I’ve been getting a lot of comments from people complaining about the endless stream of songs I feature about Ukrainian constitutional reform. I don’t want this blog to become musically 1 dimensional so, with deep apologies to those of working on snappy rhymes for Leonid Kuchma and fitting Law No. 2222-IV into pleasant scansion, this […]

No sign of The Big C in the UK so I don’t know if it’s any good. But it does have Laura Linney, Oliver Platt, a uke theme tune from Leftover Cuties and a song from Tripping Lily. I’m willing to give it a go. I should warn you, there are a lot of instrumentals […]

Considering how much I love Springsteen there’s very little of it on the blog. Hopefully, Jim Boggia’s incredible version of Thunder Road will make up for the lack of quantity with a surfeit of quality. Also this week, Heidi Talbot with Boo Hewerdine (who provided uke for Hafdis Huld), David Beckhingham’s Stripper (tab for that […]

Part 2 of the video round-up (see Part 1 here.

I’ve been looking back through this year’s UkeTubes and there’s been some really fantastic stuff. There’s been so much variety in the stuff that’s been produced. I was about to say best year ever, but perhaps it’s not quite as good as last year – I’ll say this year is best for videos and last […]

Three of today’s videos come courtesy of Jeff’s series of animated videos. Flesh and blood offerings come include Those Darlins (who are my biggest band crush since The Detroit Cobras), a new song from Sophie Madeleine (with one more on Wild Honey Pie where you can also learn why Sophie is friends with dicks and […]

With three weeks’ videos to choose from, this post really packs the fantastic. This is usually the point where I say which is my favourite, but this time the first six are all contenders.

Two videos you only need to watch half of this week. Lou Barlow (off of Sebadoh) does two songs but the most entertaining part of the second is watching the people stood out in a rain storm. In the Polytecnik video the song stops and the visuals keep going. I assume it’s a video screw […]

It my not look like it, but I do put some thought into the order of videos in the UkeTube posts. Usually I’ll switch the around a bit and come up with something that I feel flows well fairly quickly. But this week I couldn’t come up with anything I was satisfied with. I’ve even […]

The imminent arrival of Charlie Connelly‘s new book about Ireland has obviously got me excited as this week includes two Irish troubadours – Vertigo Smyth and Peter Delaney – displaying plenty of glum-fun. Also this week: Katie Herzig (making very effective use of the dual ukes), some Indian/hair-rock fusion (*resists the temptation to comment on […]