As well as the ukulele festival videos from Paris and Taunton and parts three and four of Bosco and Honey’s Ukulele Safari, there were plenty of other top uke performances this week including the ever growing ukulele tribute to The Cure.

The must see ukulele of the week is the this pre-ukulele machete (or brahuinga) that musicguymic has for sale. It dates from the dark, dark days before the ukulele was invented and comes from a Portuguese luthier called OJ Nunes (apparently, a forebear of ukulele innovator Manuel Nunes). It’s been in a Viennese museum, so […]

Ukulele Festival videos from Paris and Taunton. Kainoa at Easy Ukulele has been uploading a bunch of ukulele tutorial videos this week. Particularly interesting are the lessons on Chord Bending and Reggae Strumming. Jen Kwok has made it to the last ten of the Comedy section of Famecast. With plenty of uker solidarity, she has […]

Herman Dune – I Wish That I Could See You Soon (Chords) Slap my ass and call me Sally, I should have done this song a looooong time ago. David Ivar Herman Dune (or Herman Düne for fans of unnecessary umlauts) is a ukulele hero and his Ya Ya album is an indie ukulele classic […]

There are a few variations in how chord charts are shown. But, since they’re a fairly intuitive picture of what to do, it’s not hard to work out. The Dots The type of chord chart I use shows the ukulele fretboard as if it’s pointing upwards and facing towards you. The strings are the vertical […]

Magnetic Fields – The Nun’s Litany (Chords) As its title suggests, the latest album from Magnetic Fields, Distortion, is loud, dirty and electrified. As a result, there’s no ukulele at all. Even live he’s eschewed the uke in favour of a bouzouki. Nevertheless, no one can fully recover from playing the uke and Merritt broke […]

Kate Micucci – Dear Dear (mp3) Kate Micucci – Mr Moon (mp3) via her website. MP3s no longer available – you can buy them on CDBaby There’s little doubt of the link between the ukulele and comic actors. From Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, through Steve Martin to Adam Sandler and William H Macy. The […]

Father Ted Theme (Tab) Father Ted is one of my favourite sitcoms of all time. I don’t think it made its way across the Atlantic. So, for those of you who haven’t had the pleasure, it’s about three Catholic priests who are banished to a remote island; one for being so stupid… , one for […]

Bret McKenzie uking it up with his old group, sweetafton23, Taimane, Des O’Connor and plenty more.

The latest edition to the Flea family is out: Bark Cloth Flea ukulele. The uke was designed by Tiki King, so no prizes for guessing the style of decoration. When I first saw thiselectric Gibson ETU3 ukulele, I assumed someone must have screwed the pickup to as some sort of ill-judged adaption. But, apparently, it […]