Tornadic Ukulele CD by accident? During one the later shows Fish (aka Boris) kiddingly announced that there was a CD of Tornadic Ukulele being recorded and it would be 150 of TU’s greatest hits (since all were only 30 seconds or less) What was meant to be a joke, turned into a flood of emails asking when the CD was coming out! Forced to actually recording a T.U. cd to please the FNC radio fans. Fish n Chip started demo recording a couple of tracks with the acoustic ukulele’s at Red Rum. The first demos were kind of bland and balless so that led to contacting Risa Ukulele’s in Germany who produces the best solid body, Low G, electric ukulele on the planet. They responded by sponsoring T.U. with 4 ukulele’s to use on the album. Now it was serious..

Boris and Warren Peace turned out some of their favorite songs from bands like The Mescaleros, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Pogues, The Cure, Bob Mould, Rusted Root, Elvis Costello and more. With a variety of instruments at their disposal in Red Rum Studio they utilized the Fender Banjo, Yamaha Piano, Epiphone Acoustic Bass, Zeta Standup Bass, Ovation Acoustic Ukulele, Marshall and Ibanez amps, whatever they could find and use with one rule NO guitars. Not one GUITAR used at all on the entire album. If you think it’s a guitar, it’s not it’s a RISA Uke! In just 8 weeks of recording the Tornadic Ukulele CD was done and released from Black Sea Records. When distribution reached The U.K. and the release of “Johnny Appleseed” from The Mescaleros was heard. Tornadic Ukulele was contacted to work a U.K. Tour starting in May of 2007 which included a performance at “Strummer Camp” in Manchester and various clubs in London and surrounding areas. Tornadic Later returned in November 2007 to perform a Joe Strummer / Jail Guitar Doors benefit at the Arms Aloft outside London with Billy Bragg, Tymon Dogg, and Mick Jones. So that turned out well from a simple joke announcement on a crazy radio show. and that’s Rock N Roll.