Orchestrated, a show which will see the Perth Symphony Orchestra working alongside some outstanding singers to give some of house music’s greatest tunes a new twist.
Guest vocalists include Daniel Merriweather, Alison Limerick (pictured), and Ilan Kidron from The Potbelleez, while Simon Lewicki – aka Groove Terminator – will serves as the project’s musical director.
Lewicki chatted to OUTinPerth about how the show was put together, “At its most basic concept it’s a very fancy covers band.” Lewicki joked, “It’s a really difficult, technical and complicated show to put together.”
UK House singer Alison Limerick will be performing, and following a recent performance in Sydney ‘GT’ has just one word to describe the experience of playing with Limerick, “She’s just fantastic!” he enthuses.
“She brings so much gravitas to the proceedings, and she’s just fantastic, I can’t speak highly enough of her.”
When he first stared working on the show Lewicki started off with several hundred songs he wanted to include in the set, but he’s managed to whittle the list down to just some of the most iconic house tunes of all time.
“It starts of with me doing a DJ set and working out the flow, then we have to decide what’s going to be played by the orchestra and what’s going to be electronic. Then we work out who is going to sing what, and who is available.”
Lewicki said as they worked through all the potential club-bangers that could be in the show they realised that some tunes just wouldn’t work with an orchestra.
“There are some where you realise, oh the whole song is just a kick drum, or it’s something that just goes round and round.”
“There are some songs in there which as an individual thought I never needed to hear again, but then when you hear them with the full orchestra, and you think ‘that’s really fucking amazing’, and they end up being the highlights of the show.
Catch the show on Saturday 24th March at Kings Park & Botanical Gardens, tickets are at Ticketmaster.com.au
Graeme Watson
