07 Jun 09 Just cant get enough
4 slightly drunk members of the Hull Ukulele Group performing a cover of the 80s electro-pop classic ‘Just cant get enough’ on ukuleles
We shit on the Saturdays!! 
13 May 09 Eight Days a Week by H.U.G
Camera phone footage of the Hull Ukulele Group practicing ‘Eight Days a Week’ at our last meeting.
I might be a bit biased, but I think it sounds ace. Especially since we’d only played it once before at the previous meeting, and up until 3 months ago most of the people in the room had never even picked up a uke before.
I am a very proud man:D
Tags: Eight days a week, Hull Ukulele Group, uke, ukulele
11 May 09 H.U.G rock the boat!!
On Saturday night 11 members of the Hull Ukulele Group played their first gig on top of a canal boat moored on Hull Marina. Driven on by excitment, empty stomachs, and too much booze, we performed various songs from the songbook including I walk the Line, Just cant get enough, The Bucket, Eight days a week, and Im the urban spaceman. Some of of it sounded good, while other bits sounded quite ropey. But all in all it didnt really matter, because the audience enjoyed it, and more inportantly, WE enjoyed it
Band Meeting
Tuning up..
Alan, Adele, Andy, Steve, Elisa, Matthew & Rob
Don, Shelia, Rosie, Ian & John
The bucket
Big Thanks to:
Andy, Matthew, Adele, Rob, Steve, Alan, Shelia, Don, Ian, John, and a special big thanks to Elisa for inviting us, and providing the venue
29 Mar 09 A ukulele ode to Mrs Pontipine
What started as a joke in the office, er…. perhaps should have remained one!!
This is my ‘tribute’ to Mrs Pontipine, a stop motion puppet with children, from Cbeebies ‘In the night garden’. I guess this is what happens when you have a kid and start watching childrens programmes through adult eyes (or maybe its just me?)
I feel a bit mixed about this song actually. Half of me is quite proud that ive written and recorded my very first song. But the other half feels nothing but shame for writing and recording a song about essentially wanting the fuck a puppet from a childrens TV show!
(i must also point out that the’ teeny tiny hole’ as actually a location within the show – honest!!)
Tags: In the night garden, Mrs Pontipine, Ukuleles
28 Mar 09 WANT!!!!!!!!!
I do love things that hit the fizzypop bonus multiplier!!
http://homedecor.cafepress.com/item/sock-monkey-ukulele-flamingo-wall-clock/118435551
thanks to J-hob for making me aware of this thing of great beauty
25 Mar 09 Next H.U.G meeting
24 Mar 09 Ukuleles i’d like to…
Or should that be ukulelist? (theres a few of them around!)
But anyway, I gone done made a T-shirt
**sniggers**
13 Mar 09 Unicorns!!!
This is like one next step above My lovely Horse
er…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agyTFHAZxFo
13 Mar 09 Once you stop…
Its hard to start up again 
What can i say!!
Ive been ill, Mrs Zyms been ill, Zym 2.0 has been ill (we’re all tip-top again now though!), ive been very busy at work, ive been busy at home, i’ll been too busy watching catching up on BSG & Heroes, ive been busy with the Hull Ukulele Group
Excuses over!!
Things are going well. We had the 3rd meeting of the Hull Ukulele Group on Monday, and it went really really well. Twenty twp peple turned up, uncluding some N00bs, so se split the group into ‘beginners’ & ‘everyone else’ for the first hour to try to quickly bring people up to speed.
By the end of the evening, even the people who had previsouly never played a note in their life were happily strumming along to ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ and ‘You are my sunshine’
We also had a bash at WIUO’s version of ‘The Bucket’, with Al’s Twiddly bits’ – i think it will take a bit of work, but it has the potential to sound great
More later…
14 Feb 09 Ukuleles killed the radio star
Matthew and I were on the Helen Philpots show on BBC Radio Humberside this morning talking about ukuleles, and the Hull Ukulele Group.
As you see, we really did smarten outselves up for the occasion, and even had a shave – not!
I had already consumed several LARGE coffees by the time we got into the studio – which might explain why i was just a little bit hyper…
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(NB. When appearing on the radio its always a good idea to practice the song you are going to perform, and decide which version of the song you are going to do before hand. As it happens, Matthew decided to go for the Frank Sinatra version, while i went for Brian Heftones)
Tags: BBC Humberside, Blue Skies, Ukuleles
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