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Tony Penultimate

Music made by Lion tamers for Lion tamers

About Me

In the words of Marilyn Monroe in "Some like it Hot" - "I play the ukulele and I sing" - and thats what I do....she was a lot better looking though!I'm Peter, the tall one from the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and this page is devoted to my alter ego Tony Penultimate and the quirky songs he/I write(s) which are all available online from this and other sites (like garageband or lastfm ). If you play the uke and you’re brave enough (!) you can play along to ‘Après Ski’ or ‘Soppy and the Sentimentals’ on Marcel van der Zwet’s magnificent site Sheep Entertainment (yes, really) – press the ‘Play along song’ tab and search. Various vids of Tonys can be found on yodeltube

I welcome all people (and uke players!) to become friends, if you like the tunes you can buy soppy and the sentimentals and mainly manly music from itunes!If you're an old timer - CD's can be bought from here or even here in the US, not forgetting here or indubitably here in the UK.

If you have found this resume too boring, try this

Tony Penultimate was born the illegitimate son of an Algerian prostitute and a one-eyed Norwegian foreign legion deserter in the city of Marseille, France. As a child of the streets he was forced to grow up fast and furious among the pimps, wise guys and boosters who taught him all they knew - how to play poker, roll tourists, handle a knife, bake cup cakes etc. As a teenager, he sailed the world on tramp steamers learning the ropes of life. At the age of 19, while selling disposable lighters outside the bullring in Barcelona, he discovered that he had a voice that could woo the crowds. A self made millionaire by the time he was 30, Tony felt it was only fair that the world should share in the beneficence of his voice and the magic of his music, and thus he opened a page at myspace.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/17/2005
Band Website: tonypenultimate.com
Band Members: Tony Penultimate
Influences: Frank Zappa, Bonzo Dog Band, They Might Be Giants, Divine Comedy, Ben Folds Five, Crash Test Dummies, Moxy Fruvous, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Sounds Like: Crash Test Dummies, Wierd Al Yankovic, Moxy Fruvous, Ivor Cutler, Jake Thackray, They Might Be Giants, Ben Folds Five, Frank Zappa, The Divine Comedy, Tom Lehrer, Bonzo Dog Band, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Record Label: www.ukuleleorchestra.com
Type of Label: None

My Blog

You may still be able to get tickets for this - but hurry.

The St Moritz Yodelling Festival When Jun 2008 Where: St Moritz Opening Hours: Begins Fri 3pm; Sat 9am until late; Sun 9.30am Over 15,000 professional yodellers turn out to stretch their vocal chord...
Posted by Tony Penultimate on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:08:00 PST

Glasto 1995

Had a call from my friend Fred Aylward recently to say that he had posted up some footage of our visit to Glastonbury in 1995 when we wandered around the theatre field (Fred as the character Les, me, ...
Posted by Tony Penultimate on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:53:00 PST

Naked As Nature Intended

Er.. thanks for clicking&.yep; I'm here for research purposes as well.  But seriously, it's been a while since I've posted so I thought I should put some thoughts down (or up in the ether). ...
Posted by Tony Penultimate on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:57:00 PST

'nother vid

I've been trying to find this for ages  I'd lost my copy and my old agent Patrick from Psycho Management sent me his copy.  It's the promo for the band Ukulele Kings  I started it in about 1997...
Posted by Tony Penultimate on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:17:00 PST

Old TP Video Resurfaces

For some considerable while now our garage has been in need of a clearout and so, charged with this mission, a few weeks ago I go started.  Didn't manage to get it all sorted, in fact phase one c...
Posted by Tony Penultimate on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:47:00 PST

Berlin and the Best of America

Just back from a week in Berlin playing with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain at the fantastic cabaret, the Bar Jeder Vernunft, which has to be seen to be believed  its precisely like the set f...
Posted by Tony Penultimate on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:14:00 PST

Tour de Force/Forced to Tour

Ive just been ruminating on the fact that little Poppy has in her short 18 weeks of life been to four rock festivals while I was 39 years old before I went to my first one, hows that for an early star...
Posted by Tony Penultimate on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:20:00 PST

A very terrible musicians joke!

Stevie Wonder is playing his first gig in Tokyo and the place is absolutely packed to the rafters. In a bid to break the ice with his new audience he asks if anyone would like him to play a request. &...
Posted by Tony Penultimate on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:25:00 PST

Tony - the Cowardly Lion

Get this - nobobdy pushes me around! I'm a big guy and I know how to handle myself! However, if you have a lawyer with you, then I'm prepared to have my tummy tickled - I can even get down on my hands...
Posted by Tony Penultimate on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:06:00 PST

A compliment and and an Insult!

Comments found on a guestbook about the Ukes performance of Teen Spirt: wasn't the singer the man who played "big" in Sex And The City??www.27project.org/images/sexandthecity.jpg -->(Darth Spin, Sat ...
Posted by Tony Penultimate on Wed, 24 May 2006 04:50:00 PST