Since I’ve been busy battling Mafia goons, shooting rabid dogs and swimming round Venice in hotpants I haven’t been keeping up with new videos, so I thought I’d knock together a post of my favourite uke videos of the year so far. Feel free to chime in with you faves and call me an asshat […]

1. KoAloha Sceptre – I’ve been lusting after one of these since they first came out two years ago. And listening to Jason Arimoto, Terry Kinakin and Alvin Okami’s mythologising just exacerbated it. 2. Le Domino – Surely the coolest ukulele ever made. 3. National Resonator – So I can play as loud as a […]

Hello from Venice!* Since I haven’t been spending 17 hours a day scouring the internets for ukulele links, I don’t have anything new to share. So here are some links to places that are awesome and don’t get the attention they deserve. There are a bunch of great sites in French: – Ukulele Dav – […]

Zee Avi – Kantoi (Chords) I love this sort of thing. I wish people would sing in their own languages more often. So full credit to Zee Avi for writing a song in a language I didn’t even know existed: Manglish (a cross between Malay and English). I would have thought this was a sure […]

I tried a bit of archery recently. The best part of learning to shoot projectiles is that you get instant feedback on how well your doing. If you’re getting it wrong, you know about it straight away and you know how far off you are. It’s much trickier to do that when you’re learning an […]

Noah and the Whale – Jealous Kind of Love (PDF) This little uke tune cropped up on the B-side to Shape of My Heart. It doesn’t seem to be available any more, but it’s rather lovely and a simple three chord song so I thought I’d write it up. The video cuts off but you […]

Southside Cemetery Choir – Raise the Dead/Raise a Family (MP3) Southside Cemetrry Choir – Weightlessly in Love (MP3) via Sleeping in the Aviary How could I resist featuring a band who call their debut album If We Bury You Ass Up, We’ll Have a Place to Park My Bike? Southside Cemetery Choir is a side […]

The Ventures – Hawaii Five-O (Tab) MIDI A strange tune this one. Each time the theme rolls through it goes up by a semitone. To make it easier to remember, I’ve kept pretty much the same arrangement each time through (rather than going for the easiest arrangement each time). The twiddly bits go a bit […]

Dolly Parton voice + awesome shades + describes herself as a loner = huge new uke crush. Also this week: The Hoosiers use the uke to flog some Coke (or Pepsi, whichever), Japan’s two nuttiest ukers together, I kill Seeso’s chances in another contest and more.

Mango seems to be the wood-du-jour. Most of the big uke makers now have a range of mango ukes. Perhaps as a reaction to koa being increasingly difficult to get hold of. The curly mango ukes Kala’s curly mango) certainly offer a similarly beautiful look. For some particularly good examples of curly wood take a […]