What: A tour around France with instruments on bikes
When: 7-16 August
Where: Various locations around Normandy
Tickets: –
This event is happening in a reduced form, but may not be accessible to the public.
The orchestra’s annual bike tour will this year take in the sights of Normandy/Brittany. There will be lots of small gigs along the way.
What: Radiohead’s Moon Shaped Pool in Paris!
When: Please note this is postponed until further notice (Was Saturday 18th April)
Where: La Marberie, Paris
Tickets: TBC
It’s the Paris orchestra’s turn to play Radiohead! Possibly featuring musicians from Bristol too.
What: Another chance to see Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool in full!
When: (Was Saturday 11th April 2021) (Rescheduled from 2020)
Where: Union Chapel, London (N1 2UN)
Tickets: TBC
Note: this even was originally scheduled for 2020 but has been postponed by a year, for obvious reasons (so the date on the poster is slightly wrong).
After the orchestra’s sold out concert at St George’s last November, here is another chance to see a performance of Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool in full; plus the “Exotica, Electronica and the Retro Futuists” set featuring the likes of Tortoise, Prokofiev, Aphex Twin and Duke Ellington.
See also the Facebook event.
Like so many other groups we decided to make a video while we cant play together and this is the result: more than 100 members and their friends filmed themselves playing their parts to Radiohead’s Glass Eyes and I put them all together using Adobe Premiere Pro and Reaper software:
Several people have asked how it was done so here’s a quick explanation.
Everyone recorded their part to a click track demo version i prepared – actually a few versions appropriate for different instruments to play along to eg pianists didnt need to hear piano, lead vocalists didn’t need to hear lead vocals but most other people preferred to play along with both those things and a click.
There were too many videos to deal with all at once so I edited in sections using the audio to line up the vids to the click track and cutting out instruments when they weren’t playing then rendering to a new MP4 video file:
The audio was mixed in premier too in sections then i mixed the sections with lead vocals in Reaper. You can drag video into that software and process the audio. The final audio mix was imported into a master video session of Premier and the different video bounces were blended using a chroma-key plugin. I also faded the opacity of the different layers relevant to what was hopefully most important in the audio mix.
When i do it again, i’ll be a bit more careful to make sure i’m using uniform video properties and perhaps make a bit more of a plan as to what will happen where.
Hope that makes sense!
Jesse
Fantasy Orchestra tote bags are now available, in celebration of our debut album The Bear and Other Stories, created – as was the album art – by Melanie Wickham. These fabulous and extremely versatile bags can be bought from Etsy here.
These bags are made from 100% genuine tote and have a surprisingly large variety of uses:
Buy one (or many!) from here, now!
This is an open-to-all idea to create a video for one song involving as many musicians and singers as we can find… before sunday 22nd march. Maybe we’ll do another one afterwards.
interested? read on….
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What: Playing in a record shop
When: Monday 2nd March, 7.30pm
Where: Rough Trade, Nelson Street, Bristol
Tickets: Free / info here
In celebration of our recently released debut album, The Bear and Other Stories, the orchestra will be playing a short gig at Rough Trade, a record shop in Bristol. Entry is free but you are enthusiastically encouraged to buy the album while you’re there! See the Rough Trade website or the Facebook event for more information.
What: Gig for the FO album release, in London
When: Saturday 15th February, 8pm
Where: The Old Baths, Hackney, 80 Eastway, E95JH London
Tickets: £8 Early Bird / £10 Late Bird / £15 Door Birds
Following on from last year’s successful album launch at St George’s in Bristol, the orchestra will be playing at the Hackney Old Baths in London ahead of the album’s release.
The album ‘The Bear’ features an eclectic mix of music by diverse artists such as Sun Ra and Caetano Veloso, folk musician Richard Dawson, Brooklyn-based post punk duo Buke and Gase and electronic composer Disasterpeace, as well as local composers. Tickets are available from Fatsoma
Here is the music video for the album’s first single, Empty Boat:
From the Bristol album launch:
What: Gig for the FO album release, in Paris
When: Saturday 8th February, 7pm
Where: La Marbrerie, 21 rue Alexis Lepère, 93100 Montreuil, Ile-De-France, France
Tickets: 8.49€ Early Bird / £12.49€ Other birds
As well as the London launch, the Fantasy Orchestra’s first album, ‘The Bear’, is being launched near-simultaneously in Paris, by the Paris Fantasy Orchestra – in collaboration with guests from the Bristol orchestra.
Tickets for this special event are avilable here
Here is the music video for the album’s first single, Empty Boat:
From the Bristol album launch:
The Fantasy Orchestra’s debut album, the Bear and Other Stories, has been gathering some positive attention in the media. This is from Shindig! music magazine:
Also this interview with Jesse:
