Cannonball by Damien Rice

May 07 2012 Published by under Kitchen Ukulele Sessions, Music, My Creations

Hope you are having a good bank holiday. Here is the other song I recorded whilst playing around the other day. Here is my cover of Damien Rice’s Cannonball. It’s from his debut album ‘O’ and this song as a single catapulted him into the limelight in the UK. It was covered by X-Factor winners Little Mix… Surprisingly, I did not enjoy their version?

Anyway, please enjoy. I’m quite excited to say I have just ordered a new Uke as a birthday present, so pretty soon the sound quality of the ukulele won’t be as terrible – however sadly, it will not improve my playing.

 

Cheers
Dan x

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Ukulele cover Volcano by Damien Rice

May 05 2012 Published by under Kitchen Ukulele Sessions, Music, My Creations

So as one would expect with paternity leave, I’ve been doing the family thing on acid. Quite by surprise I got a bit of time to play the ukulele (it was magical time) and even managed to get a couple of songs recorded! So here is my kitchen ukulele session of Volcano by Damien Rice.

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Walk off the Earth – Gotye Cover

Apr 19 2012 Published by under Sharing cool stuff, Video

Hello. How are you?

It’s been a while since I’ve shared any cool stuff so I thought I would. If you use youtube, or facebook, or twitter, or the internet, there’s a very good chance that you are one of the 92M people that have watched Walk off the Earth’s Cover of Gotye’s (pronounced  ”Gaultier” apparently) “Someone that I used to know”. Just stunning.

What this did was finally get me to download an album of his, I’ve had a random track for a few years but had never got round to looking for anything else (“Learnalilgivinanlovin”  from Like Drawing Blood if you’re interested – it’s a great song to dance to).

Anyway, incase you aren’t one of those 92M people, have a listen to these very, very talented people.

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Ukulele Cover Starlings by Elbow

Apr 16 2012 Published by under Kitchen Ukulele Sessions, Music, My Creations

Mondays can be hard, but playing Ukulele in the kitchen at the end of them can be fun. It was welcome relief tonight.  Played around a few ‘new’ songs tonight. And also revisited a favourite.

Starlings by Elbow is massively important to me. I was still big into ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ when the bear was born, and will never forget listening to it whilst rocking her to sleep in the hospital. It has seen become an album I associate with her. It gives me goosebumps even now thinking about that moment.

For about 18 months before stories were on the agenda, I used to sing her to sleep at night. I’d always start with starlings. It used to be magic at calming her, it certainly calms me and I love singing it.

This is one of the first times I tried to destroy with my piss poor ukulele playing

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2nd Law – Tom Mcrae

Apr 15 2012 Published by under Kitchen Ukulele Sessions, Music, My Creations

As part of this festival of a weekend I embarked upon another kitchen ukulele sesh amidst the general fuck-uppery of the whole jaunt I did record another Tom Mcrae tune. A few weeks back I posted my version of  Bloodless by Tom Mcrae. I’ve taken another track from his debut album, this time 2nd Law.

Hope you enjoy my cover of it, but I recommend you check out the original recording. Any thoughts, drop me a shout on dan@danpatmore.com,

cheers

Dan x

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Ukulele cover of Blood Bank – Bon Iver

Mar 31 2012 Published by under Kitchen Ukulele Sessions, Music, My Creations

In what has otherwise been a fairly torrid week, I found a few minutes for some kitchen ukulele love. It was for another Bon Iver moment, the other song of theirs I currently attack on my uke.

I’m a little disappointed with this as I was hoping to give you something a little more raucous, but my poor musicianship can’t keep the rhythm if I go for it too hard vocally, so this is a few takes in where I just wanted to get something recorded. I am intending on doing this again a bit more raw once I am a bit better versed in it.

Either way it’s a fantastic song, and now my version goes off to battle with the countless other covers of it on youtube. When I saw Bon Iver in October I was taken a back by how raw and rocky they took it.

If you can’t see this go to youtube to check it out

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Ballad of Me and My Friends – Frank Turner

Mar 31 2012 Published by under Kitchen Ukulele Sessions, Music, My Creations

The weekend has arrived, thank goodness. Kicked it off with a bit of shouting in the kitchen, and quite impressively it doesn’t involve elbow, fleet foxes or bon iver! This is only the 2nd time I have played this song on my uke.

The song is ballad of me and my friends by Frank Turner. I quite annoyingly have a wrong word in there (left our soul rather than sold our soul) and admittedly the playing is a little scrappy, but I thought I’d go with it anyway. I’m keen just to record and share rather than get hung up on perfection. My playing isn’t perfect but I’m just trying to have fun, so I’m just rolling with it. Long may the Kitchen Ukulele Sessions continue!

if you can’t see the iframe above, check out my version of ballad of me and my friends on youtube.

Peace

Dan x

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Switching off – Elbow, Kitchen Ukulele Session

Mar 23 2012 Published by under Kitchen Ukulele Sessions, Music, My Creations

Another of this weeks kitchen ukulele recordings. And it’s another elbow one. Having already posted versions of lippy kids and not a job I bring you another track off of cast of thousands. This time it’s switching off.

I seem to have jumbled around a few words in the chorus, which just goes to show how rough and ready these kitchen recordings are, but it’s not perfection I am after.

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Fleet Foxes Ukulele Cover – He doesn’t know why

Mar 23 2012 Published by under Kitchen Ukulele Sessions, Music, My Creations

Another of the kitchen ukulele sessions a ramshackle one take recording of He Doesn’t Know Why by Fleet Foxes. My rendition is a bit rough around the edges and not quite as tuneful as it could be, but I enjoy playing it. Hopefully you won’t be too offended listening! If you are, I’d suggest my ukulele cover of flume by Bon Iver

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Not a Job Elbow Ukulele Cover

Mar 23 2012 Published by under Kitchen Ukulele Sessions, Music, My Creations

I love the band Elbow. Alot. Alot of my ukulele time is spent playing Elbow tunes, so it’s no surprise that I may rack up a few of their tunes in my kitchen ukulele sessions. The first ukulele video I put up was an Elbow one, see my ukulele cover of lippy kids

This is Not a Job, from the album Cast of Thousands. I always say it’s my least favourite album, but some of my favourite songs are on it. This is one of them.

I have also uploaded a ukulele cover of switching off by elbow

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