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Hello, I'm Peter Brooke Turner: musician, teacher, and songwriter - Tony Penultimate is my songwriting alias. I make my living playing the ukulele and at 6’8” (2.05m) I’m probably the tallest ukulele player in the world!
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The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (UOGB) was formed in London in 1985 when the multi-instrumentalist and musicologist George Hinchliffe gave his friend the post-punk singer Kitty Lux a ukulele for her birthday, after she had expressed an interest in learning more about harmony. After first playing together, they purchased a few ukuleles for so...
The UOGB's first gig was at the Roebuck pub, just off Trinity Church Square in London. Although it had been intended to be a one-off, it was a sell out and after just one more performance the orchestra was on national radio. For a while the orchestra had a regular monthly session in the back room at the former Empress of Russia pub in Islington, Lo...
Since 2005 UOGB performed as eight or seven musician vocalists with ukuleles in various registers including: sopranino, soprano, concert, tenor, baritone, and a bass ukulele.
A typical UOGB concert according to the New York Times is a "genre bending array" of musical covers that spans from Richard Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries to the Sex Pistols’ Anarchy in the U.K. The Chicago Tribune reports that the orchestra is "happy to pillage anything from the rich pageant of western music" as it roams freely across the wide...
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has been described by the Daily Telegraph, Guardian and others as a "much-loved" British institution" that has become a "worldwide phenomenon" with an "international cult status". The orchestra has received positive reviews of its concerts from critics. Manchester Evening News said of the orchestra that it had...
Several sources have mentioned that the orchestra is "often blamed for the current ukulele revival which is sweeping the globe", with other ukulele orchestras and groups, following UOGB's lead, have "spawned" over the years in most major cities around the world. The UOGB began the approach of orchestrating songs so that each ukulele played a separa...
In 2008, the group performed Dreamspiel, a ukulele opera, composed by George Hinchliffe and Michelle Carter for the Grimeborn Festival at London's Arcola Theatre. They have also, in 2010 and 2011, performed Ukulelescope where they played music to accompany silent movies from the British Film Institute archives. In 2012, Waly Waly on the Ukulele rew...
In 2009, Erwin Clausen, a German producer, approached the UOGB with a request to set up a franchise version of the band in Germany. The UOGB denied his request, however Clausen assembled the United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra (UKUO), which performed in a very similar style as that UOGB. Based in Germany, the UKUO just like the UOGB consisted of eight...
Single
1. Miss Dy-na-mi-tee– 2005, Longman Records (CD)
Studio albums
1. The Ukulele Variations– 1988, Disque Ethnique (LP); CBS/Sony Records (CD) 2. Hearts of Oak– 1990, CBS/Sony Records (CD) 3. A Fist Full of Ukuleles– 1994, Sony Records (CD) 4. Pluck– 1998, Tachyon Records (CD) 5. Songs for Plucking Lovers– 2000, UOGB(CD) 6. Anarchy in the Ukulele– 2000, UOGB(CD) 7. Eine Kleine Ukemusik– 2000, UOGB(CD) 8. The Secret of Life– 2004, Longman Records (CD) 9. Miss Dy-na-mi-tee– 2005, Longman Records (CD single) 10. Precious Little– 2007, UOGB (CD) 11. Christmas w...
Live albums
1. Anarchy in the Ukulele– 2005 (CD) 2. Live in London #1– 2008, UOGB (CD) 3. Live in London #2– 2009, UOGB (CD) 4. Still Live– 2011, UOGB (CD) 5. Uke-Werk– 2013, UOGB (CD) 6. The Keeper– 2016, UOGB (CD)
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain discography at DiscogsPeter Brooke Turner. @AttcThe ‧. 570 subscribers ‧ 74 videos. I'm Peter, the tall one from the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, here are some of my tunes, mash ups, old family cine films - I...
1. Okt. 2015 · Peter Brooke Turner Interview - YouTube. Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State. 164 subscribers. Subscribed. 13. 1.4K views 8 years ago. In 2015, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain...
25. Dez. 2018 · Here's a feature-length interview I conducted with my friend Peter Brooke-Turner - aka "The Tall One" from The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain!
12. Feb. 2023 · Peter Brooke-Turner begrüßte das Publikum auf Deutsch mit „Wir sind das Ukulele-Orchestra aus Großbritannien“ und später mit einem schmunzelnden „It’s good to be back in Europe“.
