{"id":32295,"date":"2022-04-13T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moselele.co.uk\/?p=32295"},"modified":"2022-04-15T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T12:53:26","slug":"meet-moselele-28-rob-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moselele.co.uk\/?p=32295","title":{"rendered":"Meet Moselele: #28 \u2013 Rob A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Want to find out how Russell Brand influenced someone, but in a good <\/em>way? And why you might need an open mind to join Moselele? Then meet Rob: senior NHS bod, walking tour guide, author and, er, cat-botherer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1) Tell us how you started playing the ukulele. (How long ago? Did you play other instruments before?)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years my Dad played ukulele non-stop around the house. He\u2019d tune up to the words of \u201cMy Dog Has Fleas\u201d and would bang out George Formby at every opportunity. Clearly, as a guitar-playing fourteen-year-old wannabe rebel, my whole self-identity was staked in opposition to this strange embarrassing man, so I didn\u2019t go near the instrument\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until\u2026 Enter an advert on TV for Radio 2 in 2007 featuring Russell Brand (when he actually was cool\u2026 at least, I thought so) picking out Losing My Religion on a mandolin whilst waiting for the lift. Maybe little guitars weren\u2019t so bad after all! I waited for everyone to leave, taught myself the ditty on the ukulele and decided it was quite fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the video, for classic noughties nostalgia purposes\u2026 pre Global Financial Crisis, pre Brexit, pre Trump, pre Covid…. What halcyon days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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