For those of you like the me of a few months ago who haven’t seen The Wire, each series has its own version of the Tom Waits song Way Down in the Hole. Season 1: Blind Boys of Alabama The first series’ theme was performed by The Blind Boys of Alabama. The album that this […]

Videos this week from Jacob Borshard, Sweetafton23, WS64 and many more. Jacob Borshard – Rainbow Connection

From what I can gather, eBay were giving away pins at their live event in Chicago this year. One of the pins featured a character called Ukulele Jones. They’re currently all over eBay. After last week’s Camp uke and Venetian ukulele, there’s another one of Lyon and Healy‘s oddly shaped ukuleles up for sale this […]

Last call for entries to the win a Kala Pineapple competition. It ends on Sunday. Ireland will be having its first ukulele gathering in Dublin on August 9/10. Guest of honour will be Dan ‘Cool Hand Uke‘ Scanlan. If you’d like more info contact Tony Boland. Italy’s first ukulele festival kicks off today with appearances […]

Another song for the ‘bands you wouldn’t expect to hear playing the ukulele’ section. This tune is from The Shortwave Set’s ‘Victorian Funk’ album The Debt Collection. Of course, there weren’t any ukuleles in England during the Victorian era, but that’s just nit-picking. The ukulele part is quite traditional (and in D tuning) but cut […]

This week, I thought I’d go over the easiest scale around. It only has five notes in – as the ancient Romans amongst you will have already worked out. It’s also used almost exclusively in blues and rock music. C Minor Pentatonic The C minor pentatonic looks like this on the fretboard: This in tab: […]

Priscilla Ahn – Find My Way Back Home (Chords) A while back I was knocked out by a video of Priscilla Ahn playing a ukulele song. But there wasn’t any indication of what it’s called. I begged for more information but didn’t get any. Luckily for all of us, the song has cropped up on […]

Quick reminder: You’ve got until midnight on Sunday to review your ukulele and win a Kala pineapple. Here’s how it goes sometimes: I hear some ukulele music I really like, I ask the person if they mind answering a few questions, they say ‘go ahead’, I send them some questions, they realise the questions are […]

Match of the Day Theme (Tab) MP3 Because of my anti-football prejudice, I’d never considered tabbing this out before. With the final of Euro 2008 today (that’s soccerball to you North Americans), I thought it would be fitting and, blow me down, it could have been written for the ukulele. It also makes for a […]

Some really good stuff this week. I was going to include Johnny Marvin singing If You Don’t Love Me but I couldn’t embed it. So you’ll just have to go over and watch it. Jem Cooke – Miss You