After more than a decade of juggling along with their unique brand of inspired silliness, the Uglies return to Albert park with a some new shirts, a new Maton Guitar, and a cute drummer.

It’s hard to describe the Uglies’style, except that it encompasses jazz, jug band and rock & roll, and that the banter between the songs is often hilarious.

Put it in your diary. Sure it will be Ugly but it will be fun. Woody Allen once said that sex was the most fun a person could have without actually laughing. So consider the Ugly Uncles to be more fun than sex!!! Any better and it would be illegal!!

If you have ever listened (along withhundreds of thousands of Victorians) to the dulcet tones of “Uncle” Derek Guille, witty and urbane presenter of the evening show on ABC Radio 774, you will have heard one of the Ugly Uncles. Derek deserves a medal for his services to “our” kind of live music and his continuing support of live & local musicians.

Ugly Uncles was born out of a desire, shared by a disparate (and dissolute) number of professional and amateur musicians, to see if it was possible to have as much fun on stage as audiences could have off. Despite the handicap of being made up of a jigs and reels fiddle player, a classical composer who owns a piano accordian, a multi-stringed instrumentalist with a hat fetish, a left-handed trumpet player, the owner of the first metal body ukulele made in Australia, a boogie woogie tin whistlist, a retired guardsman and some bloke who hits things, The Ugly Uncles has been entertaining audiences for more than ten years. 

 Featuring:

• Uncle Derek Guille , on snare, rhythm guitar, kazoo, toys and lead and backing vocals. 
   

• Uncle Mark Walters, on fiddle and backing vocals. 
   

• Uncle James Rigby, on guitars, banjo, mandolin and lead and backing vocals. 
   

• Uncle Jim Bannon, on clarinet, sax, ukulele, vocals and pineapple. 
   

• Uncle Tony Allan, on ukulele, guitar, mandolin, kazoo, piano accordion, percussion and lead and backing vocals. 
   

• Uncle Steven Edward, on piano and whistle. 
   

• Uncle Pip Avent , on tuba, bass guitar and lead and backing vocals. 
   

• Uncle Rod Bradbury, on drums and backing vocals.