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 […]

Nickel Creek have always been too smooth and nicey-nicey for my tastes. So I’ve been a bit slow in picking up on Sara Watkins. But she is incredible. This song had me in tears. Also up this week: Dala (who are being supported/blown off the stage by Ukulelezo in a couple of weeks), Nigel Burch […]

Sliding into a well-known song to perk up the audience in the middle of a song no-one knows is a cliched, shameless trick. And I love it. This week Tom McRae and Matt the Electrician pull it out. With Matt the Electrician’s choice resulting in a bubble-riot amongst the 4 year olds in the audience. […]

Favourite video this week comes from Secret Home Party (with guest appearance by Danielle’s moon). And I like the idea of them being a group of talented buddies who get together occasionally to make music and have a laugh. I want to be in that band. Enough of the fake Ukulele Orchestra, from now on […]

A lack of visual appeal from some of this week’s videos with Wendall Hall and May Singhi Breen hailing from a time before Flips and webcams. No such excuse for Clock Opera who put up a teaser video for this song ages ago but I’ve waited and there’s still nothing. The rest of the videos […]