Ari Pulkkinen – Angry Birds (Tab) Angry Birds might be annoyingly addictive and sometimes annoyingly annoying, but the theme music is outstanding. It’s one of two games I play and don’t turn the music off for (the other is Pizza Boy). For my version, I did mess around with things a bit. The intro section […]

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download MP3 The May 2011 edition of the podcast is here. Helen Arney very kindly took time out of her tour with the Uncaged Monkeys to have a hilarious chinwag with Bossarocker and play a few songs. As well as that there’s a bumper crop of songs. You can get the […]

Jonathan Coulton and GLaDOS – Want You Gone (Chords) Site update: I moved the site to a new host over the weekend which is why you may not have been able to get on it. Hopefully, things have shaken out now. If you’re reading this by email or feedreader and can’t get on the site […]

It’s a shame I never got to see the Asylum Street Spankers live before they split up. They were one hell of a band. Two video this week from their trio of final shows; one with Pops Bayless on uke duties and the other with Christina Marrs. Quick warning: I’m going to try to move […]

Martin, being a very generous company, allowed employees near retirement to come in on their days off and build an instrument of their own choosing. While it was a bit stingy not to let them do it in their work-hours, it has produced a healthy number of collectable ukuleles. This week there’s this 1947 Spruce-top […]

London’s chief ukulele floggers, the Duke of Uke are being chucked out of their premises. You can help them out by buying a t-shirt or donating on their website. While we’re in London, good friend of the blog and all-around fantastic person, Lorraine Bow is running two ukulele courses from early June – one for […]

Continuing the celebration of Manchester in honour of the Bossarocker’s Ukulele Show with five – mostly jangly – Manc riffs. The Stone Roses – Waterfall I moved this one up a fret because I like this sound of the g-string ringing. But, if you want to play along to the record, it’s easy to move […]

Yes, Uke Hunt is four years old. I’ll forgo the usual self-indulgent post and do a quick look back at the last twelve months on the blog and in the ukulele world. Stats My mind continues to be blown by the number of people who visit. In the last year there have been 3.4 million […]

The Smiths – Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now (Chords) It used to baffle me how people could describe The Smiths as depressing when they’re one of the funniest bands there’s ever been. Now I’ve figured it out: they were trying to work out how to play this song on the uke and it made them […]

The Uke Hunt podcast first took shape this time last year when Lou ‘Bossarocker’ Armer somehow managed to talk me into being interviewed for her Ukulele! show on Manchester’s Chorlton Arts Radio (my first, last and only talking interview). I enjoyed the show so much (except for that one wanker) that I asked her to […]