YouTube must be having some serious problems lately. I’ve seen all sorts of loading errors, my latest video took hours to publish and all my subscriptions disappeared. So my apologies if I’ve missed anything earth-shattering. Nevertheless, there’s menagerie of videos this week including songs about narwhals and unicorns, blackbirds and dik-diks. One that isn’t in […]

I’m really inspired by sanfordandsong‘s channel at the moment. No Shimabukuro or Beatles covers for him. This week he’s doing Aphex Twin. Before you throw accusations of snobbishness at me, there’s a Shimabukuro cover in the post (albeit Bruce) played by cute ukulele boys. Famous folks this week include Florence and the Machine and Eef […]

Top of the crop this week are two videos from Mathias ‘The Burning Hell‘ Kom’s Spring Breakup. Also up is a stunning Tongan send-off, Bartt and Ukulollo ripping it up, a band that bears a passing resemblence to The Folksmen and, horror of horrors, a football song.

Favourite video this week is a short and sour song from Savannah Smith. There’s only 1 minute and 13 seconds of it so I highly recommend listening to it five times in a row. Credit goes to Bossa for turning me onto Savannah and helping me to convince her to do a video for this […]

A rare occurrence this week: three videos from the same person. You may as well just visit Lila Burns’s channel this week rather than reading the post because I’ve also nicked two of the videos from her favourites. One of them is Ólöf Arnalds for whom I’m stretching the rules (she plays charango). When you […]

While I’m spending the weekend rocking out at Download (METAAAAAAALLLLL!!!!!!), you pansies can enjoy some la-di-da ukulele music including Bess Rogers, another ukulele playing ninja and a song about rain from, official International City of Rain 1987-2008, Manchester..

Videos this week include the Wellingtons with Bret taking the lead on a Randy Newman song (subscribe to their new channel), a snippet Martina ‘used to sing with Tricky’ Topley-Bird and her ukulele playing Ninja (see him more clearly here) and Ukulollo being hilarious. But my faves this week are a couple of originals from […]

I pilfered no less than three of this week’s videos from Jeff’s sites Humble Uker and Humble Baritonics. He’s been turning up some great videos recently so you should subscribe to both blogs. Hot on the heels of Billy Corgan is another 90s hero converting to uke: Trent Reznor. The uke crops up in the […]

I almost broken my golden rule this week by posting Taimane’s cover of Eleanor Rigby. But in the end she got elbowed out by some less expected covers of tunes by NWA, Iron Maiden and Rodrigo y Gabriela. Also up is a performance by Heather Smith at the Chicago Ukulele Cabaret. You can read a […]

You might have already had a sneak preview of this post, but here’s the finished article. Today’s tube includes Ukulollo with Siwar from Ukuleles for Peace. They’re currently offering a pineapple ukulele for the best ukulele song. You can find out more in this video. Also featured is Miss Jess. Her fantastic EP, Jammin’ at […]