So, its been a busy couple of weeks finishing off writing some sciency based songs for a virtual online festival we are playing at called Geek Pop. To top it off we’ve entered the RPM Challenge which last did two years ago, and so will have 5 science songs up for GeekPop with another five nerdy themed songs for the RPM Challenge. If we can get round to it there will be some video’s too! I’ll put the URL’s as and when they come up.

We’ll have more info up as it comes, until then why not check out our last RPM challenge attempt from two years ago?

We are now a foursome! We have now added Tom Gaskell to our lineup. This gives us the full complement of four with which to rock the world in 2010! We had our first gig with the man on stage at our Club Manga last month, photo’s of which can be found here.

One of the highlights of our year was a great gig at the London Ukulele Festival near Liverpool Street Station in London. I’ve just received this message saying they’ve been nominated for various awards, but need YOU to help them out!

Festival Awards has just informed us that in fact we are also added to Best New Festival Awards Category. I think they had a record number of festivals enter this year and so are still putting the finishing touches to the first round.

For:
Best Small Festival
Best Family Festival
Best New Festival

See this for a flavour of it

Here’s the original post – get your piccies in boys and girls!

The NHS-bashing hullaballo has inspired a Karmadillo song, Born On The N.H.S. It’ll be one of those with a hastily done video, so I’m putting out a call to arms.

There are three ways to go if you want to be part of it.

1. A picture of yourself with a poster or placard saying ‘Born On The N.H.S.’ and send an email to karmadillo@live.co.uk. Bonus points are awarded for making the piccies in front of an NHS institution itself. ADDENDUM: As we are getting quite a few of these if you could actually send the photo with one of the words from: Born, On, The, NHS that would be cool. Or three of you hold up one letter each for an NHS type thing would also be groovy. Use your imagination!

2. We will also try to work in videos made of yourselves dancing or singing along to the words in front of your favourite institution. If this is the case please email me and I will get you a rough copy of the song to do this to.

3. We may be able to do the mix/a remix of the song to include snippets of personal stories – so you could make a video/audio recording of yourself saying a few sentences about what the NHS has done for you.

The body of the email should say that this is yourself and you consent to being in the video. If you are under 18 you should have your parent/guardian send it with their consent.

I’d be starting work on the video after finishing the Scottish jaunt so if stuff could be sent in for 30th August that would be great. Note: Date changed due to my slackness – 3rd September is when I’ll get to working on the video, So EMAIL BEFORE THEN!!!