Sunday Morning UkeTube: Blitzkrieg Bop, Mark II

on Jan 18 in General by

I’ve not been doing quite as well with my Ukulele as I would have liked. My main problem is time. I’m currently working thirty hours a week, looking after Evan on Mondays and Wednesdays, taking a bulk of the responsibility for the housework, blogging, reading blogs, and also trying to spend some quality time with Kerry.

In addition I’ve got a number of side projects on the go. I’m gradually selling the unused portion of my DVD collection in order to help fund our trip to America while simultaneously pillaging lovefilm and blockbuster and ripping as many TV box sets to my iPod as possible (I’ve currently got a bit of a TJ Hooker obsession). I’m also starting to think about getting cracking on the vegetable garden.

And all this fueled only by diet coke, eggs and cous-cous.

Still I am managing to get half an hour’s practice in every couple of days or so. That’s not enough to foster any latent musical genius within me, but hopefully it will be sufficient to allow me to have a reasonable grasp of it by the end of the year.

I’ve currently got a few songs in my songbook over at Chordie:

  • New England – Billy Bragg
  • Accidentally in Love – Counting Crows
  • Garden Song – John Denver
  • Allstar – Smash Mouth
  • Music In Me – High School Musical
  • Island in the Sun – Wheezer
  • King of the Road – The Proclamers
  • Man on the Moon – REM
  • New York city – They Miight Be Giants

And I am bloody awful at playing all of them. The song I am most awful at playing however is Yes by McAlmont and Butler, which is a real pain in the arse as it’s the only one that I’ve actually committed myself to perform (in honor of the hopefully imminent conception of Xbox’s child). Still, such is life.

Anyhow, other people don’t seem to be having the same uke block that I do. A couple of weeks ago Steve from Life Begins bought a ukulele of his very own. Inspired by the video of Gus and Fin that I posted the other day he decided to record his very own version of the Blitzrieg Bop with his son Oliver. And mighty fine it is too.

Of course Steve could already play the guitar, so his learning curve for the uke was probably a little shallower. Still, that doesn’t stop me being envious of his and Olivers punk rock credentials.

Hey ho, lets go!




(oh and don’t adjust your monitor, the video actually is that dark. The lights were dimmed because he shot it just before bedtime. Just the right kind of activity to gently wind down an excitable three year old for bed no doubt.)

Next Sunday I might treat you to one of my own performances. I’d plan to stay away from this blog now if I were you.

Related posts:

  1. Sunday morning UkeTube: Blitzkrieg Bop
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  3. Sunday morning UkeTube: The Final Countdown
  4. Sunday Morning Uketube
  5. Sunday Morning Uketube: Steve

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