LP Swing Orchestra celebrate movie music at Congress Theatre, Eastbourne
The LP Swing Orchestra make their annual summer visit to Eastbourne with the theme this year At The Movies, joined not by the unusual two but this time by three vocalists, Lance Ellington, Matt Ford and Julia Sullivan.
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00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Always lovely
00:06to speak to Joe Pettit, which I always seem to do at this time of year, because, Joe,
00:10you always play Eastbourne at this time of year. Now, you're going to be in Eastbourne
00:15with the LP Swing Orchestra for a show entitled At The Movies. Now, you have a long connection
00:21with Eastbourne, which is lovely, it goes back many years, doesn't it?
00:26It does indeed, yeah, way back to about 2010 when I first started running the band.
00:31And you started at Eastbourne because you knew Chris, Chris Jordan?
00:35Yeah, Chris Jordan, fantastic guy, and he is the Artistic Director there at the Congress
00:40Theatres, and he was keen to have a big band on their programme, and we were keen to find
00:45a venue down in the South Coast.
00:48And this time of year, seaside venues is what you need, isn't it? That's where people are.
00:52Exactly, it's where people are, yeah, we follow the people.
00:55And this year then, the theme is At The Movies. Now, it must be fun to think of a theme, it
01:00must be fun to design a programme. What have you got? What are the highlights of At The
01:06Movies for this year?
01:07Yeah, so I love songs from the shows, and the movie theme tracks in particular. So Cole
01:13Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, all those MGM classics, and then some James Bond
01:19themes. We've got some Disney things from Aladdin and Lady and the Tramp. We've got
01:27just some brilliant stuff from High Society, which is a fabulous movie, which starred Frank
01:31Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, along with Louis Armstrong. So we've got a really,
01:37the tricky thing was narrowing it down, really, we could have been there for days.
01:41Well, you could come back next year with At The Movies too, couldn't you?
01:45That's right, yeah, yeah.
01:46Brilliant. Good. Well, nice to speak to you again. Take care.
01:49And you too, thanks.
01:50I hope it all goes brilliantly in this form. Thanks.
01:51Thank you very much.