Moselele

I am very pleased to say that we have completed revising Book 1.

You can get the new version here.

This version has many of the errors taken out and a few different arrangements. We were going to just let you know which pages had changed but in the end it was well over 40 pages that had changed.

I can’t stress enough that this is the book that we will be working on from now on. You will need to print it out as there will be no spare versions of this book.

I might say that again, there will be no spare copies of the book.

Share/Bookmark

Hello and welcome to 2012.

I forgot to update the blog for the first meeting of 2012 but that doesn’t mean we’ve gone and knocked it all on the head. On the contrary, we intend to bigger and stronger than we’ve ever been before.

We have lots of plans that include correcting all the errors in the first two books and starting book 3, we’ve made quite a bit of progress on this already.

We’ve still got the Facebook group and it is a really good way to keep in contact with us if you like that sort of thing.

We want to increase the amount of gigs we do this year and are always open to interesting offers. So if you feel your event can only be improved by fevered strumming, a bit of shouting and some enthusiastic counting get in touch with us.

Other than that we will be in the Prince of Wales on Thursday (the 19th) from 8 O’clock.

Share/Bookmark

This is a very simple, but timely, reminder that we’ll all  be getting together at the The Prince of Wales to give Christmas a good celebrating. We rehearsed almost  all of the songs in the Christmas Book at the last meeting. Some songs worked better than others, some surprisingly good ones.

We’re encouraging everyone to come along and join us and we have special books for people that haven’t got Ukes so they can sing along, if you could help out by printing some out to hand round then that would be really appreciated.

Also if you happen to have spare jingle bells then bring them along to emphasise the festive element. We will be playing in the heated beer garden so all are welcome.

We’ll be there from 8:00 pm on Thursday.

Share/Bookmark

We take Christmas very seriously.

We will be demonstrating this on Thursday when we have the first run through of the Christmas Songbook. We’ve got just about every Christmas song we can think of in there and we estimate it is 43% more festive than last years book.

We will be in the back room of the Prince of Wales from 8:00pm to have a good go at all of the new songs, so it would be really useful if you could you print one out. If you don’t print one out then you’re going to have to share and that isn’t very Christmassy is it?

It’s also worth reminding you that on the 15th rather than playing in the back room we’ve been asked to do pretty well the same thing but in the beer garden (the heated beer garden), we’re inviting anyone along for a good old fashioned Christmas knees up. Though that is the 15th and not the meeting on Thursday.

If you can’t stand the wait then there  is a Spotify playlist  here.

Even better than that is the YouTuble playlist we’ve put together below. I know it’s weird subjecting yourself to this level of Christmas in November  but it is practice.

Share/Bookmark

After the heady heights of Spookelele at the last meeting we’re back to the normal songbooks for this meeting. That isn’t a reason to be sad, no, the normal songbooks are great and they’re full to bursting with songs that we know.

Next month will be Christmas songs all the way so this will be the last chance, until 2012, to bang out our old favourites.

We’ll be in The Prince of Wales at the usual time (8:00pm is the usual time).

Share/Bookmark

It’s Halloween, whooooo.

As a special Halloween treat, this Thursday (3rd November) will be the first Spookelele. We have a new song book of creepy songs (songs with a tenuous link to the occult). As quite a few of these are completely new I recommend printing it out at you earliest convenience and having a go at them.

Dressing up in Halloween costumes will be positively encouraged, as will sweets. There should be lots of sweets.

If, by any chance you are not familiar with the songs in the book you can listen to them on this dedicated Spotify playlist.

I’ve noticed  that Spotify are becoming quite irritating with their insistence of linking into Facebook at every opportunity to to help people avoiding it I’ve also created a playlist of the new songs in YouTube.

I hope you can make it.

Share/Bookmark

We have to say a big thanks to all of the people that came to support us last Sunday at the Bohemian Jukebox. We were very surprised to see so many of you but really appreciated it. I don’t know if it was obvious but were all a bit nervous as this was our first “proper” gig. When I say proper I think I mean indoors.

We do seem to have accumulated a  number of different records of the gig, mostly through Ukenaut.

We have a great audio thing of the whole gig on Sound Cloud and little videos from the YouTube.

We hope that  those of you that weren’t able to make it enjoy all the recordings we’ve made.

Also if you fancy  booking us to play then we are well and truly up for it, especially if you’re thinking of Christmas. We have a dedicated Christmas  set.

Finally we’ve set up a Facebook page to complement the group, we realised  that some people might be interested in what we’re up to but didn’t want to come along to meetings. Now you can use the page and here for all your Moselele related news. 

Share/Bookmark

I’ve done a rubbish job of keeping the site up to date recently, sorry. As an excuse most of the information that I’d  usually have put up here has  been going on the Facebook group which now works more effectively than it did before.

I do need  to let you know that we will be playing a gig on Sunday as part of the Bohemian Jukebox. It’s on at the Bulls Head between 4pm and 8pm. There are few different people on so it is excellent value for money. It’s free to get in so it is even better value for money than you were just thinking.

Come and see us upstairs.

Oh, the poster seems to imply that we are either the first on or headlining the event. The organisers wouldn’t be so foolish so we’re on sort of in middle.

Share/Bookmark

It’s been quite an amazingly fun packed Summer for us this year. We made our live debut at the Moseley Festival, we’ve found a new home at The Prince of Wales, we’ve bumped up songbook two until it’s about to burst and this week we got to record in a proper studio.

Some of you will remember that a few months ago we got to rehearse in the fantastic Highbury Studio, well this weekend we had the opportunity to go back there and record something for a proper band. I use the term proper band because they have music that you can buy in shops and on the Internet which means they are proper.

A few months ago The Gurdan Thomas Collective got in touch with us and asked if we could help with their knew album. I seem to remember they wanted an army of Ukes playing the same thing on one part of a record. We said they could have ten, they agreed.

I think we all forgot about this until quite recently when they got back in touch to find out if we were ready. We all looked at the tab for the part and realised  that it was slightly more complex than drunkenly yelling along with Yazoo songs. We rose to it and spent a good seven hours rehearsing for about 40 seconds of glory.

It will be some time before we get to hear the results, but it was fun trying something new.

If you want to help us with things like this then you need to join the Facebook group, it does cause some problems because group messages get lost somewhere in the crazy system that  Facebook tries to pass off as a social network, but it is the best way to hear about specific things like that. Not that I can think of anything that is coming up soon.

So getting back to the normal run of things we’ll be in the Prince of Wales from 8:00pm on Thursday. Please try and have copies of the books, they’re in short supply.

Share/Bookmark

We’ve recently spent a bit of time looking at both the songbooks.

As a result we have got rid of most of the errors with Songbook 1, this means changing the keys of some songs and adding bits to other ones. I can’t stress enough that if you already have a copy of songbook 1 then you should throw it away. This one is different and is the one we will be using from now on.

We’ve also had a good go at adding to Songbook 2. We’ve corrected a lot of errors that were in there since April but also we’ve added quite a few more songs. We’ve added:-

Eve of Destuction – Barry McGuire
You Are The Everything – R.E.M.
Maneater – Hall & Oates
Faith – George Michael
I’m a Believer – The Monkees
Dedicated Follower of Fashion – The Kinks
People are Strange – The Doors
Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles
Cum on Feel the Noize – Slade
Mr Blue Sky – ELO
Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town – Kenny Rogers
We Didn’t Start the Fire – Billy Joel
Kids – MGMT
London Calling – The Clash
Bohemian Like You – The Dandy Warhols
No One Knows – Queens Of The Stone Age

I’m sure you’ll agree that’s quite a few changes.

We really need you to print these out before the next meeting. If you don’t print them out then we have to pay for copies and now both books are getting large that costs quite a lot of money.

Cheers

Daz

Share/Bookmark