| HERE'S 3 CHORDS #1 May 2013 ***** The bright pink covers screams THE PUKES, and it is totally from that zany crew of punks who take up the ukulele to play, have fun and beam out their unique sound to punks all over the world. Art council funded and don't it make a difference to the print job and quality of paper this zine is printed on! And it all comes with a fantastic eye catching layout. Although written and designed by the Pukes they literally encourage punks from all walks of life to take up this novel form of expression and make the ukulele punk. There's chord diagrams, lyrics, and strumming sequences lovingly drawn out for potential beginners. We also get seasoned Uke punks telling us how they got into this new phenomenon. Like Uke Punk a northern trio of Uke players, Gus And Fin a Glaswegian punk duo who do some fantastic covers check em out on youtube or solo artist Itch. One thing you notice about the Uke fraternity is its open to anyone, young and old and total novices there doesn't seem to be no ego's involved. And whats predominant is they all got a sense of yuma!!! Which I like a lot. Its not just a UK thing either, we get punk cabaret specialist the highly renowned Amanda Palmer with her Uke Anthem and even Marjinal street punks from Indonesia playing them. The only thing missing was where you buy em, or how much they cost but they're usually only about £20 for cheap beginners which is dirt cheap in anyone's books. This zine is packed full of useful info displayed in an attractive format. Only one issue so far, but since this was released the Pukes have toured and released an album, so a new issue might be imminent. So if you fancy watching or hearing a gang of females, some of em punk and even the odd lucky male thrown into the mix doing your favourite punk covers, then check out this bunch who make covers a whole new ball game reinvented with that Formby twang. You can check out the Pukes current state of play at this address. Cheers to Paul K for passing this one on. £2.00 including p and p thepukes.co.uk/ |
