Darren Hanlon – All These Things (Chords) How adorable is Darren Hanlon in this video? So adorable I want to pinch his cheeks, ruffle his hair and give him 20p for Sherbet Dip. Good news: Darren’s latest album, I Will Love You At All, (from which this song is off of) has been picked up […]

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 […]

Aquila are bringing out a new type of string that they’re calling Bionylon (isn’t that what Wonder Woman’s tights were made of?). Ken Middleton has been testing them out along with the Nylguts – but is keeping us in the dark as to which is which for now. The Uke Hunt Podcast is up on […]

Bjork – It’s Oh So Quiet (Tab) Two rarities in this post: me doing an instrumental arrangement of a vocal track and, horror of horrors, me smiling. It’s no surprise that’s it’s the second one of these that everyone has commented upon. So much so I thought I should skip the tabs and doing a […]

When I say ‘essential’, I’m not just talking about records that are nice to listen to. All these records have changed the way I think about making music on the ukulele. They’ve inspired me to try something new, to be more ambitious in my playing or to think about the instrument in a new way. […]

Peggy Sue – February Snow (Chords) Since the Peggy Sue interview I’ve had a steady stream of requests to do this song and I’ve finally caved. There’s a lot going on in the song so no blather. Chords There’s quite a lot of dissonance in the chords. The Fadd9 has an F, G and Ab […]

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 […]

MGM has the the new electric Fluke ukuleles. And they look rather nice to me. Huge variation between the look of these two custom Kanilea curly walnut ukuleles: Kanilea 1, Kanilea 2. The uke I want this week: Martin Style 3 Taropatch. Photos: Spooky man w/ ukulele, beautiful woman w/ taropatch.

Don’t miss the first ever Uke Hunt Podcast. Unfortunately, it seems to be the only audio-widget doodads that’s working at the moment – seems like a plugin problem. UPDATE: I’ve figured out what the problem is but it’ll take a few days to fix entirely. So you might have problems until then. MP3s: You can […]

Oxygene Part IV & Journey of the Sorcerer (Tab) I don’t know how Time Magazine reached the conclusion that the 2000s were the worst decade ever. A decade where a few people with plenty of money anyway getting fleeced by Bernie Madoff was one of the 10 worst things to happen. Bunch of wankers. Anyhoo, […]