Back when I had an office job I used to spend at least a week before Christmas looking for things to waste my time on. So here’s my contribution to the wellbeing of my wage-enslaved brethren. And, of course, anyone else looking to play along. – Grab a piece of paper – Display your uke […]

Decorations are hanging in the street, people’s faces are lit up with cheer, kids are singing merrily in the streets. All of them waiting for that special day: the 1,000th post on this blog. It’s very flattering that the whole world has been brought together by the event. Unbelievably, those 1,000 posts have collectively been […]

Since the great blog disaster, the ‘Recent Comments’ block in the sidebar has been out of action. It’s a shame since many of the comments are a lot more interesting than the junk I write. So from now on I’ll be highlighting a few, fairly randomly selected, comments in the Friday Links posts. Here a […]

If you’re looking for some Halloween themed tunes to play on your uke, there’s a full list of the Halloween stuff on this blog here: Halloween tabs and chords But if you’re looking for someone else to do all the hard work, you absolutely have to pick up a copy of Mad Tea Party’s Crampstastic […]

Jim D’Ville recently released a DVD teaching you how to Play Ukulele By Ear and has been blogging helpful hints and interviews with ukers from the hugely knowledgeable to the clueless but handsome. So I turned the tables on him and coaxed a few my tips out of him. What does ‘playing by ear’ mean? […]

Time for a bit of a blog-break. No more posts until 21st August. No complaining unless you’ve mastered all of these: How to Play Ukulele Strums The pentatonic scale How to Play Blues Ukulele Naked As We Came Neal Paisley’s Gossip Sweet Child o’ Mine Everything on Ukulele Dav You can keep up to date […]

I’ve been promising these for a long time and you may well have seen a few of them crop up on various ukers. To be honest, the whole thing has been a nightmare. I’ve been looking at companies that print t-shirts and deliver them. And I’ve found that most of them are terrible. That’s why […]

By far the most frequently asked question on the blog is, “What’s the strumming for this?” It’s taken me about six months, but I think I’ve finally got an answer to that question. I don’t mind putting up strumming patterns, but the question really demands a permanent solution for people’s strumming woes. So I’ve written […]

Becca is the latest addition to the Bobby McGee’s and is described by Jimmy as a combination of, “my looks and Eleanor’s ukulele ability.” Not content with that description, I grilled Becca for some more details. How did you come to join the Bobby McGee’s? I saw Jim and El play in my Fresher’s week, […]

I spent a very pleasurable Saturday at the London Uke Festival and I’m now a world record holder. The centrepiece of the day was an attempt to break the world record for largest ukulele ensemble. And it was a success. More than doubling the previous record with a total of 851. If you don’t believe […]