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Well after the highs of Ashton Court the further, yes further, highs of The Cube Orchestra as this time we took a popular play item, the common garden football and used it to dictate what or who would play. At first i think I did keepey upeys in at attempt to inspire The Orch, but let’s face it, most of them we’re the last to be picked at anything at skool, so sporting prowess was never going to impress them (probably bought back a few bed wetting bad memories for a few) so instead we kicked the ball to each other whenever we wanted that person to lead the music in another way. Easy for some not so easy for others and it actually worked quite well. Saskia there also gave us an idea about individually playing for a certain count and then starting again. All at different tempos too. Believe it or not it worked rather well. As you can see Barry enjoyed himself. Personally I was inspired to strap on the geetar, yeah baby leave those drums behind and strum great fun. Josh Rouse look out (i’m not sure what for but look out).

It was a lorra lorra fun. Give tanks and praises to Marcus, Saskia, Simone, Barry and Meself for being irie and dread.

Ciao, Richie Paradise

Here’s me and Polly at A Rum Do where we blushed and puffed the young and beautiful (and not so young or beautiful, let’s be honest), saw flappers dancing, fan dancers revealing, villagers disco-ing (hey up the Village Disco, always save the night!), samba bums wobbling, security guards puffing, carpets kidding, swimming pools chilling, old-folk pilling, geishas fanning, preambulators strolling and the extraodinary Extraodinares rockin and a rollin!

All my trials lord, soon be over…ie. My trials of paint shop’s run out so I had to format the pics on Slide…here goes..

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Pictures from A Rum Do festival, with our new powder puff wands!

Got recognised from Girlesque; here’s to more Cabaret at the Cube some night soon!?

Well Max Blackout salutes Red Stripe

But The Cube Orchestra salutes yew Ashton Court, Not ‘Arf
Barry toasts you Bel and Ale send you love because you guys were great. Most Love of all to Blackout Arts for giving us the opportunity to play, we love you guys the mostest.
So it was a beautiful day, even the traffic wasn’t too bad getting there. Various band members
made there way to the tent for our pre match interviews and psych up sessions which I can only describe as being similar to that bit in Star Wars with that kind of Squid thing, anyhow here’s a spurious link.
Hunting Lodge played before and boy can those young fellas make some noise. Great stuff, kinda like The Jesus Lizard but with a whole new edge (ie a semi naked drummer). The Punters came streaming in when they heard we were about to play

We played to several visual delights, first Liam’s Burlesque film A Grindhouse Romance which was great and i felt ever so proud when I told everyone Liam had made it (with help from his talented friends I add) and the crowd whooped louder, aw shucks I was made up for the young fella. Then there was some confusion as to if we were going to play along to Kyra’s dancing films (see last blog) or Mr. Hopkinson’s Cutting Up My Friends. Thankfully we managed both but not before Max Blackout gave me and everyone one around us a huge scare

We finished by really giving it some Chutzpah to Kyra’s last dance clip (the Faithless video that I’ve blogged about before), really great fun and an excellent audience who really made the gig what it was because they were enthusiastic and appreciative. Right on.
Thanks to for organising it.
Afterwards we really really buzzing, it’d had been a fantastic day.
It’s been a few years since I last played Ashton Court and it was nice to get that buzz back for the festival again. Hopefully if it can sort out some of the hijacking and pricing issues that have changed it into not effectively being a community festival.

Anyways, feel my love Richie Paradise

First apologies to my many fans for not posting much recently. Sparror, The Cube’s Hal like master computer, has been messing me about.

So this was the week of Ashton Court and various members of The Orchestra got together to play to the film of dances that Kyra had organised for us. For some this would be seen as rehearsing but seeing as we’d being playing different things on the day it was more a getting used to it thing I guess. Word.

So Marcus is a bloody good egg. He does masses for the Cube, and doesn’t mind accusations that he is The Orchestra’s answer to cheese. I’m sure even he’d admit he sometimes does it to wind us up. The next few pictures show (a) How apt the reference to 2001 was, and (b) the effects he can sometimes have on an Orchestra member:

Simone starting what involved us playing quite a normal (Cheesy) chord based song but with random people shouting at the top of the lungs. Kinda therapeutic (and trust me there’s all sorts of nuts in The Orchestra.
We were blessed with a Chellist who didn’t walk out after 20 minutes this time too (and she has returned too) and a good job Saskia did too

Well I have lots more to catch up on so I will bid you adeur mes amis,

Peace out, Richie Paradise

pics of various cube types on their hols are up . . .

http://sparror.cubecinema.com/mr_hopkinson/2006.08.08%20Big%20Chill%20pics/

tho sparror seems to be super slow, for some reason.