TweetYep, I don’t have a name for this one yet (or at least I have several names, but they’re all bad). I don’t want to put ideas in anyone’s head, but I had been listening to a lot of Spiderland by Slint and playing western-themed games (red dead and Fallout New Vegas), with the a [...]

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TweetYesterday was “quit MySpace day” – instigated by writer and academic Andrew Dubber, who a year ago demanded that unless MySpace get its act together, or, en masse, we musicians leave it for good. Now I’ll probably have to explain what MySpace is to younger readers, which is a big part of the problem. MySpace [...]

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TweetThe Sound of The Ladies will be at the Green Dragon in Croydon on Tuesday (19th) – part of a lineup featuring the excellent Superman Revenge Squad, Roshi Nasehi and Jennie Saunders. All being well, this also should be a teaser for a new band incarnation of The Sound of The Ladies*… but in any [...]

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TweetThe latest Sound of The Ladies podcast is out now, featuring a brand-new, banjo-oriented song called “The Day of The Snail”. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to the podcast for free via iTunes. A lot of things fed into this short song – I’d been reading [...]

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TweetThe last few weeks I’ve been busy practising with a new live band incarnation of the Sound of the Ladies – and really enjoying it. This is a bit of a turnaround given the length of time tsotl has spent as a solo act. Well, for the last few years I haven’t really been interested [...]

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TweetThe latest episode of the Sound of The Ladies podcast is out now, with a new song called “Whatever Happened to the Girl with the X-ray Eyes?”: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to the podcast for free via iTunes. In the meantime, the Sound of the [...]

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Tweet Sorry, radio session will be Saturday at 2pm – my live set is still Friday 4.30 tho #greenman # Off to play at Green Man tomorrow, and the405 just gave me a lovely little mention! Thanks guys: http://j.mp/d07ytR # On my way to Green Man. Look out, Wales, here I come! # Just stayed [...]

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TweetWell,  next Wednesday marks the release of the limited edition CD version* or “We went to the bottom of the ocean”. It’s lovely – handprinted, featuring ten interchangeable cover images created by Consumer Revolt. This is what it looks like: (at least for non-iPhone users) and you can pre-order it here for an introductory price [...]

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TweetThe latest episode of the Sound of The Ladies podcast is out now, featuring a cover of Bridges and Balloons by Joanna Newsom from her debut album The Milk-Eyed Mender (available from her record label or Amazon or iTunes): [Audio clip: view full post to listen] As ever, you can subscribe to the podcast for [...]

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TweetThe 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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TweetYesterday 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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TweetThe 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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TweetThe 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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TweetSo 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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TweetHello 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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TweetIt’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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TweetI 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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TweetEpisode 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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TweetThe 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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TweetThe Guardian recently ran an article on how science was cool again – a real ego boost for a practising research scientist like me (especially after I failed to make this list) – and they had a group of scientists and science journalists to give a mixture of interesting and facile comment to this effect. [...]

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