Originally published at: Watch a prim and proper cover of 500 Miles by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain | Boing Boing
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"And when I haver, hey I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s havering to you"
Haver? Havering?
Found it:
In Scottish English, haver (from the Scots havers (oats)) means “to maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter,” as heard in the song “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by The Proclaimers. In British English elsewhere, haver means “to hem and haw; to be indecisive”
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Congrats, fellow white people. You somehow managed to take one of the whitest songs of all time and whitey it up even more. Congrats?
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TBH this is a bit ‘meh’. Not much evidence of their usual elan.
I prefer their earlier stuff. There was a whole live concert somewhere online but I cannot find it now. However, I think all the tracks are individually on their YT channel. I’ve listed them below. (I’m sure you can find the links if you want to.)
(Though I detect some personnel changes. I recall one of the member died a while back. But more changes seem to have gone on.)
This lockdown effort has more of their traditional wit.
The live version of Wuthering Heights was a swing classic. They re-recorded it in zoomvision during lockdown.
ETA all the tracks listed above (and more) were from this DVD: Anarchy in the Ukulele
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Oi! The Ukulele Orchestra is flawless! FLAWLESS!
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Agreed, this was lacking in zip.
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Loses something without the boys’ scottish inflections, IMO.
and…
Long live the Aardvark!
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I wonder how long it took to arrange this potted plant so it would definitely steal the show.
It isn’t just me, is it? Y’all are as transfixed as I am by it, right?
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An ‘as tame as possible’ cover of an overplayed bar athem…
I sort of get the joke they’re trying to make, but this one falls flat imho.
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Joke? I don’t see anything but a rather vanilla cover without any of the UOGB’s usual wit.
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