The Sound of The Ladies have had a fairly geeky couple of weeks* – last Thursday we were playing Songs about Space at The London Word Festival – my very big thanks to their inviting me to play again – at a night hosted by everyone’s favourite Carl Sagan fan, Robin Ince, and featuring everyone’s favourite keyboard-playing Professor, Professor Brian Cox. This week I’m performing at the virtual festival Geekpop, in the Tesla Tent. Named after the maverick scientist Nikola Tesla, rather than the 80s rock band, I’m going to hedge. I’ll also be going along to their London launch event on Thursday and although I won’t be performing, the excellent Spirit of Play will, as well as some other topnotch geekpoppers. See you there.

In other news, Jason and Zoe at the milk bar featured an interview with The Sound of The Ladies in their latest podcast -  in which we discuss noise pollution, space probes and celebrity connections to Brewood village hall. The latter will probably be of more interest to Staffordites than others. 80s legend Nik Kershaw is interviewed later in the show and seems very confused by TSOTL’s “We went to the bottom of the ocean” -  not an uncommon reaction.

Work on the upcoming Bright Club podcast continues, as does the recording for the debut (really? After all this time? Yes, really) album by The Sound of The Ladies, provisionally titled “We went to the bottom of the ocean” after the song of the same name. Watch this space.

*not that we’re complaining -  and to be honest, most weeks are fairly geeky with the sound of the ladies

UPDATE:

The Londonist wrote a rather lovely review of the London Word festival gig, comparing my beard to John Krasinski’s in Away We Go and being generally upbeat and nice about the whole thing. They also took this fetching photo of my rocking out:

Visit their site for more pictures and the review of the night.