monkeys, computers, ukuleles, robots, games. What's not to like?

21 Sep 09 Monkey Cowboys!

This is possibly the greatest thing ever made!!

In most peoples eyes (well in mine) the though of monkey cowboys would be more than enough, but im also pleased to announce that 7 mins 55 seconds in, we have a monkey playing a ukulele

Tags: monkey cowboys, monkey jockeys, Monkeys, ukulele

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19 Sep 09 Ooh La La – The Faces

One of my favorite Faces/Rod Stewart songs, this one. It works well with a couple of ukes with one playing the riff and one playing the chords.

And its dead easy

Ooh La La – The Faces

Tags: chords, ooh la la, ukulele

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22 Jun 09 This is all kinds of wrong…

Tags: aloha, dog, ukulele, wig

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11 Jun 09 47 Ginger Headed Sailors

Im a big Jeeves and Wooster fan. Both of the books and the 1990′s TV show. Whoever came up with the idea of casting Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie as the two main characters deserves a knighthood and a Nobel Peace Prize at the very very least. Mrs Zym and I were watching an old DVD of it the other night and there was song featured called ’47 Ginger Headed Sailors’ – and much to my amazement, its a genuine song!

Something that many people dont realise is that back in the 20s, 30s, & 40,s the ukulele was incredible popular and most of the sheet music available at the time included ukulele chords along with the music notation. It would appear that our fine Australian cousins have an archive of old (mainly pre-1930s) sheet music available to buy or download for over at The National Library of Australia

Click the fantastic cover to be transported back in time

You can search their archive here http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/ – and if you find any other gems, give me a shout

Tags: 47 ginger headed sailors, australia, ukulele

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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

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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

Tags: clock, monkey, ukulele

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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**

Tags: t-shirt, UILF, ukulele

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01 Feb 09 Fresh from the flickr feed IIX

yay! – Topless Ukulele lady!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kittenonthekeys/3242868461/

As a fine red blooded male my next course of action after finding the above photo was to investigate the ‘Kitten On The Keys’ photostream in very close detail to see if i could find any more.. er… ukuleles

It was ~~hard~~ very distracting work, but i managed to find a couple

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kittenonthekeys/369744396/

UILF

Tags: flickr feed, kitten on the keys, UILF, ukulele

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27 Jan 09 Hull Ukulele Group – Two Weeks Today!!

Yay!! I nipped into ‘The Lamp’ today on my way home from work and have set a date for the first ever Hull Ukulele Group meet

Like the man say – contact hullukuleles@googlemail.com if you’re interested, OR visit the Hull Ukulele Group page on Facebook, OR just turn up on the night!

Tags: Hull Ukulele Group, ukulele

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