In these somewhat gloomy and recessionary times, what better way to beat the humbugs out of your lugholes than with a night of glorious glamour and song with me, beehive and pop icon Mari Wilson and celebrated cabaret chansonniere Barb Jungr.  Our exciting programme features a diverse range of material from Bacharach to the B52’s, Rodgers and Hammerstein to Dolly Parton in a collection ranging from soul, pop and jazz to sublime ballads and more.

And to show how far from Scrooges we are, we are giving away a free pair of tickets to our gig at the Brighton Komedia, Tuesday 13th December.

To be in with a chance of winning, please complete the following lyric:

"I am woman, hear me..."

Email your answers to me here.  Winners will be picked at random from accurate / sufficiently humourous entries.

Gwyn xx

My favourite of the Radio 4 iPod series - Oscar Wilde. Listening to Wilde's grandson hear our recording of a song about his grandmother smiling at her 9-month old baby son (his Dad) which he had no idea existed... a strange and moving privilege. Plus songs for the Dalston wannabe aesthetes ("Too Utterly Utter" and "The Flipperty Flop Young Man") and function singers ("Go on talking, don't mind me...") amongst us.

Listen again on iplayer.

The latest in our Radio 4 iPod series: spinning the discs today is Scottish poet, song-collector, dancer and romancer, drinker and fiddler Robert Burns, as prolific a child-producer as he was a writer. Including an absolutely filthy song about "double drivin'" and my dubious attempts at a Scottish accent (sorry Edinburgh peeps!)

Listen again on the BBC iPlayer.

The BBC Radio 4 iPod series is back with 4 programmes exploring the musical tastes of historical figures.  The first one was broadcast on Saturday 19th November, and featured the favourite toons of Queen Victoria, discussed in Buckingham Palace by David Owen Norris and a panel of experts, and sung by me and regular iPod collaborator Thomas Guthrie.You can listen again to the programme on the BBC iPlayer.Coming up in next in the series is a somewhat bawdier selection from literary rascal Robert Burns, due to be broadcast next Saturday morning at 10.30am. 

On the last Thursday of September 2011, I was covered in white body paint, wigged up to the max and encased in a huge block of carefully sculpted marble.  There was dry ice.  There was reverb.  There were cameras.  It's fun to be inside the mind of wonky artistic genius Mel Brimfield.

The resulting film is to be shown as part of an exhibition in Lancaster and Liverpool later in the year.

Al and I will be playing a few toons at East London venue Favela Chic, 1-93 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3HZ on Tuesday 27th September.  Entry is FREE, doors at 7pm and we're on at 9pm.  Find out more from Favela Chic website.

Please have a gander at our new little video for single Perfect Fit. We had lots of fun making it - we filmed the first part in a little cottage near my folks' house in Hampshire, and the main bit in Broadway Market round the corner from my Hackney flat, one rainy Summer morning. 

We wanted to do something a bit different to mark the release of our new single, Perfect Fit, so I scrabbled around for a few backstage scrapings and asked a handful of my lovely and varied musician friends to present some Herbert tracks as they’d never been heard before. The result is Clangers and Mash: bleepy, tappy, pleasureful ear food to tickle your bellies.Tuck in! Order Clangers & Mash from Amazon