TweetThe latest Sound of The Ladies podcast is out now! You can listen to it here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] or via iTunes or RSS or direct download. I’ve had the lyrics for this song floating around for over a year –  originally set to a slightly shitter chord progression, which I’ve forgotten because it bored even [...]

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Tweet It’s a bit late, I know, but here they are: my new year’s resolutions for music and life. 1) Write more songs This is pretty much my constant resolution – write more, write faster, write looser, write better. Last January, Darren Hayman wrote and released a song a day – a workrate I don’t [...]

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Tweet The latest Sound of The Ladies podcast is out now! You can listen to it here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] or via iTunes or RSS or direct download. Audience-members at one of the Sound of The Ladies’ December gigs should recognise this new song, written for Robin Ince’s 9 Lessons and Carols for Godless People on [...]

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TweetIt’s been a fairly busy year for Dr Martin Austwick: I was wed, got a new job, released an album of songs about science (which got mentioned in BoingBoing), launched it at a beautiful old time music hall (thanks to Geekpop), wrote half of a new Sound of The Ladies album (it was meant to [...]

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TweetThe Sound of the Ladies will be gigging, in an actual, real, non-virtual space this month, and you should totally come to visit. — In our first gig since Green Man and our last before Xmas*, we’ll be at the Camden Enterprise on December 19th. This should be a lot of fun, so please join [...]

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TweetThe latest Sound of The Ladies podcast is out now! You can listen to it here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] or via iTunes or RSS or direct download. This month marks a rare foray into a Tom Waits cover version – rare because he’s one of my favourite artists and I have [...]

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TweetLast week, I was very lucky to meet America’s Radio Sweetheart, Jesse Thorn, who was in London to talk to a roomful of people like me about “making a living from doing cool stuff on the Internet” (his title was better). Forty of us gathered in a baking hot room in Fitzrovia* and he talked [...]

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Tweet This is a movie of me playing “Yesterday is Here”, a sublime Tom Waits song from his 1987 album/play “Frank’s Wild Years” (he’s no stranger to litigation, so I hope that if his publishers come across this they recognise it as a heartfelt fan homage rather than an attempt by me to cash in). [...]

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TweetMy most recent song, Retrospectively is a duet of sorts (well, with myself), partly because I’ve had the opportunity to work with singer Morgan Rushton in the Sound of The Ladies recently, begging the question “what can you do with a second lead vocalist?” (beyond the obvious answer “Kick-ass harmonies”). I wrote a blog a [...]

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Tweet  The Sound of The Ladies podcast this month features “Retrospectively”, a brand new song: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] or via iTunes or RSS. There’s a rather dark line towards the end of the song, based on a Kafka quotation which goes something like: Sometimes, and in my secret heart, perhaps, all the time, I [...]

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TweetGood music fox interviewed me a few weeks ago for their site, and I somehow missed its publication – you can read the article here. GMF ask different artists the same questions (like “when has music saved your life?” or “what’s the worst sound in the world” – you know, interesting ones!) and looking through [...]

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TweetFans of good acoustic music should listen to Samantha Whates’ debut album, Dark Nights Make for Brighter Days – those at Christ Church in Spitalfields for the launch last night will know how melancholy and pure it is, how talented the musicians involved are, and (this won’t come as a shock to anyone who’s seen [...]

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TweetThe Sound of The Ladies podcast this month features The City of Lead, a song I debuted at Science Show Off on Tuesday: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] or via iTunes or RSS. It’s somewhat of an experiment to write a song which works as a science and a non-science song. Allow me [...]

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TweetOn October 4th I will have the great privilege of performing at the first ever Science Showoff event – a “scientific open mic” event put together by the incredible team behind the smash hit “Bright Club” nights. The evening will feature a host of scientists and Interesting People showing off about science in digestible ten-minute [...]

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TweetThe latest Sound of The Ladies podcast is out now: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] or via iTunes or RSS. This month’s song is another brand new one. Read no further if you don’t want spoilers. — I discovered “We go wandering at night and are consumed by fire” when looking up palindromes [...]

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TweetThe Sound of The Ladies are getting superpsyched for their return to Green Man next week, courtesy the lovely people at Einstein’s Garden and Geekpop. We’ll be on at the Solar Stage (in Einstein’s Garden) on Friday from 4.45, with songs about science, snails, psychos and submarines, so if you’re at the festival, please come [...]

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Tweet[EDIT: This post was written about a week ago, long before the death of Mark Duggan and the riots and looting which occurred around the country] Recently, reading through God is in the TV’s 100 greatest songs of the 90s, it struck me how prominent social class was in the music of the time. It [...]

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TweetThe latest SOTL podcast is all kinds of wonderful – it’s out now and features a song called It Was a Brick: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The music started life about a week ago as a jingle for Josie Long and Andrew Collins’ BBC6music show (and they used it last Saturday, bless [...]

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