Free Track Every Day
Since the release of This Album is Self Titled is less that a week away, we've decided to give you another free track every day until the release on Saturday the 26th July. You can get your mitts on them over on the melodies page.
GRV Gig Postponed
Due to Little Beard's condition, we've had to postpone our GRV gig in Edinburgh until further notice. Please don't lose too many tears over this as they are impossible to find once they are lost.
Classic Grand - Glasgow - Tickets now available
If you missed our warm up set at King Tuts earlier this week with the mighty Har Mar Superstar, or feel you need a bigger injection of kazoo love, you can catch us in Glasgow on the 1st of August for a full headline show at the Classic Grand.
This Album is Self Titled : Pre-Order
Oh yes yes, you can now pop over to the melodies page and put your name on a limited edition copy of This Album is Self Titled, complete with crayon and colouring booklet! All pre-orders will be sent out a couple days prior to the official release date to ensure you get it on time.
HAR MAR SUPERSTAR SUPPORT SLOT
King Tuts Wah Wah Hut have just confirmed us as the support act for Har Mar Superstar's visit to Glasgow on the 9th July. Tickets are Ģ8 and are available from Ticketmaster or at the bar. Also warming up the stage is Kevin J MacLean
find out more @ King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
ALBUM LAUNCH @ WICKERMAN FESTIVAL
oh... is that what you heard? well it's true, we'll be launching our brand spankin' new album, This Album is Self Titled, from the stage at the wickerman festival on the 26th july. Yep that's correct, a small bundle of albums will be attached to helium balloons and sent out towards the good folks who stand and look at us while we perform.
If you don't manage to grab one of these exciting free flying albums, you'll find a regular copy available for sale at the merch stall. Each copy of This Album is Self Titled comes with colouring book style album art and a free crayon, so you can keep it creative, crayon style. And if that's not enough, we used every available lazer groove on the CD to bring you 50 magical melodies.
BBC Rapal session
Is it tuesday? No? Well it doesn't matter, when it turns september 11th we'll be on our way up to Stornoway to make happy some ears and eyes at BBC rapal. Should we bring the moccasins?
find out more @ www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/radio/rapal/
WICKERMAN FESTIVAL WARM UP SHOW
Without the hi-tech internal central heating system us homosapians have, the wickerman gets mighty cold through the winter, so cold it makes him shiver. Which means, he needs a good warming up else he might not light on fire at the Wickerman Festival due to his deep frosting. What better way to defrost this icon of good times than to invite all his friends down to a small venue in Dumfries-shire with some rockin' bands?
The official Wickerman Festival Warm Up Party will take place at 8pm on the 18th July at The Basement in Annan, dumfries-shire. And by the way, you're invited!!!
We've been asked to rock sweaty frock and help warm up the wickerman along with Rodan and Stars of Track & Field. Be sure to bring your mates and anything you think might help de-ice the beast, maybe a scarf or two, some deep heat perhaps? Tickets are Ģ5.
find out more @ www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk
Wizard Festival Confirmed
Monkeys would have you believe otherwise, but the blindfolded giraffes have confirmed we'll be taking to the stage at some point over the weekend of the Wizard Festival in Aberdeenshire. The festival begins on August 22nd and has a mighty lineup featuring: Supergrass, The Damned, Dreadzone, Alabama 3 and many more to be confirmed.
find out more @ www.wizardfestival.co.uk
Joining In The Fight Against Bacterium Poppus Radiolus
No doubt it has become very clear that we are fans of all things free, so we are quite simply ecstatic to announce that Bloc Sonic have released a compilation album entitled, Vol 14: Kills 99.9% of Bacterium Poppus Radiolus!, which features The Second Slice among other fantastical audible treats. The whole compilation album is of course completely free to download via creative commons.
Check it out @ www.blocsonic.com
Download the full album: Vol 14: Kills 99.9% of Bacterium Poppus Radiolus!
Satellite Transmissions from Washington
On Sunday the 18th May, Adam Dexter will shake inner ear hair as he transmits the melodies of the Kazoo Funk Orchestra across the globe via XM Satellite Radio. The show will be broadcast from The American University in Washington's radio station, WVAU, as part of XMU's Student Exchange Program.
Tune in to channel 43 via your XM reciever or your satellite recieving nipple attennas on Sunday at 1pm (PST), 4pm (EST) or 9pm (GMT). If you're not lucky enough to have satellite recieving nipple antennas or an XM reciever, you can get a free online trial from www.xmradio.com/xmuoffer
Find out more about Adam Dexter's show @ www.dexslab.net
Belladrum Festival Confirmed
We're very pleased to announce that we'll be rocking frocks at the Belladrum Festival on the 8th August alonside shweetacular acts such as Nouvelle Vague, Jefferson Starship, Edwyn Collins, The Waterboys, Attic Lights, Scouting for Girls and many many more. You'll catch us on the Seedlings stage sometime on Friday afternoon, we'll be playing with our balloons and sharing good times with all in attendance.
find out more @ www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk
Rocking Like Cosmonauts at the GRV
Have you ever had a tea party with a cosmonaut in the pale moonlight of a suburban city? Well thatīs not even close to the sheer awe you will feel when you inhale your own excitement at a party made exclusively for you and a bunch of other people!
On the 30th of July at a magical venue in Edinburgh named The GRV, we will be unleashing small parcels of joy and sucking back on our musical bubble pipes, bringing you hot music from our new album and some golden old classics for you to get all nostalgic with and party like itīs 2007.
The evening will also feature music from Dick Dangerous and the Love Bastards who have been carefully selected to rock your frocks off! Fancy dress is encouraged. In fact, according to some sources fancy dress is purely dependent upon the humans size. So please take that into account when boarding the rocket ship.
find out more @ www.thegrv.com
Daily Record Album Review
Rick Fulton wrote a rather touching review of Midnight Finger Painter in today's Daily Record. For those who can't get their hands on a copy, here's what was said:
"Imagine the craziness if Beck, Bjork, Mika and Flavor Flav decided to form a band and you've stepped inside the mind of The Kazoo Funk Orchestra.
Despite the Funk in the name, this isn't some awful Seventiesinfused Afro-wearing combo. There's more hip hop, Talking Heads and Depeche Mode than Earth, Wind & Fire in the KFO.
The 25 songs that make up the Glaswegian nine-piece indie pop group last for only a minute or two and titles include A Swatch O' The Happenins, Fire In My Fungus, Roasted Underbelly and Keep Your Hard Hat On.
But there's brilliance in the bizarre: The art rock of Rustle The Trees, the Joy Division meets Kraftwerk of She's A Little Angel, the Linkin Park of Information In Formation. And are there kazoos? Oh yes."
check it out @ www.dailyrecord.co.uk
Nominated for Indy Award
We've been nominated for an Indy Award by the good folks at the Wickerman Festival. We'd like to take a moment to step sideways and clap, coz that's how we celebrate good things. If you'd like to show some support for us you can also step sideways and clap, we'd like that.
Runner up in Jockrock Poll
Can you imagine the surprise when we stumbled across the Jockrock Poll results and noticed that we had came in 3rd for Best Live Act behind Aereogramme and Biffy Clyro? We didn't even know we had been nominated, this is lovely news. Thanks to everyone who voted for us and who came out to our shows. We promise to make 2008 even more magical!
Check it out @ www.jockrock.org
Information in Formation Remix
Mr Weapon of Choice has made merry merry once again and remixed another one of our tracks. Information in Formation is his second remix of the KFunk to-date and the third inter-musical hook up in the past year. You can get a sniff of more Weapon of Choice over at www.myspace.com/theweaponmusic
Download the track: Information in Formation [Weapon of Choice Remix]
Featured on Totally Free Music
Cheeto was out washing the bucket of invisible handshakes today when Figmun received an electronic telegram informing us of the news. Suddenly the bucket disappeared and all that was left was note that read, "take a trip along the zig zag path and you'll meet a man named Jeff", Cheeto and Figmun had no idea what this meant, so they quickly made a sandwich and spotted this rather tasty write up about us on the fantastic Totally Free Music blog.
Check it out @ www.totallyfreemusic.blogspot.com
A bucket of invisible handshakes (if we find it) to Jeff and the Totally Free Music blog for the shweet words.
The New Music Show with James Adkin
We have just recieved some information regarding the whereabouts of one of our missing tracks. Our sources indicate that Mr James Adkin of TSM Radio has smuggled it onto his show this Saturday at 7pm GMT.
Check it out @ www.tsmradio.net
Confirmed for the Wickerman Festival
We have been confirmed for the Wickerman Festival alongside Hacienda Tour (Bez, Peter Hook, Graeme Park, DJ Herbie & Chris Crooks), Dub Pistols, Hugh Cornwell, Neville Staple, Dream Machine, Beecake, Monkish and the Headphone Disco.
More acts to be announced shortly. In the meantime, check out the Wickerman Festival website for more details and tickets.
find out more @ www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk