Chris Orr - Tin Pot Orchestra

““The Tin Pot Orchestra plays its Greatest Hits.” We all remember banging on pots and pans of a Thursday night to show our appreciation of the NHS way back in the romantic days of early lockdown. My Tin Pot Orchestra makes a cacophony of sound from the every day noises of clocks, food mixers, and tin cans. The animals are sympathetic. Cats miaow, frogs croak and dogs begin to howl.

Tin Pan Alley in Manhatten and London, the centre for the hit song writing business was coined as a derogatory reference to the collective sounds of cheap upright pianos playing different tunes in different rooms. Are we now living in a tin pot world?””