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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Time to look back on the ukulele videos of last year. And it was a bumper crop. If you need any proof check out the list of some of the contenders below. And – to be honest – that’s the real purpose of the vote: to get people watching excellent musicians. So if there’s a […]

Part two of the UkeTube features a beautiful song from Matt Kresling, shouty Scots GUGUG, fleat-fingerwork from Martin Wheatley and Ian Emmerson and plenty more.

A two parter needed for all the videos that have cropped up during my break. The first includes Emily Ritz’s newly christened band Honeycomb, Jake Wildwood, part of the UOGB’s Proms performance and Supercute! the new band of Rachel Trachtenburg (of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players) covering the Mighty Zeppelin.