Friday Links

More technical issues this week. If you tried to access the blog on Thursday morning, you might have noticed the site was down. Boing Boing – very kindly – linked to me in their regular cute ukulele girl post. This sent a flood of visitors and shortly after a, “We notice your site is very popular today so we’ve shut it down,” email from my web hosts. We’re back in business, but they forced me to reinstall the plugin that caused the last problem. So if you notice anything acting strange – like new posts not appearing on the front page – let me know.

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will be playing the Albert Hall as part of this year’s Proms.

Bosko and Honey start dishing out ukulele tips (you have to sign up to see them). And they give me top billing over Jake and James (just thought I’d mention that).

Sketches for Amy Crehore’s Ticker 2 ukulele. Which seems to have been ‘coming soon’ since forever.

Bill Tapia shows us his underwear and his “unconventional friendship”.

The French win at cool ukulele book covers and skinny ukes.

MP3s: Dent May’s Daytrotter session including the previously unreleased Eastover Wivez (Thanks Gary). New songs from the legendary Ukuladdie Archie Bester discovered in the archives. Song by Toad has The Empty Set’s Portia, I Dreamt You Were Real.

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  1. bosko & honey April 10th, 2009 2:49 pm

    Well, you certainly said the nicest things! ; )

  2. Brian Harris -chairman B.A,S,(E.) April 10th, 2009 2:59 pm

    Thanks for the link to the new Bester stuff.
    We believe “Life’s a Game ” is from an acetate recorded in 1927 and documents the time Bester was mugged in a pub “somewhere near Leeds”-which serves a Lancashire Laddie right for daliances across the border.
    “Florrie in Flagrante”-casts aspertions on his good lady wife’s fidelity -for which there is very little evidence.It is probably another example of Bester’s vicious humour.

  3. cardboardfrog April 10th, 2009 4:51 pm

    hester and dave from the UOGB were on chris evans’s show on radio two from approximate 4.30 to 4.45pm today it’ll be on listen again with the bbc iplayer from when the show finishes at 7, it included a two uke live version of le freak and should i stay or should i go including the standard interview questions along the lines of how did you start etc and gave details of the upcoming prom.

  4. cardboardfrog April 10th, 2009 5:05 pm

    also congratulations woodshed on being linked to as the first male cute girl witha ukulele :P

  5. byjimini April 10th, 2009 6:36 pm

    I can wholeheartedly recommend The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain; saw them in Darlington, absolutely brilliant.

  6. Woodshed April 12th, 2009 1:08 pm

    Brian: Thanks. Keep searching those archives.

    cbf: Thanks for letting me know. Link here – starts around 22mins.

    byjimini: I’m gonna have to get to see them soon.

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