There is a song on my 1997 album, King of the Ukulele, which always seemed a slightly unusual fit: while the style of Taking My Oyster for Walkies Listen on youtube sits well with the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s songs on the rest of the album, the lyrics on this track are,...
My video: The Complete Ukulele Course is now on YouTube. It’s a one-hour tutorial that I shot twenty-five years ago. Nowadays short-form video is king. Everyone with something to say or show, from knitters to naturalists and accountants to astronauts, is...
Make your Playing More Interesting by Doing It Your Way. When I asked David Megarrity, aka Tyrone in the duo Tyrone & Lesley (read the interview here) about his ukulele playing style he said he’d never been asked that question and promised to get back to...
My first impression of Tyrone, as he stood backstage at the 2012 Melbourne Ukulele Festival, was of a “geeky” fellow with a substantial overbite in a suit, wearing tortoiseshell glasses and holding a ukulele. It was the red fez on his head which gave me pause: a staid...
Recorded music used to have value and, while people continue to enjoy recorded music as much as they ever did, they no longer want to pay for it. How times have changed. When I was seventeen, and many of my peers were making car-related purchases, I put my money into...
