What is all natural, won't rot your teeth and is good for your environment? That's right this year give the gift of music.... MUDCAKES music!

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 MUMS [and Moms too!] Get in FREEEEE! To our special show celebrating Mums and Families and triffic home-baked music. bookings www.themudcakes.com

Champagne brunch and bar available at extra charge.

THE UNION HOTEL 

109 UNION ST, BRUNSWICK.

11AM SUNDAY MAY 1OTH.

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The Mudcakes are going into the studio [at home!] in April to record
their third CD which will be a collection of lullabys. Yes it will
include a version of 'Twinkle Twinkle' but done in a way you may never
have expected and with extra verses that we made up.  There will
be many original tunes that we have written especially for YOU as well
as  carefully selected songs that are already well known sleeptime
songs. We may even do new versions of 'Dreamtime' and 'So Sleepy' from
our first CD.

As all lullaby CD's should be, this will have very simple musical
arrangements. Thinking ukulele, guitar and possibly piano. But then
again you never know what will happen once we get going. Rest assured
it will be nothing like the orchestral Disney lullaby CD your Aunty
gave you for Christmas. Until then Goodnight, I love you, sweet dreams.

Dear Mudclubbers,
You can probably tell from our songs and music that we love things to do with the jungle... jungle animals and sounds and places that are interesting and different. We also enjoy making new friends and singing songs to people and animals in new places and spaces. So that's why we [with our ukulele and our sock monkey friend] decided to trip off to Thailand for a Mudcakes-style adventure. We started off in Bangkok and one of our favourite places was the zoo. We heard some amazing howling gibbons there and saw white tigers and turtles and horn bill birds. Wow!
We took an overnight train to a city up north called Chiang Mai and spent a whole day on an elephant farm where we each got to look after our very own elephant and learn how to talk to it....Sherry was singing to her elephant while we all rode bareback up to a beautiful waterfall where we had lunch laid out on banana leaves. Delicious!
In Chiang Mai we also had fun at the night market, eating fried banana and poached quail eggs and hearing some terrific music made by very old Thai musicians using very strange instruments that we had never seen before.
Sock monkey really liked hangin' with his monkey friends and family at the monkey temple in a town called Lopbuhri just outside Bangkok. The Monkey temple is a place where monkeys are 'sacred' to the Thai people. That means they are allowed to do pretty much whatever they like and live in and on a very old temple. They are fed and looked after very well. Going into the monkey temple is like going into their home. Ramsay was pulled over when a big monkey decided he wanted to look in Ramsays back pack!
The food in Thailand is really terrific and spicy. We also went to a lot of big tall pointy gold temples and saw sooooo many Buddha statues. Freya really likes Buddhas and rice and Ramsay loves elephants and noodles. Rick and Sherry like green curry and monkeys.
We hope you like the pictures here from our trip. Expect to hear some songs written about our Thailand adventure on a CD in the future. We may even do a whole CD about elephants!

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 Were you there?
 Thanks to all the juniour wizards, witches, vampires, devilsandcritters scarey and not so scarey who came out to our first everMudcakes Halloween show and made it such a screaming goodtime.Highlights included Sue teaching the witch dance and impressing uswithmagic tricks and a devilish Rick singing 'Monster Mash'. Great tosee so many Mums and Dads getting into the spirit too.
We'll be moving to a bigger venue next year and filming it all for a DVD. See you then!

Tee shirts for the coolest Monkeys on the street maaaaaan! Get yours while they last at www.themudcakes.com. Click on 'go shopping' and feast your eyes on the super cool, super stretchy, super stripey, ultra rare TEES. Badges too!

Are you a problem solving person?
Tanya Lacy from a company called Intercept Poverty approached us to bring her song idea to life and so we are happy to unveil it for you here. We hope it gets you tapping those toes and thinking of ways that YOU can be a problem solving kid in your everyday life.
With Intercept, the students at Williamstown Primary School in Victoria are working hard and using their brains to raise money to bring formula to the babies at an orphanage in Ethiopia. The boys voices you hear doing the rapping are Tanya's son Adam and our own Ramsay. This song will be available as a CD single from SEAGULLS BOOKSHOP - Nelson Place, Williamstown.
To find out more about Tanya and Intercept go to www.interceptpoverty.blogspot.com