MrBiffo

GANNON'S BACK! Early access to that.

Though not quite the full-fledged return of Gannon to the channel that we wish were possible, for his first video back since the start of the year we thought we'd just shoot the breeze and see what happened. Suffice to say, the conversation jumps around all over the place...

This was, unexpectedly, a real bastard to edit. The camera I had on me was a terrible angle of the top of my head, so I had to use the fuzzy Zoom footage... Gannon's audio was all out of synch with mine due to lag -...

NEW PATRON-EXCLUSIVE VID: STATTO?!

Here you go, everyone: this week's for-your-eyes-only video. 

A bit of a status update... various sporting celebs I've met... my new musical career (ahem) - plus bonus song(s)! PEGGY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCDcrcPdG1Y 

THE THINGS I GOT DONE - PLUS SWEARY BONUS RANT!

Been a bit of a day for Getting Stuff Done. 

I finally finished compiling the Digitiser Live DVD. Now I've just got to burn the master copy, and it'll be ready to go off to the makers. We did discuss burning them ourselves (and the brilliant Nikki Heald kindly offered to help), but that would take forever, and you won't get a version with printing on the actual DVD if we went that route. I want you to feel like it's a professional - albeit chronically delayed - product.

If yo...

NEW VIDEO - MY EMBARRASSING SCHOOL BOOKS...

Sorry this has been late. Last week was taken up with finishing Sound Footage. 

But hey - a brand new storytime is here! And this week Sanja and I are taking a look at my old school books. Suffice to say, not a lot has changed in the intervening years...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGHn-g6yIjc 

2020-07-06 17:28:06 +0000 UTC View Post

SAVE 50% ON SOUND FOOTAGE!

Hello gang.

Well, my album is up for pre-order on Bandcamp, and because you're my top tier gang... you can get a 50% discount on it - that's half off! - as a thank you for all your support! 

Just use the code branniganseven

The album isn't released properly until July 31st, on all streaming/digital sites (and you'll also be able to buy a physical copy from Amazon on-demand), but buyin...

WHIMSY RODGERS - EXCLUSIVE TRACK

So... secret's out. I'm making an album. Chris Jerden-Cooke - now going by the name Jerden Cooke - and I have long planned to release a compilation of tracks featured on the channel, and that's sort of how this started life... However, having relatively recently started making my own music in Garageband, it kind of took on a life of its own, and became a legitimate thing.

Music, perhaps more so even than video games, has always been my number one passion in life. Despite reports that I ...

PLEASE, WHAT IS GOOD IN THE HOOD?

Happy Monday, top-tier gang. Hope you're all good.

So at the end of last week, I temporarily disabled comments on the YouTube channel... then made it so they had to be approved before I'd post them. It was pretty clear that one rabid idiot, with multiple accounts, was spamming the comments with "bring back Gannon/Larry/Eli"  and "this is shit content"-type posts - essentially paraphrasing me, because he obviously thought that was the best way to get under my skin.

It didn't. ...

Star Wars VIPs - Early Access

Here's Part 2 of our honeymoon adventure... in which magic is snatched from the jaws of disaster...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk4OB3EaPTo 

PROG ON!

Had a day with no work to do, apart from filming and editing pour vous. So I did a bit of work on what'll probably become The Mysterious Hole... and then fannied about in Garageband. I thought I'd see if it was possible to make a prog rock song just using loops and samples. 

And the answer is... well... sort of. 

Ish. 

This is what I came up with. Obviously... this isn't intended to be a funny thing. Well, no funnier than prog rock usually is, right? I just fi...

THE LAST OF US PT 2 - SPOILER-FREE THOUGHTS

Yo yo... whasssaaaaaaaap? That's a good reference. 

Here's a brand new, Patrons-only, video for you (yes - even YOU, new Patron)! A few channel updates, plus my (spoiler-free) thoughts on The Last of Us Part 2. 

Later this week: We Were Star Wars VIPs...

Enjoy!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu-xMDPnxQk 

2020-06-23 14:08:17 +0000 UTC View Post

PLEASE CHECK YOUR SUB

Stupid YouTube. See, I'm so used to being polarising that I just assumed it was all people buggering in a fit of pique, but it looks now as if a lot of people were automatically unsubscribed from the channel over the past week, in the wake of changing the channel name. I thought that sort of thing was an urban myth! Anyhow... so... ahem... please check that you are. 

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IT WAS THE END... BUT THE MOMENT HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR...

Morning, gang! And hello to all the new Patrons who jumped aboard in the past week. Not sure what I did to encourage you all, but that has been very lovely to see. Thank you.

It has been a weird week since changing the channel name. When I announced it, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive... perhaps because people had got used to the idea that the focus was on Sanja and I, thanks to Lockdown. I mean, Gannon will be back, but Sanja isn't going anywhere either; I love the videos I've...

PATREON EXCLUSIVE VIDEO - WHY THE CHANNEL NAME MAY BE CHANGING

Self-explanatory, hopefully!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_NnJn3K8vY 

NEW VIDEO! NEW VIDEO! NEW VIDEO!

Here's the first of this week's new videos - not including Lost Footage, which some of you have seen already, and will be going up on Sunday for the rest of humanity.

This week... Sanja and I talk about our honeymoon. But wait - it's not like that! We go in depth into THAT car accident that almost killed us. Fun!

But wait! We also recorded ANOTHER video, exclusively for Patrons and NOBODY ELSE. Hopefully that'll be up for you tomorrow. 

In the meantime... here's a tale ...

PRIDE BEFORE A FALL

I keep watching the latest Lost Footage. I've never done that before. Normally by the time I'm done editing, I know the episodes inside and out, and the last thing I want to do is watch them back even once. This one is different. 

I can't even put my finger on it, but part of it is pride. I feel, after gawd knows how many episodes, spanning several years, I've nailed a format that is completely its own thing. I would be happy to show this episode to anyone.  

When I star...

MR BIFFO'S LAST FOOTAGE - EARLY ACCESS

I know I've parped my own horn about this episode of Lost Footage a fair bit already... but it's such a step up, and it is - in isolation - one of the things I've done that I'm most proud of. I hope you'll be able to see the ridiculous amount of work that has gone into it. 

The Lost Footage videos haven't done great on the channel, and even getting anybody to share or tweet about them has been a challenge - which is odd, given that the Found Footage was pretty darn popular. But, ad...

PATRON-EXCLUSIVE MONSTER HUNTER Q&A VIDEO

Hola, everyone.

As promised, here's a Patron-exclusive Q&A as a kind of coda for the Monster Hunter Diaries. I'm going to try and do these a little more regularly; now I feel less pressure to have a convoluted multi-camera set-up, they're much easier to do! 

But anyhow... here are all the questions you wanted answering. Enjoy:

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

SNEEK PEAK AT PIE VENDORS IN THE NIGHT...

Here's a sneak peek at the next, and final, ep of Lost Footage. This is the result of at least two weeks' work. Ridiculous!

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

Q&A QUESTIONS NEEDED

Morning, everyone. I'm feeling better, more or less Hurrah! That was foul. Won't go into the grisly details - though if you heard me on the Cheapshow live stream on Saturday, I presented plenty there - but it was a cold, followed immediately by a proper upset stomach, that left me feeling utterly steamrollered. 

Aaaaanyway... this means I'll finally be recording the final part of the Monster Hunting series today. As an apology for this being so late, I'm going to record a special Q...

WHY I DIDN'T TAKE PART IN THE BLACKOUT

Hello, chums. 

Sorry to say, but I don't think the final instalment of the Monster Hunter video will be up until the weekend. Apologies for not keeping to the schedule, but I've been hit with a weird cold thing, and Sanja has a tooth infection (just what you need when all the dentists are closed), so we haven't felt like filming. Sorry again, but we'll do it today or tomorrow.

I'm working hard on the final Lost Footage in the meantime. Given that it's probably - possibly - go...

LOST IN SPACE

Hello chums.

Sorry I've not gotten the final part of the Monster Hunter Diaries to you yet. We're planning to record it tomorrow, and it should be up by Thursday, so alas you'll only get it a few hours early. Sorry again that I wasn't able to do it sooner.

I've been mostly working on the final Lost Footage which, as I've said before, I'm putting an extra level of polish into. I'm currently rendering the end of the episode (there are some earlier segments still left to complete), a...

MONSTER HUNTING: DELETED SCENE?

Hola. Hope you're all alright. The monster hunt videos seem to be going down well with those who've watched them. 

It's great for me, because it means I can keep the storybox open, and talk about some of the other weird things that I've gotten up to over the years. I did a poll on Twitter yesterday, and it looks like the next one I'll be doing - after I've recorded the genuinely quite spooky final part of the MH trip, and put out a look at my schoolbooks - will be my visit to Chern...

THE CANNIBAL RUN

Here we go. I know some of you are waiting for this, so I've brought it forwards... part 2 of the Monster Hunt Diaries. 

It's an epic - the longest video, barring Digi Live, that we've ever done on the channel - so get comfy, pour a glass of your favourite beverage, and get settled in for a tale that takes in cannibalism, apemen, people falling off mountains, night terrors, ancient burial chambers, caves... and lots, lots more... This leg of the trip nearly broke me.

2020-05-27 17:57:23 +0000 UTC View Post

CALCULATOR INDUSTRY - EXCLUSIVE VID

Hello all. Happy Bank Holiday Monday! Sorry I wasn't able to get part one of the monster hunting video to you before it went up for everyone. To make up for it, here's the latest completed segment from the next part of Lost Footage. I'll aim to do better with part two.

I realised last week that I needed a section to link Parenthood to Old Age. This is what I came up with. It's another original Biffo song - the samples and loops aiming to emulate classic Kraftwerk. This one has been anot...

LOCKDOWN? MORE LIKE SLOWDOWN!!!!!

In the last couple of days there seems to have been a lot of talk about introducing a four-day week, as a sort of permanent thing, once the world gets back to normal. 

That, along with a universal basic income and more flexible, home-working, hours, seem to be getting real traction. It's almost as if the world - or much of it, anyway - has had a chance to take the foot off the gas, and is waking up to the fact that there are things in life more important, and more conducive to good...

A SONG FOR (BY) BIFFO

I promise I'm not going to start spamming you with music - and feel free to ignore this - but over the past few days I've been fannying around in Garageband trying to make something kind of anthemic-sounding. I really liked how this turned out, but I'm never going to use it anywhere as it's kind of too 'conventional'-sounding for Found/Lost Footage. So I thought I'd slap it up here instead.

As you might've seen elsewhere, there'll be no Digi vid today, but hoping we'll have one for you ...

QUARANTINE BULLETIN

Morning all! Hope you're doing okay. Who else is sick of this - 'scuse my French - fucking pandemic? 

It's not even the lockdown, or the pandemic itself, but I'm just growing weary of the news cycle, the batshit conspiracy theories that end up having to be debated or dismissed in the media, the not seeing my kids, the people who seem determined to push against the rules for their own selfish ends while the rest of us try to do our bit, Trump, the same old social media bollocks whic...

I DON'T WANNA GET HIT BY THE BUS (exclusive video)

The next Lost Footage episode is starting to come together. I want this to be our crowning glory, so it's going to take a while to finish. 

Here's a sneak peek at the first completed section (avoid if you don't want spoilers). It's going to come in the teenage segment, sandwiched between two slices of Chris-JC's excellent soundtrack, but it's the one piece of music in the ep that's not by him. It was written by a band called Three Sistas And The Moustache Lady. I discovered them la...

BRONSON'S POUCH - EXTENDED VERSION

A few people asked for a full version of the Bronson's Pouch song. I had a bit of time today while waiting for a Zoom meeting, so I did exactly that. And here it is. I feel like a bit of a charlatan, because I put this together in Garageband using loops and samples, rather than the way Chris JC writes music, but I'm still oddly proud of it as the first piece of music I've ever done.

Look: I even made a cover for the "single"...!

HOW LOCKDOWN HAS AFFECTED MY CAREER

How are you all doing up here in the balcony? How's the free popcorn? Sorry if it's a bit stale. It's been next to a radiator for six months.

You may have heard the news this week that TV production has been given governmental permission to open up again, providing social distancing rules are in place. Unfortunately, while that sounds like good news to people like me who work in the industry... the reality is a little more complicated.

Keeping two metres apart when filming a scrip...