Category Archives: Songbook

I know it seems like only last week that everyone got over wishing you happy new year, but one more won’t hurt will it?

2012 turned out to be a really good year for us. Besides our usual meetings every other Thursday (I know they’re not really every other Thursday when months are particularly fat) we got to play in loads of different places.

We managed to do loads more gigs than we expected last year and it is down to the patience of the people that turn up to each meeting that give up their free time that means we  still seem to be getting away with it.

We’re really looking forward to 2013, we’ve got a new songbook coming in the next couple of weeks but we’ve also overhauled songbooks 2 and 3 to try and sort out the odd errors that were in them. In songbook 3′s case there were quite a few.

You can download the complete new Songbook 2 here. If you already have Songbook 2 and just want the pages that have changed, you can download the Songbook 2 change document here.

You can download the complete new Songbook 3 here. If you already have Songbook 2 and just want the pages that have changed, you can download the Songbook 3 change document here.

Hopefully the change documents will stop people having to print out so many pages. You obviously don’t need to print these out but if you don’t you’ll be playing different versions of some songs to other people.

We hope to have the new songbook ready for you in February.

We are going to be meeting on Thursday at 8:00pm in the Prince of Wales so hopefully we will see you there.

Next Thursday (1st November) will be a special meeting because it is the one week a year where we break out the Spookelele songbook. All manner of scary songs (well vague references to the paranormal).

The book has been updated since last year. It has another nine songs in. So it might be an idea to listen to the Spookelele playlist to make sure you’re familiar with most of them.

There will also be sweets and scary ghost costumes.

We’re really please to say that Songbook 3 is finally finished. The different places you can download it from are almost limitless. You could just race ahead and click the link just above, you could look at the navigation on the right, where it says Songbook 3. You could always go to the dedicated songbook page (my personal favourite).

The last few months have been a mammoth effort, fixing the first two songbooks so we’re sure all the songs are playable and doing the longest book yet from scratch was quite a lot to try and do in one go.

I’ve got to thank everyone that has given up a ridiculous amount of time to think of songs, work them out  and sit patiently as we’ve gone through every line. This is the first time we’ve thrown a book together and then tested it. We hope the effort pays off.

If you suggested a song and it didn’t make it to the book then I must apologise. As you can see this is a large book and we couldn’t fit everything in.

If there are songs you don’t know,  you can listen to the Spotify Playlist, if you don’t do Spotify then fair play to you, it is irritating. Alternatively you can just watch the YouTube Playlist we’ve made with all the songs in.

Obviously what this means is that we need you to do some more printing. If you’re new to Moselele then please don’t think this is what we make you do each week. It has been unusual to have so many changes to songs in one go and we doubt we’ll have do it again for a while.

We do have a meeting on Thursday (1st), whatever the list of dates on the right says. I need to fix that.

We hope to see you at 8:00pm in The Prince of Wales to play many many new songs.

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.