Oh no! Sorry if I worried you with my comments earlier. I want to reassure all of you who are worried about the future of BYAMPOD... don't be. It is coming back. Of course it is. We can't turn our back on something we love so much. We - well, I, really - just needed a bit of a break.
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2023-10-25 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
A few of you in the comments have mentioned weight off the back of my post this morning, so I thought I’d talk about it a bit more.
I, like many of you, have had a complicated relationship with m...
2023-10-25 15:14:01 +0000 UTC View Post
If you found the Sellafield video a tad on the heavy side, this is the perfect antidote.
it probably won’t be available to the general public for a few weeks, so this is proper early access; it’s just a brief one, about our hop over the border to visit Gretna Green. We made it to Scotla...
2023-10-25 10:02:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, you lot.
Well, another week and no BYAMPOD. Sorry. Sanja came down with a foul cold at the end of last week, and I had a migraine on Friday, which wiped me out on Saturday too, after spending the afternoon at the solicitor's sorting out the (hopefully) last bits of my dad's paperwork...
2023-10-24 10:22:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Here you go - 15 more minutes of our Excalibur adventure, plus a bonus few minutes from NEXT WEEK'S video where we visit Sellafield, and then go on one about feeling fat because we ate too much Cumbrian service station food.
2023-10-20 12:07:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy… Wednesday? I was stuck in a script the last couple of days, having edited over the weekend, so didn’t get a chance to do my usual Monday post. Worked until 10pm last night, and a bit knackered now, so taking it slightly easier today…
…By researching the next video we’...
2023-10-18 11:33:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we go! A brand new Digitiser epic! Yes: it's the one with the boat.
In our quest to find Excalibur, and discover the truth about King Arthur and his legendary sword, Sanja and I drove north to Cumbria. Our trip took us from the Yorkshire Dales, to Hadrian's Wall, and out onto the water...
2023-10-16 16:06:48 +0000 UTC View PostWe’re home! Hooooo boy. Everyone alright? Good good. Seems like we’ve been away forever, even though we only left on Monday afternoon.
It feels like we packed a year into the past few days. We got a LOT done though; three whole videos (maybe four, depending on how long one turns out –...
2023-10-13 14:19:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry we weren’t able to get a BYAMPOD out this week. Life seems to be structured in such a way that if we dare to miss a day or two – such as last Thursday, for the h Natural gig – it throws every...
2023-10-09 11:52:05 +0000 UTC View Post
If you entered the draw for a postcard, all the winners have now have been notified by email. We'll do another one when we're away next week!
One of the new Patreon features allows creators to group their Patreon exclusive stuff into collections.
This is good, as it'll make life a lot easier for those of you who don't want Digi cluttering up their BYAMPOD, or vice-versa. Likewise for outtakes, Biffo's Brain, Writer's Club etc. Cl...
2023-10-05 10:20:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hola, Patrons.
Next week’s Digi FILMING should be interesting. Aside from an enormous amount of driving to get where we’re going, we’ve also rented a boat. Yes: us… driving an actual boat (...
2023-10-05 09:56:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello gang.
Quick update on where we’re at and what’s coming up, as I’ve not spoken with you yet this week.
We were due to be filming on Wednesday, but we’ve postponed it because I had a full-on week so far with day job work, and I didn’t feel ready to film.
Part of th...
2023-10-03 20:16:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Here you go - 30 or so minutes more of our antics in Wiltshire.
2023-09-29 12:59:42 +0000 UTC View Post
We began this as an episode of the Writer's Club podcast, but it evolved into an episode very specifically about Digitiser - so we thought we'd share it with you all.
It's basically us discussing how we make our out-and-about videos - how much preparation do we do in advance? How much of th...
2023-09-29 11:49:54 +0000 UTC View Post
The final part of our 13th Star trilogy of episodes finds us drawing a line under Fish's solo career, as we discuss what happens when the line becomes blurred between critic and artist, and artist and fan. It's not the review we'd planned, or wanted, to make, and in this episode we explain - in r...
2023-09-28 15:47:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Forgot to mention in this morning's Digi video post that we're doing a giveaway. If you'd like one of the signed postcards, leave a comment below and we'll pick one at random (using Sanja's inexplicably ...
2023-09-25 16:09:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry this is late!
Once again, this isn't the episode we expected to make this week, but after receiving an email from Fish, it's also one we couldn't avoid. We also dig into what it was like to be at the 2007 Aylesbury reunion, and why it might not have been a good idea...
2023-09-25 12:38:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Suffice to say, this trip to Wiltshire did not turn out how we expected... The first 25 minutes are pretty serious by our standards. The last 40 minutes are ridiculous.
Even by our standards.
What was supposed to be a fun little visit around the county's most famous Neolithic at...
2023-09-25 11:43:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Monday!
BYAMPOD will be out, hopefully, later today - sorry you're not getting it early. We were running a bit late, because we were away last week filming, and then I was editing.
<... 2023-09-25 08:33:16 +0000 UTC View PostMorning again!
So, we've decided not to go to Aunty Donna tonight, and have been offered tickets to next Saturday's show, by some lovely people.
Therefore, we have two tickets going for free to tonight's show at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith. Starts at 8pm. Highly recommended. Ver...
2023-09-22 07:53:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Morning, all!
So. Firstly… did you listen to the most recent BYAMPOD? Fish did!
Here’s the email he sent at midnight last night:
Dear Paul
I was pointe...
2023-09-22 06:59:25 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s the one-year anniversary of losing my dad tomorrow. Much of my family went to the Isle of Wight this week to scatter his ashes, but I didn’t want to go. Everyone is different, but it wasn’t how I wanted to remember him. My mum, bless her, totally understood.
Instead, we’r...
2023-09-19 12:52:06 +0000 UTC View Post
So. The Russell Brand thing.
I met Brand years ago. This was back when I was – for a brief time – hot property in adult TV comedy.
It seems surreal looking back now, that I might ev...
2023-09-18 11:34:24 +0000 UTC View PostHi all.
Happy Saturday. Sanja's asked me to do a quick update for those of you who have ordered merch. Basically, she was caught up doing accounts this week, but all the merch will start shipping from next week. Thanks for hanging in there.
We also have a date and location for those o...
2023-09-16 08:16:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Well. Hmm. We weren't sure if we were going to put this one out. In the end, after reflecting on it all week, I've made some cuts. It might still end up being a controversial ep, even in this form, but we're taking the risk.
What started out intending to be an episode about Fish's one...
2023-09-15 13:48:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry this wasn't up sooner. Now that I'm uploading in 4k, they take that much longer to export and upload. Worth it though, I think. Who wouldn't want to see all our creases, grey hairs, and wrinkles?
Anyhow. This is another high watermark in my book. We're loving doing these travelogue vi...
2023-09-13 21:16:40 +0000 UTC View Post
HELL YEAH! I got my laptop back. This is the third screen this MacBook has had in six weeks. Let's see if this one survives.
Best of all, the Patreon post I was in the middl...
2023-09-13 16:27:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Monday, all.
While I wait for at least one of my laptops to be returned to me, working and intact, and capable of letting me edit video - while remaining stuck sharing Sanja’s fa...
2023-09-11 09:22:53 +0000 UTC View PostNo Digi for you this week because... I was right in the middle of a really lovely, long, Patreon post last night about our recent trip to Cleethorpes, of all things, when my recently repaired MacBook Air... stopped working again.
Cue another trip to the Apple Store, and now no MacBook...
2023-09-08 14:36:27 +0000 UTC View Post