Last Friday, the Tatamimats‘ resurrected their Dark Side of the Uke show which inspired me to tab out the riff to Money despite it being one of the least uke-friendly riffs in history. The only way you can sensibly play it along with the original song and the Tatamimats’ cover is on the baritone. The […]

Warning: Some of these songs contain language and themes not suitable for children. The others contain language and themes not suitable even for drunk Russian sailors. The UkuLady’s hilarious songs are a regular highlight of YouTube’s stream of uke videos but it turns out I was familiar with her work long before YouTube was a […]

Bitch – Two Girls Strong (video) via Bitch Music Bitch first came to prominence as half of the queercore duo Bitch and Animal (tip:turn safe search on before googling ‘bitch and animal). After three albums, the two split to follow solo careers. Bitch released her debut solo album Make This/Break This last year. Highlight of […]

Mara Carlyle – Baby Bloodheart (Tab) After writing about her on Monday, I immediately started working on this tune and was given a further boot up the backside by Susan ex-Tobacco. The song is fairly easy-going on the left hand. You don’t need your left hand at all for vast parts of it. The right […]

A week in which I watched the ukulele played on stilts, Taimane mix with Scientologists and an explanation of the difference between a ukulele and a tortoise which left me even more confused than I was to begin with. Nevertheless, there were still some fantastic performances. See them behind the cut.

The Tatamimats‘ Dark Side of the Uke is causing a big stir. It may be because I’m not a Floyd fan, but I can’t see what the fuss is about. Long forgotten uke-comedian Archie ‘The Uku-Laddy’ Bester gets a MySpace. Robot crotches are confusing. Photographic proof that ukuleles make you happy on nerd’s eye view. […]

You may not recognise the name ‘Alan Hawkshaw’ but if you live in the UK you’ll certainly be familiar with his music. As well as writing the classic Grange Hill theme, he also came up with the bada-bada-biddly-do-boooo for Countdown. The 70’s was the golden age of TV theme making. Today, they all seem to […]

Beirut – Postcards From Italy (Chords) Beirut – Postcards From Italy (mp3) via beirutband.com My recent Fluke acquisition reminded me of the video for Beirut’s Elephant Gun. While I was checking it out, I came across this impromptu performance Postcards From Italy and decided I had to work out the song. Beirut mainman Zach Condon’s […]

I’ve been playing with Yahoo Pipes again. This time I’ve set up a pipe which, in theory at least, lets you search a number of video websites (including Midnight Ukulele Disco) for ukulele videos. Ukulele Video Search The Ukulele Video Search Pipe searches for ukulele videos on: Midnight Ukulele Disco, Google Video, YouTube, Yahoo! Video, […]

There are some inventions so perfect and unlikely that their inception can only be put down to a moment of pure genius. For example, who was it who first stood on beach, looked down at the sand and thought, “You know, I reckon if we melt that down we could see through that.”? And who […]