Live ROCKCAST from the Arches, Glasgow

Tonight's gig at the Arches (23.10.09) will be broadcast live below via Mechanical's iPhone and video streaming website Qik. The stream will go live at approx 11:30pm BST (3:30pm PT / 6:30pm ET).

LIVE BROADCAST OVER

Play back the broadcast here.

For more info see The Arches, Friends of the Beatson and Qik

So Wormser come on out here on the floor, so we can move our bodies, like never before!

Get ready for a funktastical night at The Arches, Glasgow all in aid of Friends of the Beatson!

The night kicks off at 7.30pm with activities starting off on the Main Stage from 8.30pm. Tickets be costing £20 as its for a great cause!

Hope to see y'all there!

Whats that? Can't make it? Stay tuned to this page, if all goes well our crazy webmonkeys are planning a special treat to allow your eyes and ears to be at the gig!

For more info see The Arches and Friends of the Beatson

Jan, I think you may need glasses

Those funtastical cats over at TSM Radio have included Dee Lee Oh in their latest podcast! Be sure to check it out for laughs, talk and great music!

Click to get your fill of The D and M Show

McTout blows on his bagpipes

Wowzer! I hope you had a good a time as we had at Mad Hatters in Inverness!

A Hugemongous thankyou to the fantastic peeps at Highland Back-line Hire that the backline was hired from! We are very grateful for the magical tones that emerged from the speakery devices!

Thanks to all who came and funked along by means of supersonic groovtacular motions! Next stop on the magical musical rootatooting moving tree is The Beats On @ The Arches in Glasgow on the 23rd Oct.

Get your funky selves at the ready!

If you are in ever need of hiring equipment then we would highly recommend Highland Back-line Hire - contact them on 07828719568

Hello, Mr Cat. You're looking healthy today.

Phew! what a warm fun jumpy around time we had at Paisley SU! Next stop is Mad Hatters in Inverness!

We shall be getting our balloon boots on as well as several other familiar artists. So don't miss out!

More info @ Mad Hatters

I put my walkman on and said I might as well kick it

Yo yo funkaroos, we shall be jumping around like a bouncy gorilla this Monday night so come join in the Opening Night Party @ Paisley SU!

Make sure and tune your kazoos to the key of 9 as this will allow full melodic interaction! Hope to see you there!

More info @ http://www.sauws.org.uk

Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight!

Get ready to shake it like a bag of slightly frozen peas with us at the Alchemy Festival! We are looking forward to seeing y'all this Friday!

Make sure and say hello if you see us as we shall be a-wandering round enjoying the various eye fruits and ear vegetables the festival has to offer during the weekend!

More info @ www.alchemyfestival.co.uk

Get tickets from www.alchemyfestival.co.uk/tickets.htm

Four sausages? Penfold, take your hands away from your eyes.

We have been lovingly included in the latest Contrast Podcast by the wonderful Tart from Love Shack, Baby.

What be a Contrast Podcast you say? Well the Contrast Podcast is a fantastic podcast that is usually published every Tuesday featuring songs selected and introduced by contributers and based around a theme. These songs and introductions are then sent off to Tim Young who compiles them into this great podcast. You too can be a contributor!

Now what be a Tart you say? To begin answering that we suggest exploring the fantastic Love Shack, Baby where you will find fantasically tartliciously tasty reviews of an always growing list of diverse and interesting artists!

Mr. Hammond, the phones are working

Eeek! The mischievous power faeries caused some havoc at The Garden Party and as such, due to the technical problems and health and safety factors, we were unable to perform! Our most humblest apologies to all that came along to see us as we also didnt get to see you!

Stay tuned for more happenings as we are hoping to arrange a gig very soon as we all need to release our musical juice and confetti logic before a dangerous explosion of unimaginable colours occurs!

Keep a monitoring device here and on the Tour Dates page: Tour Dates

The Garden Party - 20th & 21st June

I'm sure you are all as excited as we are about The Garden Party at Kelburn Castle this weekend! There will be some awesome acts such as Found, The Aliens, Soom T and Bonobo.

The Kazoo Funk Orchestra will be playing Saturday night on the Village Stage, hope you can all make it!

For more information, check out: http://www.kelburngardenparty.com/

Interviewed in Merci Magazine

The first edition of Japanese based Merci Magazine is now available for pre-order. The magazine is on a very limited run with only 500 copies available. Along with the magazine you get a 15 track CD with some of the best indie pop music from around the world including our very own 'Robots in Your Eyes'.

Watch Merci Magazine preview @ www.youtube.com

Pre-order a copy of Merci Magazine @ www.myspace.com/abcdefgrecord

Confirmed for SAUWS Freshers Week Opening Night

We'll be opening up the Freshers Week festivities at the Univeristy of the West of Scotland on the 21st September. We believe it's going to be a themed event, more info coming soon.

Visit SAUWS @ www.sauws.org.uk

The Dead Don't Lie

Phase Fire Films have just released a short film entitled 'The Dead Don't Lie' involving a scary old book and people with freaky eyes. We feature on the soundtrack.

Watch The Dead Don't Lie @ www.phasefirefilms.com

Tweet, Tweet, we're now on Twitter

Yes that's right peoples, you can now get intimate and interactive with us via Twitter. From time to time we'll update you on what we're up to - as a band and individually, maybe toss a few freebies your way and have a little fun at the same time.

Follow us - @kazoofunkorch

We're on Muxtape

Yes indeedy, we've now joined the melodic few at muxtape.com and made our very own collection of squares for you to admire. At muxtape you can stream our entire discography just by making a couple clickety clicks.

Check it out @ kazoofunkorchestra.muxtape.com

The Kazoo Funk Ochestra vs The Waiting Room

On Saturday April 4th at midday (BST) we will be hijacking the Waiting Room on WOXY. Expect a playlist filled will tracks that make us drool with enchantment and delight. We might even introduce them, and maybe we'll get naked, who knows? The show is repeated again on Sunday at 9pm (BST) and available as a podcast on Monday at 1pm (BST) from www.twrhq.com.

Listen to WOXY @ www.woxy.com

Visit the Waiting Room @ www.twrhq.com

Live Interview on PhoenixFM

Tune into Phoenix98FM on Wednesday, April 1st at 10pm (BST) for a live phone interview with Little Beard and Mechanical on the Curveballs show. There will be questions, there will also be answers, it will be magical! Phoenix98FM is available online at www.phoenixfm.com and on 98.0FM around most of Essex.

Curveballs on MySpace: www.myspace.com/curveballradio

Tune into Phoenix98FM @ www.phoenixfm.com/listen-now.php

Smokin' Whiskey with Celia and Chloe

Clean & Clear have created an online mini series about two girls Celia and Chlöe and their unstoppable rise to fame. They've teamed up with Walt Disney Pictures UK to give one lucky fan the chance to star in the show and walk down the red carpet with Celia and Chlöe at the new Hannah Montana movie premier! How exciting! The first episode features Smokin' Whiskey. The show is available in both English and Spanish.

Watch Celia and Chlöe - Episode 1 (English)

Watch Celia and Chlöe - Episode 1 (Spanish)

Featured on IndieSolo - March 22nd

We're gonna be featured on the home page of IndieSolo on March 22nd, pop along and check out the profile, there will be a special free download from This Album is Self Titled that you can't get from our website.

Check it out on March 22nd @ www.indiesolo.com

Alchemy Festival

We're excited to announce that we've just been confirmed for the Alchemy Festival that will be taking place at a secret location in Lincolnshire from the 18th to 20th September. Here's the deets:

Philosopher's Stone Stage: Subgiant, Tarantism, Templehedz, Tarantism Campfire Set, The Beetroot Kings, AOS3, Paul Didge, The Arcadian Kicks, Smoke Like a Fish, Left, Sunflies, Angel of Sin, Zenyth, Subsource, The Huskies, Kinch, Dyframix, Volcanoes, Walk Don't Walk

Liberty Stage: Jon Gomm, Trousseaux, Nimming Ned, Piney Gir, Vaughanking, Andy Grant, Angryman, Red Lite Run, The Epics, Winterwilson, Collider, Kilnaboy, Mike Dawes and Amy Turk, Merlin's Keep

The Mushroom: DJ set from Charlatans Jon Brookes, Sicknote, Tarantism Sound System, Trancient Dreams, Cling, Clay Statues, Dr Sharp, Zetan Spore, Ed Tangent, Akahum, Mindflux DJ, Zia Zub DJ, Zub Zub, Debunkt

There will also be lots of other things to keep you amused at Alchemy from harmony workshops, walkabout entertainers, glow in the dark treasure hunts, to UV slot cars. The bubble tent will have giant bubbles, bouncing bubbles, smoke bubbles and even fire bubbles. At The Toadstool there will be Poi, jugglers, fire shows and many other oddities! There will be lots of site art and sculptures for you to discover and communal fire pits to keep you warm!

More info @ www.alchemyfestival.co.uk

Get tickets from www.alchemyfestival.co.uk/tickets.htm

Madhatters, Inverness

We'll be heading north for a highland party at Mad Hatters in Inverness on the 26th September. Very special guest support from various Kazoo Funk Orchestra side projects including: Sticky Back Plastic, NoFace, and more TBC. More info coming soon.

Art Über Alles interview aired on TVXS

Get nostalgic and tune in to Art Über Alles on TVXS tonight (11th March '09) at 8:30pm EET to watch an old interview of us from back in 2007. It might not be the most recent or accurate footage of the band, but it's something to eat a sugar sandwich over.

Watch Show @ www.tvxs.gr

Indie Comic Book Noise

Baby You've No Eyes was featured on Indie Comic Book Noise episode 224.

Download the podcast @ www.comicbooknoise.com

Plan B Album Review

This months edition of Plan B magazine features a rather lovely review of This Album is Self Titled and is available from February 2nd at WH Smiths, Borders, HMV, Zavvi, Waterstones and all good record shops.

"Enjoyable silly mesh of windowcleaner-style whistlin' with ska-ish guitars, cheeky and impromptu banjo solos, ludicrous pseudo-raps and, oh, everything the band's name would suggest. They have dancers. They're probably having the best time ever. Which is good, for them."

Check out Plan B @ www.planbmag.com

Under the Radar

Subscribers of Under the Radar magazine in North America will recieve a free CD Sampler featuring Baby You've No Eyes, alongside tracks by Neko Case, Faded Paper Figures, Scarf Face and many more.

Download the MP3's @ www.undertheradarmag.com/samplervolume7.html
Check out Under the Radar @ www.undertheradarmag.com

Videos

We've popped up a new video page and just uploaded the live videos from the Rapal session on BBC ALBA including a bonus video and interview that weren't aired on TV. More videos will be added soon.

More info on Rapal @ www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/radio/rapal/

Re-issues Now Available

Due to increasing demand, Planet Groucho Records has re-issued Midnight Finger Painter & Adventures in Fuzzy Felt Land on CD. Now you can get your hardcopy lovin' mitts on these two classics along with our latest release Motion Sickness from Lulu.

On the BBC

Turn your tellybox on to BBC Alba (sky:168 freesat:110) when the moon aligns with your eyeballs at exactly 10pm on Wednesday the 14th of January, if you're lucky you'll end up being one of the fortunate folks who get to witness the Kazoo Funk Orchestra's BBC debut. The show will repeat again on the 16th of January at 11pm.

More information @ www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/radio/rapal/

Watch Rapal Episode 2 on the BBC iPlayer

Weapon of Choice

Our melodical cousins from the land of moose, Weapon of Choice have just released a new self titled album featuring two collaboration with ourselves. You can get your paws on it from iTunes

The Waiting Room - Theme Tune

The good folks at The Waiting Room are now featuring Baby You've No Eyes as their theme tune, and will also be inviting ourselves to put together a playlist for an upcoming show, more info coming soon...

Check it out @ The Waiting Room

Motion Sickness for Christmas

The festive season is a time for giving, so we decided to give you something... Motion Sickness, 14 of our finest b-sides and demo tracks all bundled into a magically festive EP available to download completely free from the link below:

The Waiting Room

Although we might not be able to demonstrate the current position of Mars using short grain rice and a pack of bendy straws, we do have an understanding that a melody of our creation will be featured in The Waiting Room on wednesday the 3rd of december aongside other treats like, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Anna Ash & The Family Tree, The Theatre Fire, Pia & Tora, Hanna Baummann, Pale Young Gentlemen, Rags & Feathers, Tom Williams & The Boat plus Kría Brekkan.

Listen to the podcast @ The Waiting Room

QMU PHOTOS

Yet more photos have been added to the pictures page, thanks to the mystery QMU photographer.

WICKERMAN FESTIVAL VIDEOS

Our resident YouTube hamster, Frank, has finally escaped from his fun ball and uploaded some videos. As a matter of fact, he's uploaded the entire Wickerman Festival setlist and set it up as a playlist so you can watch the full gig from start to finish. A round of tiny claps for Frank!!! All video clips were filmed by Ron Reid of Evidence Productions.

Watch the Wickerman Festival videos @ www.youtube.com

BELLADRUM & WIZARD PHOTOS

If you make your way over to the pictures page, you'll notice we've added some photos from the Belladrum Festival and Wizard Festival. More photos will be added soon.

Updates from 2008

I saw a shooting star the other night as I gazed out 'tween the hospital curtains and it widened my ponder. Over the next few weeks, we'll be uploading photos and other fruits from this years live antics starting with some live recordings from The Mill in Glasgow.

Baby You've No Eyes (live @ the Mill)

Check out some photos from the gig over on the pictures page.

MOBRULE SHOW 7

We're excited to inform y'all that TSM Radio have selected three tracks from our new album, This Album is Self Titled as part of MOBRULE Show 7. Hop on your imaginary rhino and stomp your pretty self over to TSM Radio to download the show, also featuring: Super Cute Voices, Popup, The Arkanes, Papa La Bas, Dirty Hearts, Keko Yoma, The Beat Poets, The Graeme Mearns Band and Yerosha.

Find out more about TSM Radio @ www.tsmradio.net

BBC Rapal TV

The Kazoo Funk Orchestra set sail for the Isle of Lewis to rock some Stornoway frock on BBC Rapal TV alongside Frightened Rabbit, The Dirty 9s, Endor, The Hazey Janes and The State Brothers. The live sessions will be aired on BBC Alba and BBC 2 sometime in January. Check out BBC Rapal TV for more info.

Free Gig @ the Mill

Not got the pennies or jam jars to get to a kazoo funk orchestra gig? Fear not, as Miller Genuine Draft decided it's time they rocked the Mill in Glasgow on the 3rd of September alongside Tokyoblu for the reasonable cost of nada. You will however, need to visit www.themill-live.com to get your paws on the free tickets!!!

For tickets visit www.themill-live.com
(There’s no charge, but you do need one)

The Mill Glasgow, 731-735 Great Western Rd, G12 8QX
The Mill is an 18+ venue brought to you by Miller Genuine Draft

Hayseed Dixie support slot

This Album is Self Titled is now available

Yes muchachos and muchachas, our new album, This Album is Self Titled is now available via various online music stores, including: iTunes, eMusic, Napster, etc...

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 Wah Wah Hut 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.

BUY TICKETS

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 £8 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

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/

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

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 that´s 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 it´s 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