06 Nov 09 Chord Friday: Just cant get enough – drunken Hull Ukulele Group version
Originally performed by Depeche Mode, and covered by Nouvelle Vague, The Saturdays, and now a few members of the Hull Ukulele Group.
We made the video a while back, but ive only just got round to writing up a decent version of the chordsheet
Just cant get enough – Depeche Mode
As you’ll see, theres nothing complicated about it, and i think it sounds quite nice on the uke
Tags: chords, Hull Ukulele Group, ukulele
05 Nov 09 Monkeys and bears play musical instruments
Not content with riding bicylces together, it seems that monkeys and bears have a long history of partaking in leisure interests together.
“Monkeys got a squeeze-box, Yogi doesnt sleep at night…”
04 Nov 09 Street Fighter II in 15 pixels
GameCity: Street Fighter Squared! from Alaskan Military School on Vimeo.
Helps if you have sound, but its clearly Ken V Blanka!
30 Oct 09 Chord Friday: Ever fallen in love – The Buzzcocks
Cracking song this one!! Like all good punk songs, the faster you play it the better it sounds 
The majority of the song is pretty easy, the trick is to get the changes right at the end of the “You should’nt have fallen in love with” line. The best way for me to explain it, is to spell it out phonetically. Its ‘Cee-Cee Eff-Cee, Cee-Cee-Eff-Cee’. The same pattern is used on the Bb/Eb bit.
Ever Fallen In Love – The Buzzcocks
Theres also a Db that pops up at the end. On the chord sheet ive written this as 4111, but it could also be played as 4456. Either way, you then just need to slide everything down 1 fret to play the C.
28 Oct 09 Food moving robots extravaganza!!
Many years ago when I was a student, I worked in a Pie Factory during the summer. One of the mind numbingly tedious tasks I had to do for 12 hours a day was taking pies off one conveyor belt, and putting them on to another, where some other poor bloke would pack them. At the time i remember thinking – “Surely there are robots who could do this kind of shit job?”
Well apparently, these days there are!!
First up, POPPADUMS!!!
(those badboys are fragile, so thats no mean feat!)
SAUSAGES!!
(two packs at a time – fair play!!)
CROISSANTS!!!
(thats a lot of croissants!!!)
PEPPERS!!!
(pretty clever, but to be fair, they look fucking gross!!)
PANCAKES
(they aren’t proper pancakes, you cretins!!)
Anyone found anymore?
28 Oct 09 Bricklaying robot builds sculpture
Pike Loop from Storefront for Art&Architecture on Vimeo.
More info over at Gizmodo – http://gizmodo.com/5390317/robot-bricklayer-flawlessly-builds-7000-brick-infinite-loop-without-mortar
Tags: Robots
27 Oct 09 Flight of the Conchords in Beatles Rockband!!!
Flight Of The Conchords are set to appear in a forthcoming edition of the “Rock Band” computer game, the comedy duo have revealed.
“There’s going to be three songs on ‘Rock Band’,” he said. “I’m serious. You’ll be able to look like The Beatles and play one of our songs.” The pair did not reveal which of their songs would be chosen to appear in the game.
I assume they mean that some of their songs will be available on DLC, but its still pretty cool!!
Nice ‘Tache Bret!!
Tags: Computers, flight of the conchords, Games, Rockband
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