The 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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The 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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The 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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It’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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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 [...]

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The 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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The 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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This 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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The 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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The 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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