I just about managed to drag myself away from watching OK Go videos long enough to put together a UkeTube. Credit this week goes to the Lummy Days ukulele podcast for alerting me to Keston Cobblers’ Club’s rather lovely You-Go.

Each year on the blog I run a contest to find readers’ favourite ukulele video of the year. Here are the winners and other popular entries.
2009 Winner: U900 Diamond Head

Who? Adorable Japanese knitted pair with a love of the Ventures.
Why is it popular? The characterful pair and wonderful animation proved a big hit amoungst ukulele [...]

More than any site (yes, even this one) YouTube has been the place been have first encountered the ukulele and had an urge to pick one up. Here are the most popular ukulele videos on the site.

Ukulele & accordion is fast becoming the new ukulele & kazoo. This week’s contribution to the combo comes from Les Poupées Gonflées (literal translation = The Swollen Dolls – that has to be a French euphemism).
Also this week, Seeso has moved all his covers to a new channel and has bravely reupped his cover of [...]

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 friends [...]

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 was knocked out [...]

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 this [...]

My favourite video this week comes from, Amanda Palmer’s conjoined twin side project, Evelyn Evelyn with a glorious animated video (which is NSFW if you work someone that frowns upon cartoon copulation and foul language – and if you do, what the hell are you doing working there?). Even if you haven’t been impressed with [...]

UPDATE: The poll is now closed.
After totting up the nominations, here are the 10 nominees for this year’s award:
Ukulollo – Ravel’s Bolero
Ukulelezo – Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
uke3453 – ma-i-na-ku-ma-na
U900 – Diamond Head
tUnE-YaRdS – Hatari
Dent May – Love Song 2009
Sophie Madeleine – Take Your Love With Me
John King and James Hill – Larry [...]

Don’t forget to get your nominations in for ukulele video of the year 2009.
Back to this year, two fantastic videos include loops, beats and electric ukes from Kilgore Trout is Dead and Little6ster (which I think is the first contender for video of the year 2010). Also this week is the swearier of Sebi’s two [...]