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EARLY ACCESS: BEANUS FINALE!

H'okey doke. Here's next week's video a whole week early. The Beanus video you got earlier this week was due to go out next week, and you were supposed to have a video with Sanja and I instead. Which we filmed. 

And then it turned out the entire thing was out of focus. So, we're just doing a solid run of Beanus eps instead (this is the last one for now), and the Covid/unboxing video we shot will be going up on our second channel for you.

So, barring that... this'll probably b...

BYAMPOD EARLY ACCESS - TSE POSTBAG Pt 2

We're back on schedule, and here's next week's Between You And Me. This episode contains discussions about H's age, whether Marillion were ever sex symbols, and a further rumination on the nature of grief. 

Paul

TOP TIER EXCLUSIVE: DELETED BEANUS

Hello Top Tier gang. Here's a bunch of unseen Beanus clips for you. They're from all over the shop - some from before we'd even properly started filming - but should give some insight into the editing choices...!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM5xuq8asks 

EARLY ACCESS: BEAN PIPE CHALLENGE

We're well on the mend, and next week we're going away for some location filming, so I'm getting ahead with eps. This one will likely be going out NEXT week, as this week Sanja and I are doing a long overdue unboxing this week. Which we've yet to film.

It's yet more Beanus, but this is my favourite of those eps so far. Just one more to come after this one. And then... we should have some Ash Frith for you.

Oh, and that location filming? We're doing the most ambitious Digitiser's S...

YES: IT'S EARLY ACCESS TIME!

Hi all. 

Firstly, thanks for all the concerned/kind words over the past couple of weeks. We're on the mend, though it's frustratingly slow going. We're Covid-free now, but not free of being absolutely exhausted, and not being able to do anything too physical, because we struggle to breathe... I've said it before, but... COVID IS A BASTARD OF A THING.

But! Something I was able to do, was whittle together some of the footage we shot the other week. I wasn't intending to have mo...

BACK FROM THE COVID BRINK

Well... the last 10 days have been eventful/awful...  but Sanja and I seem to be through the worst of it at last. 

As I said over on Twitter, Covid is far more brutal and debilitating than either of us anticipated. It's far, far from just being flu. I don't quite have the stamina right now to find the words to describe it, but suffice to say you can see quite easily how people have died from it. It feels dangerous. Like it could just take a turn, and consume you. So n...

DIGI IN THE TIME OF COVID

Hello gang. Thanks for supporting us for another month! You da best.

As you might've seen over on Twitter... Sanja and I have Covid. It's every bit as rotten as they say, so it's touch and go whether I'll get a Digi edited this week. If I wake up tomorrow feeling semi-human, there will be one - it's partly edited already - I'm just not well enough today. 

I know I owe the top tier some exclusive stuff too, but bear with me. This wasn't part of the plan! Especially as both of ...

BYAMPOD EXCLUSIVE: MARK KELLY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

We've got COVID! So, that's fun. But anyway, here's an exclusive slice of abject silliness from before that happened, in which we browse the latest issue of The Web magazine, I relate my most cringe-worthy Marillion story, and we brainstorm titles for Mark Kelly's autobiography... 

EARLY ACCESS: BYAMPOD - INTERVIEW WITH ANT SHORT

A very special ep of BYAPOD for you - a bona-fide crossover with that OTHER Marillion podcast, The Corona Diaries, as Ant Short drops in to tell us his Marillion story, and what it's like to make a weekly podcast with Steve Hogarth! Blimey!

TOP TIER EXCLUSIVE: GUITARS?

Big thanks to those of you who've bought my latest album. I'm already working on new music, with a view to doing something that sounds quite different next time. I kind of want to do some sort of concept album, or continuous suite of music, with a narrative. But we'll see what happens.

At the minute, I'm sort of in the R&D phase, so I bought myself some new software with a view to getting some better guitar sounds in there. This is my first experiment with it. It was only meant to b...

TOP TIER BLOG: COVID DELUXE

Hello, top tier gang. So, we're all self-isolating. Sanja and I don't have you-know-what (not yet anyway), but our 16 year-old tested positive last night. She's fine - she says it just feels like a cold - but has had to miss her last day of high school (as have all her friends who've been in contact with her), which is a pisser for them. I was also planning on seeing my middle daughter this weekend for her birthday. That's out now.

I dunno if any of you have been through this, but it wa...

EARLY ACCESS: BRAND NEW BEANUS!

Here you are, gang. Brand new Beanus.

Should be some more stuff coming the way of both tiers later this week. For now... enjoy this slice of insanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhnGhYU-MBI 

EARLY ACCESS: BYAMPOD - THIS STRANGE ENGINE Pt 2

As promised, here's next week's podcast ep. In what is probably our most emotional and impassioned ep to date, we dig into the individual tracks on the This Strange Engine album... and I detail my difficult history with it.

Paul

BAD NEWS, GOOD NEWS...

Hello all. There won't be a new ep of Digi this week, alas. Between prepping for the next two days of filming, and Sanja working to fulfil our Kickstarter rewards, we've just run out of time.

The good news is... you should get next week's ep of BYAMPOD early still - for those of you who listen to it (and if you don't, even if you're not a Marillion fan, I think there's enough Sanja and I nonsense in there to make them enjoyable) - and once we have shot Digi Deluxe, we'll have a ton of s...

THANK YOU FOR LETTING US DO THIS...

Hello, all. Sorry I've been a bit quiet this week. A mix of a day job deadline, plus getting things ready for next week's Digitiser Deluxe filming, plus getting a cold, have taken precedence.

I just wanted to chime in and say... we've also now a location for some Supernatural World filming next month. We're aiming to do at least two eps, and it'll be the full gang - me, Sanja, Gannon and Eli. What's more, for the first time on Supernatural World, we're going to be joined by a very speci...

EARLY ACCESS - BYAMPOD: Season 2 ep 23

This week on Between You And Me, Sanja and Paul begin their look at Marillion's 1997 album, This Strange Engine. While containing classics including Man Of A Thousand Faces, Estonia and the title track, suffice to say... Paul's feelings around this one are complicated, to say the least. Coupled to certain news about the next Marillion release, things get all a bit intense...

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TUESDAY UPDATE

Hello top tier gang. 

Terrifyingly, we've realised that next week we're filming Digitiser Deluxe - pretty much picking up where we left off last year, with a few surprises - then next month at some point we're hoping to film a bunch of Supernatural Worlds. 

We're going further afield for these ones, and even planning an overnight stay with Gannon, Eli, and a surprise guest or two. Suffice to say, we've found the perfect location. And we're not just looking for ghosts thi...

BETWEEN YOU AND ME BONUS EP: More Beyond You clues...

This week's Bonus ep deals with the latest news from the Marillion camp, about gig delays and  the decision to move the Dutch Marillion Weekend to 2023... plus some new revelations about the eternal mystery that is Beyond You...!

EARLY ACCESS: MOVIE HISTORY LOCATION TOUR!

New Digi video... on a Saturday? Yes indeed! And it's another out and about video - as Sanja goes to get her Covid vaccination, and we use it as an opportunely for an impromptu tour of Elstree - home of Britain's movie industry! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzx1dp7FBFs 

TOP TIER BLOG: WORK IN THE TIME OF COVID

Been a while since I did a blog, so I thought I’d check in with you lovely lot.

Alongside Digi and BYAMPOD stuff, the last couple of weeks were spent putting together some spec pitches for my agent. It has been years since I’ve written anything on-spec – mainly because I’ve been lucky enough to have more or less constant work. With the way things are in the TV industry, it’s important to have an up-to-date sample of what I can do.

Right now, TV is starting to open up aga...

SOMETHING A BIT DIFFERENT: THE ACTION MAN TAPES

Sanja and I went on a long drive at the weekend, and to keep her entertained, we recorded an interview with Action Man. Who knows? Maybe these tapes will one day form the basis of his autobiography...

EARLY ACCESS: THREE MEN AND A BEAR AND SANJA

Well, we've been waiting to do this for a while - and Lockdown has eased up enough to make it possible. We're back with the Cheapshow boys for this very special episode, where we visit Winnie The Pooh's 100 Acre Woods (you can listen to a whole different side of the adventure on this week's episode of their podcast).

Expect arguments, scares, honey-tasting, and surprisingly few poo jokes...

https://www...

BONUS BYAMPOD: THE WORST MARILLION ALBUMS

On this week's Bonus edition of Between You And Me, Sanja and I take a look at the results of the Marillion Christmas Poll - which reveals THE WORST MARILLION ALBUMS EVER!

Paul

EXCLUSIVE FOR TOP TIER: HOW I DONE MY ALBUM

Hello Top Tier Gang. Here's this week's bonus video for you. It's the usual ramble, with a chunk of Sanja and I discussing my new album thing I've got coming out next week...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTdXIRfXtxA 

EXCLUSIVE: TEA TASTING DELETED CLIPS!

Hey-lo! Here's an exclusive seven minutes or so of deleted moments from this week's Digi tea tasting, including loads more Stevens, and a whole alternate intro, because... I'm not sure why we did it twice, to be honest, but we did. I think this is the better version, but never mind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmN8FEjxLOI 

EARLY ACCESS: BYAMPOD - EPISODE 31

Next Monday's ep of Between You And Me - today! In this week's mixed bag of Marillion post, we see a definite trend developing among your likes and dislikes on Afraid of Sunlight. Plus, we discuss why Marillion fans are so passionate, and whether it's possible to even be a casual Marillion fan!

Apologies for some background "knocking" in the second half...

EARLY ACCESS: TEA TASTING!

This week's Digi is another whopper. I'm sure they won't all be this length, but... sometimes they just ask to be. We talk too much...

This ep, we're tasting a bunch of teas - two courtesy of Patron Kimberley Mildenhall, and a bunch of weird ones we found online. Regrettably, the arrival of Stevens the Monkey threatens to upend Sanja's attempts to tell you all about them... 

Should have something exclusive up for both Patreon tiers before the end of the week (in addition to t...

BYAMPOD BONUS EP 1: MARILLION GIGS WE'VE BEEN TO

This is it! Our inaugural bonus BYAMPOD. I know a fair few of you on here now are from the podcast, so rest assured we're going to reward your generosity with at least a couple of bonus eps a month (hernia operation recoveries notwithstanding). 

It starts here, with a more laid-back, freewheeling, sort of chat than we'd do on the main pod (yes: even more so!), talking about our first Marillion gigs, how approachable various band members seem to be - and more! 

DIGITISER DELUXE LOST EPISODE: WYVERN'S DEN

Now, this is a real exclusive. Last year, when we put together the first (and until next month, only) run of Digitiser Deluxe, we recorded one more episode at the end of our shoot, which I never put out. In short, it was all a bit rushed - we never really had the time (or the space) to set up properly, the footage was dodgy and out-of-focus, and not really up to the standard of the other episodes of Digi Deluxe. And then at some point over the past year, I ended up misplacing the footage on o...

HUBRIS

So, some of you know I've an album out on May 7th (it might actually be out a few days before that on iTunes, Spotify and whatnot, but that's the next Bandcamp Friday). 

This is the track you'll get if you pre-order the album now. It's called Hubris... which is a sort of in-joke, about me having the gall to try and make music, after a lifetime of not doing it. 

Anyhow. I've made a video to go with it. And this is it (warning: it does contain flashing images). If you do w...