Since it was National Poetry Day yesterday, a few bits of ukulele inspired prose. ee cummings finishes oil tel duh woil doi sez with this line: yoozwidduhpoimnuntwaiv un duhyookuhsumpnruddur givusuhtoonunduhphugnting Which apparently translates into almost-readable as: yousewiththepermanentwave and theukeorsomethingorother giveusatuneonthefuckin’thing Malcolm Lowry predicted his demise in Epitaph: Malcolm Lowry Late of the Bowery His prose […]
Archive for October, 2010
Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová – Falling Slowly (Tab) Another song from the movies today. And it’s a really lovely song from a really lovely film. In fact, second best song from a film ever (best song from a film ever coming up next week). My instrumental version is very heavily based on Rick Hulett’s. […]
Part 2 of the video round-up (see Part 1 here.
I’ve been looking back through this year’s UkeTubes and there’s been some really fantastic stuff. There’s been so much variety in the stuff that’s been produced. I was about to say best year ever, but perhaps it’s not quite as good as last year – I’ll say this year is best for videos and last […]
Bella Hemming – (She Might Love You If You Learn To) Play Guitar (Chords) After all the ukulele songs about the ukulele, it makes a pleasant change to have a song about guitars. It’s terrible advice, of course, but a catchy song and an excellent chord progression. Suggested Strumming For the strumming pattern you can […]
Richard Durrant’s planned collaborative performance of Tubular Bells at Wukulele next week had me going back to my arrangement of it and the accompanying comments about how dumb I am because there are easier ways to play it. Well, I always listen to my readers. I’ve gone back, reworked it and come up with a […]
Three of today’s videos come courtesy of Jeff’s series of animated videos. Flesh and blood offerings come include Those Darlins (who are my biggest band crush since The Detroit Cobras), a new song from Sophie Madeleine (with one more on Wild Honey Pie where you can also learn why Sophie is friends with dicks and […]
A few weeks back I was musing over the appeal of aNueNue’s signature ukuleles. Well one uke in particular is going down well – in Thailand at least. On the launch of their U900 signature ukulele there were queues outside Bangkok’s Ribbee. And there are plans to release it in the US. But the two […]
In keeping with this week’s Halloween theme. Mad Tea Party have released a rollocking new Halloween EP Rock-n-Roll Ghoul. And if you didn’t pick up Zombie Boogie last year, I recommend you do so forthwith. Call me sentimental, but I would love to know about the trees that ended up being my ukuleles. Even if […]