Here's the first episode of our new semi-regular feature, Corner Shop Corner. I don't have access to my Twitter, as you know, so any sharing of this you can do would be much, much appreciated. Thanks, loves!
It's up now for everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cthQDki44Lc
On this day last year, Sanja and I nearly died. We've recounted the story of the accident in at least one YouTube video, so you don't need me to repeat it again here. I guess I just want to write about it, and reflect on what it meant... and how it still affects us, a year later.
I've still got a meaty scar on my hand, that will always be there. Some days it hurts, it's still numb in places, but it is improving slowly. Sanja still gets pain in her shoulder, where she broke her collarbon...
2020-10-20 09:29:59 +0000 UTC View PostHere you go. Here's the ep that'll be up for everyone else later in the week. The thumbnail below won't be the final thumbnail...! When we mention poo, it loses us subscribers... so I'll find something somewhat more innocuous!
This is a bit of a more relaxed ep than usual - both Sanja and I were mentally drained last week - so it was good to do something laid back for a change. Plus... I'm keeping our powder dry for the Halloween special, which I very much hope will be... well... you'll...
2020-10-19 16:12:24 +0000 UTC View PostHere you go... this is everything that didn't make it into the video that'll be going up for the general public later this week. I would've loved to have put it up as the full, un-edited, 80 minute epic... but there's no way most people would've sat through it. But anyhow - you'll get the rest of the episode hopefully later today, so you can hear our answers to every question.
This starts and ends rather abruptly, and lacks bells and whistles, but you'll get the idea...
I'm still ...
2020-10-19 14:42:28 +0000 UTC View PostI'm still locked out of Twitter, which is a real big pisser. I've been trying to put together the Halloween episode (btw - if you want to be in the Halloween music video, please get me your clips in the next couple of days; we've only had two so far!), and this has somewhat stymied my attempts.
Currently, I'm not sure whether it's going to be a live episode, but I think it'll still be a proper Halloween special, slightly longer than a regular episode - with some nice surprises - and we'...
2020-10-19 09:09:57 +0000 UTC View PostHey-yo. Annoyingly, I've been locked out of my Twitter account for the past two days due to "unusual activity". Whatever the activity, it happened at 2.50am... but I don't know what it might've been.
Twitter's solution is to change my password... but I can't do that, because I've been locked out. And due to it being the weekend, and due to Coronavirus, they're not responding to my emails or support tickets to let me get back in.
So, that's REALLY frustrating. But I just thought I'...
2020-10-18 09:20:10 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a quick update video for you, letting you know where we is at. It'll be the first of two you get over the next week, as the Q&A was an epic, and went on for almost 90 minutes. So, we'll probably put a 30 minute version up for general viewing, and then you'll get the un-edited remainder as an exclusive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z2ShSxxr_o
2020-10-15 15:10:15 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Patreons Pals (ugh). Couple of thiiings. Firstly, we're shooting the Q&A today, as well as another little exclusive for you. I think this was the best batch of questions we've ever received, so... if it's okay with you, I'd quite like to put the video out for general consumption. It's still an exclusive in as much as you got to ask them...! But we'll make sure you a) Get it early, and b) Get something else too.
Also, I'm likely going to start - at some point - putting P...
2020-10-15 09:16:39 +0000 UTC View PostHello, you lot. When we film next, we thought we'd do a Patreon-exclusive Q&A. It's likely to just be Sanja and I, so if you've got any questions for the two of us... post them in the comments here, and we'll reply to as many as we can.
Paul
2020-10-14 08:56:31 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Monday, top-tier gang.
You’ve already seen this week’s Digi video, so I thought I’d fill you in on what I’m up to this week.
Today, Sanja and I are recording the next ep, possibly two, of our podcast. I’ve been looking forward to these ones, as we’re tackling Marillion’s Misplaced Childhood, which if you don’t know was their biggest album, and the one that spawned Kayleigh. Given that we’re a very, very niche show, and only get a few hundred listeners per e...
2020-10-12 10:02:29 +0000 UTC View PostMorning all. I'm hungover. Here - have next week's Digi video really, really early.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1zcygTSSOk
Hello top tier gang. Here's an exclusive outtake from next week's episode, in which Gannon and I go off on one of our tangents...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl2OIAL9t7A
On Friday, as some of you might know, I'm going to be a part of the Cheapshow 200th episode, which will be live on Twitch from 8pm UK time. I went over the plans for it with Gannon yesterday, and I think it'll be a fun couple of hours. I'm more involved in it than I realised I was going to be. So, that'll be good.
I'm going to see how it goes, but if it works well, I'm considering doing some sort of online Digi Live. Actually, I have been for a while, but kept getting distracted by othe...
2020-10-08 10:20:20 +0000 UTC View PostHello, high-tier kids. Thought some of you might be interested in hearing this. Basically, we're going to be doing this poo-inspired charity EP thing. We know it'll have Diarrhoea on it, so to speak - a new, shiny, extended, version - and probably Brownaround, newly mastered. And maybe an extended version of Nana Foom Did A Poo.
I also wanted something completely new, so I started writing a song called The Brown Note. That was the starting point of this track - but it seems to hav...
2020-10-07 09:46:56 +0000 UTC View PostThere probably won't be a Patreon exclusive this week... but you are getting this week's video early, as I'm finally getting ahead with the editing (which should mean I'll get the Patreon tiers upgraded soon)! Somehow, Gannon and I stay mostly on-topic for this look at the Talking View-Master, and other assorted stereoscopic novelties. I rather enjoyed it.
Also... I just wanted to say a quick thank you for sticking by me for another month. I've managed to make it through the year okay, ...
2020-10-06 17:17:50 +0000 UTC View PostFor shits and giggles - literally - I had a daft idea to release another charity single. Specifically, an EP called The Brown Album that'll feature all of the poo-based songs we've done, potentially remixed/rerecorded.
Sooz has given us the okay to do this with Diarrhoea, so I started playing around with it today - as it was only ever really meant to be a throwaway thing - and have asked the lovely Chris JC about recording a guitar solo for it, which I can drop into an extended He...
2020-10-02 15:41:00 +0000 UTC View PostAbout 15 years ago, maybe longer, I had an idea for a TV show. Actually... no. I had an idea for a something. I thought it could potentially have been a novel, but I know that I don't want to write a novel. At lest, not a conventional one.
So I pitched it to CBBC. They loved it. I had meetings. They wanted to make it work. But they couldn't wrap their heads around how to make it work. It's an expensive idea, a big budget genre thing, you see, and CBBC budgets do not lend themse...
2020-09-30 10:12:12 +0000 UTC View PostThought you might like to hear this ahead of this week's Digi ep. As I mentioned on Twitter yesterday, this ep is all about poo... and this is the music for a song I wrote (yes, the music too) that Sooz Kempner is going to be singing for us. It's about diarrhoea. If the wind's in our favour (so to speak), it should be the first of two new songs this episode. The other song is - yes - also about poo.
It's suicidal given that whenever we mention poo we lose subscribers... but we actually ...
2020-09-29 11:03:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hola! Gannon's back. This one's a long, rambling catch-up, which we shot prior to this week's main video.
Also, new ep of my podcast here: https://shows.acast.com/between-you-and-me/episodes/fugazi-side-1
2020-09-29 08:19:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are two minutes cut from next week's ep for a variety of reasons (not least, because I keep knocking the mic)...
2020-09-25 13:19:22 +0000 UTC View PostI read an interview with former Marillion frontman Fish this week, which has kind of upended how I see him.
In short, following the death of his father a few years back, he went through a period of self-reflection and analysis. He had therapy. Spent time in his garden. And concluded that his next album - released this Friday - would be his last.
All of that I sort of knew, but the big thing in the interview, which was mentioned in almost a throwaway fashion, was that Fish no...
2020-09-23 09:16:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought you might want to see this. It's the complete, uncut, version of the Mr Frosty clips from the latest ep. Contains a couple of bits that didn't make it into the episode for one reason or another. Don't have nightmares...
Sorry you're not getting this early, but we'll be stockpiling the next run of eps, hopefully, so you'll start getting exclusives and whatnot soon.
In the meantime, hope you're enjoying the exclusive vids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7xABiYrau4
Brand new Patreon exclusive video time! In this one, I relate the story about how I duped the entire world about The Phantom Menace...
Mr Frosty video hopefully up tomorrow...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZEsUqlXTR4
Did you see our new channel trailer? We didn't have time to do any filming this week, but putting that together was a damned good use of a morning. And long overdue. I could've made it five times as long, frankly, but I feel it's a pretty good representation of what the channel has put out over the years.
Suffice to say, going through it all demonstrated two things to me... Firstly, how much we've done, and secondly how much of it is good. Yeah, we veer all over the place in term...
2020-09-19 07:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostHello, lovely peeps. Just to warn you... despite the best-laid plans, I'm not sure there'll be a Digi video this week. I've had deadlines, which built-up because I'm massively late delivering the work - all due to dad-in-hospital-related shenanigans over the past few weeks.
We may get to film tomorrow, but there's also a chance he'll be coming out of hospital then, in which case I'll have to be on standby to pick him up. And we're also on elderly mother duties tomorrow afternoon. And th...
2020-09-16 15:57:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The latest episode of the Between You And Me podcast has just gone live. I appreciate this isn't for everyone - though I hope we're doing it in a way that is at least semi-accessible - but for those of you who are following along, here's next week's episode for you, as a bit of a Patreon bonus.
I don't think I've said this yet in the podcast, but as much as I love this era of Marillion - because I grew up with it - I don't think it's where they're at their strongest. The post-Fish, Stev...
2020-09-15 10:32:15 +0000 UTC View PostLike most of you, I've got a kind of background anxiety these days. Feels like we're all just waiting for things to get better, and for Covid to go away. Even though it probably won't.
But... and here's the really weird thing... I feel oddly free. For at least 10 years - slightly more, in fact - I've been working on the same handful of shows. Dani's House ran for five series... at the tail-end of that, 4 O'Clock Club happened and ran for 10 series, then early on Dani's House got a spin-...
2020-09-11 08:19:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I mentioned this 16-minute prog epic on yesterday's Patron exclusive. It's up on Bandcamp, but as you're my top tier besties... you can have it for nowt.
2020-09-10 17:28:48 +0000 UTC View PostThis is going up for the regular folk imminently, but you get it sliiiightly early. Sorry I couldn't do it sooner, but you did get an exclusive vid, which nobody else will see. So, that's nice.
This is a particularly mental video. It's about Stretch Armstrong... I think you'll like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMgT6E9E2_o
2020-09-10 14:08:24 +0000 UTC
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