain members of the saxophone section.

Not satisfied with traveling the world and committing ourselves, the ORKESTRA has been in development of a NEW STREET SHOW that will be on YOUR STREETS from May this year, and a number of OTHER ROADS and FIELDS this summer, including MOTORWAYS! It will contain an IMPORTANT MOMENTS for many people, including yourself, regardless of whether or not you are actually at the gig.

See you on your streets!