{"id":7672,"date":"2015-01-07T16:06:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moselele.co.uk\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2015-01-07T16:06:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T15:06:12","slug":"thank-you-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moselele.co.uk\/?p=7672","title":{"rendered":"Thank You 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moselele.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-7671 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/moselele.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moselele.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moselele.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.moselele.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014-140x90.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Do you remember 2014?\u00a0It seems like only a week ago we were celebrating a year that almost exploded with opportunity. For us 2014 was a year we&#8217;ll remember for a number of reasons. We got to move into a bigger room at the Prince of Wales, so for the first time in quite a while we could play and breathe at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>We put out our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moselele.co.uk\/?page_id=771\">5th book of songs<\/a>\u00a0which includes countless songs that have become classics. We played a few\u00a0weddings. Mainly weddings of Moselele members but that&#8217;s good as it means they&#8217;re not embarrassed to be seen with the rest of us in front of their families.<\/p>\n<p>We went into a <a href=\"http:\/\/highburystudio.com\/\">studio<\/a> and recorded a song.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3JQYJkhhK9A?list=PL5A60B9E0C56DF2FB\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t something we were expecting to do but the chance to try and help <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moseleypark.co.uk\/\">Moseley Park and Pool<\/a> with their lottery bid turned out to be the sort of incentive that we needed. Though getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gurdanthomas.com\/\">Gurdan Thomas<\/a> to write us a decent song helped quite a lot.<\/p>\n<p>We got to the point where we have sold nearly 1000 <a href=\"https:\/\/moselele.co.uk\/?page_id=674\">Moselele Bambookuleles<\/a>\u00a0and got to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernuke.com\/\">Grand Northern Ukulele Festival<\/a> where we met loads of nice people. Even some people that have made the effort to travel to Birmingham to play with us.<\/p>\n<p>We had tried to cut down on the number of gigs we did this year as 2013 had been a bit overwhelming. We got to play for some great people at <a href=\"http:\/\/alfiebirds.co.uk\/\">Alfie Bird&#8217;s<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemianjukebox.com\/\">Bohemian Jukebox<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/oxjambrum.org.uk\/\">Oxjam Brum<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/a3projectspace.org\/index.php\/project\/nowhere_bar\">Nowhere Bar<\/a>. We also held two sing-a-longs at the Prince of Wales. One as part of the Moseley Festival and our usual Christmas sing-a-long. Both of them turned out to be massive events\u00a0with hundreds of people turning up and singing louder and better than we ever stood a chance of competing with.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that we learned last year is that doing so many gigs takes a lot out of people. Although we&#8217;ve always encouraged anyone that&#8217;s come a long to Moselele to take part in our gigs we did come to a point where we were much too reliant on a few people who know the songs. So we&#8217;ve decided for 2015 that we&#8217;re going to stop doing gigs and concentrate on our Thursday nights in the Prince. A big thanks to everyone that has booked us in the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>We will continue to do our Summer and Christmas \u00a0sing-a-longs.<\/p>\n<p>The next big thing we&#8217;ve got coming up is the release of our sixth book of songs. This book is going to outrageous with a notably inappropriate choice of songs.<\/p>\n<p>If you got a ukulele for Christmas and can&#8217;t think what to do with it, or if you&#8217;re a proper musician that wants to join with some communal singing and strumming why not come and join us? We&#8217;re always desperate for people that can sing. We meet in the Prince of Wales on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. We&#8217;re in the shed at the back (it&#8217;s a big shed).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who has supported us in 2014, we hope to see you in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember 2014?\u00a0It seems like only a week ago we were celebrating a year that almost exploded with opportunity. For us 2014 was a year we&#8217;ll remember for a number of reasons. 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