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Tubas In The Moonlight

At the TED Conference earlier this year, my ‘house band’ played a dozen or so short musical intros to the speaker sessions over a four day period. They were filmed, and I’ve put one up on YouTube. If you ask politely I might upload a few more! This one’s an old Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band number. (Hey Neil Innes, if you’re out there I’ve been trying to get hold of you!)

The band consists of myself, to my right Rufus Capadocia on 5-string electric cello, Rachelle Garniez on claviola and vocals, and Mark Stewart on banjo and a strange wind instrument whose name I’ve forgotten. (A Xophon? I will have to ask Mark.) Anyway it’s not much bigger than a mouthpiece, and has no right to have such a fat sound.

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14 Responses to “Tubas In The Moonlight”

  1. stace says:
    June 18, 2008 at 8:54 am

    Loverly! Love the EQ on the vocals, but this was just a great performance. Please share more of these!

  2. Retrocanary says:
    June 18, 2008 at 10:10 am

    Love the bowler hat! Gotta get me one of those for my video projects.

    Yes, please let’s have more of these, that was delightful! Reminds me of someone.

  3. ritzcafe says:
    June 18, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Please Sir, I want some more…

  4. duckorange says:
    June 18, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    I have Neil Innes’s agent details if that helps. I’ve emailed it to the QNA address.

  5. heretic says:
    June 19, 2008 at 12:47 am

    Beautiful playing! More please.

  6. KingLerxst says:
    June 19, 2008 at 1:30 am

    Absolutely brilliant. Please add more!

  7. Mike Quinn says:
    June 19, 2008 at 10:39 am

    The memories come flooding back of “Hi I’m Val Doonican” and “Lord Snooty and his pals tap dancing”……

  8. BeechwoodAve says:
    June 19, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    Yet another side to you musical personality…what great stuff!

    A perfect musical mint julep for a hot Texas evening, thanks!

    Beech

  9. Airwaves says:
    June 19, 2008 at 11:15 pm

    Just marvelous. Loved the notched-EQ on the vocals. Very 1920′s and spot-on for the arrangement. Lovely mix of instruments.

    Please sir, can we have some more? :)

  10. fremsley says:
    June 20, 2008 at 12:56 am

    C’est magnifique! Encore, s’il vous plait!

  11. madtheory says:
    June 20, 2008 at 1:08 am

    Fab! Great band. Gonna dig out by Cornology Compilation. “Where is shirt?” :)

  12. stevied says:
    June 20, 2008 at 3:40 am

    That was fantastic Thomas!

    would Love to hear more, even a limited ep release or DVD like the swsx would be nice if there are more gems like this. Thank You!

  13. mizmusic says:
    June 23, 2008 at 10:22 am

    Marvelous! I nearly expected to hear scratches and pops, as your
    spot-on remake sounds as though it should be playing on a Gramo-
    phone! You vocalists and musicians totally nailed it!! My 82-year-old
    Mom got a real kick out of it; she and a friend of hers used to call
    that “riggy-diggy” music. Thank you for posting that! Yum!

    Eat your heart out, Michael Buble! ;)

    Peace, Kara, mercurial and enthusiastic.

  14. duglmac says:
    June 23, 2008 at 10:39 am

    This is a really great performance.