This is slightly outside the world of The Word, but American radio station Q104.3 are currently streaming the first official song from the new Guns'N'Roses album (I think Radio 1 have also played it).

If you want a listen go to - http://www.q1043.com/pages/news/gunsnroses/

Personally, I think it's pretty poor and definitely not worth the 70 year wait, but then I have a very low tolerance for ROCK!

(PS. I just bought Unknown Pleasures and Technique from Oxfam books in Chorlton, total cost: £6.50. God bless the charity shop. This isn’t related to the above, but I wanted to share the good news with someone – Mrs. Rowan won’t be that interested when she gets home)

I got married in April (woo!) and my wife and I decided to use Wrapit for our wedding list (boo!). This means that I’m now one of the many people who are going to have to spend a lot of time emailing guests explaining how they’re unsecured creditors and what they need to do to get their money back – which is not the kind of thing you want to associate with your wedding day.

Anyway (and here’s the musical part), my wife and I are going to cheer ourselves up by buying and learning musical instruments – she’s getting a harmonica, and I want a Ukulele. Think of the music we'll make together!

I know there are plenty of Ukeists (if that’s not the right term, it should be) on this site, so have a question – does anyone know where I can purchase a relatively cheap left handed Ukulele?