<![CDATA[Schools Across UK Embrace Ukulele, Fling Recorders Out Windows - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Schools Across UK Embrace Ukulele, Fling Recorders Out Windows - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:44:28 EDT Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:44:28 EDT http://idolator.com/tunes/indoctrination-of-a-new-generation/schools-across-uk-embrace-ukulele-fling-recorders-out-windows-312040.php <![CDATA[Schools Across UK Embrace Ukulele, Fling Recorders Out Windows]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/indoctrination-of-a-new-generation/schools-across-uk-embrace-ukulele-fling-recorders-out-windows-312040.php#c2698164 R.I.P. Iz Kamakawiwo'ole.

The uke revolution will not be televised. And probably not recorded. But since both Lennon and Harrison were members of the George Formby Club - celebrating the UK's greatest banjo uke (aka "banjolele") player - it's been going on for some time.

BadUncle

]]> 33:312040:c2698164 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:44:28 EDT <![CDATA[Schools Across UK Embrace Ukulele, Fling Recorders Out Windows]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/indoctrination-of-a-new-generation/schools-across-uk-embrace-ukulele-fling-recorders-out-windows-312040.php#c2694499 @dickdogfood: nicely done.

BTW, Yet another sign that indie kids prefer Paul McCartney to the other ones...

gorillavsmarykate

]]> 33:312040:c2694499 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:48:57 EDT <![CDATA[Schools Across UK Embrace Ukulele, Fling Recorders Out Windows]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/indoctrination-of-a-new-generation/schools-across-uk-embrace-ukulele-fling-recorders-out-windows-312040.php#c2692725 I hear that you and your school have sold your recorders and bought ukeleles.

I hear that you and your school have sold your ukeleles and bought recorders.

Dickdogfood

]]> 33:312040:c2692725 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:42:19 EDT <![CDATA[Schools Across UK Embrace Ukulele, Fling Recorders Out Windows]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/indoctrination-of-a-new-generation/schools-across-uk-embrace-ukulele-fling-recorders-out-windows-312040.php#c2692328 Ukulele is the new banjo as far as the indie rock kids are concerned. Expect to hear far more of it.

I personally love the uke, and have almost entirely given up the guitar in favor of the little jumping flea.

so1omon

]]> 33:312040:c2692328 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:17:03 EDT <![CDATA[Schools Across UK Embrace Ukulele, Fling Recorders Out Windows]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/indoctrination-of-a-new-generation/schools-across-uk-embrace-ukulele-fling-recorders-out-windows-312040.php#c2692181 uke -annot be serious, etc. arf.

if this gets the ukulele orchestra of great britain any more exposure, only a good thing.

ass-hat

]]> 33:312040:c2692181 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:07:34 EDT <![CDATA[Schools Across UK Embrace Ukulele, Fling Recorders Out Windows]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/indoctrination-of-a-new-generation/schools-across-uk-embrace-ukulele-fling-recorders-out-windows-312040.php#c2691185 Heh, too late.

Not only is there a jug band renaissance going on (witness my good friends Escape The Floodwater Jug Band [www.myspace.com]), every indie kid in Iowa City has a uke.

It's easy to learn to play, and it's a natural for gentle pop song accompaniment. Girls look cute playing them, guys look sensitive. What more could you ask for?

They even make them with pickups in them, and a local noise band brings the mad uke feedback howl. What I want to know is what comes after the uke? Ocarinas?
Bassoon?

chaircrusher

]]> 33:312040:c2691185 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:10:02 EDT <![CDATA[Schools Across UK Embrace Ukulele, Fling Recorders Out Windows]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/indoctrination-of-a-new-generation/schools-across-uk-embrace-ukulele-fling-recorders-out-windows-312040.php#c2690863 I almost forgot. Since this might be the only chance I have to post a ukulele-related YouTube video...

[www.youtube.com]

I'm sure more than a few of you have seen it, though. Shimabukuro is becoming pretty popular, from what I've heard.

Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee

]]> 33:312040:c2690863 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:51:47 EDT <![CDATA[Schools Across UK Embrace Ukulele, Fling Recorders Out Windows]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/indoctrination-of-a-new-generation/schools-across-uk-embrace-ukulele-fling-recorders-out-windows-312040.php#c2690850 Wait... that morbidly obese guy who sings the weird Judy Garland-Louis Armstrong mash-up is dead? Say it ain't so!

MrStarhead

]]> 33:312040:c2690850 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:51:03 EDT <![CDATA[Schools Across UK Embrace Ukulele, Fling Recorders Out Windows]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/indoctrination-of-a-new-generation/schools-across-uk-embrace-ukulele-fling-recorders-out-windows-312040.php#c2690762 Upon seeing that video, my first thought was "HOLY FUCK, THAT GUY IS HUGE."

And then I remembered, "Right. Ukelele. NOT acoustic guitar."

So he's big. But not quite as big as I thought.

Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee

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