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Er, the home page. Natch.
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Dates
Dates for our all-comers' thrashes and concerts.
Where are...
the regular UkeThrashes? (Google map of The Three Horseshoes).
What do you need?
What to buy, where to buy it...
Pictures
of some events
Videos
A few random (sic) YouTubes
Links
...to other local clubs, ukulele sites, whatever...
Ukes for UNICEF - annual Ukulele Festival. 2020's will be on Saturday 29th February.
The performers' pages
Stuff aimed at our gigging contingent: special editions of songs, mostly.
The Song Books
BURP Songbook - Third edition
BURP Songbook - Book 1 - Third edition A to D - published 15th February 2014
BURP Songbook - Book 2 - Third edition E to I - published 15th February 2014
BURP Songbook - Book 3 - Third edition J to O - published 4th October 2014
BURP Songbook - Book 4 - Third edition P to S - published 19th January 2014
BURP Songbook - Book 5 - Third edition T to Z - published 20th January 2014
The 2014 to 2016 Bonus Books have been edited, improved in places and consolidated
I have taken the four 2014 to 2016 books and sorted them into three alphabetic volumes.
BURP Songbook - Book 6, A-H - published 23rd April 2017
BURP Songbook - Book 7, I-Q - published 23rd April 2017; resequenced on 28th April
BURP Songbook - Book 8, R-Z - published 23rd April 2017; and updated 24th July to add back in the chord boxes for Space Oddity
Oh, my giddy aunt!!! Here's the 2017/18/19 Bonus Book:
The BURP 2017/18/19 Bonus Songbook Cover Page - updated 21st March 2019
Arms of Mary / Sailing (Sutherand Brothers mash-up) - published 7th August 2018
Can't Get Used to Losing You - published 10th April 2019
Dancing in the Moonlight - published 1st July 2019
Games People Play - published 28th February 2018
Go West - published 14th June 2018
Happiness - published 13th March 2018
Heart of Gold - published 13th September 2018
Help Me, Rhonda - published 7th August 2018
Human - published 28th March 2017
I'll Tell Me Ma (The Belle of Belfast City) - published 6th November 2018
I Say a Little Prayer - published 16th August 2018
It Might as Well Rain Until September - published 3rd April 2018
It's My Party - published 5th September 2017
I Won't Back Down - published 9th November 2017
Jamaica Farewell - published 11th January 2017
Let's Dance - published 2nd August 2017
Listen to the Man - published 6th August 2019
The Locomotion - published 11th March 2018
Mary Poppins Medley - published 7th March 2019. Heh heh heh! You'll love it. Promise!
Material Girl - published 15th September 2018
Memphis, Tennessee - published 5th May 2017
My Old School - published 5th September 2017
Rockabye - finalised 11th January 2017. Yes, Clean Bandit's recent Christmas number one
Sealed With a Kiss - published 10th April 2019
Send My Love (to Your New Lover) - published 29th March 2017
Shotgun - published 31st October 2018
Sound of Music Medley - published 29th January 2019
Where Do You Go To, My Lovely? - published 11th January 2017
Whiskey in the Jar - alternate version - published 10th December 2018
Wichita Lineman - updated 7th August 2018. BURPified from Scorpex's original version
Whiter Shade of Pale - published 5th May 2017
You Can Call Me Al - published 5th May 2017
Tablet-friendly edition!!!
With enormous thanks to Dave Nolder for collating and reformatting the songs, here is BURP complete and indexed updated as of 18/09/2019. Now re-indexed to demote "The" e.g. no longer "The Boxer" but "Boxer, The"
Note that the latest edition no longer includes songs from previous editions which are now officially obsolete. If you want those then you'll need this previous edition: BURP complete and indexed as of 28/12/2018
BURP's Christmas Thrash Book!!!
Our very own publication of plagiarised versions, tweaked here and there in the inimitable BURP style: The BURP Christmas Thrash Book
And a couple more:
Jingle Bell Rock - published 6th December 2017
Please Come Home for Christmas - published 9th November 2017
Merry Christmas Everybody added 28th November 2016
A Spaceman Came Travelling - published 5th November 2018
Contact:
get in touch by e-mailing "contact" at "BURPmusic" dot "com"
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