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Save The Duke of Uke

03.06.11
More musical hub than shop - where celebrity customers include Emma Watson and Jack Black - the small Spitalfields premises that's making the ukelele cool faces a battle to survive... more

Queen's jubilee is a real royal celebration

25.02.11
Never mind the Royal Wedding - 2011 is a jubilee year for Queen. March 1 is the 40th anniversary of completing the line-up of what would become one of Britain's most successful bands... more

Ukulele takes the strain for stressed-out City types

19.10.10
City workers are taking up the ukulele as a way of relieving stress... more

Banjolele? You can’t have a licence for that, says TfL

30.07.10
Transport for London bans buskers from playing the banjolele on the Tube... more

Sound check: Rocking with Laughter

06.11.09
Flight of the Conchords are part of a trend that proves it's possible to make a comedy song you can listen to more than once.... more

A night of 1,000 ukuleles at the Proms

19.08.09
The sound of more than a thousand ukuleles filled the Royal Albert Hall in one of the most unusual concerts in the festival's 115-year history... more

It's Beethoven on the ukelele, by George

11.06.09
Anyone trying to get in touch with their inner George Formby is being invited to take up the ukelele and join a mass rendition of Beethoven's Ode To Joy... more

This transfer window is pure smash and grab

04.02.09
The unseemly scramble we witnessed at the end of the transfer window is not the way football should do its business... more

Welcome back Wossy

23.01.09
Jonathan Ross returns to TV tonight after his suspension over Sachsgate. For one writer, Friday nights are complete again... more

Best DVDs of 2008

19.12.08
From The Dark Knight to Curb Your Enthusiasm, here are DVDs not to be without.... more

Tony Christie summons up powerful croon

20.11.08
For an old crooner, Tony Christie certainly has some Sheffield steel at his disposal, as he showed at the Cadogan Hall.... more

Off the record

05.09.08
Many big names have new albums out in the coming weeks, but only one will make it to the Christmas list. David Smyth finds out who it could be. ... more

Old man Van's simply superb

18.08.08
Van Morrison was clearly working hard to refresh seldom-heard parts of his illustrious canon at his Kenwood House concert. ... more

See Britain's finest Ukulele players

23.07.07
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain bring their unique brand of music to London's Spitz Venue on 25 July.... more

Boys are back with a class act

04.01.07
Alan Bennett's The History Boys returns to London making a far stronger emotional impact than in 2004, leaving Nicholas de Jongh moved, disturbed and exhilarated.... more


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