One Plucking Thing After Another

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The UOGB has been performing for over 36 years, longer than the Beatles and Led Zeppelin combined. It’s had more gigs than the Rolling Stones and has covered more genres than Beyoncé and the Berlin Philharmonic. The live experience of the orchestra has been a major draw with sold-out audiences for decades. The orchestra has proven itself in bars, concert halls, opera houses, cathedrals and at major rock festivals across the globe by hitting the strings - all thirty-two of them - and singing. Except in "The Old Home Place" where the applause is also in response to Ewan’s Appalachian clog dancing expertise.

Also on this CD is music from the Pink Panther, a Chinese heavy-metal song by Black Panther, and ballet music by Prokofiev. The medley “Woo Woo/Yeah Yeah/Rockin’ Goose” combines in one track three catchy vintage hits, in a journey from Tokyo to Toledo via Edinburgh. The bonus track “Something’ Stupid” revisits the hit made famous by Frank Sinatra and his daughter Nancy, in this case with George and Laura, the oldest and the youngest performers in the UOGB. “On the Road Again” could be the Orchestra’s theme song. Like donkey in Shrek, like Willie Nelson, the music is time honoured.

The orchestra is a relentless machine delivering entertainment, fun and humour.

It uses only ukuleles.

What can you expect from the UOGB?

The answer is simple: One Plucking Thing After Another.

01: Higher and Higher

02: 9 to 5

03: Woo Woo

04: On The Road Again

05: Dedicated Follower of Fashion

06: You Know I’m No Good

07: Play That Funky Music

08: The Old Home Place

09: Meglio Stasera

10: Montagues and Capulets

11: Shameful

12: Thank You For The Music

13: Something Stupid (bonus track)

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David Bowie

"Wonderfully clever."

The Observer

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Michael Palin

"Absolutely the Best of British."

New Musical Express

“Most people have to die before they become immortal. These ukulele superstars have no such worries.”

New York Times

“They extract more than seems humanly possible from so small and so modest an instrument”

The Guardian

“The ukulele has found its avant garde”

Music Week

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The Independent

"The best musical entertainment in the country."

The Financial Times

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