It wasn't meant to be like this. We didn't rent a 14th Century church just so we could get wrecked on tequila, and fail to tell ghost stories (at least, not without going off at wild tangents). And yet... that's what we did, and that is what you are getting. Before everyone else, natch.
Enjoy!
2021-08-10 16:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, gang.
Here's a two-part exclusive for you top tier chums. This is a) Very different to our usual videos, and b) The consequence of being too exhausted after a day UFO hunting to film the video we intended to film. We were going to do a full-on ghost hunt in the amazing church we'd rented, but instead... we flopped on the sofa, drank two bottles of tequila between us, and told some ghost stories.
Well, eventually we told some ghost stories after we spent 40 minutes discussin...
2021-08-10 10:03:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Really early access this week... next week's BYAMPOD begins our look at Marillion.com - Marillion's "worst album". Enjoy!
2021-08-02 16:39:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, I'm a bit grumpy this week, and Sanja has had too much coffee. We conclude our delve into your Radiation letters, discuss what went wrong in the 90s for Marillion, debate Coldplay's attempts to go prog, and finally manage to define what cool is. Or what's uncool, at least.
2021-07-29 13:53:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, you lot. Here are 10 glorious minutes of deleted footage from the recent Aussie taste taste, and the upcoming Krapstarter.
Enjoy!
2021-07-26 12:38:31 +0000 UTC View Post
A brand new early access Digi vid? On a Sunday? No rest for the wicked....
In the next couple of days, Top Tier chums will be getting a whole heap of deleted footage from recent eps. Including a couple of TMI moments from me...
2021-07-25 14:33:39 +0000 UTC View PostIf you came looking for the post on Digi Live that went up this morning, I've deleted it. We're in an impossible situation, frankly, and whatever we do will feel like the wrong thing. Hence the post.
If we cancel... we're liable to refund everyone. We'd go bankrupt. Literally.
If we postpone... people who have already booked travel and hotels will lose money, and let down people who'd been looking forward to this for over a year.
If we go ahead... we risk spreading Cov...
2021-07-24 18:15:34 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on Digi, I am mostly insulting my wife's culture...
2021-07-20 11:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Just for you lot at the top, Sanja and I discuss everything we've thought of so far regarding Digi The Show series 2.
2021-07-20 11:32:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This video was rendered out-of-date almost as quickly as we made it, but we thought you'd still want to watch. Hopefully see some of you on September 4th!
There's a Top Tier Digi The Show exclusive imminent, as well as this week's main video (just wanting somebody to check something in it first). It's a motherlode!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvhcNUgaSBc
2021-07-20 11:07:10 +0000 UTC View PostI know some of you have tickets to Digitiser Live 2.0, so apologies if you've already seen this, but I don't want anybody to miss it, as it's important (and if you're not... you can still get a ticket here if you're quick: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/digitiser/347170).
Annoyingly, Sanja and I just recorded a video for you about Digi Live, where we mentioned we were waiting on confi...
2021-07-16 15:56:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi BYAMPODDERS. Here's next week's episode for you. This... was a tricky one. What started out as a regular postbag episode become something far more enflamed with passion, when a few old wounds got reopened.
I'll be honest - and tell you lot this, but nobody else - it's one of the few episodes where I've edited it down in a few significant places, because I felt I got a bit too - ahem - passionate... as I re-experience some hurt feelings from the 90s.
Suffice to say, ...
2021-07-16 11:26:00 +0000 UTC View PostThere's this quote from David Bowie, which I've been seeing a lot in recent years, and it is this:
“If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”
Though it has been over...
2021-07-15 08:52:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello gang. There *probably* won't be a Digi this week, alas. I spent most of yesterday at the hospital with my dad, so I'm a day behind on everything I wanted to get done this week (Digi Live prep, and other bits and pieces).
Sanja and I are going to be filming next week's episode towards the end of the week, so you'll likely get something - including some Patreon-only vids, hopefully - it just won't go out to everyone. Gives them all an extra week to watch the Supernatural World...
2021-07-13 11:08:54 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a select few of you who enjoy it when I share bits of music I've been working on, so this is for you lot.
As is usual, this was mostly a test, again trying to get a decent virtual guitar sound out of Logic, just using plugins, and no real instruments. This is the closest I've gotten so far, I think, to a song that sounds sort of guitar-based. As always... it comes with the caveat that I'm not a musician.
Hey - some of you remarked on how much you liked the soundtrack of th...
2021-07-11 10:22:55 +0000 UTC View PostThose of you over on the Top Tier will know this already… but we’re doing a second series of Digitiser The Show.
Well, hopefully.
I mean, crowd-funding dependent. And not before all the Kickstarter rewards from Series 1 have gone out. Which should be done soon.
I think this is okay to reveal here now?
Sanja and I have kind of resolved any issues we had from the first series, mostly, and are now firmly in thinking-about-it-seriously mode, and how we can make the who...
2021-07-09 11:48:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In something of a grab-bag of an episode, this week we cover the late-90s period of Marillion's history, where we got more new releases than ever before... Llive albums! Remix albums! Remasters!
Plus we make a case for Unplugged At The Walls as their best live album ever, and discuss the Fugazi deluxe edition.
2021-07-09 09:29:12 +0000 UTC View PostHello BYAMPODDERS! Here's a brand new bonus ep, in which Sanja and I attempt to discuss the new Marillion album, while being constantly interrupted.
Next week's episode should be with you very shortly.
I've been mulling this over for months now, and... we're considering doing a second series of Digitiser The Show.
Keep it to yourself. I just wanted to get some thoughts down for now.
Most of you know that both Sanja and I found the experience of doing the first series fairly awful. It was very, very stressful, for all manner of reasons.
So why would we consider doing it again?
Where I'm at in terms of my day job is this: I'm effectively out of work at the ...
2021-07-05 09:47:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This ep, we go through Marillion's 1998 album Radiation, track-by-track. Probably singer Steve Hogarth's most starkly personal album to this point, it proves to be uncomfortable listening in places; for both good and bad! Includes Under The Sun, Three Minute Boy, Answering Machine, Now She'll Never Know, Cathedral Wall and A Few Words For The Dead.
Enjoy!
2021-07-02 15:44:30 +0000 UTC View PostHere you go - very early access to next week's video, the second part of the UFO hunt! And you thought part one was weird...
There should be some new BYAMPOD stuff for you all later, and next week will bring some behind-the-scenes footage from the Rendlesham shoot for those of you in the top tier.
Anyhow: enjoy this video, if only for my surprise when something I do goes right for a change...
2021-07-02 13:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostHere you go - just for you. Don't watch this until you've watched the main episode, obviously. There'll be another bunch of outtakes next week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_7d0C70Vds
2021-06-29 10:56:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt's here! Part 2 next week...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE1iqtZoWY4
Morning all!
Ep 1 of the Supernatural World UFO special should be with you later today. Top Tier folk will be getting 20 or so minutes of outtakes and extended bits.
I decided to split it into two (Kyle/Marc - your scenes will be next week now) in the end, because it was shaping up to be an hour and 20 minutes. I know second parts of things generally don't tend to do as well, but there's so much good stuff still to come, that I didn't want it getting lost at the end of...
2021-06-29 09:16:50 +0000 UTC View PostHello, y'all. I need some help!
In short: we lost a tiny, but REALLY important bit of footage from last week's filming. It's a shot looking out a car windscreen at night, as it travels down a small country road... and then STOPS, as if it loses power, headlights go off... and then it just sits there for a few moments.
Now... I don't own a car these days, and short of renting another one, or borrowing my dad's overnight, there's no real way for me to reshoot the footage. ...
2021-06-27 19:44:01 +0000 UTC View Post
For a shorter-than-usual ep... there's a lot going on in this one. We hit the ground running with a discussion about next year's Marillion Weekends, before tackling the birth of crowd-funding, and then we launch into the first part of our dissection of the band's 1998 album, Radiation.
In this bonus instalment of Between You And Me, Sanja and I discuss Marillion entering the final stages of recording their new album, and take five minutes before we even so much as mention the band. Much of which is spent chasing a fly around the room. Exciting real-time fly hunting!
Also, apologies for whichever one of us kept tapping the mic.
2021-06-24 14:31:20 +0000 UTC View PostHello all! Remember I said we done a video about our Covid, in which we also unboxed a load of stuff sent to us by generous viewers, and how I was thinking of putting it on the second channel on account of the camera being out of focus for the whole video?
Well, sod it. I'm going to put this on the main channel in a few days, as I think it's a good update, I want Sanja back on there asap, and because the sound is fine. I don't think you really notice the blurriness after a while.
...
2021-06-24 11:21:36 +0000 UTC View PostMorning, Top Tier gang! We're back from our epic UFO hunt. Which went extremely well. I mean, I say it went well... we arrived at the location three hours late, following a hellish traffic jam on the A12. During which, some of us were forced to get out of the car, and use the bushes for the purposes of bladder relief.
Plus - once again - we managed to over-schedule, and exhaust ourselves. We've got enough footage for either a three-parter or a feature-length ep. Let us know in the comme...
2021-06-24 08:08:44 +0000 UTC View PostHello Top Tier gang.
Thought I'd check in with you all.
Mine and Sanja's Covid continues to linger, to the point that we've cut back this coming week's location filming from two days to one. It's the weirdest thing. We've still got reduced energy levels. Some days we feel back to normal, and then other days - such as yesterday - I was just wiped out again. And my sense of taste and smell took a step back yesterday as well, which is the worst thing! I MUST EAT NICE THINGS.
An...
2021-06-20 09:51:04 +0000 UTC View Post