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  • Any Love Is Good Love CD launched

    You can now purchase the Any Love Is Good Love compilation album from the page on Bandcamp, which aims to raise awareness of raise awareness of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. Much respect is due to Emma from Ten Tigers/Lost Harbours and Ste McCabe who put it together. Funds from this are going to LGBT Youth…

  • Copenhagen, here we come!!!

    I haven’t really been gigging much, but when invited to play in Denmark I got caught up in their post-Eurovision winning glow and am now proud to be playing the Start the summer holidays with a POP! event….in Copenhagen!!! It’s a jangletastic night of indie and pop played by bands from Copenhagen and Cambridge at…

  • George Takei inspires….

    ‘Don’t Listen To The Douchebags (Listen To George Takei)’ is a properly recorded version of a Youtube thing I did. That acoustic-recorded-on-the-webcam song was inspired by George Takei’s response to a school board member in the US who went on a Facebook rant saying he wished all the gay kids were dead. The board member…

  • Professor Karmadillo sings about Mars

    Catch the latest video from Professor Karmadillo – a song about the rovers crawling around the surface of Mars. Watch it and pay attention to the David Bowie influenced lyrics here! Verse It ain’t no godawaful small affair being a robot sent to MarsYou ain’t a girl with mousy hair; You’re a one tonne remote…

  • Nerd themed gig alert!!!

    Theres a nerdy themed gig going on Friday April 26, 2013. More details from the Facebook Page. I guess I’ll just have to throw some science stuff into the mix won’t I? 😉 In particular, it’ll be a pleasure to support RANDOM aka Mega Ran a forefather of the whole nerdcore hip-hop movement and it’s…

  • December giggage

    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…

  • Performers & Pints 11: 2nd Anniversary Bash!

    I had planned on not gigging until the end of the summer given the birth of my daughter but the invite to support Will Makower on his album launch party on the second anniversary of the Performers & Pints night in Potton was something I had enjoyed and thought I would like to give it…

  • Crunchy On The Inside

    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. (links to stores may…

  • NHS Knees Up Fundraiser

    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…

  • 10 Years of The Charango & Nee Health Service Fundraiser

    It will be 10 Years since I wondered into a shop somewhere in La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. To celebrate this momentous moment I thought I would have a gig. It will also be the last Karmadillo gig for a while due to imminent baby arrival – plus the last time I drink as…