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Drowned in Sound

So I pretty much started playing ukulele because of Beirut. What other musicians/bands feature the ukulele?

theboredom | 04 Apr '08, 22:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply



Jake Shimabukuro

He's the 'Hendrix' of the uke. Put his name into YouTube and be blown away.

Saw a clip of him on Conan O'Brien.

Conan pretty much lost his shit over it.
I will never be that awesome.

I like this!

Smiley time.

One day

I will see this man, and it will be fun.

There are many many

Magnetic Fields songs on Ukelele

Ukelele mekelele

How happy we could bekelele.

ukelele is so fucking in right now

SO FUCKING HOT RIGHT NOW

tiny tim

fuck your indie shit,this guys genius.

bs

ukulele has been and gone

duke of uke?
uni and her ukulele?
Eilidh's Daily Ukulele Ceilidh's been on teh 6oclock bbc news!11

noah and the whale

5 years time has it, and it is a choon.

should be on their myspace.

Well.

Watched the video on YouTube.
That was pretty cute.

check out...

David Thomas Broughton

i got a ukulele

so i could play cut and run by electrelane! i love it though; i tend to just work out how to play a certain song on it, which is pretty simple when you get your head around the tuning!

.

what is that DTB track called, its normally his encore isn't it.

Patrick Wolf

The Gypsy King in particular.

thank you

poptim..not seen that before

And

The Bobby McGees. Aye.

Was gonna say

Wouldn't it be nice by the Beach Boys but turns out that's a mandolin. Phew, nearly walked right into that one!

Most songs by

The King Blues

George Formby - When I'm Cleaning Windows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfmAeijj5cM

Lonnie Donegan - Rock Island Line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwWZff0l0Rs

(ok there's no uke on that, but it's still great)

formby

played banjolele, ukelele tuning with a banjo skin

banjolele

now there is a silly word. interesting fact though. that certainly looks like a ukulele in that video.

ah

looking at your video, clearly this is before the dawn of the banjolele. i apologise for my jerkish wannabepedantry xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Bei....

oh.

Peterloo Massacre

But only on one song called Parachute Drop which isn't available anywhere at the moment.

http://www.myspace.com/peterloomassacre
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4964691707

Ram On

Paul McCartney

can i jag?

im going to anyway.

http://www.myspace.com/themountainparade

dragons, squid and the whale and shackleton bewley especially.