Teenage Dirtbag - The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - BBC Proms

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This is the Ukulele Orchestra's version of Wheatus' 'Teenage Dirtbag' (Trivial detail: they once performed this song with Wheetus themselves in Bangor, North Wales).
On Tuesday 18th August 2009, with every seat and all standing room occupied, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain played to a sold-out Royal Albert Hall in London, with over 6000 audience members, and well over 1000 of them bringing ukuleles to join in with Beethoven's "Ode to Joy".
This clip is taken from their DVD "Prom Night", The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Live at the Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms 2009, made from filming on the night.
The music played is:
Puffin Billy (Edmund White, Great British Light Music Classic)
Anarchy in the UK (The Sex Pistols)
Ride of the Valkyries (Richard Wagner)
Silver Machine (Hawkwind)
Life on Mars (David Bowie)
Thunderball (James Bond / John Barry)
Teenage Dirtbag (Wheatus)
Danse Macabre (Camille Saint-Saëns)
Jerusalem (William Blake and Hubert Parry)
Psycho Killer (Talking Heads)
Ode to Joy (A fragment of Beethoven arranged for 1008 ukuleles)
Pinball Wizard (The Who)
The Dambusters March (Eric Coates)
Melange (which reveals how all the key rock songs are variants of one theme)
Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush)
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@UkuleleOrchestra 3 года назад

This clip is taken from our DVD "Prom Night: Live at the Royal Albert Hall". The performance is now available in digital format, rent and stream the full performance here > www.ukuleleorchestra.com/world-service-episode-05

@raymondallen7342 Год назад

Who is still watching this 12 years later?

@wolfgangschoonderwal5791 6 месяцев назад

Yes

@garethwatkins6347 6 месяцев назад

Me and I have just tickets to see them next year - WOOHOO

@Kirkcaldytiels 6 месяцев назад

Me..

@geoffmorris1769 6 месяцев назад

Me. It’s brilliant!😄

@timsan55 6 месяцев назад

Me ! Longer than 12 years !

@CramerOG 5 месяцев назад

This is so good, can't believe I'm seeing it for the first time in 2024. Amazing!

@doublepick 4 года назад

Hester’s voice could have been heard in a tavern in seventeenth century England. It’s timeless...

@nickbeckwith6211 3 года назад

That is so spot on; absolutely!

@ThePorpoisepower 2 года назад

This video could be titled 'How I fell in love with Hester'

@fruitcake4t 2 года назад

its actually a seventeenth century English folk song i have you know😑

@charleschamberlain53 2 года назад

It was

@katec9893 2 года назад

The way she sings reminds me a bit of Maddy Prior.

@frelnc 6 лет назад

I have to listen to this at least once a week or I go into withdrawal.

@Deadbuck73 4 года назад

Mary Kay Thompson absolutely!

@mauricehigney4024 4 года назад

get it xx

@ChiquitaBabb 3 года назад

are you still doing it? :D

@andreasalvi312 3 года назад

I'm now up to once a day. And needing more.

@AngelicusImmortus 3 года назад

So True! Same here!!

@RyanEllisBoyd 10 лет назад

you start listening to one song and then it's 2 hours. Love them!

@suziofftheplanet977 4 года назад

Haha I did the same. Lost a morning but worth it

@patrickboyle2567 Год назад

OMG....Ain't that the truth!!.....I love music!!

@keithharrison1453 Год назад

It's 2022, and past 3am, why am I still up? Oh, that's right, I just discovered this excellent Orchestra!

@timj4909 Год назад

Longer than that!

@JVSphone Год назад

One of the saving graces of the pandemic - finding this glorious band!

@twallgren 8 месяцев назад

You do realise that only 1000 people have been watching this throughout the years, at about 3000 times each.

@dancrosby9991 10 лет назад

Amazing.They take a clever grunge song and with ingenuity,balls (and a great voice) turn it into a medieval ballad with depth, emotion and class. I love these people!

@baskervillebee6097 6 лет назад

Dan Crosby This is outstanding, but my heart belongs to Silver Machine.

@suzettewilliamson9830 3 года назад

Me too! ❤

@Jamie_Pritchard Год назад

@@baskervillebee6097 Silver Machine is pretty damn epic it has to be said.

@alderneyfred 12 лет назад

I was there ! And it was brilliant ! Shame on the BBC for not broadcasting this on the tv, only radio. We all waved our ukuleles in the air at the end of all playing our little piece of Bach together.

@BGP_yt 10 месяцев назад

Good thing BBC has no control over RU-vid!

@sungyultaylor1354 4 года назад

As an American who LOVED this song as a teenager, MAD RESPECT to these people. They got TONS OF TALENT and they deserve props. Hahahaha, I just never figured some older British people would know this song.

@ellieban 3 месяца назад

It’s an older song nowadays 🤣

@briancritchley498 9 лет назад

I am addicted to this song, this chick has a great voice, the whole lot of this is terrific..

@bluesman608 9 месяцев назад

Love it when they all sing “dirtbag!” with English accents. Cracks me up every time. This is a wonderful cover of a great song. Props to all.

@sakuramatsuriantiques5053 10 лет назад

Listening to ukulele orchestra performing a cover from wheatus of a song talking about iron maiden is priceless!

@gggg-vw9mq 6 лет назад

awesome

@richdavidson1737 5 лет назад

Amazing

@patrickmclaughlin61 4 года назад

Her reddening face when she has to say dick and ass just adds to the whole.

@scottbrown7415 3 года назад

Just for all you non North American people. The reference to the boyfriend driving an IROC. That is a version of the the Chevrolet Camaro Z28. It was offered for a few years as the top line offering of that model. IROC was a racing series that placed top drivers from a wide variety of racing sanctioning bodies in a season of competition in identical Camaro race cars. The uke band is great!

@JamesJessenfedden 4 месяца назад

IROC is an acronym.

@5amH45lam 3 месяца назад

I knew that. I'm British. I'm also subscribed to the Curious Cars channel here on RU-vid. ;-)

@dc-k4868 4 года назад

Ten years on and still as fresh as a daisy 💛

@englishman1960 4 года назад

To hear this version of Teenage Dirtbag shows what a great song it is. The Orchestra are paying respect to an all time classic. Great vocals.

@neilpemberton5523 2 года назад

A great cover can bring out something special that's not immediately obvious in a song

@ALu-nq8rf 8 лет назад

It's been years since I first listened to this cover and it's still one of the loveliest covers I've ever heard.

@craigelliott5406 8 лет назад

Props for no cencor too :)

@zookeeper2872 7 лет назад

It really is

@christopherdavies7213 7 лет назад

Moves me to tears, it really does: incredibly touching and beautiful arrangement and performance.

@CaptainHightop 6 лет назад

I know your comment is a year old, but I just found this cover, and you're right, it is really good. Another good one is on the Post Modern Jukebox channel, check it out you might really like that one too

@colblimp 10 лет назад

Hester - probably the most beautiful ukulele player in the world.

@jimdevlin2138 4 года назад

NO,. Definitely the most beautiful

@edwardkazala825 4 года назад

They are all beautiful.

@Chiungalla79 3 года назад

At least the most beautiful voice. Most beautiful most certainly goes to hawaii... Taimane or Honoko.

@shenleynye774 7 лет назад

Many is the shite day at work that I've had lately, but today plumbed new depths. Then I had an alcoholic beverage or several, and then I listened to this. I won't begin to suggest that it solved anything, but I do now feel much better.

@nathanstoneman1185 7 лет назад

I listen to this too. It helps sooth the internal beast.

@BuddhaSunn 5 лет назад

I’m with you bro

@UltimoWorm 5 лет назад

I just read this and thought I already commented 🤣👌🏼

@robajohnson 5 лет назад

Feeling better is essential as well!

@ewanfarrell4026 5 лет назад

Life can be so beautiful when something so simplistic as this video(certainly not suggesting that what the musicians done was simplistic) can shift your mood. Hope you're beating those demons, my friend

@jessicagibson8110 4 года назад

A man that worked at the hospital helped me through a really hard procedure by playing these guys to me! Thanks Jeff

@nekcarccm2112 2 года назад

She's adorable What a nice voice! She seems like someone you'd just like to be around. Lovely take on a song.

@grahamswindell4191 2 года назад

They can do anything. And they never do anything badly. Not even if they tried to. Thank the universe that there are committed musicians like these who actually bother to express their ability. Major thumbs up to them.

@SevdaDenizKarali 3 года назад

I remember a time during pandemic (because it feels like it's been going on for ages) that I would wake up and even before opening my eyes properly, I would open this (and the mash-ups) on my phone, and my goodness, they would really fill me up with energy, with joy, and I could get up a happy, hopeful person. Since we're basically back to where we were back in March, I'm back here as well. Thank you for existing, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain!

@mikemolinaro5446 2 года назад

I love Hester❤️

@dougwheeler1220 3 года назад

I’m betting that Hester could sing the road map and it would be excellent.

@UkuleleOrchestra 14 лет назад

A little pedantic, but yes, some seats at the Albert Hall are never for sale. It remains true that all available seats and standing room was occupied. There was not a ticket left for sale and people were (unfortunately) turned away at the door.

@darrenmarquis8487 3 года назад

A lot of seats at albert Hall are held by debenture holders from those old 'english' families who funded the building and have free tickets forever, for every single concert/event at venue. My old employer was lucky enough to be donated 4 box tickets on the death of a debenture holder for us to use for charitable purposes

@comradecatu6603 2 года назад

@@darrenmarquis8487 ah, I was wondering why some seats were empty, that's really interesting, thanks for sharing

@pinkclouds5192 4 года назад

Me: (sreaming)CUZ IMM JUST A TEEEEENGAGE DIRT BAG BABY her: (calmly) becase I am just a teenage dirtbag baby 2 like that's biggest I've ever had thanks

@stellajayne 11 лет назад

On the contrary Jack - it will strike a chord with many a teenager. It's in the teenage years self doubt, insecurity and even self loathing are only ever a short distance away. Also, bear in mind it it's also a song about the redemptive power of love, of acceptance - our hero is at the prom, lonely, dispirited, feeling 'like mould' when the object of his longing and affection approaches and lo and behold, she is just like him, he's found someone who accepts him for what he is. It's uplifting!

@mandolinic 3 года назад

Except in the band's official video, the whole part about the prom and Noelle asking him to an Iron Maiden concert is just a dream and our poor hero doesn't get the girl. :-(

@NotKyleChicago Год назад

@@mandolinic From what I recall, the song's writer was sent to an all-boys school after a murder in his home town in the mid-1980s, so he didn't get to have a "normal" high school experience and was in his late 20s when this was first recorded.

@mandolinic Год назад

@@NotKyleChicago Thanks for the additional info.

@Mmv441 5 месяцев назад

You made this song even more nostalgic, which was hard to imagine

@ThePsho 5 лет назад

Man, that ascending scale in the pre-chorus is just flat out perfect

@debussy69 6 месяцев назад

Agreed, it’s just beautiful

@chatchat102 12 лет назад

This is... absolutely hilarious. Not in a bad way, mind you. It's just really funny to see all of these classy, sophisticated-looking adults play one of the most inane teenager anthems ever written. And it is glorious.

@gabitamiravideos 3 года назад

After listening to the lyrics and finally understanding them (I love how the UOGB accomplishes that with so many songs) I would dispute the “inane” part. But yeah, heartily agree on the rest.

@neuvocastezero1838 3 года назад

@@gabitamiravideos Yeah, I think they might have been looking for "whimsical".

@swampwitch6133 3 года назад

I agree the Ukuleles make an this song just make it too funny especially with how the lyrics don't match what they playing

@34zakk 3 года назад

Everyone's been a teenager once. Chances are they've also related to it lol.

@AngelicusImmortus 2 года назад

To be fair, the song was written for a film and I feel sorry for the band, they had a film studio pissing around with what they were and weren’t allowed to put in the song. Movie studio folk can be total dicks!

@AE747373 9 месяцев назад

2023 this Fking brilliant

@stagboiwo5517 2 года назад

Wheatus to the way being classic )))

@Singapom888 11 лет назад

Moves me to tears - I'm a big softie, but in my defence this is a lovely arrangement and performance.

@esarempee 3 года назад

Same here. I'm a grown man, what's wrong with me???

@Dominik-jv5vm 3 года назад

@@esarempee same. because we are old (43 here) and once were young.

@Singapom888 6 месяцев назад

@@Dominik-jv5vm We absolutely were. And we still remember.

@gregward4392 9 месяцев назад

How can you not love Hester.....and her voice, and the harmonies are just superb. And the ukules are also performing the drum rhythm. Just brilliant. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

@claypigeon001 4 года назад

It's a darn shame you can't "like" this more than once 😉👍❤️

@elisabetht9216 2 года назад

I saw them in concert today in Vienna! Fabulous! Funny, versatile, very british in a good way and most important great and dedicated musicians!! ❤❤❤

@BigPaddyFan 10 лет назад

What a beautiful woman and what a great voice and what a wonderful orchestra. And did I mentioned what a wunderful women?

@helzhathnofury7363 Год назад

You are an absolute joy , thank you

@michaelmcdowell4357 Год назад

thats what you call Class

@ZacBLive 2 года назад

Thee most British spectacle ever.

@nomad7412 5 лет назад

What a fantastic voice this lady has. ....And singer

@cornishphilosopher 8 лет назад

This is just plain beautiful!

@zanite8650 8 месяцев назад

I think about this version constantly.

@babybri9887 10 лет назад

Her: So... This is for all the teenage ukulele players out there Me: OH MY GOSH! SHOUT OUT! HOLLAAA

@jimwarren8422 2 года назад

I'm across the BIG POND!! These instrumentals and currently vocals are just great!

@jimmycove2592 Год назад

Seen the Ukes so many times since listening to them at a Folk club in Walthamstow over 20 years ago, still my favourite live act, and this track one of the best, they are always brilliant, never disapoint Terry Cove

@Floop1977 7 лет назад

I love this band, and I *particularly* love this version of Teenage Dirtbag, which I think is better than the original! Well done to the people who wrote it, and well done to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain for being awesome, I have been to see you three times and hope to keep doing so forever!

@tomcline5631 4 года назад

Hey bigblockofcheese search for Post Modern jukebox for their version of teenage dirtbag ,covered by Jax. Soooo cooool!!

@Floop1977 4 года назад

@@tomcline5631 That is cool - thanks! I saw PMJ in London in 2015 at the Shepherds Bush Empire, they were fantastic.

@NotKyleChicago Год назад

I've only recently discovered this song via Reb Day's cover in a stairwell. I like the versions that aren't "screamo" for the chorus portion.

@RatJan 5 месяцев назад

I discovered this song through the Ukulele Orchestra, so I went and listened to the official versions, and I like this one best!

@everyonesxwife 9 лет назад

My dad got a ukulele back in the 1950's and when I was a little kid he used to play silly little tunes on it and I thought it was a toy. I have officially been SCHOOLED!

@terencehughes611 5 лет назад

Upon discovering offerings from Ukelele Orchestra, the world feels a better place !!

@ing0o 10 лет назад

I've got three words: This is awesome!

@johnmunro4952 5 лет назад

that's comedy without really trying to be funny, whilst simultaneously being exquisitely beautiful.

@MizTree 9 месяцев назад

I got chills :)

@1Greystalk Месяц назад

They're multiplying

@deejaydoubleyou1966 7 лет назад

Pure class, makes me smile every time! Hope the band Wheatus have seen it.

@lecturer1960 7 лет назад

If you read the notes under the video, your question's answered :) ".....This is the Ukulele Orchestra's version of Wheatus' 'Teenage Dirtbag' (Trivial detail: they once performed this song with Wheetus themselves in Bangor, North Wales).... "

@borjastick 10 лет назад

This is quite possibly their best piece ever, though it's a tough choice... I emailed them today asking if they can pleeeeaaasee come and play in Limoges, France next year. Love them to bits.

@acptelford1307 3 года назад

See you all on tour soon 👍😀👍😀👍

@brentwhite3890 4 года назад

I love that song

@bryanmve1491 8 лет назад

one of the most original covers i've ever heard!

@GeaVox 8 лет назад

Love the UKOOGB, Love the singer, Love the song...

@conboyle5592 Год назад

Superb

@86razrose 2 года назад

Utterly brilliant, you always leave their concerts with a huge smile on your face.-

@RonWylie-gk5lc 7 лет назад

Every time they do something new I can't believe how great they achieve it, who would have thought they would do Teenage Dirtbag, wonderful

@bensdadfrank 9 лет назад

Music is music, and this is as good as it gets!

@jesterstudiokj 3 года назад

Can't stop listening to this performanc.

@goldiloksa 6 лет назад

Just heard of the passing of Kitty Lux. Prayers for her friends and family.

@kroschfoenigin 13 лет назад

However shit my day might have been, these guys invariably put a smile on my face... Thank you for your existence!

@deleted_why 2 года назад

Timeless lyric, proven so by transposing from the key of young grunge into the key of old uke.

@mackemmedia5452 9 лет назад

These guys are incredible. Being playing the ukulele since I was 8 or 9, and these are the people I look up to.

@gabrielegarcia6205 10 лет назад

Obsessed with this song

@marcel911 10 лет назад

I love their take on the songs they play. Always makes me smile.

@radagascar1 12 лет назад

LOVE her voice! She does the chorus well!

@Ayall1010 5 месяцев назад

By far their best cover.

@mikemolinaro5446 3 года назад

I think I am in love💕

@scousemouse69 3 года назад

Its so wrong yet so right. I love it

@LazySummerTrio 11 лет назад

I agree, I love her voice. I wish I could see this live.

@shalini1974 7 лет назад

I love their music the good bad and ugly love .teenage dirtbag is also really good song

@roberthugh100 9 лет назад

Never thought this song could move me almost to tears - I'm in love!

@ashleyscout4848 5 лет назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3cOhNdlKwoc.html this version might!

@Walterwhiterocks 5 лет назад

Same here, Hester is soooo talented.

@taxus750 4 года назад

Hester has that effect on people (not that I'm at all affected by her charms myself, oh no)

@SpringFire1994 4 года назад

See these guys live last night and they played this! Still as good as ever!

@razzle504b Месяц назад

Still one of my fave bits from the Ukes.....many years later.......

@davebond7380 9 месяцев назад

Still love it

@margaretgilbert2966 4 года назад

Your music is now an essential to each day,it fills me with joy and makes me laugh and smile and occasionally shed a tear. All in a good way.

@rjewles 8 лет назад

Yes, I keep coming back to this time and time again - it's so endearing. Rosie, Walthamstow

@johndean4998 3 года назад

Very, very, very well done Hester.

@colin6768 5 лет назад

Why have I not come across these guys before - so much time lost. God I love English humor - Flanders and Swann, Monty Python, Smack the Pony, Miranda, Peter Sellers, Rowan Atkinson, Fry and Laurie, The Two Ronnies, Keeping Up Appearances, Yes Minister - so much great comedy. I really hope I get an opportunity to see England before I die.

@wangdangdoodie 5 лет назад

Bring your stab vest.

@jamesearley5062 3 года назад

This is just superb! The song takes on a whole new meaning with a woman singing it too. Love it.

@IlyaPitta 12 лет назад

"(Trivial detail: they once performed this song with Wheetus themselves in Bangor, North Wales). " Trivial detail? TRIVIAL DETAIL? I could die happy after seeing such a gig.

@benanderson1372 4 года назад

After 3 years I found this video again!!!

@TheStoryteller01 14 лет назад

"come with me Friday, bring your ukulele" that really made my day ^^ Go Ukes!

@mymgb238 5 лет назад

I noticed Hester quite a long time ago, love her composure and this song really is a hit. I recently bought her album on iTunes Store for more of her voice.

@stevehale2834 5 лет назад

What's it called?

@mymgb238 5 лет назад

At least you could smile

@briancritchley498 9 лет назад

Beautiful, lovely, fantastic, makes my eyes moist..

@Mistralok 5 лет назад

Thank you Kitty. For one bright shining moment you have made my life worth living.

@athull08 5 лет назад

This is Hester not Kitty

@Squirrelconga 3 года назад

Brilliant!!!!

@timsan55 8 лет назад

Brilliant. Especially the control in delivery. Thanks for posting

@1oolabob 12 лет назад

Wow. I dunno, I thought it was just a joke or a gimmick, but this group of ukulele players just made a concert hall full of upper-crusties in London feel a great punk rock love song. Just wow.

@dlelax8 12 лет назад

awesome. i wish i had two tickets to see this

@Hotelechomike 9 лет назад

Saw them 2 nights ago in Norderstedt (North side of Hamburg, Germany). They played to a full house & the cheers were deafening. Got a good write-up in the press.

@mune014 10 лет назад

This beautiful song almost breaks my heart. Guess we are all once this narrator of this song.

@riduanabdsamad242 4 года назад

yupp...., Bravool.memang anda dan yg lain hebat.

@charlesperigord1599 4 года назад

Then you must listen to "Creep" as done by Scary Pockets. It'a another champion low self-esteem song.

@IlluminatorLumina 12 лет назад

Freakin awesome. Never would have expected to come across this, ever. Brilliant. A ukulele orchestra version of an obscure punk song. Can't stop saying brilliant.

@Walterwhiterocks 7 лет назад

Hester is so cool,and the group is fantastic !!