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Maldives Cabinet Meets Below Waves to Highlight Climate Change Threat
By Steve Herman
New Delhi
17 October 2009
In an effort to highlight climate change, the Cabinet of the government of the Maldives, an Indian island nation, has held a meeting under water.
Meetings of government ministers can sometimes be a dry affair. That certainly was not the case during the latest gathering of the Cabinet of the Maldives.
President Mohamed Nasheed and 11 of his government ministers, plus the vice president and Cabinet secretary, donned scuba gear and plunged six meters below the shimmering turquoise surface of an Indian Ocean lagoon.
The Cabinet seated behind tables, amid a coral backdrop, used hand gestures to communicate.
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Question. We are told by the Global Warming church that the Artic ice is almost gone. If is all melted, where is all the released water gone?
Their country is about two feet above sea level, has been forever, and it's still there. What more evidence do you want that the sea levels are not rising.
Are those methane or CO2 fart bubbles he is releasing?
Next time they should be frozen in a solid block of ice! Morons
by Jeffrey A. Glassman, PhD
"Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere [historically] is the product of oceanic respiration due to the well-known but under-appreciated solubility pump. Carbon dioxide rises out of warm ocean waters where it is added to the atmosphere. There it is mixed with residual and accidental CO2, and circulated, to be absorbed into the sink of the cold ocean waters. Next the thermohaline circulation carries the CO2-rich sea water deep into the ocean. A millennium later it appears at the surface in warm waters, saturated by lower pressure and higher temperature, to be exhausted back into the atmosphere. Throughout the past 420 millennia, comprising four interglacial periods, the Vostok record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is imprinted with, and fully characterized by, the physics of the solubility of CO2 in water, along with the lag in the deep ocean circulation.
Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide has neither caused nor amplified global temperature increases. Increased carbon dioxide has been an effect of global warming, not a cause. Technically, carbon dioxide is a lagging proxy for ocean temperatures. When global temperature, and along with it, ocean temperature rises, the physics of solubility causes atmospheric CO2 to increase.
If increases in carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, could have in turn raised global temperatures, the positive feedback would have been catastrophic. While the conditions for such a catastrophe were present in the Vostok record from natural causes, the runaway event did not occur. Carbon dioxide does not accumulate in the atmosphere."
The graph above represents temperature and CO2 levels over the past 400,000 years. It is the same exact data Al Gore and the rest of the man-made global warmers refer to. The blue line is temps, the red, CO2 levels. The deep valleys represent 4 separate glaciation/ice-age periods. Look carefully at this historical relationship between temps and CO2 levels (the present is on the right hand side of the graph) and keep in mind that Gore claims this data is the 'proof' that CO2 has warmed the earth in the past. But does the data indeed show this? Nope. In fact, rising CO2 levels all throughout this 400,000-year period actually *followed* temperature increases -lagging behind by an average of 800 years! So it couldn't have been CO2 that got Earth out of these past glaciations. Yet Gore continually and dishonestly claims otherwise. Furthermore, the subsequent CO2 level increases due to dissolved CO2 being released from warming oceans, never did lead to additional warming, the so-called "run-away greenhouse effect" that Al Gore and his friends keep warning us about. In short, there is little if any evidence that CO2 had ever led to increased warming, at least not when the levels were within 10-15 times of what they are today. -etl
"The above chart shows the range of global temperature through the last 500 million years. There is no statistical correlation between the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through the last 500 million years and the temperature record in this interval. In fact, one of the highest levels of carbon dioxide concentration occurred during a major ice age that occurred about 450 million years ago [Myr]. Carbon dioxide concentrations at that time were about 15 times higher than at present." [also see 180 million years ago, same thing happened]:
So, greenhouse [effect] is all about carbon dioxide, right?
Wrong. The most important players on the greenhouse stage are water vapor and clouds [clouds of course aren't gas, but high level ones do act to trap heat from escaping, while low-lying cumulus clouds tend to reflect sunlight and thereby help cool the planet -etl]. Carbon dioxide has been increased to about 0.038% of the atmosphere (possibly from about 0.028% pre-Industrial Revolution) while water in its various forms ranges from 0% to 4% of the atmosphere and its properties vary by what form it is in and even at what altitude it is found in the atmosphere.
In simple terms the bulk of Earth's greenhouse effect is due to water vapor by virtue of its abundance. Water accounts for about 90% of the Earth's greenhouse effect -- perhaps 70% is due to water vapor and about 20% due to clouds (mostly water droplets), some estimates put water as high as 95% of Earth's total tropospheric greenhouse effect (e.g., Freidenreich and Ramaswamy, 'Solar Radiation Absorption by Carbon Dioxide, Overlap with Water, and a Parameterization for General Circulation Models,' Journal of Geophysical Research 98 (1993):7255-7264).
The remaining portion comes from carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, ozone and miscellaneous other 'minor greenhouse gases.' As an example of the relative importance of water it should be noted that changes in the relative humidity on the order of 1.3-4% are equivalent to the effect of doubling CO2.
Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System
Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many 'facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.
Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases (CFC's, etc.), are also mostly of natural origin (except for the latter, which is mostly anthropogenic).
Human activities contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.
Water Vapor Confirmed As Major Player In Climate Change
ScienceDaily (Nov. 18, 2008) Water vapor is known to be Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas, but the extent of its contribution to global warming has been debated. Using recent NASA satellite data, researchers have estimated more precisely than ever the heat-trapping effect of water in the air, validating the role of the gas as a critical component of climate change.
Publicity stunts can't turn a scam into science.
There is NO man made global climate change, the planet heats, the planet cools just has it's done since the beginning of time and no circus act is going to change that.
The only thing CO2 emission controls will decrease is global prosperity.
There's no doubt of that.
It just irritates me to see what should be otherwise rational adults acting like children over the manmade global warming fairytale.
Woo hoo. Look at us, we're morons with money to blow on publicity for our religion.
They set up the shots and poses, take the picture and everyone goes home.
Was it actually a "meeting" or just a photo-shoot?
"As to sea levels, research conducted by the University of Colorado shows there has been no increase in the rate of rise over the last several centuries, and there is no evidence to support that this is increasing during the 21st century." Global Warming on the Rocks
I hope they all got the bends after surfacing.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan Leftist Demi-God and former U.S. Senator, ambassador, and democrat administration official.
Into the ocean, where it goes every year when it melts. Then it freezes back up again in the winter. Any one who has watched "Ice Road Truckers" knows this isn't anything out of the ordinary!
The trick is, sea ice melting doesn't raise the sea level, only glaciers on land melting would do that. Since the global temps have been dropping for the last 10 years, I doubt the glaciers are in trouble.
Has the whole world gone crazy? Or just the politicians?
If they would fill their tanks with CO2, they could solve a big problem for the world.
What odds would you get in LasVegas if you wanted to bet the temperature in 30 years would be exactly 1 degree Centigrade warmer than it is today?
You are betting your whole life on these odds. Do you take them?
eco-nut ping
Take away the scuba gear and give em cement blocks.
"Last week we made the comment that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Now here to reply is our chief meteorologist, John Belushi, with a seasonal report."
"Thank you, Chevy. Well, another winter is almost over and March true to form has come in like a lion, and hopefully will go out like a lamb. At least that's how March works here in the United States.
"But did you know that March behaves differently in other countries? In Norway, for example, March comes in like a polar bear and goes out like a walrus. Or, take the case of Honduras where March comes in like a lamb and goes out like a salt marsh harvest mouse.
"Let's compare this to the Maldive Islands where March comes in like a wildebeest and goes out like an ant. A tiny, little ant about this big.
"Unlike the Malay Peninsula where March comes in like a worm-eating fernbird and goes out like a worm-eating fernbird. In fact, their whole year is like a worm-eating fernbird.
"Or consider the Republic of South Africa where March comes in like a lion and goes out like a different lion. Like one has a mane, and one doesn't have a mane. Or in certain parts of South America where March swims in like a sea otter, and then it slithers out like a giant anaconda.
"There you can buy land real cheap, you know. And there's a country where March hops in like a kangaroo, and stays a kangaroo for a while, and then it becomes a slightly smaller kangaroo. Then, then, then for a couple of days it's sort of a cross between a, a frilled lizard and a common house cat...
"...Wait wait wait wait! Then it changes back into a smaller kangaroo, and then it goes out like a, like a wild dingo. Now, now, and it's not Australia! Now, now, you'd think it would be Australia, but it's not!...
"...Now look, pal! I know a country where March comes in like an emu and goes out like a tapir. And they don't even know what it means! All right? Now listen, there are nine different countries, where March comes in like a frog, and goes out like a golden retriever. But that- that's not the weird part! No, no, the weird part is, is the frog. The frog- The weird part is-
"Warmer" publicity stunt.
Warmers are silly.
thanks, bfl
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The American Red Cross has opened two emergency shelters following this weekend's ice storm.
A shelter at the Enosburg Falls High School on Dickenson Avenue opened at 2 p.m. Sunday.
In a statement spokesman Doug Bishop said the shelter would open due to icing and power outages.
No word on when the shelter is due to close.
The Red Cross also opened a shelter at North Country Union High School in Newport. The address is 209 Veterans Ave. The shelter opened at 4:30 p.m.
The Red Cross is also assisting staff in Barton, Vt., at a shelter at the Barton Village Office at 17 Village Square, Bishop said.
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Home Group one of 13 housing providers chosen for 'lowest-ever rate' bond deal
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Home Group one of 13 housing providers chosen for 'lowest-ever rate' bond deal
Home Group is one of 13 housing providers to be included in a major deal which will open the door to low interest funding.
The group has been selected by The Housing Finance Corporation (THFC) to be one of just 13 providers that will be able to access funds from an 'AAA' rated £208 million bond.
Home Group is the only national housing provider to be included. It is also the only North East based provider and the only Scottish based provider through its Home Scotland division.
The deal will see Home Group and Home Scotland access funding of £30.7m at rates which are believed to the lowest ever achieved in the sector's 26 year history of accessing private finance.
The smallest provider involved in the deal is 1,200-home Mount Green, based in Surrey, which borrowed £6 million.
Housing Minister Kris Hopkins, said: "This government's long term economic plan is working and as a result we're able to offer up to £3.5 billion in government-backed guarantees to get Britain building and deliver thousands of affordable homes across the country.
"Today's bond pricing represents real progress, offering real benefits to affordable housing providers by enabling them to get access to finance on much more favourable terms."
Piers Williamson, chief executive of THFC, said: "At a time when HA credit spreads have been drifting higher, this represents a real breakthrough."
Jenny Makin, Home Group chief financial officer, said: "We're delighted to have been included in this bond deal. The transaction was oversubscribed threefold and being selected shows the confidence that THFC has in Home Group and Home Scotland's long term financial security.
"We'll use these funds to supplement our development programme which is already one of the largest in the sector. It will allow us to provide great value for money for our customers and we'll use the funds to build modern energy efficient homes for those who need them."
The bond has a life expectancy of 28 years and an interest rate of 3.76%.
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Our ISP moved our site to a new server on 6 March, after the move we could no longer upload photos and our grand flash album galleries, although working fine on top-level site http://www.peteranne.it (at which level the photos are stored, eg path to album /peteranne.it/wp-content/flagallery/photos-for-web-site) didn't work on daughter sites peteranne.it/it/ and peteranne.it/de/ when called by this code
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On 19 March we updated Grand Flash plug in automatically, funny, it didn't automatically re-enable itself, and we were back to the state after the move, and had to open an assistance ticket again.
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7th June 2013: the 13th year of Out Of The Blue
You know you've been to an infectiously high-spirited gig when you see grown men (well, large students, anyway) singing multi-part harmonies from Britney Spears songs in the local Sainsburys, round the corner, after the show.
And that really sums up what Out of The Blue is all about - fun, frolicks and really good close-harmony singing.
The first set started with a great video sequence of the group apparently comming from all corners of the globe (and indeed, they'd been there, and taken the videos!), finally converging on the stage door of the New Theatre, and then magically, in person, onto the stage. It was a great opening sequence, and set the stage - quite literally - for what was to follow.
Out of The Blue are a constantly changing group, taking on new members, and saying farewell to veterans every year. That they are able to manage this constant turn-over while remaining a top-quality acapella group is very impressive.
The first set was largely popular songs with one member as soloist, backed by the group. It's amazing to hear the variety of beat-boxing and vocal techniques used to re-imagine songs you'll be used to hearing with a full instrumental band, multi-track studio, and all the tricks of the recording industry, totally re-created for you, live, on stage.
It's equally impressive that these numbers have all been arranged specifically for OOTB by their musical director, Ollie Ralph, and you can hear the skill that has gone into choosing arrangements to suit not only any close-harmony group, but the voices of the group on stage (this year!).
From the inter-song banter and comprehensive program, you get the feeling that this is a very friendly, close-knit group of performers, who really want to get the best out of every opportunity. The first half of the show also gave a lot of solo-time to the newer members of the group, which highlights how inclusive the group is, from the very start.
Part-way through the show there was a quick update and run-down of what the group has been up to so far this (Academic) year. Tales of 'round the world tours' (now we know where the videos came from!) and 'backwards carol singing' gave a quick insight into the whirlwind lifestyle that is being a member of OOTB. A trip to Japan to perform in an international acapella festival, in sold-out 3,500 seater stadiums, and being the only non-professional group there, hints at just how well-known and well-regarded OOTB have become, across the globe.
And rightly so. The second half moved into more 'chorus' territory, with a cleverly-staged 'sing-off/battle of the ballads', some fantastic audience participation (one girl got a birthday present she'll never forget) and some performances by smaller groups with - excellent - niche taste. The rendition of Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger with accompanying robot-dance moves was really fun, and reminded me of the perfomance by fellow acapella maestros - Fork, of Finland - who sang on the same stage earlier in the year (and indeed, referenced OOTB as their friends in Oxford).
There were some truly stunning soloists. Bayo Randle (the group's oldest member) has a meliflous tenor, Ollie Ralph a soaring falsetto and rich, reverberant bass and Selali Fiamanya an effortless baritone.
The group also runs workshops for local schools in the places they perform, and we were treated to a barn-storming rendition of The Lion Sleeps Tonight, with attendant animal impressions and noises created by about 40 school children! The OOTB boys calmly presided over this happy chaos, seemingly at ease training up the next generation.
Subtle use of pyrotechnics added to the show's joie de vivre. You know a show has made it when they have fireworks! A throughly enjoyable evening was rounded off by a very well-chosen encore and had people, quite literally, dancing into the streets.
Patrick Pawsey Vale (DI Staff), 10/06/13
Oh Can't I Take You Home Tonight…? (with apologies to Queen).
I'd like to think that it was my review of the preview (see below) that led to such a turnout at the New Theatre for this latest performance by Oxford's best loved (shucks, they even have their own GnDs ice cream flavour) all male a cappella group, Out Of The Blue, but I quickly realised that these boys seem to have a loyal fan base created simply out of their own talent.
Tonight, in addition to the music, there were some skits, humorous banter, a video, some must-see incriminating security camera footage during the interval and some pyrotechnics, to boot. As the show was twice as long as the preview, the repertoire was wider, including a brave but excellent 'mash-up' of Marvin Gaye and Amy Winehouse, the timeless 'No Diggity', some mandatory Coldplay and a curiously contrasting offering of Skinny Love to Fat-Bottomed Girls. Particularly noteworthy was 'Human Drumkit II' (exactly as its name suggests), which showcased the breadth of their talent. Maybe in the future they could foray into different genres or world music?
This time they were also individually miked, which added some serious depth to those glorious harmonies, enhanced the 'drums' (incredible as it increasingly appears to be, all the sounds are produced by human voices) but which served as a double-edged sword for the quieter soloists, some of whom were occasionally drowned out by the backing.
The staging looked good, the arrangements were generally taut, and all of it stopped well short of being gimmicky due to both the excellence and good-naturedness of their performance. The camaraderie shown by these young men was palpable, even more so tonight, as several alumni joined the stage to perform the one song that has been maintained since their inception in 2000, 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'. And it was just as good – if not better – than when I first heard it over ten years ago.
I had forgotten to mention last time that OOTB have a close relationship with a local children's hospice, Helen and Douglas House. Their music alone is therapeutic enough but they have also donated around £16,000 to the charity since 2010.
Music can contribute in so many ways to the wellbeing of individuals and of the communities to which they belong. Who needs drugs – medicinal or otherwise – when you can have two hours of OOTB? Since they seem to be accruing accolades faster than Phil Collins can say "gorilla", perhaps we should consider putting them in the British National Formulary: dose - at least four times daily; food - before, with or after; alcohol - definitely not a contraindication. Make sure you get your fix.
S. Shah (DI Reviewer), 12/06/12
The A Cappella Boys are back in town, and must be seen!
When I first arrived in Oxford, a couple of friends persuaded me to go and hear them sing in their newly-formed all male a cappella group, Out Of The Blue (OOTB). So I went along, mainly for a bit of fun and to support my friends. I was blown away. I really recall nothing like it at the time in Oxford, and probably not even in the UK. Twelve years later, after five sell-out Edinburgh Fringe runs, several international performances and a stint on Britain's Got Talent, the boys – albeit a different cohort – have come back home, to the city where dreams, beneath dreaming spires, really can come true.
Their concept is to deconstruct popular songs (anything from classic pop/rock to jazz, soul and funk) and reconstruct them into a wide repertoire emblazoned with a unique, creative, OOTB stamp. Their methods, which have diversified over the years, involve building harmonies from interwoven melodies and countermelodies, accented with solos, texturing and blending as an artist might work a palette; there also features the 'mash-up', where one song is mixed with another. Tonight's offerings ranged from Marvin Gaye to Amy Winehouse (coincidentally, the wonderful 'Tears Dry on Their Own' had accompanied me on the walk to Magdalen College auditorium, with its strange tapestry collection and interesting acoustics).
There were, of course, no instruments, and no conductor to keep time, but that my ears were almost unconscious of this fact – that an orchestra was effectively recreated on stage - is a testament to their talent. The rare occasions where tuning was not entirely pitch perfect were more than compensated for by numerous 'spine-tingling' moments of delicious sound that led me to close my eyes and dream of Para-para-paradise (apologies to Coldplay). Usually you look to the back row of a choir to find the bored strategically partnered with the hapless, but this time there was no back row; every person contributed with versatility to the whole, with some outstanding solo performances to enhance - but not outshine - the group.
The choreography (oh yes, they dance, too) flitted between boy band and drunken uncle; whether this is clever marketing I don't know but, for me, it worked, because it just enhanced their likeability. The only thing I would change is their wardrobe, which made them look just too much like schoolboys.
The great thing about tonight's press preview was the opportunity to meet the group before and after. It is easy to forget that these young men are students. Of medicine, chemistry, architecture and other subjects, from both Oxford and Brookes; only three actually study music. In addition, many cannot read music and so dual processes of rehearsing with and without written music occur. This fosters interdependence and their camaraderie today was as apparent as their joy at being on stage. Despite the outward polished publicity, which I suppose is an invariable and often necessary consequence of increasing fame, the guys themselves remain refreshingly down-to-earth, not just in their performance, but in their back room chat. Neither geek nor chic, they just are what they are. Which is: just great.
Oxford should be proud of its home grown talent. OOTB's full performance will be on 11th and 12th June at the New Theatre. Seasoned fans will not be disappointed by the new blood and those who have never experienced it are in for a treat. I have decided that the effect of OOTB is almost subconscious; it catches you unawares and lasts longer than you might expect. I certainly came away from tonight's fun-filled, toe-tapping preview with a few things I hadn't expected: a beaming smile across my face, a funky tune in my head and a curious desire to skip all the way home.
S. Shah (DI Reviewer), 30/05/12
New Theatre, 7th June 2010
Out of the Blue are an all male a cappella choir made up of Oxford University and Brookes students, and about a million times more fun than that sounds. Now in their tenth year as a choir (with new members joining to replace old ones as they leave) the group appear to have a massive fan base in the city; the New Theatre was almost sold out and most audience members seemed to be serious fans. As the lights dimmed at the start, there was actual screaming.
This turned out to be pretty much justified Out of the Blue are irresistible. The music is largely high energy pop/rock covers with the occasional witty extra line thrown in, which they perform with enthusiasm and charm; their version of Sex Bomb was one of the most appealing things Ive ever seen. There are also quieter, more harmony-led pieces, which really demonstrate the technical skill of the choir. The choice of songs suit the group perfectly and the arrangements are imaginative and thoughtful. The choreography is adorable sometimes boy band-style slick, sometimes sweetly hapless. The execution all round was mainly excellent with the occasional dodgy note or misstep more then compensated for by the rest of the show.
The energy levels from the group were incredible, and they inspired an amazing amount of goodwill from the audience. They also showed real warmth to each other and are clearly having a brilliant time. Really, there is nothing about them not to like, from the floppy hair to the charity work (they gave a slot of their show over to talking about the work of Helen and Douglas House). This show was brilliant, silly fun, hilarious yet heartwarming. Really, really lovely.
Sadly, this show was only on one night, but theyll be doing a run at the Edinburgh festival and are definitely highly recommended. Take teenagers who like Glee! to see them they wont look back.
Lucy Ayrton (DI Reviewer), 08/06/10
I was also walking along the Royal Mile in Edinburgh this August 09 and came across these performers. When they said they were putting on a show that afternoon I pricked up my ears.
I was simply blown away. They are extremely good singers, could move with rhythm, were having a good time and were good-looking. Who wouldn't want to see them!
I consequently went along to their concert which was sold out but luckily I got a last-second ticket (great because I'm from Australia) and I thought they were just brilliant. There's no other word to describe them. I felt so alive and emotional with their range of songs; they had a couple of slower ones "Patience" and "Cold Water" which were simply stunning in terms of the harmony and emotion in their voices, and the other songs were so entertaining and uplifting. A particular favourite was "Harder to Breathe" - the guy's voice is unusual, and "Oh What a Night". I couldn't believe the beatbox and percussion sounds they were producing without a microphone. Every guy had something unique, a different dynamic to add to the performance - it seemed noone was doing the same thing yet they were so cohesive and bouncing off each other.
I left feeling 20 times lighter and excited, blown away by the talent and creativity not only of the guys themselves but also of the person behind it (whoever that is?).
At the end they said they donate all their profits to charity, which made them doubly impressive. I hope they come to Australia - they would be a massive hit without a doubt!
Bella , 17/09/09
A couple of years ago I was walking through Oxford and encountered a group of young men singing a capella. Pausing to watch for a while, I thought, Pretty good, and then moved on. I now realise that they were members of Out Of The Blue Oxfords own 14-strong boy band that brought the New Theatre to its feet last night.
Id done a bit of homework (well, I looked on YouTube) but didnt really know what to expect: and, as the theatre filled with a remarkably young and predominantly female audience, the 'boy band' tag began to resonate. As soon as the lights went down the screaming began (I was too young to go to a Beatles concert just but I can now imagine what it was like). Different singers take the lead in different songs and it was clear that they each have their own fan base: as each lead singer stepped forward they were cheered and the end of each song was greeted with rapturous applause.
So what are they like? If you remember the Flying Pickets Only You in 1983 youre part of the way there. They are a team of talented singers ranging from basses to counter-tenor, performing amazingly well-adapted songs without the aid of musical instruments although you would swear there were instruments there, as everything from percussion to guitar sounds are reproduced by the human voice. The songs range from the Beatles to Stevie Wonder; McFly to the Human League; Scissor Sisters to Elvis; plus, of course, Take That!
I must admit that, after the first few songs, I wondered if the show was going to be a bit samey: clever, full of harmony but each song a bit like the previous one. However, Out Of The Blue is obviously aware of this risk, and the diversity of pace and tone, together with a few non-musical sketches (which I didnt find particularly funny but then Im nearly three times their age), ensured that the performance never became predictable.
The whole show is delivered with wit and charm, with some funny dance routines that the group takes pleasure in describing as "outrageously unprofessional". In fact, professionalism is highly evident throughout the performance. Ed, the musical director, has produced some brilliant arrangements: he recently won Best Arrangement in the World at an international a capella competition in America; the group also proved themselves to be the second best choir on Earth in the same competition.
Out Of The Blue are entertaining, engaging and highly talented. Theyre nice guys, too, as they give all their profits to Helen & Douglas House, a hospice providing care for children and young adults. Next time theyre in town, dont miss them.
Mike Smith , 04/06/09
I was invited along to a preview by the Oxford acapella sensations Out of the Blue in advance of their show at the New Theatre next week, and boy was I in for a treat! I got a private acapella performance of 7 full songs and routines shut in a room with 13 energetic, lively fantastic performers for a personal show. Result!
An interesting ensemble, Out of the Blue are a collaboration of students from Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University performing acapella covers of contemporary songs from all genres, with all the arrangements and performances created by the performers themselves. I was treated to lively full-length renditions of the following numbers:
You Give Love A Bad Name
Sex Bomb
Dont You Want Me
I Dont Feel Like Dancing
Poker Face
Mustang Sally
These guys have such a great rapport between them, which makes their performances fun as well as vocally pleasing between them they have a full range of pitches that come together to create interesting versions of these well-known songs, with lively renditions and routines that I couldnt help but smile at.
Speaking to three of the band, Scott, Ed and Nick, they told me how they actually consist of 14 members at a time all students who are auditioned on a rolling basis as previous group members leave. New members are personally auditioned by the outgoing members, and they are intending to always continue this rolling membership tradition rather than trying to go professional they say the high turnover keeps things fresh and lively.
Very proud of being the only student group allowed to perform at the New Theatre, they are excited about their performance and have been rehearsing like mad smartly dressed in matching blue suits, shirts and ties. They did ask me to say that they would all be changing into red sequin mankinis for the second half of the show, which should up the ticket sales!
Asked how it works having both rival Oxford HE institutions working together as a group, they said it doubles their available pool of good singers to choose from and its a good example of the universities collaborating for the benefit of both students and the community. Pretty unglamorous and unstarry, the guys do not make a profit from their performances, instead choosing to donate their profits to Helen and Douglas House, a charity close to most Oxfordshire hearts. Unlike most MPs, they dont even make the most of their expenses asked what they had as a tour rider for their performances, they said water and food would be good too. Bless them.
They admitted their song arrangements dont always go according to plan, telling me about a Flight of the Conchords-cover disaster, and also a tongue-in-cheek version of Wow I Can Get Sexual Too apparently you can check out YouTube for some appalling covers of this song!
Check out the Out of the Blue Myspace page for details of other performances theyve done and to listen to some sample tunes as they told me, they are equally happy when performing to large audiences or serenading an old couple down by a lakeside in Boston and from my private preview tonight, I have no doubt that the New Theatre show will be outstanding. Here for one night only, go and see these guys for a lively, fun and fantastic performance this is an Oxford institution that we need to support!
Marie The Minx (DI Reviewer), 01/06/09
Fantastic, original, funny, moving, great entertainment - what more can I say? These young men even gave an impromptu performance in our local beachside cafe to a great reaction. We then followed them to their evening performance - awesome! Great cause too - not to be overlooked! Cant stop playing their CD. I am definitely going to seek them out again!
Tricia , 10/01/09
Now, Ive seen these boys busking in Oxford and thought Hmm, Glee Club, but in a nice English way and then walked by on my way to the Covered Market. So I turned up at the New Theatre expecting a sparse audience of their close friends and fiercely supportive family members: ooh, was I wrong! The auditorium rapidly filled with a combination of, admittedly, friends and family, but also a cross section of Oxford from prep school to OAP club.
What everyone had come to see was a group of 14 chaps, and chaps is the best way to describe them, attack a huge variety of music from modern pop, 80s hits, show tunes and even (I think) classical Lieder. Now these boys arent a professional, highly polished vocal group. What they are is an Oxford University club that sing close harmony, totally unaccompanied, and make it all wonderful fun! Their energy is amazing and you just know that they are having a really great time performing.
Try and imagine fourteen disparate students from scientists to architects, singing like stars and dressed for an accountancy convention! Floppy hair abounds in a Brideshead / High School Musical combination, as they project infectious good humour and sheer joy at making music. The chutzpah with which they attacked brilliantly arranged songs such as A-Has Take on Me and Maroon 5s Harder to Breathe had the audience whooping and cheering at their vocal dexterity and beat box-tastic abilities!
On a slightly more serious note, the concert entire profits were promised to Helen and Douglas House; a charity which continues to provide end of life care for children and young adults with terminal conditions, as well as support for their families. This charity has been established for 25 years now and deserves continued support for its excellent work.
Highlights of the show are too many to mention, as so many of their interpretations were both musically innovative and coloured with humour. Forced to pick just two, I would have to plump for The Lion Sleeps Tonight - which featured guest performances from about forty former members of the group, as will as some audience participation and You Know My Name (the Chris Connell Bond theme) delivered in a cracking rock meets lounge style. If you get the chance to see them, go. Id definitely have to add Out of the Blue to my list of guilty pleasures: for sheer fun and genuine enthusiasm coupled with a great choice of music they cant be beaten!
SMB (DI Reviewer), 13/06/08
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