Concern for my well-being!

Very kindly someone (a complete stranger) has written a comment about the Miranda July video I did a couple of months back, asking that I hang in there. Very touched by that!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NmrCaEtie70

Scary things afoot

Things are looking, if not good, but rotting flesh like at the moment. After Rishi's 5 seconds of fame on the big screen showing of Feature at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse as part of the film festival shenannigans, it looks like there may be a Karmadillo contribution to another zombie film being filmed in the Cambridge area. This may be the start of a whole career speciality!

Grassroots 08

Came back from a wicked Grassroots last weekend, which in spite of being incredibly wet was great fun thanks to the good music and John Litchfields policy of forcing anyone he had a conversation with to down a shot of tequila.

We met lots of great people at the Festival and our thanks first and foremost go to Benny for doing sound for us. The Folkwit Record crowd were also great to meet. Musically, my fave find were The Surgons, but there was so much good stuff on. On the Troubadour Stage there was everything from the esoterically happy Rebecca Clamp to Irene Rae's beautiful tunes.

On the Freedom stage, Opaque ruled as ever, and the (last ever?) performance of Point of Origin was great to catch as well. At least we can stop being put opposite them on schedules at Peterborough based events now! The Winter Kings also had a great set played to a largely empty lunchtime audience, but that didn't stop them rocking out!

Photos here, but none of us playing, alas.

The Sound of Drums at Twinstock

So Thursday saw the new look Karmadillo headline Twinstock.

The supports were a mixture of local musicians, regulars and even bar staff entertaining for a few songs. Emmanuel had the audience peeling with his expletive laden opener and the aborted attempts at Totos Africa. Georgie won over the 80s metallers in the audience with her stab at Heart (pun intended). Rob W Jackson as ever performed a fun little solo set, even getting some avant garde dancing to the Spiderman/Batman amalgamation in SpiderBat.

The set we played was four songs long, opening with When The Sun Comes Up, closing with Pornstars, and these being bread to the sandwich fillings of Noone Else and Heart of Glass. Probably some things for us to think about in terms of the onstage sound, but the audience feedback was that the drums really worked...helped by Jules playing great in her first time on stage with us.

Good things are sure to follow, not just for us but also for Ciaron, Ellie and the new additions - Cillian and Louie. Good luck guys.

TWINFEST

We are playing a fundraising gig at Twinfest for the local barman who has just had twins! Thats August 28th - next week!

End of month gig CANCELLED

The date we did have down as the first gig date with the new drummer has been cancelled due to the venue shutting down! We will now be doing it at The Bath Ale House in the centre of Cambridge, on September 11th.

Miranda July Video

A new song and video have just been posted. The whole thing has been a quickly written and recorded affair - both song and video were done in a month. I was looking for a completed song to go with a verse that I'd come up with, but once I'd had the website for a book written by the director of a film I liked pointed out to me the rest just fell into place.

It probably won't make the setlist in the short term, but here it is for your delectation.