Penguin Cafe Orchestra

We're very pleased to put up our first UK gig announcement for 2012 - London, June 3rd, Victoria Park...

early bird tickets available now!

www.theapplecartfestival.com

And so, without any further ado...

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Perth - Perth Festival - Sat 3 March
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Melbourne - Melbourne Recital Hall - Mon 5 March
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Sydney - City Recital Hall - Angel Place - Wed 7 March
cityrecitalhall.com (pre-sale with City Recital Centre through www.ticketmaster.com.au at the end of Nov and on sale to the general public on 4 Dec)

Adelaide - WOMADelaide - Fri 9-Monday 12 March
womadelaide.com.au (announced today)

Tour produced by Arts Projects Australia.
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We're very pleased to announce that Penguin Cafe will be touring major cities in Australia in Feb/March 2012. Full details on November 14th...

Arthur has been asked to get something together for the Olympics - for the BT River Of Music, a series of huge stages along the Thames - each one representing one of the continents... all taking place the weekend before the 2012 Games start. Our project is based around a theme derived from rather simply putting the shape of the Thames over a musical stave - which works for London but seems not to work for anywhere else...

The whole project got announced publicly today so we can talk about it - more info to follow but we'll be getting stuck in over these next few months. Very happy to be involved - should be an amazing weekend!

Its all been going great - one more Penguin gig this Sunday in Waterford, Ireland and then settling in to cosy fires and hibernating for the Winter...

The Sundog tour was great fun - we ended up at the Purcell Room in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall after a couple of weeks up and down the country and each concert was cheerfully different - but all lovely crowds and we'll start work on this first album as soon as we've recovered.

There will also be some exciting announcements hopefully later this week for Penguin Cafe's plans for 2012. Watch this space and also our facebook page.

Friday at Canary Wharf East Wintergarden. See dates for details...

Only three more this year as currently planned but we'll soon be announcing some very cool overseas touring for the new year...

Hoping everyone clocked the amazing new glass penguins by Anthony Stern on the shop... Not that many left since everyone here at Penguin Cafe ahas been snaffling them.

The new Sundog project now has its own website. More to come but take a look - concerts happening in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Basingstoke, Gateshead and London QEH. Come down if you can! Dates on the site...

Sundog will be touring in October. Its the first new project to come out on the new Pengiun Cafe Label - and see's Arthur Jeffes (piano) and Oli Langford (violin) playing a cheerful and beautiful blend of post minimalist experimentation...

Thu 13 Oct
LIVERPOOL Capstone Theatre
thecapstonetheatre.com / 0151 291 3578

Fri 14 Oct
MANCHESTER RNCM
rncm.ac.uk / 0161 907 5200

Sat 15 Oct
LEEDS Howard Assembly Room at Opera North
operanorth.co.uk / 0113 245 0780

Sun 16 Oct
BASINGSTOKE The Anvil
anvilarts.org.uk / 01256 844244

Tue 18 Oct
GATESHEAD The Sage Gateshead
thesagegateshead.org / 0191 443 4661

Fri 21 Oct
LONDON Southbank Centre / Purcell Room
southbankcentre.co.uk / 0844 875 0073

We've done 34 gigs this year so far (we're off to Ireland in late October) and now we're stopping for a bit...

We'll be putting up a bunch of photos, recordings (once we've gone through them all and found any good bits!) presently and also putting out samples of the projects we're starting to get involved with.

Looking forward to more touring next year - hopefully visiting some new and rather more distant territories... watch this space!

Many thanks to all the people who came down to the gigs and made them all such successes - we were as delighted as we were surprised - it means a lot to us that my dad's music is still so loved.

AJ

We'll do these and then we'll have done, we think, 34 concerts so far this year...

Tomorrow its Snape Proms up at Aldeburgh and on Sunday we're at Standon Calling. Its been a fantastic year so far and thank you for all the support.

Our support band - Beth Jeans Houghton - are on at 8; Penguin Cafe onstage at 9pm...

Come on down!

We played for millions this morning on the BBC Breakfast programme - it was really good fun even though we did get faded out at the end - Television Centre is amazing - very 70's. We'll be very sorry to see it go...

We've been hard at work getting new material ready for tomorrow... may have to practise a bit on the bus but its all sounding very cool.

We want this one to be amazing since we're all from London so we're going to premiere one or two new tracks and we're trying to decide which ones to do...

If you have any thoughts please let us know on our Facebook page....

We'll be playing on the 29th at the UK's newest and shiniest venue - think they're having the gala opening tonight!

Its the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama - still tickets available so if you can make it we promise it'll be worth it...

We're very happy to announce that yesterday we gave a great big cheque to Teenage Cancer Trust - proceeds from our album 'Live At The Albert Hall...'

We're proud to support such a great organisation - thanks for buying the album all you who have!

Heading west for Hay tonight and then on to sKingston in London this friday...

Meadowlands was awesome - really good fun...

That was great - Bury on Sunday - a real joy to be back on the road playing the music.

We've got the gear cased up, the penguin heads especially - don't want them to lose any bits on the bus like last tour.

Its Norwich tomorrow and Bury next Sunday - introducing some new pieces again this tour - all very exciting.

We've also happily now got awesome distribution in Scandinavia and Australia... The thing now will be to arrange tours over there...

we're getting impatient to start out again! even though it's only been a few months since we were last out it feels like ages.

and now we've got proper cases for the penguin heads... the nose on one was getting a bit knocked about.

Norwich on the 16th is the first... Bring on Monday week!

The newly re-mastered albums are here and they are beautiful things. You can buy them in the shop...