What: A festival in support of refugees
When: 3pm, 25th June 2022
Where: Page Park
Tickets: –
We are happy to be performing as part of Bristol Refugee Festival. For more see https://www.bristolrefugeefestival.org/
What: A festival in support of refugees
When: 3pm, 25th June 2022
Where: Page Park
Tickets: –
We are happy to be performing as part of Bristol Refugee Festival. For more see https://www.bristolrefugeefestival.org/
What: A festival in Falmouth
When: 9th April 2022
Where: Falmouth
Tickets: See here
The orchestra will be taking a trip to Falmouth to play in this exciting festival!
What: A return of our celebrated Bowie party!
When: Friday, 25 February 2022, 19:30 (Rescheduled!)
Where: St Michael’s on the Mount Without
Tickets: £10 adv (early bird) or £15 on the door
Age restriction is 14+
See also the Facebook event
What: The fantasy orchestra christmas concert
When: Friday 17th December, 19:30
Where: St Stephen’s Church
Tickets: (coming soon)
Details coming soon!
What: An evening of music by visionary composers Sun Ra and Moondog
When: Wednesday December 1st, 19:30
Where: Bristol Beacon
Tickets: (coming soon)
For more information see the the Facebook event.
What: Our first gig in ages!
When: Sunday 15 August 2021, 7pm
Where: St George’s Bristol
Tickets: £10, £12 on the door
For more information see the St George’s website
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: Saturday 18th June 2022, 7pm (Rescheduled!)
Where: Union Chapel, London (N1 2UN)
Tickets: £15.60 – £18
Note: this even was originally scheduled for 2020 but has been postponed by two years, for obvious reasons (so the date on the poster is slightly wrong).
For more information see the Union Chapel website
After the orchestra’s sold out concert at St George’s in 2019, here is another chance to see a performance of Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool in full; plus the “Exotica, Electronica and the Retro Futurists” 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