I bought myself a Kala lacewood soprano ukulele as a reward for finally finishing the How to Play Ukulele Strums ebook. So were the endless hours of sweet and tears worth it? Here’s my review: The Lowdown Wood: Kala seem to make a bigger deal of the lacewood but the part that matters, the top, […]

Katzenjammer – Cherry Pie (PDF) That settles it, I am moving to Norway. Judging by the new songs that are showing up, Katzenjammer’s next album is going to be a killer. I’ve been waiting for a decent recording of this song to show up for a while. Although the clarity hasn’t helped my lyric transcribing […]

Shelley O’Brien – Generous Waters (MP3) via The Globe and Mail I’ve had, friend of the blog, PaulC nudging me in the direction of Shelley O’Brien for some time now. And I’m very glad he did. She has a silky, jazz-inflected voice and has a way with a tune. She’s recently released an album You, […]

Kate Micucci & William H Macy – It’s Time to Get Laid (Chords) She might not have had the chance to jam with him when they were making the film, but junkets give you much more time for ukeing it up. Bart Got A Room looks like a damn funny film. It’s got people from […]

Part two of the UkeToob includes me giving the Uke Hunt kiss of death to four Shake Your Soul entries, Bess Rogers (who managed to drag herself away from the Boobie Bungalow for one night to join April Smith) and a couple of tributes to The Ramones. There’s also a version of First Day of […]

During the three week break there are too many videos for just one post. So I’ve split them into two parts and here’s the first. The curiosity of the week is a track from Steeleye Span with ukulele contributions from Peter Sellers (you can see a picture of them all here). Also in this post […]

I don’t remember seeing a baritone pineapple ukulele before. And I definitely haven’t seen a 5 string baritone pineapple ukulele with the fifth tuning peg being bang in the middle of the headstock. Kamaka, being the originators of the pineapple, are keeping it more old school with the HP-1 soprano pineapple. Classiest of all is […]

Ibanez are the latest guitar company to jump on the bandwagon with their range of ukuleles. Mel Bay have a new dedicated uke site which includes a chance to win a Kala travel ukulele. Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain at the Proms (it may or may not be available where you are). The film industry […]

Yes, I’m supposed to be on holiday. But I took some time out from the Pig-in-a-Poke intinerary of slapping Germans, flirting with French girls and performing 80s dress-up montages to pass on some important news. And the news involes Dr John (I don’t just throw these things together). Killian Mansfield has just released his album […]

Time for a bit of a blog-break. No more posts until 21st August. No complaining unless you’ve mastered all of these: How to Play Ukulele Strums The pentatonic scale How to Play Blues Ukulele Naked As We Came Neal Paisley’s Gossip Sweet Child o’ Mine Everything on Ukulele Dav You can keep up to date […]