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In what must be the busiest late-night BBC Prom in years, the eight players/singers/presenters of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain found themselves before a sea of eager faces in the Arean and a packed auditorium.
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I guess it is the biggest indoor show they have ever played.
What we got was a mixture of their irrepressible popular song pastiches with a clutch of classical favourites. It was these latter that showed the ukulele’s weakness – the impossibility of holding a note, necessitating a constant strumming.
‘The Ride of the Valkyries’ – mercifully connected to Hawkwind’s “Silver Machine” – came off worst, the amplified plinking unable to satisfactorily replicate a romantic orchestra. Saint-Saëns’s rattling Danse macabre fared much better: amplified ukuleles do sound extraordinarily skeletal!
However the other two special Proms inserts worked better still.
Kitty Lux sang “Jerusalem” poignantly, backed by this most unusu