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#100DaysOfUke2026 2/100 — I'm Not In Love by 10CC, from 1975. (Over 50 years if you're counting).

I've done this at an open mic with another third of the Collective Noun Trio, and I'm looking forward to doing it again! It works remarkably well on uke.

Lessons to self, after doing this in just 1 take:
1. Play a little earlier in the day, so I don't feel so bad about belting my voice out a bit.
2. Remember to smile more -- you can hear it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsDoWqgBMYA

#ukulele #10cc #ukulelecover

100 Days of Ukulele day 2/100: I'm Not In Love by 10CC

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Aza Dec 28

New video! Hones In The Hair by Blackbird Raum when I was busking in London while passing thru this summer!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMeTMc9EtgM

Invidious: https://invidious.f5.si/watch?v=PMeTMc9EtgM

#folkpunk #queerpunk #busking #blackbirdraum #ukulele #ukulelecover

Honey In The Hair - Blackbird Raum Ukulele cover | busking in London

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Aza May 21, 2025

@[email protected] and I were busking together recently, and we have a video covering From Here To Utopia by Pat The Bunny together, on accordion and banjolele! hope u enjoy<3

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Invidious

#folkpunk #queermusic #transmusicians #buskers #ukulelecover #banjolele #accordion #ukulele #patthebunny #folkmusic #anarchism #transpunk #ramshackleglory #folkpunk #queermusic #queerberlin #jamsession #lottomusik #rotzfrecheasphaltkultur #berlinpunk #friedrichshain

From Here To Utopia - Pat the Bunny cover by buskers Ponyo Elfenpunk + describing unity

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Aza Jan 11, 2025

wait what, did I just forget to post here the last couple weeks, cause I put a few videos on the internet since that I wanna share~ like, on New Years Day I recorded 2 covers,
A Bigger Cage Is Still A Prison by #cistemfailure
and Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart by #patrickfitzgerald
with a very low-budget #fireworks show!! #anarchofolk #folkpunk # #tranarchy #ukulelecover #queerpunk #ukulele #acousticpunk #acousticmusic

A Bigger Cage Is Still A Prison - Cistem Failure Ukulele Cover (with fireworks!)

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Jeremy Nickurak Sep 8, 2024

The second of 3 tunes I recorded for this year's Play Music On The Porch Day. It's easily my you-get-one-band's-collection-to-listen-to-while-lost-on-a-desert-island band, They Might Be Giants.
This is my first take on Sometimes A Lonely Way. If you're interested in playing along on your uke, I'll throw my chord chart in the replies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wY_zzij03s

#PlayMusicOnThePorchDay #ukulelecover #yegmusic #theymightbegiants #ukulele #music

Balcony Ukulele Cover - They Might Be Giants - Sometimes a Lonely Way

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Ashley Halliwell Aug 12, 2024

Hey, everyone. Allēna I have another set of random things I made for y’all today.

First up, here are two covers I cut in the spare room at the Zelda System’s place today. I’ve been experimenting more with ambient noise and attempting to free myself from having to do things perfectly, so I have been going into the spare room in the midafternoons and putting SOMETHING down, even if it’s random improvisations, as close to daily as possible. I did these with the window open in there but the mic pointed away from the window, huddled in close. You can hear cicadas singing and cars and planes passing by, and honestly I love it. Enjoy, y’all:

A cover of the old Elvis song “Can’t Help Falling In Love” I did by Emerson’s request today. A cover of “Unchained Melody” by the Righteous Brothers I did today. It’s my nana’s favorite, so I wanted to record a version for her.

Next, here are a couple poems I’ve written in the past couple of days:

The first poem..

I disappeared along with my dislike into the gray
This city is loud but for now it sleeps
Everywhere but here
My world is in this room tonight, and I shall conquer him
Let him swallow me whole…
This is a radiant world, sweet, golden, satin-soft, delicious
I have to remind myself this is real every time
You feel so damn good I could cry

I thought loving you would take more convincing
Yet here I lay, heart open wide, easily as breathing
Awash in longing and sleepy lamplight
And I think right now I would let you take me far away from this place if you wanted to
Anywhere you wanted

I love the way you lose all restraint the moment you look at me
I want to know your touch in every lifetime
Your eyes are golden like afternoon light in Maryland in October
Or perhaps Anchorage in June, ten PM
You make me realize why people in love build monuments to their lovers
Because I want to build a house, a hall, a castle… anything to honor how beautiful you look in this moment - and I have moments like that at least a hundred times a day

And the second…

I made it back to the coast in about half a decade, they’ll say
There’s a house with my name on it built in 1734
Two rambling men took a chance on a woman that burned like hellfire and we made it out alive

You can’t have it all, they tried telling me when I was younger
But that’s because they never gave themselves permission to get what it was they wanted
They never knew what to do with their child with ghosts in her bones
Haunted by the living before they ever spoke to her
So naturally they would never understand what it is I have or what I see

The course of the future is changing with the leaves
The world will be different come next spring
And yes, I will die in these woods
But not in the way I thought I would
I will die old, happy and free

Neither of them have titles yet, and I don’t know if they ever will. I’m enjoying playing around creatively with very little pressure to produce anything in particular and posting what I make here as it comes out. It’s very freeing, honestly.

I hope you liked today’s offerings, and as always, stay tuned for more magic!

-Allēna

https://opensorceryy.co/two-covers-and-two-poems/

#chaosNana #cover #Elvis #Emerson #freeVerse #ourPoetry #playingAround #poetry #recording #righteousBrothers #ukuleleCover #unchainedMelody

Two Covers and Two Poems - Open Sorcery

Hey, everyone. Allēna I have another set of random things I made for y’all today. First up, here are two covers I cut in the spare room at the Zelda System’s place today. I’ve been experimenting more with ambient noise and attempting to free myself from having to do things perfectly, so I have been […]

Open Sorcery

Ashley Halliwell Aug 10, 2024

Hey, everyone! Allēna here. Eight mentioned awhile ago on here that I had recorded a cover of “Numb” by Linkin Park because I was in that sort of headspace. Well, Fen finally figured out how to upload audio, so I’m gonna FUCKING POST IT HERE for y’all! Enjoy!

My very jazzy cover of “Numb” by Linkin Park. Play it, download it to your heart’s content, y’all can even remix it and add to it if you want. Just please don’t take credit for writing it (that honor goes to the late, great Chester Bennington and his band, I’m unsure of who all contributed) or performing it. Be kind 💛

There’s more magic and BS to come, people! Stay tuned.

-Allēna

https://opensorceryy.co/numb-linkin-park-cover/

#baritoneVoice #blues #bluesy #catharsis #cover #jazz #LinkinPark #music #ukuleleCover

Of Two Minds Or More - Open Sorcery

Hey, everyone. This is Eight. I don’t think I will be sharing this post on my main socials so that I can write more freely. Siege didn’t share the last one on our main channels, either. So I suppose that whoever comes across these next few posts is meant to see them and whatever happens […]

Open Sorcery