Catch the latest video from Professor Karmadillo – a song about the rovers crawling around the surface of Mars.
You can read the lyrics about Curiosity et al roaming around Mars whilst watching the video at the Professor Karmadillo website – or just watch it and pay attention to the David Bowie influenced lyrics here!
I’ll be coming out of sabbatical with a gig tonight at Cambridge’s Bright Club Re:generation event during the Cambridge Science Festival. I’ll be unveiling two new Professor Karmadillo songs to the public – one on the Mars Curiosity Rover, and t’other on one of the freakiest looking creatures that also aids cancer research – the naked mole rat.
It also looks like some bits need tweaking with the website and I’ll be changing mailing list provider, so I’ll soon be back to updating you regularly with Karmadillo and Professor Karmadillo shenanigans!
Take Care
Rishi
Have a Merry Christmas – here’s a gift to you – celebrate recieving calls from your friends with a free Karmadillo ringtone! Karmadillo – Noone Else Ringtonemp3
After 8 months or so of baby-led hiatus, Karmadillo will be making a trio of appearances this December at Cambridge venues.
The first will be
Thursday 13th December – supporting Jacqui & Geoff at The Cornerhouse
Sunday 16th December – interlude at the Fat Fox Productions Christmas Show at CB2, Norfolk Street
Tuesday 18th December – supporting the excellent Kerfuffle at The Portland Arms, Cambridge, touring on their new Lighten The Dark album.
Jamie Oliver is doing a bash called the Big Feastival. There is also an unsigned band competition running for this – I would love to entertain assembled diners with tales of brain eating and death by chocolate – who knows, it could give him a new recipe idea! So please vote for Karmadillo at http://thebigfeastival.herokuapp.com/tracks/28 to make it happen!
Thankski veriski muchski budski’s!
Took the charango out its case this week, and gave it a little strum. Felt good, but tempered by the fact this was at 6am! Need it as I have two gigs this week, and luckily the baby doesn’t get woken by it from the far side of the flat. Hope the same applies to the neighbours! Will fit rehearsing in around work and baby hours. The gigging is a pain to get started again but it has got me going again to the point where I’m planning the next album.
When I can record it is another matter!
It was 6 years ago this week that we released ‘Crunchy On The Inside’. In that primitive era there was only a CD release of the album. There was also some great artwork…
Anyway, this album has now been released on digital stores, together with additional tracks, as an enhanced version.
iTunes – Amazon UK – Spotify – eMusic – Play.com
The version on Bandcamp will be updated to include the new tracks soon as well.
Thank god for baby monitoring systems. Finally after weeks of linen and cream oriented purchases can buy something ELECTRONIC!!!
I’m also feeling the urge to blog about the one we bought in the end – the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Digital Sensor Mat Monitor, though part of me also now looks longingly at the Snuza
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I like the Tommee Tippee one as the range allows us to get some fresh air thanks to 300m on the re-chargeable docking station. There is some sort of noise floor detector so it turns off the audio if no sound is being made, and has lights on the handset even if the voice is turned down. The BT one also had lights, but was a bit less elegant. It also gives a temperature monitor which was one thing we were after in particular. At the moment we haven’t used the motion detection via mattress system, and there are other bits and bobs like remote controllable night light and a two way talk system which allows me to have conversations with the wife while she is holding the baby.
Why the Snuza might be nice is that they have a base unit that is battery powered as well, making it a bit more portable.
Well it was a bit stressful organising as well as playing a gig but at the end of the night we had raised £180 for Addenbrookes Osteopath clinic and Chesterton Medical Centre Physiotherapy Department who have spent the last year operating on and tending to my knee respectively. It was the last full gig I’m doing before the baby comes along (and probably the last one I do for a few years after the baby is born as well!) so it was nice to see so many people turn up and support the cause.
Particular thanks must go to the support acts – Tom Conway and Jacqui & Geoff for playing. The support act from London didn’t show, and didn’t let us know she was not going to show, but I understand its scary for some London born and bred types to go beyond the M25. Still, it gave me the chance to do an extra mini acoustic set between the other acts, which was quite nice as I had been fretting how to squeeze everything I wanted to play into the single set. David Young also had to pull out, but at least he let me know. Being due to his wife being imminent with a baby as well, I totally understand. I am glad to say his wife has given birth this week, so congrats to the proud mum and dad.
So ex-Blur dude Graham Coxon is running a competition for a band to support him. I’d quite like to be able to support him at The Junction in April, so to that end would like to suggest you nominate the zombie youtube video. Obviously you can nominate whichever band you wish – but it would be cool if it could be a Cambridge one!
Go to http://toursupport.grahamcoxon.co.uk/, login with Facebook or Twitter, choose Cambridge and then (ideally!) nominate the Karmadillo Teenage Zombie vid. You can do it by entering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdcGILO9xE in the popup. Or choose a video by the many excellent Cambridge bands! You can also show support for the bands by Liking the videos you like.
Thanks for listening, and efforts if you help the Cambridge musicians!
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