Biography

The Sound of The Ladies is the work of Martin Austwick, singer-songwriter, sometime producer and quantum physicist*. The Sound of The Ladies have recorded three EPs: Tissue of Lies (2006), Rosebud (2007) and Scrape The Paint (2008).

The Sound of The Ladies play regularly in London. You may have seen them at The Electroacoustic Club at the Slaughtered Lamb in Clerkenwell, Bedsprings, IK:TOMS and Freedom of Expression at various venues across London, or The Luminaire in Kilburn.

The Sound of The Ladies has been featured on The Best of MySpace Podcast, Penny Broadhurst’s Instant Classic Podcast and the Music is Power Podcast, and have garnered some very nice comments from some very nice people..

“[The Sound of The Ladies] is actually one guy called Martin Austwick… He should be more famous - his voice is brilliant”
-Josie Long’s “Must Sees” in the Sunday Times Culture Section

[about Tissue of Lies]: “…a very impressive debut EP, displaying a broad range of musical influences and, more importantly, a great talent…” -Backlash Magazine

“Becoming somewhat of a superhero in the underground acoustic scene” - God is in the TV zine

“A gorgeous voice, and a set of songs awash with angst, pain and beauty… melancholy,minimalist and touching…” -Subba-Cultcha

“…a collection of subtle semi-acoustic tracks set against his sombre, gently-swooping voice… recalls the uncluttered sonic distance to some of Jose Gonzales’ self-penned work, with a bossanova twitchiness and a lilt to his voice a little bit reminiscent of Rufus Wainwright…” - New Noise

“Ladies make many different sounds… they sound like the Blue Nile in a blender with Billy MacKenzie while Jeff Buckley gets off with all the ladies outside… that’s the sound you can hear…” -Best of MySpace Podcast

*As much as that looks like a lame joke, it isn’t - he gained his DPhil in the field of purification and Electron Spin Resonance measurement of single-walled carbon nanotubes and endohedral fullerenes, with specific application to quantum computing, in 2004. Think “tiny bar magnets”

**Imagine an electric guitar. Now tune the bottom two strings down an octave. Now put it all on a sparkly Gretsch Electromatic baritone guitar. With a whammy bar.