Martin the Sound Man
Without Martin the Sound Man, Answer Me This! would just be Olly and Helen shouting in the living room. So praise the day he was born! Here he is rocking out:
Martin rocks
As well as his duties producing all the music in the show, with the assistance of the Answer Me This! Players, Martin also makes sounds of his own under his own name:
as as the band The Sound of the Ladies:
Martin’s pretty music is also available on his monthly podcast:
In his spare time, he is a bona fide scientist with a doctorate in physics, and has combined his day job and his night job in his science albums, which are both euphonious and educational:
You can track also all of Martin’s comings and goings via twitter.com/martinaustwick.
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August 13, 2018 at 4:22 am |
Martin the Sound Man is my favorite character on the show, and his material is by far the best written. He’s really more fully developed than Helen and Olly, more nuanced. It’s a shame he’s stuck at the bottom of a well.
I am also posting this comment because, as a fan of Martin, it’s really upsetting that there have been no new comments here for three years.
November 15, 2015 at 10:34 pm |
Martin is hot! Helen is VERY lucky :3
June 28, 2016 at 7:14 am |
She’s not lucky, she’s just totally awesome and therefore deserves a totally awesome (and hot) dude.
August 29, 2014 at 1:44 pm |
I too am disturbed by Martin’s appearance. And indeed, the visuals of all three of them. I thought that Helen and Olly were way more attractive from their voices (not that they are unattractive, you understand) and Martin was way more of a minger. Why is this??
Moreover, I’ve only just realised that Helen and Martin are a couple instead of Helen and Olly. This is most confusing and I need time to lie down and work this all out.
January 15, 2015 at 9:28 pm |
Have you ever listened to this podcast before?
January 23, 2015 at 1:35 pm |
What podcast?
November 8, 2013 at 11:51 am |
I always thought Martin was secretly Tim Key.
May 24, 2015 at 2:25 pm |
When in fact, Martin actually looks more like Tim Clare.
September 17, 2013 at 1:52 pm |
The guy with the reverb: WHY???? Please stop it. I don’t listen because of that.
April 7, 2014 at 11:15 am |
It’s not a reverb – it’s his actual voice! Now you know the truth, keep listening. Where would our fortnights be without them, eh?
September 28, 2014 at 11:09 pm |
The whole “reverb/Echo” thing is the whole reason I like him, The ethereal sound of reason
July 22, 2011 at 7:53 pm |
Martin what is in that snack?
October 6, 2011 at 10:49 am |
It’s the mixed meze at http://www.efesrestaurant.co.uk/ – we’d never seen such fancily-presented meze!
October 28, 2011 at 6:59 pm |
Whoop whoop Efes Restaurant. Do you go there oftern? I don’t want to encourage stalkers but I used to go there A LOT and if there was any chance I would get to see my favourite sound man I would defo return 🙂
November 3, 2011 at 8:34 pm
*often
November 3, 2011 at 9:09 pm
Martin used to work nearby but sadly we haven’t been in for a while since. Great kofte though.
July 15, 2011 at 8:38 pm |
Martin, I teach a course to Elementary School Teachers in Colorado, USA every summer. They sometimes have a difficult time with science and don’t always want to teach it. It’s on electricity and magnetism.
This year I opened with Doing The Real Science Here and this: http://prezi.com/3dzczbc-1tvx/small/
Thank you so much for the song. It was funny but relevant. And really helped sell the point of failure in science and try, try again. I really like that album. Especially Luminescent Ether.
July 12, 2011 at 12:46 pm |
WOW who knew the echoey voice of the sound man would be such a hottie?!?!
June 24, 2011 at 10:02 pm |
Question thats got me confounded,
when you did that podcast for christmas, what song were you covering. I thought it was a Wilson Pickett song, but i’m stumped.
April 25, 2011 at 9:37 am |
Martin’s actually quite cute!
December 23, 2010 at 2:51 pm |
that is so cool! i love we went to the bottom of the ocean- das ist mein fave
November 3, 2010 at 8:22 pm |
MARTIN, DID YOU EVER GO TO MALVERN AS A CHILD OR DEPRESSED TEENAGER?!
October 30, 2010 at 7:21 pm |
I had imagined him to look much bonnier and blond.
I just realized the other day that he and hellen are a couple.Good on Mr sound man cuz hellen is super coooooooooooooooooooooooooool!
August 10, 2010 at 3:12 pm |
Midlander – There can be only one!
August 5, 2010 at 12:32 am |
I adore her music, and her sense of fashion is soo chic!
August 11, 2010 at 7:34 am |
I know this comment is spam, but let it through because it is both apt and mildly insulting.
December 11, 2011 at 10:52 pm |
Ahahahaa :’) #LOLSPAM
August 31, 2010 at 10:57 am |
quack quack
August 1, 2010 at 3:42 pm |
….I’ve only listeed to 2 episodes and I’m hooked, but I always thought that Martin would look like a human Martin the robot from The Hitch hiker’s guide to the Galaxy. Was that robot’s name Martin? I’m nor sure. But this Martin’s face is a pleasant surprise.
May 31, 2010 at 9:46 pm |
Yay, martinez. The sound of the ladies should do a massive tour with helen and olly as the supporting act! or vice versa. ;D
May 21, 2010 at 5:03 am |
I will be trying the podcast! The music on the show is great! I like the west midlands guy…
April 19, 2010 at 8:44 pm |
I love martin. Helen ur so damed lucky xxx
April 4, 2010 at 9:29 pm |
MY GOD! Martin looks absolutely nothing like I imagined! I was thinking, bald, older uglier… He’s actually not bad looking 🙂 xx
January 31, 2010 at 1:41 pm |
I don’t know why, but i imagined that Martin looked like Marek Larwood from We Are Klang. It’s really strange seeing what they look like, after builing up an image in my head…
January 30, 2010 at 10:17 pm |
he might not look like slash, but i wonder if his musical skills are equal or near to such legends…………..
November 30, 2009 at 9:02 pm |
To be honest, thats very similar to the image of martin i had in my head, long hair, glasses, nerdy but in a good way 😀
I also downloaded sound of the ladies – nice work martin (:
Have to say, i love the way you say “Fucking Idiot” haha
November 15, 2009 at 5:54 pm |
Martin is coool xx 😀
October 5, 2009 at 9:03 pm |
I think martin speaks funny he says ss and sclh sounds like hh’es eating a cake
anyway i tought the would look a bit like prince charlss
October 5, 2009 at 1:47 pm |
Martin, you look familiar what is your surname ?
September 18, 2009 at 10:35 am |
It seems we all got Martin a bit wrong. I expected you to be bald sir. I’m not disapointed don’t worry. But do please let me know if it ever happens, then I can put your photograph next to my drawings in my sketch book.
Thank you,
John.
August 27, 2009 at 11:31 am |
i imagine him to look like father christmas, how wrong i was.
August 16, 2009 at 7:02 pm |
This may sound strange, but I always visualised Martain as looking like Slash from Guns n’ Roses…not quite the image I expected
August 24, 2009 at 9:36 pm |
I imagined him looking like popular comedian Mark Watson
August 1, 2010 at 10:21 pm |
:O mee toooo !!
I knew what I thought he looks like but I didn’t know the name of him, then i googled this ‘mark watson’ guy and thats exactly how i imagined him in my head :O
i think it’s his voice…
March 28, 2009 at 8:14 pm |
For heaven’s sake, please break the reverb button off the mixing desk. Everytime the sound man makes a comment or buts in, the reverb drowns everything out.
May 15, 2009 at 9:43 pm |
Boo!!! We love the echo.
August 16, 2009 at 8:17 pm |
he’s a bloody soundman… he’s allowed to add his own effects…it gives him a god like sound…
September 7, 2009 at 1:33 pm |
The Answer Me This Podcast would be nothing without Martin the sound man’s echo.
December 14, 2009 at 10:45 pm
each to their own, but the soundman’s echo does my head in. it just sounds like a really amateur bit of production.
keep up the good work though….just minus the reeeeeeeeeveeeeerbbbbbbbb
January 7, 2010 at 2:45 pm |
I think the echo is supposed to sound amateurish, ally. I think the echo is great to be honest, it’s like the almighty nerd-god booming down from the sky.
February 10, 2009 at 7:02 pm |
The “UK Beatbox Chapionships Final”…sounds like one for Martin!
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&interface=shepemp&event=300359
November 28, 2008 at 7:05 pm |
I thought martin was bald.
How wrong I was…
May 16, 2009 at 5:17 pm |
so did i!
January 4, 2011 at 12:00 am |
So did I lol
July 22, 2011 at 7:50 pm
me too
November 18, 2008 at 7:20 pm |
i totally agree with freyja – i heard an episode on a friends itunes before i started subscribing and i was convinced it was josie long and that she was using the name helen to thinly disguise herself!
September 3, 2008 at 8:20 pm |
I apologise, when I say ‘sun’ I meant to say SOUND
Must try and get this typing lark sussed…
September 3, 2008 at 8:19 pm |
I have also downloaded the sun of the ladies podcast, good stuff!
August 26, 2008 at 12:31 pm |
has martins voice changed slowly thoughout the podcast series-listening to an earlier episode the echo effects and reverb are much more recognisable
August 22, 2008 at 9:14 pm |
Martin looks how he sounds. Its good, but i wasnt expecting the glasses, that was a shock
August 10, 2008 at 8:57 pm |
he looks like his voice…if you know what i mean
July 11, 2008 at 7:44 am |
From what i’ve heard on the podcast, Martin’s head shouldn’t be visible, it’s so covered in hair!
November 11, 2007 at 5:32 pm |
i apologise for the error, it is in fact, interesting.
November 11, 2007 at 5:31 pm |
Interestin, because Helen really really really reminds me of Josie Long