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As pretty well everyone must know by now the Moseley Folk Festival is only four days away.

That means that by Sunday Moseley will have gone Ukulele crazy. This is an official medical condition.

Not only are the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain headlining on the Sunday but our friends at SCUPA are organising a workshop. We say our friends but to be honest we’ve only met two of them, but they were very friendly. We reckon their workshop will be equally friendly.

On the hand if you think that you are unable to wait until the weekend we have our usual Thursday night meeting at Pat Kav’s on Thursday, at 8:00pm, upstairs. Probably the best way to start the festival.

Not only will this be an excellent opportunity for you to keep your Ukulele hand in before the weekend but we have bongos.

Yes, that’s right. Recognising the need to for percussion we’ve got our own pair of bongos, and a tambourine. This is truly uncharted territory.

So, see you on Thursday.

Oh, it’s also worth pointing out that we do have a Facebook group. If you join it you will get to hear news which is strangely reminiscent of everything that we already put on here.

I’ve taken on board some comments about the songbook and made some changes.

Firstly I have altered the contents so it now has page numbers for songs rather than just random numbers. The numbers didn’t tell us anything other than how many songs there were in the book. That information isn’t very useful .

I’ve been through all of the songs again and, I think, made sure that all the chords that are in songs are at the top of the page. I’ve also added all of the introductions to songs as well. Hopefully this will make starting a bit easier.

This does mean that you might need to print it out yet again but I reckon that’s worth it to have the most cutting edge version of songs.

That means the only thing I’ve got to do now is remind you that the last meeting of August is on Thursday.

As always, upstairs at Patrick Kavangh’s at 8:00pm.

This will be the last but one meeting before the  Moseley Folk Festival. That isn’t really in anyway relevant to anything but I like to throw it in.

It’s the Moseley Festival.

The single most exciting thing with festival in the title that happens in Moseley on an annual basis. Except, possibly, the Folk Festival or even the Jazz Festival.

We have a lot of festivals. That’s no bad thing.

The Moseley Festival is the only one that has a Ukulele component  (except the Folk Festival which has the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain this year).

The Moseley Festival is the only festival that is going on this week.

As a special Festival event we’ve got an extra Moselele on Thursday night (the 8th), again upstairs at PKs at 8 O’clock.

You’re obviously wondering what will make this one different, what is so special about a Moselele in the middle of the Moseley Festival? Well the main difference is that it is on the second Thursday of the month rather than the third Thursday of the month.

That’s about it  really.

So we very much look forward to seeing you on Thursday.

When I said we wouldn’t add any more songs it was a lie.

We’ve added more songs in anticipation of our exciting next meeting on the 1st July (this Thursday). It’s all about getting ready for the Moseley Festival.

As it is the Festival we thought that it would be interestingly irrelevant to add Everyday by Buddy Holly

..and You Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC

Neither of which have anything to do with each other or festivals. They are, of course in the Songbook. I’ve also got rid of some of the more obvious errors from the song book.

You might also have noticed in B13 Magazine that we are listed for Wednesday the 8th. We prefer to think this is some sort of innocent mistake rather than a blatant lie. We’ve got upstairs at Kavanagh’s booked for Thursday the 8th. Don’t turn up a day early or we won’t be there.  This does mean that both meetings in July will be on consecutive weeks.

That’s not a problem is it?

Yes, that’s right.

We’ve got Kavanagh’s booked for this Thursday.

That’s the 17th June, from 8:00pm, upstairs. Yes, we’ve even got proper listings now as well.

There aren’t any new songs, so lot’s of chance to work on what we’ve got, and that’s a lot.

See you on Thursday.

Thanks to everyone who made it last night. It was reduced numbers this week (damn you sun and your world heating ways) but we got through just about every song in the book.

There seemed to be quite an improvement with some of the older songs. Though our stumbling version of True by Spandau Ballet was a mostly beautiful thing to behold.

We had a bit of a discussion about it last night and came to the conclusion that it might be an idea to make meetings every two weeks rather than monthly. This should give more people a chance to turn up and means we don’t have such a gap where we can forget how to play things.

So the next meeting will be in Thursday 17th June. Remember all meetings are at 8:00pm and they are upstairs at the Patrick Kavanagh.

I will remind everyone a bit closer to the 17th. I’m intending to not add more songs as we have enough to be getting on with. I am planning on going back through the book and correcting all of the obvious errors, like Sweet Home Alabama just being wrong.

We hope you can make it on the 17th and remember we’re always keen to see new people.

It’s very nearly Thursday, the 3rd, and that means it is our third meeting.

Once again it will be at 8:00pm at The Patrick Kavanagh.

I’ve updated the Songbook with more songs.  We’ve got quite a few now so I think it might be an idea to work on the ones in the book rather than adding to it each month. We have more than enough to be getting on with.

So, this month I have added.

Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Urban Spaceman – Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

Paint it Black – The Rolling Stones

Only You – Yazoo

True Spandau Ballet

That was the second meeting absolutely completed and in only a few short weeks I reckon we’ve all improved quite a lot.

As you can see from the picture we’ve even diversified into Kazoos as well as Ukueleles.

We’ve now managed to play all the song book, which is an achievement as some of the more recent ones are a bit more tricky. I was especially pleased that we managed to make it through a whole run through of Walking on Sunshine.

I  was  actually a bit of surprised  that  Livin’ on a Prayer managed to work out so well. I’d only put it in as some sort of twisted joke. It certainly pointed towards the best songs being ones that people can shout/sing rather than ones that people necessarily like. Though I’m not suggesting including unpopular songs just for the sake of it. That would be ridiculous.

The Patrick Kavanagh was a much better venue as it sells beer and a room with a lower ceiling is less acoustically challenging.

We’ll be back there again on the 3rd June so it will be great to see you all again and we look forward to all those new people that haven’t quite persuaded themselves that this is what they want to do with one Thursday a month.

As always, keep the song suggestions coming in.

I know there’s no need for it. Humour me.

Just a reminder that the next meeting is on Thursday (the 6th) at 8:00pm upstairs in the Patrick Kavanagh.

There will be biscuits and surprise presents for everyone.

There are new and exciting songs in the song book but don’t worry too much about knowing them.

See you on Thursday.