Right bunch of bloody weirdos this week.

After a week looking at cheap ukuleles, back to the ukes only those of you with vast resources who lounge in their ukulele-shaped pool wearing diamond ukulele necklaces. Starting off with a Kamaka signed by Eddie Vedder and used on his album. It’s being auctioned off for charity (read the details here) and has already […]

The outbreak of ukulele stories from last week rolled on. According to the BBC, Steven Sproat reckons too many people are playing the ukulele. A decent article (i.e. Formby is given more suitable prominence) on the Duke of Uke’s troubles (and Neil ‘Mr Amanda Palmer’ Gaiman, Iain Lee and Jeremy Warmsley have been tweeting their […]

Ian Freebairn-Smith – Magnum P.I. Theme (Tab) This one is a complete pain in arse to play. I was originally trying to get it together for Movember. And I still can’t play it properly.

Back when I first started the blog I would bemoan the lack of beginner ukulele books. The situation has improved since then. But I still felt like there wasn’t a definitive book that covered all the important aspects of ukulele playing – particularly the way the ukulele is being played currently. Last year the people […]

Neil Hannon and Joby Talbot – So Long And Thanks For All The Fish (Chords) This has the longest chord list of any song I’ve done. That’s thanks to a key change, a choromatic middle section, some essential inversions and lashings of jazziness. I wrote it up at the behest of Ukulelezo. She, quite sensibly, […]

The Leftover Cuties hit it big when Game Called Life was used as the theme tune to The Big C. Last week they released their debut album Place to Go (which they kindly sent me). If you liked Game Called Life, I highly recommend you pick it up. It’s the same winning combination of instant […]

Videos this week include the new one from Eddie Vedder, podcast star Helen Arney (you can download this song and a couple of others on Bandcamp for free if you make it before it runs out), Lemos and a houseful of buddies, auto-erotica from Garfunkel and Oates and plenty more besides.

After last week’s Window Shopping post I got a few complaints about the insane prices of the ukuleles featured. Looking solely at ukuleles I’m too poor to afford is the only way to ensure I don’t end up buying one. But this week I put my wallet in peril for you and look at what […]

A flurry of F-words, gaffes and misinformation as the British media has gone on one of their ‘the ukulele is making a comeback’ kicks (as they’ve done a couple a times a year for the last five years). A selection of the goings-on: – The most amusing was in the Telegraph which was originally sub-headlined, […]