Happy New Year, y'all. As wretched as things are right now, there's much to look forward to this year. Fingers crossed... Digi Live 2.0 will be able to go ahead in September. Tickets are still available (though I won't be doing a big push on them until there's some light at the end of the tunnel). And Digi will continue to be there for you throughout the remainder of this poxy era.
Starting with this early access look at this week's video (filmed before everything got locked down ...
2021-01-04 16:23:04 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, top tier gang. HNY! Hope your Christmas was alright despite... well... everything. Ours was okay. The week before Christmas I made the mistake of checking work emails, despite having promised myself that I wouldn't, and it kicked off a big bout of anxiety. I'm lucky in that I don't tend to get anxiety over day-to-day stuff, but when I do it's usually from a big build up to stress. And if you've been following these blogs, I had more than in my fair share over the past couple of months....
2021-01-04 11:47:24 +0000 UTC
View Post
Not including blog posts and exclusive vids, and various bits and bobs I've done on Twitter, and a couple of Digitiser2000 posts... this is everything your support has made possible this year. This time last year, most of this I had no idea I was going to be doing. Thanks, you lot. Properly, sincerely, for everything.
Paul
2020-12-23 20:04:14 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hi all. Here's the last video of the year. Sanja and I did record a Patreon exclusive for the top tier gang, but... it was the day before Tier 4 happened, and everything we talked about in it got changed. Too depressing to put it out!
But we might record one before new year. We'll see.
Anyhow - here's an extra-long Corner Shop Corner, which will be going out for the general populace tomorrow. Have the best Christmas you can, everyone.
2020-12-23 15:07:30 +0000 UTC
View Post
I love Paul Gannon and Eli, even if they do completely overshadow me whenever they appear together on my channel. But... I know many of you love them too.
So, here's a top tier exclusive: the raw, unedited, audio of Paul and Eli accounting out the entirety of A Christmas Carol... There's a very chaotic version with Sanja and I that I'll upload for you at some point too. That might be even more interesting, given I try each line about 20 different ways...
2020-12-18 14:04:28 +0000 UTC
View Post
Here's the video version of Digitiser's A Christmas Carol, packed full of Easter eggs for the eagle-eyed among you... Also doubles as a Digitiser Yule log!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNbMUUOXfVk
2020-12-18 09:57:08 +0000 UTC
View Post
It has long been tradition that Digitiser presents an annual festive Pant-oh, a rambling, stream-of-consciousness, take on a popular Christmas tale. This year, for the first time ever, the Pant-Oh has been fully dramatised and acted by REAL people!
John Robertson from The Dark Room, Sooz, CJJC, Sam Anderson, and Ash Frith, join me, Gannon, Eli and Sanja - with Graham from Jaws 19 as The Voice of Pudsey - for a dramatic audio retelling of A Christmas Carol.
I'm not totally sure how...
2020-12-16 21:37:48 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, y'all. Did you all see the fun I had yesterday with a bust pipe in my house? Why, what a horrible nightmare that was!
Anyhow, it has been a while since I shared any music with you. I know this isn't really what you're here for, but I know some of you like to know what I've been doing. So, this is my attempt at writing a true prog epic.
It's listed as one 30 minute-long song, but it's really a bunch of different songs that flow into one another, like one side of ...
2020-12-14 20:03:09 +0000 UTC
View Post
Right. Hope this is better, and less punishing on the ears. I'm watching it through now, amid plumbing hell. Hope it's an improvement...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cErlEI2VkDI
2020-12-13 14:05:05 +0000 UTC
View Post
Watching the video back on our telly, I can hear how loud Sanja's voice is at points on the latest video, so it's going to be re-edited to balance it all out a bit. I'll keep the current version up for now, but you might want to hold off. Should have the newly balanced one up tomorrow!
Paul
2020-12-12 15:32:08 +0000 UTC
View Post
Thanks to everyone who sent a nice message about my dad. It's very much appreciated.
Anyhow, here now, for your early delight, is the first of our Digitiser Christmas Specials. It's another ghost hunt - and this time Eli joins Gannon, Sanja and I, as we go looking for the ghost of the real-life inspiration for Ebeneezer Scrooge... As you might expect, it doesn't go entirely to plan...
https://www.youtu...
2020-12-12 14:19:09 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, loves. Thought I'd check in. Today we're filming our Christmas ghost hunt, and I know many of you will be pleased to hear that Eli's going to be joining us for it. No idea what's going to happen, but we're doing it in the dark, so that'll be terrifying.
Truth is, the last few weeks have been a touch challenging, coming on top of a year that has been one long challenge for a lot of us.
I'm fortunate in that I don't tend to get anxiety. If I ever get down, it tends to p...
2020-12-10 12:28:37 +0000 UTC
View Post
Here you go, chums - a brand new exclusive just for top tier backers! I'm not exaggerating when I say that, perhaps, we should've avoided some of these topics. WARNING: contains discussion as to whether Gannon and I will ever go fully nude for Digi!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJLQiqsEc2w
2020-12-02 11:54:38 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, Patrons! Told you there was plenty coming your way this week.
Top Tier backers have already had the Digi Christmas Pant-Oh script, and later today they'll be getting a VERY revealing exclusive video of Gannon, Sanja and I, discussing things that, with hindsight, we probably shouldn't be sharing.
Gannon and Eli have also recorded the ENTIRE Christmas Pant-Oh by themselves (there'll be other people in the finished thing), and for the top tier gang, at some point b...
2020-12-02 11:50:29 +0000 UTC
View Post
So, your first top-tier exclusive thing of the week... and you may want to avoid this altogether, as it could potentially ruin the Digi Christmas special... but it's the script for the audio play of Digitiser's A Christmas Carol. That's what I alluded to in last week's Friday Letters Page when I said I was attempting something I'd not done before - a radio drama, basically...!
I shan't reveal the cast yet, but thought you might want a look at the script as it stands. Or not - it's...
2020-12-01 14:33:00 +0000 UTC
View Post
Just a head's up that there'll be a motherlode of exclusive and early access stuff coming your way later this week. Some of it will be for all of you. Some will be exclusive for the top tier backers. It'll all be good.
That's it. That's all for now! More very soon.
Bifflepaul
2020-11-30 18:26:08 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello all... This is either going to be an exclusive, or early access... depending on whether I put this video up for everyone. I'm not sure yet, mainly because we've not yet had time to film what we wanted to film for this week, and when we would've filmed it - tomorrow - I've now got to take my dad to a hospital appointment. So we'll see!
We are hoping to get together with Gannon in some capacity, after I had to blow out filming last week. Either way... this is a bonus Corner Sh...
2020-11-23 17:22:51 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, Top Tier gang! I thought I'd give you all a bit of insight into how the TV industry is coping with Covid, given I've finally gotten some good-ish news in terms of my CBBC show, Almost Never.
Well, it's not good good... it's more a relief than anything, albeit a bittersweet one. All year we've been writing not knowing whether we'll ever go into production - despite having been commissioned. We were due to film back in June, but for obvious reasons that never happene...
2020-11-23 17:19:32 +0000 UTC
View Post
Happy Sunday, everyone! It has gone 9am, I'm still in bed, and have no intention of getting out of it any time soon.
If you've read any of my upper-tier blogs, you may be aware that something I've felt has gone away a little is the community aspect that existed in the Digisphere not so long ago. Dunno quite where it has gone or why - I don't know if it's just my perspective, or whether it's a broader issue (it does seem as if assorted less-than-nice behaviour has stripped away some of t...
2020-11-22 09:19:48 +0000 UTC
View Post
'Ello. I've not pre-ordered a PS5 or a Xbox X or whatever it's called. I think this is the first generation of gaming hardware that I've not bought when it came out. Admittedly, I waited a little while to get a Wii U... but the combination of, frankly, being broke thanks to this wretched year, and having to save money for Christmas, and the fact I can't entirely wrap my head around the benefit of either... means I'm not in any rush.
Yes, yes... 60fps, 4k, faster load times... but in pra...
2020-11-19 19:59:42 +0000 UTC
View Post
For your pre-release delight, and to popular demand... this week we're putting out the extended version of our Supernatural World, featuring extended and deleted scenes (mainly in the second part). And plenty more Gannon!
If you're very well-behaved, there might also be an exclusive episode of Cornershop Corner for you before the weekend. Next week: more new stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H1s_...
2020-11-17 16:12:34 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, gang. Thanks for all your kind words on my last post. I'm still feeling a bit 'meh', but aren't we all at the minute?
Doesn't help that somebody tried again to get into my Twitter account last night, and lock me out of the new one. Who are these people? Why are their lives so small?!
Anyhow, here comes a big stream-of-consciousness Monday ramble!
Not sure what this week's video is going to be, though I think we'll be recording tomorrow. We've got a bunch line...
2020-11-16 10:32:46 +0000 UTC
View Post
As jubilant as we were over the US election on Saturday, we also received the awful news, that a family friend had died in a fire on Friday night.
You've probably heard me talk a lot about the time I spent up in Scotland as a kid. The short version of it is that my mum became best friends with my best friend's mum. Then one day, my best friend's dad announced to his family that, upon a visit to a small town called Golspie up in the Highlands, he'd bought a fish and chip shop, and the wh...
2020-11-09 11:48:32 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, gang. Here's a new video, our first since the Halloween Special. We're almost out of the Corner Shop Corner eps we had stockpiled, and then we'll be back to ye olde toys for a bit (I will ensure my mic is turned on next time). And plans are already underway for more Supernatural World, and the Christmas Special. You get your money's worth with us!
Top tier crew, stay tuned for a blog update later today.
2020-11-09 11:25:48 +0000 UTC
View Post
Happy Sunday, top-tier gang! As you're no doubt aware, I remain locked out of my @mrbiffo Twitter account. I'm kind of resigned to it now. It's frustrating in that I have 2.5k more followers on that account, and people are still tweeting at it/tagging me in it. And, of course, most people who followed Memory Assistant - now @TheMrBiffo - followed for funny pictures, not me. Which is why, for the first time in an age, I've seen followers going down whenever I tweet about Donald Trump.
2020-11-08 10:04:57 +0000 UTC
View Post
Howdy doody, Top-Tier Gang.
Hope you all enjoyed the Halloween Special. We're all a bit taken aback by how well it turned out, given that the biggest highlights - the ghost-hunting sections - were pretty much done on the fly. We hadn't even planned the first part; that just came out of Sanja wanting to take a picture of me next to the haunted gates, for the Digi Instagram - and we just kept going from there.
We realised that with the restrictions in place, doing some outside filmi...
2020-11-03 09:55:59 +0000 UTC
View Post
Sorry I didn't get this up for you sooner. I've literally just finished uploading it... but if you're quick, you've got a 20 minute head-start on everyone else...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00FCPMlEQjo
2020-10-30 17:43:44 +0000 UTC
View Post
Without wanting to give away too much about the Halloween special... when we listened back to the sound recording today, there was some audio distortion/buzzing on it. Could be nothing. Could be a ghost.
Anyway, just thought I'd let you know. Sorry about the buzzing. But blame Muriel.
Here's a quick-ish update, featuring a preview of our Halloween looks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o...
2020-10-26 15:20:07 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hola gang! There was something I was going to tell you... but it has slipped my mind. That's not even a lead-in to something... I literally can't remember what it was.
Oh, but while I have you - if you want to be in the Halloween special, please get me your spooky Halloween dance videos this weekend. We've not had loads, so the more we get - the better!
In the meantime, here's one of next week's videos for you (the other will be the Halloween episode, if I can get it finished). Th...
2020-10-23 13:46:34 +0000 UTC
View Post
Keep this to yourselves, but here's a little something from our Halloween special...
I'm still locked out of my @mrbiffo Twitter account, btw, so I'm using @memoryassistant, and also doing some bits on Instagram finally - https://www.instagram.com/the_mr_biffo/
It's really, really doing my head in. I've tried all the usual ways, barring hiring a hacker to get back into it by brute force! All I can do i...
2020-10-22 14:20:06 +0000 UTC
View Post
