Thanks for the votes.

I thought it sensible to remove the VOTE NOW thing blog because the voting is over.

For the results of the New Zealand Bird Of The Yaer poll go here for the TOP 10,

http://www.forestandbird.org.nz

and for the big run-down try here.

http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/poll

Does any other country have a Bird Of the Year poll?


Here is a photo of me (or it could be that Russian serial killer guy) with the winner.
It's a wild one and they smell funny.





It is the first time that this bird has won New Zealand's Bird Of The Year, which some may find surprising.

Early Maori used them Fred Flintstone-like to play gramaphone records. Lacked a little top end but the beak lasted for about a year before needing replacement.

Cheers all.

Graeme

Hello all. The vinyl will shortly become available to any and all who desire to have a nice heavy copy of The Overflow to play on a phonograph system. It is in STEREO! We decided to leave off the Knox song at the end. That's a CD trick.
They are all individually numbered.

Thanks to Owen for helping out.

Stand By.

Sooon. Sooooon.

Voted Warbler yet?

Graeme

Well, it appears we'll be featuring on Tom Robinson's "Introducing... Fresh on the net" show in just a matter of hours, 12am GMT, to be precise. If you're in the UK, tune in to BBC Radio 6Music, or on the interweb at:

Tom Robinson Introduces... BBC Radio 6Music

To pass the time in anticipation of this momentous occasion, why not visit our Bandcamp site and brush up on the lyrics. We'll even make the song available for you for nowt!

Eyes Of A Blue Dog

Another free thing...

...and no, it's not grilled KFC courtesy of Oprah, but something much more nutritious. A free song, which can be downloaded in the audiophile-quality format of your preference from our brand-spanking new BandCamp site:

Calshot Spit

Stay a while, and stream The Overflow or any of the songs contained within. Browse the lyrics, sing along, hum a bar...
Food for the soul if you will, for if music be the spice of life, then play on.
Oh, and Calshot Spit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calshot_Spit

As Phil Judd has pointed out, Humphreys & Keen DOES sound like a law firm. We chose it after not being able to come up with anything we liked. A default setting I suppose, and a way of getting it out of the way. It's useless now but what should we have called ourselves? Suggestions? This is a sweeet opportunity for insults and roasting but what the hell. Have a lash. I'd be interested in knowing and if anything REALLY appeals we could even consider a change. It's not as if we're a godforsaken "brand" as marketing dicks like to call just about anything at all these days. I bet marketing types consider Chimpanzees a brand.

Mercy that sounds formal!
This weeks update comes with some very good news, for it is a sunday and that is what sundays are made of. Good News.
The Good News this week is that The Overflow is now available through iTunes, pretty much anywhere in the world, where ever it's possible to get the internet. The corollary of this is that, technically, it's now on local release outside of New Zealand, we suppose.
Now, as to what you actually want to do with this information is entirely up to you, we wouldn't suggest wantonly throwing your money at it, but you may want to mention to friends outside our little circle of trust here that where they once lamented not being able to get hold of their own copy, and had to borrow yours, now it's been magically made available to them at the link within this message.
More than that, tell them the circle of friends can always accommodate one more member and we'd be very happy to see them along to share the fun at our weekly meetings every Thursday at the North Waldersham Scout hall, just down Priory Lane, next to the Conservative club, ... Men, a bottle, Ladies, a plate. Just a couple of last minute announcements before we wrap up today and start the music : Mrs Bishop is now collecting names for those who would like to volunteer for ....
;-)

Peter and Graeme

http://www.itunes.com/humphreysandkeen

A small milestone was passed this week as we broke more than 1000 individual listen to's on the Last FM interweb radio bit thing.  Since we're way under the radar that's quite something for us so we thought to mark the occasion we'd arrange to have a free download made available there.  And it was so.  All you need do is go to this URL and it's yours: (huzza!)
Last FM link to the free shit
Hurry while stocks last.......wha? .....uh? ..........oh ........it's endless, dang, digital reproduction strikes again....
In that case, be our very welcome guests......
Peter and Graeme

The heady rush, a whiff of ozone, and would you credit it? now individual tracks, or the whole album, are available in glorious digitally reproduced reproduction courtesy of the good folk at Amplifier. They found a way. Follow this link...

http://www.amplifier.co.nz/release/20248/the-overflow.html

...and you're there!

Promulgation to iTunes imminent, globally, mercy! we don't do things by halves, oh no! It's the least we could do, really....