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BYAMPOD: SORRY FOR SCARING THE HORSES

Oh no! Sorry if I worried you with my comments earlier. I want to reassure all of you who are worried about the future of BYAMPOD... don't be. It is coming back. Of course it is. We can't turn our back on something we love so much. We - well, I, really - just needed a bit of a break. 

Aside from the Fish fallout, I'd been struggling a bit this past month, due to it being the one-year. anniversary of losing my dad, and a few other life things. After a heavy run of episodes, I didn't...

UPPER TIERS BLOG: SIZE MATTERS NOT

A few of you in the comments have mentioned weight off the back of my post this morning, so I thought I’d talk about it a bit more.

I, like many of you, have had a complicated relationship with my size. Obviously it’s something I’ve mentioned in recent videos (or on the outtakes), because they were all filmed over the same two days. It’s rare for me to have any real insecurity around my...

EARLY ACCESS: GRETNA GREEN - PLUS BYAMPOD, PLUS A GIVEAWAY!

If you found the Sellafield video a tad on the heavy side, this is the perfect antidote.

it probably won’t be available to the general public for a few weeks, so this is proper early access; it’s just a brief one, about our hop over the border to visit Gretna Green. We made it to Scotland!

Just.

There’s some nice chatty stuff in there too. And we go in a maze.

We’ve been intending to do some shorter vids to sprinkle in among the longer ones; they don’t need t...

EARLY ACCESS: BRITAIN'S CHERNOBYL

Hello, you lot.

Well, another week and no BYAMPOD. Sorry. Sanja came down with a foul cold at the end of last week, and I had a migraine on Friday, which wiped me out on Saturday too, after spending the afternoon at the solicitor's sorting out the (hopefully) last bits of my dad's paperwork. And then we had my mum on Sunday. 

All the fun! Fingers crossed for this week.

Anyway. Here's the latest Digi; yes, despite last week's being an epic, we're putting out another this...

UPPER TIERS EXCLUSIVE: CUMBRIA OUTTAKES

Here you go - 15 more minutes of our Excalibur adventure, plus a bonus few minutes from NEXT WEEK'S video where we visit Sellafield, and then go on one about feeling fat because we ate too much Cumbrian service station food.

WEDNESDAY UPDATE: BYAMPOD & DIGI & SO FORTH

Happy… Wednesday? I was stuck in a script the last couple of days, having edited over the weekend, so didn’t get a chance to do my usual Monday post.  Worked until 10pm last night, and a bit knackered now, so taking it slightly easier today…

…By researching the next video we’re filming while Sanja syncs the sound on another of the ones we filmed last week.

You won’t have seen it, but when we were in the boat we got hit by the wake of another boat, my phone fell on...

EARLY ACCESS: THE SEARCH FOR EXCALIBUR

Here we go! A brand new Digitiser epic! Yes: it's the one with the boat.

In our quest to find Excalibur, and discover the truth about King Arthur and his legendary sword, Sanja and I drove north to Cumbria. Our trip took us from the Yorkshire Dales, to Hadrian's Wall, and out onto the waters of The Lake District... 

I just can't wait to be king!

Best of all, you won't have to wait as long for the next video; I've already started editing next week's one. And there's a th...

EXCLUSIVE CLIP: WE HAVE RETURNED...

We’re home! Hooooo boy. Everyone alright? Good good. Seems like we’ve been away forever, even though we only left on Monday afternoon.

It feels like we packed a year into the past few days. We got a LOT done though; three whole videos (maybe four, depending on how long one turns out – footage for that ep alone is probably about four hours… maybe more) - barring (of course) the editing, and possibly a couple of extra bits. We’ll see what we think they need once we watch back th...

MONDAY UPDATE: NORTH!

Sorry we weren’t able to get a BYAMPOD out this week. Life seems to be structured in such a way that if we dare to miss a day or two – such as last Thursday, for the h Natural gig – it throws everything into disarray. Also doesn't help if you're hungover the next day. 

I’ll be honest… after the last few weeks, and some of the comments about us online, I think a week of BYAMPOD â€...

POSTCARD GIVEAWAY WINNERS

If you entered the draw for a postcard, all the winners have now have been notified by email. We'll do another one when we're away next week! 

OH AND... NOW WE HAVE 'COLLECTIONS'

One of the new Patreon features allows creators to group their Patreon exclusive stuff into collections.

This is good, as it'll make life a lot easier for those of you who don't want Digi cluttering up their BYAMPOD, or vice-versa. Likewise for outtakes, Biffo's Brain, Writer's Club etc. Click on the 'Collections' link at the top of the main page to see all the content you want, all in one place. 

WE'VE RENTED A BOAT

Hola, Patrons.

Next week’s Digi FILMING should be interesting. Aside from an enormous amount of driving to get where we’re going, we’ve also rented a boat. Yes: us… driving an actual boat (not the boat pictured above).

I’ve written up about 5,000 words of research, which I will barely refer to in the finished episode. I like having facts on hand, and then not entirely memorising...

LOOK: AN UPDATE ON DIGI and BYAMPOD

Hello gang.

Quick update on where we’re at and what’s coming up, as I’ve not spoken with you yet this week.

We were due to be filming on Wednesday, but we’ve postponed it because I had a full-on week so far with day job work, and I didn’t feel ready to film.

Part of the pressure is we’re away Thursday – seeing Marillion’s Steve Hogarth in concert, which will form the backbone of the next edition BYAMPOD. If you know where he’s playing you’ll probably know...

UPPER TIERS EXCLUSIVE: WILTSHIRE OUTTAKES

Here you go - 30 or so minutes more of our antics in Wiltshire.

WRITER'S CLUB SPECIAL: HOW WE 'WRITE' DIGI VIDEOS

We began this as an episode of the Writer's Club podcast, but it evolved into an episode very specifically about Digitiser - so we thought we'd share it with you all.

It's basically us discussing how we make our out-and-about videos - how much preparation do we do in advance? How much of them are scripted? What are 'gifts from The Universe'? It's all here!

Coming later for the upper tiers - just rendering/uploading now - are outtakes from our Wiltshire jaunt.

We're really ha...

EARLY ACCESS: BYAMPOD Ep 126 - The Pros & Cons of Podcasting (About Marillion and Fish)

The final part of our 13th Star trilogy of episodes finds us drawing a line under Fish's solo career, as we discuss what happens when the line becomes blurred between critic and artist, and artist and fan. It's not the review we'd planned, or wanted, to make, and in this episode we explain - in real-time - why that is. 

LEAF'S GIVEAWAY!

Forgot to mention in this morning's Digi video post that we're doing a giveaway. If you'd like one of the signed postcards, leave a comment below and we'll pick one at random (using Sanja's inexplicably complicated system).

Right. I've flooded you with updates today, so I'll shut-up now.

SLIGHTLY EARLY ACCESS: BYAMPOD Ep 125 - Disillusioned and Scarred

Sorry this is late!

Once again, this isn't the episode we expected to make this week, but after receiving an email from Fish, it's also one we couldn't avoid. We also dig into what it was like to be at the 2007 Aylesbury reunion, and why it might not have been a good idea...

EARLY ACCESS: BRITAIN'S AREA 51

Suffice to say, this trip to Wiltshire did not turn out how we expected... The first 25 minutes are pretty serious by our standards. The last 40 minutes are ridiculous. 

Even by our standards.

What was supposed to be a fun little visit around the county's most famous Neolithic attractions - Stonehenge, Avebury, Silbury Hill - turned into something darker, scarier, and much more intense, when we dig into the county's history of secret military installations and dark science......

THIS WEEK'S STUFF

Happy Monday!

BYAMPOD will be out, hopefully, later today - sorry you're not getting it early. We were running a bit late, because we were away last week filming, and then I was editing. 

Despite a few of you voicing concerns that last week's drama might in some way put us off of BYAMPOD... worry ye not. We'll talk about it more when we record, but the Fish email honestly didn't real...

GIVEAWAY: AUNTY DONNA TICKETS.

Morning again!

So, we've decided not to go to Aunty Donna tonight, and have been offered tickets to next Saturday's show, by some lovely people.

Therefore, we have two tickets going for free to tonight's show at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith. Starts at 8pm. Highly recommended. Very funny.

Free to the first person who says in the comments that they want them. 

AN EMAIL FROM FISH... PLUS: WE GOT FOLLOWED BY THE POLICE (NOT THE BAND)

Morning, all!

So. Firstly… did you listen to the most recent BYAMPOD? Fish did!

Here’s the email he sent at midnight last night:

Dear Paul

I was pointed at your recent podcast 'orphan of Heartbreak' as a few fans were angry at your flippant and badly researched coverage of the '13th Star' period.

Yes you are correct you do not know me...