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Live Music

Artist: The Korgis With Orchestra Venue: The Civic City:   Trowbridge, England, UK Date: Sunday, 23 Oct 2022 Collection:   Attended     Wishlist  Community:  1 Attended

	Lineup	Rating
1	The Korgis With Orchestra	Rate
2	The Mike Smith Big Swing Band	Rate

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From the Korgis website:
ONE DOUBLE BILL TO RULE THEM ALL! THE KORGIS WITH ORCHESTRA & THE MIKE SMITH BIG SWING BAND

The Korgis and The Mike Smith Big Swing Band have teamed up to give you a night you will never forget! Al Steele took over the direction of The Mike Smith BSB some years back and for concerts expanded the band to include a string section. This meant that we could do some of those luscious songs from the movies as well as our more traditional swing repertoire. It is no secret that in 2017 Al Steele teamed up with original vocalist James Warren to reform The Korgis. Not only do they perform the massive hits – ‘Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime’ , and ‘If I Had You’ but the whole set is littered with the sort of great songs you would expect if The Beatles were still together. Korgis fans have long asked if we can do a ‘special’ gig with a much bigger band and we have been itching to do this for a long time. The Korgis with Orchestra it is billed as, and these songs – including the new ones from the 2021 release Kartoon World – will sound just amazing with The Mike Smith Big Swing Band – or should we say The Big Swing ORCHESTRA?

The Mike Smith BSB will of course be playing some of the real favourites like ‘Strike Up The Band’ and this time we are concentrating on classics as we reckon there will be enough pop in The Korgis set! We are thrilled that Daniel James and Catherine Sykes will be once again joining us, for what promises to be a night to remember.

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Comments and Reviews

chrisb 24th Oct 2022		A good enthusiastic turn out with over 200 attending I would estimate. The swing band then became the orchestra! Also joining the swing band and orchestra were Clare Lindley (violin ex-Stackridge and DLM) and Brian Mullan (cello ex-DLM) The Korgis set list: Kartoon World Overture, Bringing Back The Spirit Of Love, If I Had You, Set Me Free, Always A Sunny Day, You’ve Got The Love That Matters, All You Need Is Love, Something About The Beatles, Don’t Look Back, Hold On, This Is The Life, Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, Have You Seen The Colours?, Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime, A Day In The Life The Best Thing You Can Do Is To Love Someone The Mike Smith Big Swing Band setlist: ( I arrived 15 minutes late and missed the first few numbers, but then...) Kick In The Head, The Way We Were (Instrumental, Trombone lead melody), To Sir With Love, Bring Him Home, Strike Up The Band, That’s Life, I Will Always Love You, You’ll Never Walk Alone, That’s What Friends Are For, Hey Baby (ooh, aah!) (Added four CD poster pics here by mistake- I’ve asked for them to be removed )

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