Darrell Mitchell & Orchestra's Page

That lovely man Lew Bear just put a load of our songs over at www.youtube.com/sprattonfringe so if you cant make it to a gig you can just watch all those instead, and you dont have to sit through the between song banter OR queue at the bar to get a drink! Top stuff Lew, thanks.

Yes, we've got 2 brand new tracks now available to download form i-tunes, Boating Lake and Giants Hands, get em while theyre hot.

Yes we've got another video - its Lonesome Valley with our friends Robert and Stephan. BTW Friday weeks gig in Wallingford sees the tentative debut of our very own brass section who'll try out on Yellow Moon - how groovy is that???

for those that dont know the Occasional Orchestra project kick started when Darrell and I had the opportunity to contribute a track to a CD to raise funds for life and living charity and the CD was to be a collection of cover versions of songs by Kevin Coyne.
Typically contrary we chose a song Kevin didnt actually write - a white spiritual that was on his first album for Virgin, Marjory Razorblade ,and also a song he would, later in life, close his gigs with - Lonesome Valley.
Its now on our Jap… Continue