PLUC Tenth Anniversary – Out In The Beer Garden With Julie (second from left)
Another sad casualty of the Coronavirus pandemic, PLUC’s home for over twelve years, is gone. We’ve recently been informed that the Lewis Club at Lewisham Hospital has been permanently closed. The Trust have yet to decide how to repurpose the space.
We’ll be sending a thank you card to the erstwhile landlady, Julie Kitson. Her generosity in letting community groups like PLUC and the Role Play Haven use her upstairs room each week meant we could rehearse easily over the years without having to pay out for a more expensive venue.
For present and past members, if you’d like your name or a little message added, please get back to me by Mon 17 Aug 2020. Cheers.
When things return more to ‘normality’ we’ll scout round for another similar venue, such as a room above a bar or cafe. Take care everyone and stay safe.
I hope everybody is enjoying playing along to the UK Xmas number ones that are being posted here this month! As always, the chords are linked to within each entry, along with the original & a ukulele video version plus more background info on Wikipedia.
Please note the following arrangements for our club nights around Christmas:
Tue 10 Dec & Tue 17 Dec – We’re at the Lewis Club, as usual.
At the beginning of the year we posted about Steve Phillips, who has been playing a song a day on his uke to raise money for Solar Aid, which funds providing safe lighting for people in Africa. He’s been doing really well, covering a great variety of tunes. If you’ve not yet got around to donating, it’d be great if you could spare a couple of pounds. In return, as a thank you, at the end of the year he will send copies of all the arrangements he’s used.
Here he is playing Rock ‘n’ Roll Winter by Wizzard:
Well, this month PLUC turned ten years old. Many thanks to all our ex-members & WordPress readers who kindly sent us best wishes!
We celebrated alfresco in the Lewis Club’s garden, along with home-made cake from Gail, our long-distance commuter, who comes from Colchester whenever she’s visiting her family in Catford. Read the rest of this entry »
Please note the following arrangements for our club nights around Christmas:
Tue 12 Dec & Tue 19 Dec – We’re at the Lewes Club, as usual. We’ll be sticking with playing our regular numbers but I’ve copied Mele Kalikimaka to the 2017 Xmas Songs folder in Box, as we usually play that as our traditional Hawaiian festive number during December.
Tue 26 Dec Boxing Day – XMAS BREAK.
We return to the Lewis Club on Tue 2 Jan 2018. New members welcome.
Tue 15 Dec – Lewis Club DOWNSTAIRS (there is a function upstairs)
Tue 22 Dec – Lewis Club
Tue 29 Dec – XMAS BREAK
Tue 5 Jan – Lewis Club. New members welcome
All present & past PLUC members welcome. We’re sticking with our regular songbook this year, as the majority of us want a break from having to do Xmas numbers!
I’ve been playing ukulele for five years now. It began when my friend James to stay with his wife and children for the weekend in July 2007 armed with a blue Mahalo ukulele. He taught me some basic chords jotted on a piece of scrap paper and I learned I’ve Got The Whole World In My Hands. It felt really good and from this moment I was hooked. James had been taught by Mr C from the UPHoS group in Sudbury Suffolk, who was running a school club at the primary school they both worked in. Read the rest of this entry »
People of Lewisham's Ukulele Club 