My First Ever Lolcats creation rises…
Seeking more likes for Professor Karmadillo
lyrics for a song
about the Higgs-Boson
are the hardest ones I’ve had to write
to hear it when its done
here is the Facebook page upon
you can click the button saying ‘LIKE’!
Einsteins Garden, Green Man Festival
A sciency set to be appearing 3pm on Saturday 20th August at The Green Man Festival! Appearing alongside Helen Arney and Jonny Berliner.
Professer Karmadillo is Go!!!
For a while I’ve been entertaining the concept of all the science songs being put into a dedicated stage show. This is now becoming a reality. Expect the show to hit the stage in the second half of this year, but to read more about it visit the new website and sign up on the Facebook page.
You Must Be Mendel – Geekpop Song Competition entry
The Babble
I’d sat down a few days ago to think of a science song for the Geekpop Science competition due tomorrow. I couldn’t come up with anything musical, though I vaguely had the idea of writing something about Gregor Mendel, who pioneered the work in genetics while a monk with loads of time on his hands (Over 25000 pea plants in 6 years!). As I have plenty of other stuff to do with a single just launched and the Bard For Life album launch coming up, as well as recovering from my knee injury, I decided to let it go.
All that changed this evening as I went to get a pint of milk at the Co-op. I started humming a tune in my head and once I’d also come up with the phrase ‘Mendel Arithmetic’ there was no going back. I didn’t have my mobile on me to get the ideas down so I am particularly proud to not loose the tune or the lyrics I was constructing on the way to the shop. Also before getting down to writing the song I had answer a quick phone call from Mrs Karmadillo and hunt around for a number in Germany for her. It was then recorded in one take for the charango, one take for vocals and then sent off as the competition entry!
The Music
[audio:Mendel-GeekPopAcoustic.mp3|titles=Mendel Acoustic|artists=Karmadillo]The Words
You grew up on the family farm
Moved to a monastery with an experimental gar-den
Six years of wrapping bags around the flowers of plants
Giving us the music for the genetic dance
You must be Mendel Mendel Mendel Mendel yeay oh yeah
You analysed traits of the plants that give us peas
Then controlled how they got to breed
You then analysed the plants that grew from the seeds
Eventually proposing living things had genes
You must be Mendel Mendel Mendel Mendel yeay oh yeah
Its a shame they didn’t believe / in the theory you got from you plants
It was only after you died / that they gave the peas a chance
Growing 29000 plants was not the only trick
You still had to perform some Mendel arithmetic
Probabilities of hybrids, dominant and recessive traits
Giving us genetics and showing us the way
You must be Mendel Mendel Mendel Mendel yeay oh yeah