Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra

[Scix]

the subtitles are hilariously wrong.

[arddukaj]

i must say i prefer the villains theme more

[ThisIsCas]

I've watched this three times already, it never gets boring.

[Bellesabout]

I wish Bill Bailey was my jolly uncle, Christmas would be fantastic!

[Richiepookinshoo]

28:45 Those heroes wouldn't happen to be Starsky and Hutch, would they?

[wembley05]

Brilliant! Bill Bailey is the most talented and funny musician I have ever watched!

[Viljarism]

Playing the swan on cowbells is the most fun the rhythm section has ever had.

[skullboy1990]

Ann Dudley = MILF

[flyingfisbeefilms]

I would love to see the mixing desk behind all of this. What a wonderful proof of talent.

[flyingfisbeefilms]

What an incredibly modest man!

[StorsJoshTaylor]

Is that Joanna Lumley conducting?

[childofthereaver]

This was spectacular-everyone must see this...superb!!!

[goggodaman]

Wonderful music and the brilliance of Bill Bailey. Sublime!

[cleopatraXIII]

Next thing I knew, this video was over! I could have watched hours of this.

[missfrizzyuk]

Human slaves, in an insect nation!

[missfrizzyuk]

I love this!!

[topgear100]

21:01 reminds me of the Sims !!!!

[MsLoveLolly]

@topgear100 Me and my class mates and the teacher were reading the comments haha

[mindydrummer]

@topgear100 i actually thought i was the only person who thought that

[Smythers00]

Bill Bailey... the Music and History teacher everyone should've got

[nihilost]

Thank you so much for sharing this! This is wounderfull.

[sier0110]

Yes! I'd watch this over a pop concert any day!

[zippydude12345]

the Doctor Who part was the best in my opinion

[MissLaurenB18]

Haha this was awesome! :D

[cymruisrael]

Sheldon plays the theremin in an episode of TBBT.

[sackattack]

tyvm uploader. very entertaining

[Samedition987]

Bill's perspective on life is just amazing. He's my favourite comic/presenter by far.

[svampyr]

Jazz Dr. Who FTW!

[thok3]

Could someone clever translate the french doctor who bit and then we could like it so that it would be one of the top comments and us not so clever bill bailey lovers could understand it. Weyhey!

[duggskulery]

@thok3 ...Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! No, you cannot, because I am Dr Who." (Something along those lines anyway!)

[Evolution0369]

@thok3 Admittedly it loses a lot of its humour when translated literally, most of the joke is the accopanying music and the way he says it, but roughly translated- "It's him...Dr Who. He travels in the Tardis. The telephone box, fantasicly spacious (or possibly fantastic in space depending on translation). The interior is a lot bigger than the exterior. And that is the mystery of Dr Who.

[Evolution0369]

@thok3 (continued) The chief of the Daleks is called Davaros. He wants to control the universe, all the world he wants to control. He wants to control the universe right now. With the daleks, the doctor is superior. He laughs, hahaha, I am Dr Who. The daleks cannot go up stairs, it's a tragedy for the daleks. Exterminate, exterminate, exterminate. No, you cannot, because I am Dr Who!"

[ScreamForYourSanity]

It needs more cowbell.

[majooismajor]

Thank u for posting this amazing whole show :)

[PeasLoveHarmony]

Much of BB's act involves body language and facial expression, which he uses to perfection. Unfortunately, however, the brainless cunts who produced this show decided that, for some inexplicable reason, filming the orchestra was far more entertaining than filming Bill (save for the occasional tantalising glimpse). You know I'm right - now thumb me up or I'll cut your bollocks off.

[tiny831000]

its amazing what a man with a beard, and a pair of shower curtains for hair can do to an orchestra

[Mysolarsun]

Brilliant!! thanks for sharing :)

[1ucasvb]

I'd love a studio recording of The Jellyfish.

[duckiesv]

@1ucasvb /watch?v=xt5VcU7AVMI thats it..

[duckiesv]

who is the composer for The Jellyfish?

[crabcoreable]

@duckiesv Bill Bailey

[duckiesv]

@crabcoreable actually i just realized what composition it is, it's the planet symphonies by Gustav Holst, specifically Neptune

[1ucasvb]

@duckiesv You're very wrong. They're completely different, although the instrumentation and overall mood are similar.

[duckiesv]

@1ucasvb they're exactly the same, the only difference is that bailey uses that cool sounding thingy, listen to the whole song you dont really need any musical talent to realize that they are the same notes. you might be mislead because the cool sounding thingy has a pitch above the other instruments with an octave or so

[1ucasvb]

@duckiesv I'm not even comparing the parts with the theremin. Give me the exact time, in that Holst's Neptune video you linked me (just so we're on the same page), that corresponds to the music played here at 18:08 to 18:40, and 19:11 to 19:30. Both sections don't involve Bailey playing the theremin.

I agree they are similar, but they're hardly exactly the same.

[duckiesv]

@1ucasvb 18:08 - 18:40 Bailey is actually playing the theremin, in the video its from 1:16 - 1:37, and the other part is at about 4:30 i believe

[1ucasvb]

@duckiesv Bailey is NOT playing the theremin in those two intervals I gave you. If you understood how the instrument is played, you'd know that. As long as his hand is within the left antenna (the loop), the instrument is silent. The straight antenna controls pitch, and there's no F being played at that pitch coming from the theremin. The high note you hear comes from the violins in tremelo. If the tremolo was coming from the theremin, you would see Bailey's right hand shaking slightly.

[duckiesv]

@1ucasvb myes, was not paying attention to the left hand there :)) but the other parts, in witch i left the times in the song, are the same notes, it's basically the same song, but some of the notes are in higher octaves

[1ucasvb]

@duckiesv The melody played by the french horns at 18:19 in the Jellyfish doesn't exist in Neptune, for instance. Overall, the compositions are similar, but they are really not the same thing.

[ForsetiLover]

I was watching Graham Norton on here, with Bill Bailey as one of the guests, this was mentioned and clip shown, it looks rather good. I wanted to see it now, and low and behold in the side bar, a link to this...Gods Bless you GoodW0lf, and praise be to the powerful internet.

[matelot95]

How can anybody, and I mean ANYBODY dislike this????

[Sapphire848]

Comedy mixed with orchestral music - how fantastic! That as worth an hour out of my time. Not too impressed about his comparrison with the oboe to the clarinet, though - I'm a clarinetist and they are conical, not cylindrical!

Aside from that: wow!

Je suis Doctor Qui ^.^ xD

[QuotidianOli]

Liking this video is simply not enough.

[ooRISCHoo]

Have a banana!

[astroboirap]

also why didnt he just say the villians were black/niggers

[Kinekun]

@astroboirap I don't think they were black. Blacks are traditionally associated with jazzy music. You find the connection in the 1920s-1930s USA when jazz was regarded as dangerous and people like Louis Armstrong and Count Basie were jazzing it out. Via connection, "dangerous blacks" have "dangerous jazz". In the same sense, jazz is also considered as "primal" music, like "let loose and have some fun!". That's why it's being connected to the beautiful and dangerous femme fatale

[astroboirap]

@Kinekun c'mon everytime some funky jive sinister music comes one its always black people! dunno why, maybe its a blaxploitation thing. anyways whenever i hear some funky sinistet jazz in a old skool crime movie i know the camera is gonna cut to some random ghetto with a bunch of sharply dressed black villians in flares

[astroboirap]

the woman conducter looks like sum german dominatrix

[ceriselandowner]

I wonder how often Anne Dudley punched Bill in the face for all the time changes

[KonaFalleg]

We're all going... to DIE!

[WizardJim]

Mmmm, yes, this has just the right amount of cowbell.

[TheERHorton]

41:00 This should be the new Doctor Who theme

[astorpolsen]

does anybody know what the Obo piece begging at 08:11 is called? or is it a theme song from something?

[allnamesaretaken4242]

@astorpolsen at the end of the piece, Bill says "Wait a minute, Emmerdale doesn't have an Oboe in it!" -> it's from a televesion series called "Emmerdale".

[GoggleBoxFairy]

@astorpolsen It's the theme for a soap opera called Emmerdale (Farm).

[astorpolsen]

@GoggleBoxFairy thx : )

[JodieIshmael1212]

You gotta love us British. 'Ave a banana.

[Richiepookinshoo]

@JodieIshmael1212 I believe it's spelt "BANARNAH" :P

[richieblackhearted]

@Richiepookinshoo Barnarnar you credulous wump!

[mikelheron20]

Also, the first notes of Handel's Hallelulia Chorus are the same as "Yes, we have no bananas." Try it ...

[MeanGreenMother123]

3:57 Arsene Wenger shows his talents xD

[SGde3a]

Smooooth

[ryankhan11]

Strangely attractive Anne Dudley

[CornCob6000]

@ryankhan11 Or attractively strange? :-)

[blueelectricsmoke]

Hm someone did write a 11 minute piece for sax and piano called Jellyfish. Google Kristin Kuster Jellyfish.

[skullboy1990]

i thought he was gonna say strangely attractive anne dudley lol

[robelirobban]

Bloody brilliant this is!

[ltn0826]

Bailley is a mother fucking genious

[GlobalPunditOrg]

canada loves bill bailey.

please come here!

[xSlySniipzx]

woop woop! :P

[IrvsZazza]

He's on the Doctor Who Christmas Special this year

[meshumekha]

Ba-ROCK.

[sultanabran1]

who the hell are the 9 idiots who disliked this? idiot.

[Cellendhyll666]

Héhé I'm building staircases for the Daleks now...

[96RichyRich]

ha ha ha brilliant

[Jexington80]

I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!

[TheLuminousOwl]

ok, this is missing a big bit of the cockney music section

[timeodaneosetdona]

@TheLuminousOwl So what's missing from 22:40 - 27:25? Whoops, have a banana...

[TheLuminousOwl]

@timeodaneosetdona yeah, and there's some stuff missing from the end, I can't remember what though ...

[TheLuminousOwl]

@timeodaneosetdona also when he mentions about the pearly king :S

[islanlizz]

I'll never upset insects again just in case we all become human slaves XD

[dbangashby]

@islanlizz kill as many insects as you can, before they take over, and we have not the power to do so!!!

[SocksMacguffin]

I would love it if the audience turned up to what they thought was going to be a normal orchestra, and how wrong they were

[BloodBowler]

Does anyone know the name of the piece started @ 13:16?

[thehighlandsarealive]

The Jellyfish piece was fantastic!

[RobinKingofAwesome]

Human slaves! In the insect nation!

[wilhelmgras]

52:39 - 57:09 if lou reed and metallica had done this, lulu might've been worthwhile...

[pianosand]

Does anyone know what the flute part was?

[sarojkala2004]

this bald guy with long hair is wining the heart of all.....except 8 terrorists who disliked it



[shadow9t6]

AND I WAS IN... A lift...

[MidgetClownPorn]

The basoon thing was pretty awesome.

[mickcooper11]

i love seeing a professional orchestra shout 'OI!'

[shadow9t6]

@mickcooper11 Me too. There's a musical comedian by the name of Tim Mnchin who recently did a tour with an orchestra, in which the whole orchestra have to shout fucker. It made me laugh sooo much!

[crabcoreable]

@mickcooper11 What does it mean? "Hey!" ?

[applecrumping33]

thanx bill for not taking this down. i own all your dvds and will get this one too!!

[crazypicturelady]

Lullaby for cows

[trumsolon]

Get the full DVD! It has loads of other awesome stuff, including a prolonged cop show segment which is just breathtaking!

[rikwatson200]

this is missing loads like the horn and universal dvd skippy part

[th33kh0]

holidays for strings aka the sims start up tune

[muulka]

Does anyone know the name of the opening piece? It's so famous, yet its name escapes me...

[MrCaides]

@muulka "Also sprach Zarathustra" by Strauss. :) Or "Theme from "2001: A Space Odyssey""! :p

[liorsayada]

@muulka Also Sprach Zarathustra by Strauss

[GameOfYears]

The cowbells actually looks like a really fun game you could do with other musicians. Label the notes on top and then take turns in using the bells to create harmonies.

[soeffingwhat]

@GameOfYears - It must have taken Bailey and the Rhythm Section Guys a whole day or 2 to rehearse til they got it absolutely right.

[naganokumas]

Aussie, aussie, aussie.

OI! OI! OI!

Harks a scent of Cockney in a Germaine.

[jacobCtotheM]

31:00

when a triangle is actually important :D

[jacobCtotheM]

is that "cockney intro" from a song? whats it called? wanna learn it :P

[DiGeorgeHowrse]

I'm sure the Holiday For Strings, sounds like the How Clean Is Your House Theme Tune lol :) xx

[DiGeorgeHowrse]

Aww, I'd love to see this live :)

[SanctifiedSanity]

I like shiny beads.

[albertusj]

Hmmm...Dr.Who dubbed into french 41:02

[nayajhen]

@albertusj Dr. Qui.

[albertusj]

Just shows how vital music is to establishing mood in movies and TV. Awesome

[MrHitler27]

WHATS THE FIRST SONG WHEN HE ENTERES THE INTRO THAT GOES TA DA!!

[otacon23]

@MrHitler27 if you meant the very first song, "2001 space odyssey" ....i think :)

[timeodaneosetdona]

@MrHitler27 Who do you think you're kidding, Mr Hitler[27]? It's Thus spake Zarathustra/Also sprach Zarathustra. AKA the theme to 2001 as others have pointed out.

[2bsom1]

i watched 30mins of this,and its absolute crap

[AnItchyCameltoe]

@2bsom1 twat, if you dont like him, dont watch him

[2bsom1]

@AnItchyCameltoe i do like him,just not this,but even this is not as bad as the crap uv uploaded

[trex0021]

The epitome of awesomeness

[mscoldchaser1]

A classic!

[askesl]

The Jellyfish song sounds like part of the soundtrack to a movie, but i can't figure which one, so does anyone know which movie it's from?

[Happymadfuntime]

Sufficient cowbell.

[donkat94]

Some of this awsome music reminds me of The Sims, firstly with the Holiday for Strings, and secondly with the old News Theme thing, Nonstop ...

[themanfromwem]

An absolutely superb video : witty , informative, great narrator, great orchestra.

A MUST WATCH.

Thank you so much for uploading, yours, Howard.

[yootesa1515]

amazing stuff.!

[Deel2506]

Thumbs up if you went like the guys on Big Bang Theory when you heard the Space Odyssey music!

[beachcomber2008]

Insect Nation sucked butt. A genius otherwise. :)

[WalterLiddy]

The cockney arrangement of the William Tell Overture was genius.

[WorldOfLove2]

I hate 2001 a space odysse. lol

[KannibalKorpz666]

Lol at the end someone threw up the horns

[KannibalKorpz666]

Luv the jellyfish song

[deval42]

I really want to see that 70's cop show!!!

[violetlover666]

@deval42 it's a mash up of themes from different ones, i thought i heard "swat" "batman" "starsky and hutch" and others that i can't name

[nayajhen]

One of the best bits starts at 48:00, Swan from the Carnival of the Animals

[fabiannieber]

Buy a spirit level?? WTF? Mwahahaha!

[SoraSlayer]

Hah! As soon as the insect part started a fruit fly landed in front of me. XD

[CharlieCDrummer]

gets better at 28 mins

[flyingfisbeefilms]

I'm in love with........Anne Dudley!

[tyresmoke]

the john williams news theme bit sounds like Jurassic park and et and all feel good movies from the 80s and 90s rolled in to one

[saxcamel]

love it

[llagin1234]

could insect nation be made as a spin off to war of the worlds story that would be awesome !

[kikikyami]

I think youtube should have more full hour movies n it like this. People tend to focus on the overall content more, instead of just 1 funny quote. Nevertheless I think this is hilarious, and beautifull and much much more then just entertaining :D

[Daxupa]

This is amazing and all... But I can't stop looking at that fat guy on the related videos...

[domstott86]

'away viral load uphold porridge being wheeled up a prank and dumped into a scapegoat' i love youtube's subtitle feature

[b41984]

fuck man this is off the wall great stuff

[lepuuttelu]

I wonder if it's difficult for the musicians to keep from laughing at jokes told while they're playing.

[Lieetheawsomelion]

I googled backhanded oboe compliments.

[spacegirl226]

Thank you so much for uploading this. It was incredible! Bill Bailey is a genius.

[select899]

1,642 likes

7 dislikes

Bill Bailey = win

[instinctfx]

LOVE that cop show Augmented 4th Analogy. Fucking brilliant with the strings.

[dannyjaye]

Thumbs up if you went and googled "Backhanded Oboe Compliments". X-D

[bored0stiff]

Then he went and did Sonisphere. He really is an all round entertainer...

[thatlaneboy]

He is such a talented and intelligent man... that leads to his comedy being so unique and enchanting, making you wonder which direction his surreal stories would take :-D

[GracieDavies97]

whats that song at the beginning? urrrrgggggh well annoying meee!