Favourite video this week comes from Secret Home Party (with guest appearance by Danielle’s moon). And I like the idea of them being a group of talented buddies who get together occasionally to make music and have a laugh. I want to be in that band. Enough of the fake Ukulele Orchestra, from now on […]

Kala’s roundabout ukulele amps are now up for sale. They’re only 10 Watts so you’re not going to be playing Carnegie Hall with them. But it’s certainly plenty for a practice amp, making yourself heard with a guitarist, or letting the flash Harry louder than the rest of the ukulele group. Most interesting uke this […]

Pretty good article on the uke resurgence on SFGate (via Ukulelia). The usual stuff but done more intelligently. Can anyone enlighten me as to where in I’m Yours this ukulele that everyone talks about is? Jim D’Ville asks National Reso-Phonic three questions. Acilius did such a good review of the UOGB re-releases I don’t think […]

Tallest Man on Earth is probably my favourite act at the moment. So much so I’m considering a rare field-trip schlepping to Salford to watch him play here. So it didn’t take too many requests to get me to tab up this song. Open-F Tuning He plays the song in open-C tuning with a capo […]

I’ve had a copy of Learn to Play Fingerstyle Solos for ‘Ukulele by Mark Kailana Nelson (Mel Bay) for an absolute age. And I’ve got a lot of pleasure out of it. So it’s long past time I gave it a write-up. What You Get Tab and standard notation intended for high-G tuning (although 13 […]

Darren Hanlon – All These Things (Chords) How adorable is Darren Hanlon in this video? So adorable I want to pinch his cheeks, ruffle his hair and give him 20p for Sherbet Dip. Good news: Darren’s latest album, I Will Love You At All, (from which this song is off of) has been picked up […]

A lack of visual appeal from some of this week’s videos with Wendall Hall and May Singhi Breen hailing from a time before Flips and webcams. No such excuse for Clock Opera who put up a teaser video for this song ages ago but I’ve waited and there’s still nothing. The rest of the videos […]

Aquila are bringing out a new type of string that they’re calling Bionylon (isn’t that what Wonder Woman’s tights were made of?). Ken Middleton has been testing them out along with the Nylguts – but is keeping us in the dark as to which is which for now. The Uke Hunt Podcast is up on […]

Bjork – It’s Oh So Quiet (Tab) Two rarities in this post: me doing an instrumental arrangement of a vocal track and, horror of horrors, me smiling. It’s no surprise that’s it’s the second one of these that everyone has commented upon. So much so I thought I should skip the tabs and doing a […]

When I say ‘essential’, I’m not just talking about records that are nice to listen to. All these records have changed the way I think about making music on the ukulele. They’ve inspired me to try something new, to be more ambitious in my playing or to think about the instrument in a new way. […]