More technical issues this week. If you tried to access the blog on Thursday morning, you might have noticed the site was down. Boing Boing – very kindly – linked to me in their regular cute ukulele girl post. This sent a flood of visitors and shortly after a, “We notice your site is very […]

Ukulele Underground did their best lesson ever this week: a masterclass on how to pull an April Fool. It’s just on the outskirts of believable (there really isn’t any level of stupidity beyond the record industry) and the put in a huge amount of work – replacing all the videos changing every mention of Aldrine […]

AAAAAARGH!!! Big blog problems at the moment. The site doesn’t seem to be updating. So no new posts are appearing on the front page or anywhere else on the site. Phew! Panic over. A big thanks to Armelle for alerting me to the problem. And a MASSIVE thanks to j-hob for fixing the mess. If […]

KoAloha Ukulele Story is an animated short film about the history of KoAloha and has even picked up awards. I don’t know when we’ll be able to get to see it, but you can get a taster of it with this charming interview with Alvin about the Sceptre (want one). C is the official chord […]

Three videos that had me clutching my sides with laughter: Hilary Clinton and John McCain do the Ukulele Forum Rap, Ukulele en Francais and Unicorn Fantasy (that last one is NSFW and via Zym). The Guardian Music Blog discusses the ukulele resurgence with Dent May, Jens Lekman (who seems to be a titanic knobhead) and […]

You can listen to excerpts from James Hill’s upcoming album True Love Don’t Weep on his website. Chalmers Doane has posted all nine of his and the Halifax’s uke albums on his site. And the music is as kitsch as the covers. (Via HUG). And related to both those, the new edition of Ukulele Yes! […]

Jon Snow learns to love the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (but can’t grasp the concept that there being no guitarist in the band). Download a whole load of Garfunkel and Oates (Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome). In the ‘Where are they now?’ file, Michael Barreto Hindert of The Bravery played a couple of songs […]

Full close ups of Amy Crehore’s Dreamgirls and Ukuleles show. Demon, Slither, Lucky 13. Bobby McGees advertising Film 4 with the lovely song When Father Died, Ferrets Licked Away the Tears. And Jimmy McGee advertising me and playing a ragtime tune. New mass-ukulele record: 900. Word on the web is that Tangi ukuleles are shutting […]

Lots of ukulele MP3s: Pitchfork has a track from the tUnE-YaRdS (you can pick up the album on a ‘pay what you like’ basis here – it’s very good) and Dent May’s new video. A new instrumental from Bosco and Honey with Gensblue. New EP from Existential Hero (aka Steven Ray Morris of Foggy Ruins […]

Kate Micucci made a very big impression as the Scrubs ukulele girl. She was the second biggest Google Trend of the day (officially ‘Volcanic’) and the day after was the second busiest day of this blog’s history. Warren Buffett discusses the possibility that Obama’s election is a turning point in the struggle against ukuleleism, teaching […]