{"id":725,"date":"2014-01-17T17:30:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T17:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moselele.co.uk\/?p=725"},"modified":"2014-01-31T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T14:26:15","slug":"meet-moselele-1-rob-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moselele.co.uk\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Meet Moselele: #1 – Rob P"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s this? Another blog post? Is this some kind of new year’s resolution or something? Well, yes. This is the first in a new series for 2014: Meet Moselele.<\/p>\n

Rob P was the first Moselele regular to answer all of our questions, so he has the honour of being the first member featured. OK… GO!<\/p>\n

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

My daughter asked for a ukulele, so we went to Hobgoblin. I get easily excited by various things and get convinced that I need “stuff”! I thought they were really good value, and ended up buying myself an Ashbury which was about \u00a350. It was in the summer of 2012 I think. I had an electric guitar when I was about 14 for a bit and only ever learned how to play Batman, a bit of the House of the rising Sun and not much else!!<\/p>\n

2) What uke(s) do you play? (Have you made any adjustments\/personalised it? Do you use a plectrum?)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes I use a Jim Dunlop .38mm plectrum. I don\u2019t feel that I get the right contact with just fingers and just doesn\u2019t feel comfortable for me. This plectrum is the thinnest I have found without properly searching and works well for me. As well as the Ashbury I bought first, after deciding I could sort of play it and was enjoying it, I decided I “needed” a better uke. I had always lusted after a Gretsch 6120 that Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats used to play as I was quite in to Psychobilly and Rockabilly music in my teens. Quite handy that they are much cheaper than guitars, so I got a Gretsch tenor ukulele and have fitted it with a low G set up, with Worth strings, and fitted a strap button. As for my Ashbury, I have a Elvis silhouette sticker on the back because he is the King! I have also filed and sanded the face of it a little as it used to dig into the inside of my right forearm whilst playing it. I also have a concert Moselele Bambookelele too which is standard and brilliant quality!<\/p>\n

3) Do you remember your first Moselele? (What prompted you to come along? What were your first impressions?)<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was the week after buying the Ashbury after finding out about Moselele on the internet whilst searching youtube about how to tune it!! I liked the idea that people are encouraged to just come along with a ukulele and play the one chord that you can when it comes around in the song. The best thing ever as a way not to put people off coming. There\u2019s nothing worse than feeling self-conscious because you\u2019re not as good as everybody else, but we all have to start somewhere, and everybody in the group recognises that very well.<\/p>\n

4) What keeps you coming back to Moselele?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s so much fun, the more you drink the better you get (?!) I like being there and just having a few hours out of life, where you forget about all of the other things life brings. Some times I just find that all of a sudden I am able to play the more difficult songs which is very rewarding.<\/p>\n

5) What’s your favourite Moselele song?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It changes! Delilah at the moment. F*** You was before that. I also like playing A Little Respect by Erasure, but that\u2019s a secret!<\/p>\n

6) What’s your usual Moselele tipple?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Five pints of Guinness<\/p>\n

7) Do you practise at home? (What do your family\/housemates\/pets think?)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not that much in fairness, and that\u2019s one of the reasons I like going to Moselele, although I do have a bit of a sing-song to myself every now and then. It\u2019s very embarrassing when one of the kids videos it without me knowing!<\/p>\n

8) What’s your favourite Moselele story\/memory (so far)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sing-alongs at the POW are just probably the most fun I have (apart from competing in cars \u2013 but it\u2019s very close!) The Christmas one is so brilliant, because hundreds of people let themselves go and just have a great traditional sing song. Brilliant.<\/p>\n

I also nearly wet myself at the Valefest as I was already bursting when we went on stage. It was close and very uncomfortable! I did consider rolling under the side of the tent, but thought somebody might have thought I had collapsed, or the sides of the marquee would be pegged down and I would be left lying on the floor by the side of the stage wondering what to do next!<\/p>\n

9) What would you say to anyone thinking of joining?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join. You will be made to feel welcome and will pick it up faster than you think. You will also meet some very nice people.<\/p>\n

10) Tell us a secret.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I bought a buskers kazoo holder that sits on your neck so that I could do the kazoo solo in Delilah with myself at home!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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