TweetThe latest SOTL podcast is out now, featuring the brand-new, hot-off-the-presses “What we did with our lives”. This will be on the new SOTL album this summer, which is finally approaching completion. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] or you can subscribe to the podcast for free via iTunes. If you’re a web-listening type, [...]

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TweetThe Sound of The Ladies feature on the Rewind podcast this week (also available on iTunes), Richard Wilson’s* podcast for up-and-coming independent musicians. Richard featured The Grand Tour and we had a lovely chat about (amongst other things) science, advice for struggling independent musicians, and Fallout 3 on the PS3. You’re never more than 3m [...]

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TweetIt’s been a busy couple of weeks of interviews for the Sound of the Ladies – suddenly everyone wants to know my thoughts about the latest fashions. Well, not exactly… I went to the London launch of geekpop on Thursday, where they interviewed me about my doctorate and what my favourite heavenly body is! You [...]

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TweetThe 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 [...]

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TweetThe Sound of The Ladies will be performing songs about science at St Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch on Thursday (March 11th), at the London Word Festival night hosted by Robin Ince and featuring TV scientist extraordinaire, Dr Brian Cox. Expect comedy, science – and from the Sound of the Ladies? Some songs about space, of [...]

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TweetThe Sound of The Ladies will return to The Green Dragon in Croydon on Tuesday for another Freedom of Expression, featuring the cream of London’s acoustic music and trombone poetry. Alright, featuring the cream of London’s acoustic music and London’s *only* trombone/poetry crossover. You can find the venue here, and the night also features Cellar [...]

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TweetThis month’s podcast is out, featuring Department of Homeland Security, part three of the Squid Roast trilogy. The trilogy is somewhat of a murder-mystery. Part One of the series, Straight, Boy, sets the stage via one of the main protaganists’ woolgathering – an instrumental version of this song featured in the podcast last summer. A [...]

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TweetThe more observant of you will have noticed that all of the paid downloads on thesoundoftheladies.com/music are now available for a “pay as much as you like” fee (apart from Songs About Science and Live in Gipsy Hill, which are free, at the time of writing). I actually don’t mind people paying under the odds, [...]

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TweetThe latest Sound of The Ladies podcast is out now, featuring a cover of Pulp classic Disco 2000, via All Apologies by Nirvana and Cherub Rock and 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. It’s less novelty song than it sounds. It’s like the 90s never died. Please say the 90s never died. You can listen below: [Audio [...]

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TweetI don’t pretend that I’m a tastemaker whose hyperobscure top ten of the decade will open the ears of the multitude to a clutch of hidden gems.  However, it’s very important for my self-image that I prove to myself that there are 10 albums I’ve enjoyed in the last decade, and I’m not a hopeless [...]

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Tweet I thought it’d be nice, for people who wanted to delve a bit more into the science, if I said a little bit more about the stories behind the tracks on “…Songs about Space…”. This is my simplified version of the Luminiferous Aether story -  if there are any astronomers reading who want to [...]

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TweetIt’s finally here! The first Sound of the Ladies sing songs of science EP! You can listen to it below, and download it FOR FREE! Happy Frikkin’ Xmas! This was at the same time a labour of love and a massive rush to get it done on time. If you know anyone else who can [...]

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TweetOn Tuesday, I’ll be at Bright Club, the music/comedy/science chimera held at the Wilmington Arms in Farringdon. Not playing music, but talking about lasers, and possibly Dracula and the late Nigel Hawthorne. But that remains to be seen. See, Bright Club also features people talking about their research, and I’ll have my physicist hat on [...]

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TweetI went to see post-rock (or instrumental/orchestral/chamber noise, whatever you fancy) septet The Monroe Transfer play at the Union Chapel yesterday. I hadn’t seen them play since I left the group about a year ago, so it was a real pleasure to see them in what seemed like their native habitat -  the Union Chapel, [...]

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TweetThe new podcast is out now, featuring a new version of Up!Went My Dreams (first released in demo form on the podcast a year ago, fact fans), the tale of midnight hauntings and romantic tomfoolery. Perfect (now as then) for a Halloween night. Sweet dreams… [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (on a related [...]

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TweetLots of exciting things going on at The Sound of The Ladies towers; new recordings of old songs, the glimmerings of a new science-based EP and a sea-based album. I went to see the Pixies play the entirity of the superlative Doolittle, which was as exciting as it sounds. On Tuesday I played at Freedom [...]

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Tweet I spent my Saturday composing new music (well, more musack) for The Institute, a site-specific event at The Pleasance off Caledonian road. I don’t want to give too much away, but the fact that the performances take place over Halloween weekend should be a bit of a clue. Let’s just say that the guided [...]

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TweetThe latest Sound of the Ladies podcast is out now, featuring Every Single One, the gleaming centrepiece in the Squid Roast Trilogy. The shiny bookends (Straight, Boy and Department of Homeland Security) have appeared in various forms and weave a wondrous fantasy of aquatic malfeasance. Coming to a digital music service near you soon. Ish. [...]

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TweetI had a lovely time at the World’ Smallest Festival on Sunday (albeit briefly – no fun for the wicked). The festival took place in a secret island location somewhere in southeast London. Or the labyrinthine back garden of someone’s house, for those of you with less poetry in your souls. Thanks to Donal for [...]

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TweetYou know that The Sound of The Ladies are a fan of tiny gigs (having had tremendous fun with The Sound of The Ladies Lounge), and now we’ve been asked to play The World’s Smallest Festival (in Forest Hill, London). It has a great line-up, including The Pipettes, Popsocks and a host of comedians too. [...]

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