by Darren Wright | Jan 4, 2016 | Other
It occurred to us that some of you might have come across our site having got a ukulele for Christmas and be thinking about joining us at The Prince of Wales, (our next meeting is on Thursday). We often get people coming along who don’t really know what to...
by Darren Wright | Jan 2, 2016 | Other
For some reason we completely forgot a Merry Christmas post. With the run up to Christmas being as busy as it was we had loads to do with putting out a new Christmas Book, playing lots of new songs to a room full of Santas and having the biggest Christmas Sing-a-Long...
by Darren Wright | Oct 19, 2015 | Other, Songs
We did the Rude Food Fiesta a couple of summer’s back. Being asked to perform is always a pleasure, but when we heard from the people organising this gig, Ian felt obliged to go the extra mile and sort out some songs we hadn’t played before . . . Some of...
by Darren Wright | Oct 12, 2015 | Other, Songs
The song is (surprisingly) 40 years old (released 1975) and its popularity has endured, it has a great ‘good time’ feel to it, despite its origins. It was written in response to 3 members of the band walking out on Steve Harley in a dispute over writing...
by Darren Wright | Oct 7, 2015 | Other
We were supposed to be at the Grand Southern Ukulele Festival this weekend but unfortunately they won’t be having stalls at their first event. [Edit]I’ve been informed that GSUF will have stalls after all and we have one if we can get there, I’m not...
by Darren Wright | Oct 5, 2015 | Other, Songs
My favourite is from one of the first LP’s I had, you could call it a gift from my brother in law but the truth is he wanted rid of it. Why, I can’t imagine. The song is track 1 one on side 1. It starts with a breakfast news bulletin on the radio announcing a car...