Oh yes, I have a blog, don’t I? So I should probably take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and direct you to my new song on the subject of what should be this year’s Christmas number 1 (warning: contains a swear).

And, for balance, here’s Tim Minchin’s White Wine in the Sun, which, should you wish, you can buy from iTunes here.

It’s a portmanteau neologism. And I’ve done a video about it, which largely explains itself, so here it is:

(You’ll need YouTube annotations switched on – if the various links don’t come up at the appropriate moments, use the menu on the triangle in the bottom right-hand corner to switch them on.)

This week my satirical eye noticed lots of people on the twitter asking for Google Wave invites, so here’s a song about it – also known as “How many words can Will think of that rhyme with Wave and how many of those can he shoehorn into a song?”

I sang along a bit too much in a club last night so I’m afraid I’m a bit hoarse. I think you get the point anyway.

If you have a YouTube account, do subscribe to my YouTube channel here and, if you like it, rate, favourite and comment on the song here.

Many of you will have seen Microsoft’s achingly cringeworthy video encouraging people to hold Windows 7 launch parties. It really is jaw-droppingly awful. But wait! Don’t go and watch that. I haz written a Windows 7 launch party song especially for you. And here it is.

In the unlikely event that you want to play it yourself – or the more likely event that you can’t make out the lyrics – you can read the chords and lyrics here.

I couldn’t let it lie. Having recorded my Large Hadron Collider Song the other day, I wondered if I could take advantage of my lovely Zoom H2recorder to up the production values a bit. Separating singing and playing the ukulele also meant I could do the latter marginally better – my inability to multitask different rhythms is why I could never be a pianist.

So, with nothing better to do this morning, I re-recorded the song with a more syncopated ukulele track. I added in some vocals – 12 rather than 40 voices – and then decided to fill the music out a bit with a guitar line (actually two tracks in the end). The guitar and the uke tuning weren’t quite together so I ended up lowering the pitch of the ukulele track by a semitone. What a cheat.

In case you can’t make out the words, I’ve published a Google Doc with the lyrics and chords.

Anyhoo, for your listening pleasure…

 

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