The reviews are starting to come in for “We went to the bottom of the ocean” – all very nice. Indie tastemakers Subba-Cultcha have lots of nice things to say: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/album-reviews/the-sound-of-the-ladies_we-went-to-the-bottom-of-the-ocean/article/contentID/20229/ And while not a review par se, Song, by Toad featured “The ’40s never died” on a rather good edition of their regular podcast: [...]

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Yesterday I started printing the sleeve for the CD version of “We went to the bottom of the Ocean” with Consumer Revolt (aka Daley Walton). Well, he did most of the printing, I did mainly folding and pinning things up. This was the first ever sleeve printed for the album: I think you’ll agree, it [...]

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The Sound of The Ladies’ first full length album, “We went to the bottom of the ocean”, is available now, here at thesoundoftheladies.com. You can listen to the tracks in the fancy player below (iPhone users click through for player): and you can download the album by pressing the “download” button (hardly rocket science, I [...]

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The Sound of The Ladies will be performing at Bright Club: Heroes on Monday. For those of you who don’t know it, it’ll be an amazing night featuring music, comedy, and some very clever people talking about Heroes in cool dinky little minilecture type formats. It’s awesome. Anyway, Bright Club is a The Cross Kings [...]

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So the new podcast is out at long last, featuring a new version of Bank Burns Down: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] With me on my new banjo. As ever, you can subscribe to the podcast for free via iTunes. I’m going to be working on a new song for Bright Club: Heroes [...]

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Hello fellows and fellowesses! At long last The Sound of The Ladies rear their ugly gigging head at the Cross Kings on Wednesday. The gig features Stuart JD Smith and some very special guests* and can be found here: The Cross Kings 126 York Way London N1 0AX Look forward to seeing you there, Ladies [...]

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It’s a common mistake for early blogs to include a lot of posts apologizing for not writing, rather than writing. I’m going to fall into that trap, but with good excuse: the last six weeks have been more than usually hectic in Real Life (RL). In that time, I finished recording my first album, published [...]

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I know the country has its feet firmly on the ground thanks to the Tory party, but they just encourages me to retreat further into fantasy. And into the aquatic theme of my upcoming album. It was a very nautical weekend for the Sound of The Ladies, performing at the Brighton Sea Life centre – [...]

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Episode 26 of The Sound of The Ladies podcast is out now, featuring a cover of Deep Blue Sea, an old English folk song popularized by Pete Seeger and introduced to me by Liam Butler. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] or you can subscribe to the podcast for free via iTunes. On a [...]

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The usefulness of not thinking about stuff is underestimated. It’s been my experience that when dealing with difficult or complex decisions, it often does to let the ingredients ‘mulch down’ in the subconscious while the active brain does something better with its time. To wit; the Sound of the Ladies’ debut album is recorded, and [...]

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