It turns out that our performance at the Scottish Dark Sky Observatory was in fact the first ever 100% solar powered concert held in the UK!

All of our equipment was successfully powered using electricity generated from the observatories Solar Photovoltaic, the only hitch being a minor power cut just before the start of the show which was caused by someone making a cup of tea (the kettle was also solar powered!). 

It seems incredibly apt that a science-rock concert about Space should be powered entirely by the Sun! Thank you science!

We’ll be performing at The Scottish Dark Sky Oservatory on Friday 5th April. There will be an entire concert + lessons from our educational show, then the resident astronomer will be taking the audience out stargazing, followed by everyone having the opportunity to use the observatories’ state of the art telescope… exciting stuff!

More info here at the SDSO website… http://www.scottishdarkskyobservatory.co.uk

And just incase you’re wondering what the Scottish Dark Sky Observatories’ telescope is capable of, check out this incredible photograph of the Great Orion Nebula, taken by astrophotographer Robert Ince…

Come along to our show and you’ll get the chance to actually see this with your own eyes!

Last week we had the pleasure of being interviewed for the San Francisco-based music blog glasGOwest. There’s musings on the interdependence of creative and logical thought, as well as comparisons made between Space travel and Ryanair flights…!?

Read it here…

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Space But Were Too Afraid To Ask… A lovingly hand packed and pressed, limited edition EP comes in a hand made origami sleeve and is part of a one off run of 50 CDs. Here’s the tracklisting…

1. Sailing To The Moon
2. Bastions Of Discovery
3. Лайка
4. Universe In Reverse
5. 8bit Glitch

buy it here

Following our show at The Arches with Sebastien Tellier, we took the time to answer some questions for STV.

Check it out… 

We’re to be the main support act for electro-troubadour and French eurovision representative Sebastien Tellier. We’ll be joined onstage by our friends Jarv and Rich from Endor, Pete from the State Broadcasters, and the wonderfully talented Siobhan Wilson. tickets still available here…

We had a great time performing a stage version of Whatever Next! at the Glenbrae Children’s Centre in collaboration with Story Pages/Starcatchers. A big THANK YOU to Geraldine Heaney for inviting us along. You can find out more about the performance from the Story Pages blog… 

We had a great day teaching Astronomy, quoting Carl Sagan and playing electro-pop at Battlefield Primary School. Thanks to all the staff and pupils for making us feel so welcome!

Here’s an astonishingly detailed panorama of the Milky Way Galaxy created by Nick Risinger using 37,440 photographs. Truly incredible! Click below to see the image in all it’s awe inspiring HD glory…

We’ve just played our first series of shows at Glasgow Science Centre’s Planetarium. It took almost six months of songwriting, scriptwriting, script rewriting and overcoming countless technical hitches, but we did it! and we couldn’t be happier with the results! Thanks so much to everyone that came along, all the super friendly and helpful GSC staff, and especially Jo Foo for encouragement, and having faith in our overly elaborate plans.