Dublin's Tycho Brahe, sorry Tychonaut, have done it again.

Following the success of their albums, This is and Love Life, and their two Meteor nominations, Carol & co. have now landed a European and UK deal. This means that their two albums will soon be commercially available across Europe, with another in the pipeline for 2005.

But if that wasn’t enough excitement for one year, they’ve also gone and changed their name. To Tychonaut. Explaining their reasons behind this decision, the band have said, "We like the new one more!"

Apparently, it goes something like this:
Q: What do you call an American space man?
A: An Astronaut
Q: What do you call an Russian space man?
A: A Cosmonaut Q: What do you call a Chinese space man?
A: A Tychonaut

Could it be that the band have finally found out the true story behind their namesake, Tycho Brahe? The 16th century Danish astronomer died a most embarrassing death following a banquet he attended at the Prague palace of the Bohemian Count of Rosenberg.

Food poisoning it was not. Brahe, thinking it "discourteous" to answer the call of nature during the course of the feast, sat at the table until his bladder burst and he died several days later.

Whatever, you can see the ex-Brahe Chinese spacemen live at the following venues this summer:
June 18 @ Halfmoon, Cork
June 19 @ The Courtyard, Schull, Cork
June 22 @ Ruby sessions, Doyles, Dublin
July 3 @ TráFest, Waterford
July 7 @ The Stags Head (Parlour), Dublin
July 11 @ Oxegen Festival - Ticket Stage
July 16 @ Model Arts + Niland Gallery, Sligo
Aug 27 @ Roisin Dubh, Galway