Sigur Ros – Hoppipolla (Tab) I think this tune has to be the most overused piece of music on television: reality shows, sporting montages, documentaries. And now it’s been covered by the guy off of G4. That would usually be enough to kill off any song. But this song is so magnificent it gives me […]

Favourite find this week is Cosmo Jarvis’s catchy, King-Blues like, bros-before-hoes anthem She’s Got You. Also this week (thanks to Oren) is super(ish) group Operation Aloha hewn from members of Gomez (it’s Ian Ball on uke), Maroon 5, Phantom Planet and others who met up on Hawaii and, inevitably, end up using a uke. Familiar […]

A bunch of great uke photos this week: – If you follow Carmel Myers, Wild-eyed ukulele player, Ukulele player bores man to sleep. Hee Haw ukulele, wagon ukulele. Tenor banjolele from Beansprout. Murtlewood Ko’olau solid-body electric.

If you’re looking for something a bit more ambitious than the usual fare for you ukulele group/orchestra/band, James Hill has put a number of big band ukulele arrangements up for sale. It’s all high and low G friendly and in C and D tuning. To get an idea of what it sounds like, check out […]

The uke community obviously has a big love for woolen puppets. Last year it was Rod Thomas’s sock puppets and this year’s winner is the adorable Japanese duo U900. It’s a deserving winner and I caught up with U900’s human representative Yosuke Kihara to learn more about them. What’s the history of U900? Rabbit U […]

The Blockheads – A Little Knowledge (Chords) I went to see the Ian Dury biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll last week. Enjoyable film – mostly for Andy Serkis’s performance. And he was a hell of a guy: probably the only person with balls big enough to take the piss out of Mick […]

Michelle Blades – sleepless (MP3) via Last.fm More than anyone else, I look forward to seeing new videos from Michelle Blades on my YouTube subs page. Her songs are stunningly inventive and keep getting better and better. She’s just released a new albumOh, Nostalgia! so it seemed like the perfect time to ask her about […]

Ever since the Blue Peter/Cookie scandel, I haven’t been able to hear the word ‘cookie’ without sniggering. It certainly makes the Cookie Monster about a million times more funnier. But Laura Jansen does such a good job of playing her Cookie Monster cover straight, I was quite moved by it. But the most exciting video […]

Sophie Madeleine – You Are My Favourite (Chords) A bit of a change to the usual schedule. Sophie Madeleine emailed me the other about her next video and asking for my help (to be honest, with all the Valentines and, “you are my favourite,” talk, I’m pretty sure the whole thing is just a ruse […]

Quite a few lust-worthy ukes on eBay at the moment, but the one that really lubes my wallet-slit is this Mya Moe Tenor resonator. Some fancy soundhole decorating on this G-String Hibiscus and this a href=”http://ukulelehunt.com/buy-ukulele/brands/pahu-kani-ukulele/”>Pahu Kani. Another formerly Formby ukulele. A while back I was wonder about a, no longer listed, ukulele that was […]