Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra

**Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:09 pm

That was great- thanks, kipples!

(Someone needs to zoom in and make a GIF of Bret shake-it-shaking-it with his uke, lol!)

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nonchalant obsession wrote:

That's awesome, kipples! :whitey:

Did you get to meet/talk to any of them?

No, nothing exciting at all really. Just went to the gig and went home again.

**Joined:** Sat May 09, 2009 3:43 am **Posts:** 7237

Bummer. What song was your favorite? Did the audience know Bret would be there or was it a jolt? Was he in the audience for the rest of it? Did Bret just do the one song with them? How did you enjoy seeing the WIUO live?

A bit of backstage rehearsals. Nigel's vocals :heart:

Now I have to go back and watch Bret shake it again. Thanks SO much for capturing Hey Ya for us, kipples! :prayer:

**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 1:55 pm

Wow, thanks so much for capturing their performance, kipples! :supz:

Looks like it must have been an awesome gig!

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 4:01 pm

This is probably here somewhere and I searched but couldn't find it. WIUO doing Ziggy Stardust- FABULOUS!!

http://youtu.be/TiyJ_rHlGUU

[youtube]http://youtu.be/TiyJ_rHlGUU[/youtube]

*Why doesn't the YouTube embed thingy work any more? For me, at least...

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:31 pm

Ooh nice find.

The youtube linkie has never worked for me, despite detailed explanation.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:24 pm

Ok, let's see if we can sort this out once and for all. :lol:

Embedding a video does work, it's just that the YouTube link needs to be of a certain format. For example, the YouTube link you posted, Laura is a shortened youtube URL. As you can see, your link begins with: "http://youtu.be" but the link needs to be like this: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXX"

I think nonch pointed out an easy way of posting the right YouTube link. When you're watching the video on YouTube, click on 'Share' which can be found underneath the video:

You should then see the URL appear in a box underneath the video. Click on 'Options' underneath the URL box:

Then check the box for 'Long link':

Then copy and paste the URL in that box:

Now you can copy and paste the URL between the tags to embed the video in your post:
[youtube][/youtube]

Let me know if this works for you now.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:30 pm

I didn't know about the share button before. :doh:

Thanks Venus.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:34 pm

Woohoo!

No problem. :thumb:

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:54 pm

Aaaaaaagh - "Brett Mackenzie (Flight of the Concordes)" :tsk:

It just peeves me.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:39 pm

Ah....I always click on the share button and then c/p the blue highlighted addy it gives me there. But I didn't know you had to click for long addy. It used to be that I clicked share and that addy worked here between the YouTube thingies.

Thanks!

**Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:45 pm

The spelling is particularly awful in that description. :tsk:

Ah I see, Laura. No problem. :thumb:

**Posted:** Tue Nov 27, 2012 5:38 pm

New WIUO video.

**Posted:** Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:30 pm

Not my favorite Smiths song but, they've done this song before, was Nigel singing in the other versions? I'm not sure I love the vocal on this. :hrm:

**Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:47 am

I've only heard Nigel singing lead on their cover of the song :dunno:

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