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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I 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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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 point [...]

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It’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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On 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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I 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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The 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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