H'okey doke. Here's next week's video a whole week early. The Beanus video you got earlier this week was due to go out next week, and you were supposed to have a video with Sanja and I instead. Which we filmed.
And then it turned out the entire thing was out of focus. So, we're just d...
2021-06-17 19:44:14 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back on schedule, and here's next week's Between You And Me. This episode contains discussions about H's age, whether Marillion were ever sex symbols, and a further rumination on the nature of grief.
Paul
2021-06-17 18:13:18 +0000 UTC View PostHello Top Tier gang. Here's a bunch of unseen Beanus clips for you. They're from all over the shop - some from before we'd even properly started filming - but should give some insight into the editing choices...!
We're well on the mend, and next week we're going away for some location filming, so I'm getting ahead with eps. This one will likely be going out NEXT week, as this week Sanja and I are doing a long overdue unboxing this week. Which we've yet to film.
It's yet more Beanus, but this is my f...
2021-06-14 16:16:50 +0000 UTC View PostHi all.
Firstly, thanks for all the concerned/kind words over the past couple of weeks. We're on the mend, though it's frustratingly slow going. We're Covid-free now, but not free of being absolutely exhausted, and not being able to do anything too physical, because we struggle to bre...
2021-06-09 19:49:49 +0000 UTC View PostWell... the last 10 days have been eventful/awful... but Sanja and I seem to be through the worst of it at last.
As I said over on Twitter, Covid is far more brutal and debilitating than either of us anticipated. It's far, far from just being flu. I don't quite have the stamina ...
2021-06-07 19:17:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello gang. Thanks for supporting us for another month! You da best.
As you might've seen over on Twitter... Sanja and I have Covid. It's every bit as rotten as they say, so it's touch and go whether I'll get a Digi edited this week. If I wake up tomorrow feeling semi-human, there will be o...
2021-06-01 10:07:38 +0000 UTC View PostWe've got COVID! So, that's fun. But anyway, here's an exclusive slice of abject silliness from before that happened, in which we browse the latest issue of The Web magazine, I relate my most cringe-worthy Marillion story, and we brainstorm titles for Mark Kelly's autobiography...
2021-05-30 11:57:23 +0000 UTC View Post
A very special ep of BYAPOD for you - a bona-fide crossover with that OTHER Marillion podcast, The Corona Diaries, as Ant Short drops in to tell us his Marillion story, and what it's like to make a weekly podcast with Steve Hogarth! Blimey!
2021-05-27 13:38:24 +0000 UTC View PostBig thanks to those of you who've bought my latest album. I'm already working on new music, with a view to doing something that sounds quite different next time. I kind of want to do some sort of concept album, or continuous suite of music, with a narrative. But we'll see what happens.
At t...
2021-05-26 12:35:54 +0000 UTC View PostHello, top tier gang. So, we're all self-isolating. Sanja and I don't have you-know-what (not yet anyway), but our 16 year-old tested positive last night. She's fine - she says it just feels like a cold - but has had to miss her last day of high school (as have all her friends who've been in cont...
2021-05-26 10:31:47 +0000 UTC View PostHere you are, gang. Brand new Beanus.
Should be some more stuff coming the way of both tiers later this week. For now... enjoy this slice of insanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhnGhYU-MBI <...
2021-05-25 17:20:42 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, here's next week's podcast ep. In what is probably our most emotional and impassioned ep to date, we dig into the individual tracks on the This Strange Engine album... and I detail my difficult history with it.
Paul
2021-05-19 18:32:24 +0000 UTC View PostHello all. There won't be a new ep of Digi this week, alas. Between prepping for the next two days of filming, and Sanja working to fulfil our Kickstarter rewards, we've just run out of time.
The good news is... you should get next week's ep of BYAMPOD early still - for those of you who lis...
2021-05-19 10:10:14 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all. Sorry I've been a bit quiet this week. A mix of a day job deadline, plus getting things ready for next week's Digitiser Deluxe filming, plus getting a cold, have taken precedence.
I just wanted to chime in and say... we've also now a location for some Supernatural World filming ...
2021-05-14 14:16:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on Between You And Me, Sanja and Paul begin their look at Marillion's 1997 album, This Strange Engine. While containing classics including Man Of A Thousand Faces, Estonia and the title track, suffice to say... Paul's feelings around this one are complicated, to say the least. Coupled t...
2021-05-12 14:51:41 +0000 UTC View PostHello top tier gang.
Terrifyingly, we've realised that next week we're filming Digitiser Deluxe - pretty much picking up where we left off last year, with a few surprises - then next month at some point we're hoping to film a bunch of Supernatural Worlds.
We're going furth...
2021-05-11 10:33:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's Bonus ep deals with the latest news from the Marillion camp, about gig delays and the decision to move the Dutch Marillion Weekend to 2023... plus some new revelations about the eternal mystery that is Beyond You...!
2021-05-10 13:13:35 +0000 UTC View PostNew Digi video... on a Saturday? Yes indeed! And it's another out and about video - as Sanja goes to get her Covid vaccination, and we use it as an opportunely for an impromptu tour of Elstree - home of Britain's movie industry!
Been a while since I did a blog, so I thought I’d check in with you lovely lot.
Alongside Digi and BYAMPOD stuff, the last couple of weeks were spent putting together some spec pitches for my agent. It has been years since I’ve written anything on-spec – mainly because I’ve been luc...
2021-05-05 10:01:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Sanja and I went on a long drive at the weekend, and to keep her entertained, we recorded an interview with Action Man. Who knows? Maybe these tapes will one day form the basis of his autobiography...
2021-05-04 20:27:50 +0000 UTC View PostWell, we've been waiting to do this for a while - and Lockdown has eased up enough to make it possible. We're back with the Cheapshow boys for this very special episode, where we visit Winnie The Pooh's 100 Acre Woods (you can listen to a whole different side of the adventure on this week's episo...
2021-05-04 15:20:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's Bonus edition of Between You And Me, Sanja and I take a look at the results of the Marillion Christmas Poll - which reveals THE WORST MARILLION ALBUMS EVER!
Paul
2021-05-04 11:49:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello Top Tier Gang. Here's this week's bonus video for you. It's the usual ramble, with a chunk of Sanja and I discussing my new album thing I've got coming out next week...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTdX...
2021-04-30 09:54:13 +0000 UTC View PostHey-lo! Here's an exclusive seven minutes or so of deleted moments from this week's Digi tea tasting, including loads more Stevens, and a whole alternate intro, because... I'm not sure why we did it twice, to be honest, but we did. I think this is the better version, but never mind!
Next Monday's ep of Between You And Me - today! In this week's mixed bag of Marillion post, we see a definite trend developing among your likes and dislikes on Afraid of Sunlight. Plus, we discuss why Marillion fans are so passionate, and whether it's possible to even be a casual Marillion fan! 2021-04-30 08:20:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's Digi is another whopper. I'm sure they won't all be this length, but... sometimes they just ask to be. We talk too much...
This ep, we're tasting a bunch of teas - two courtesy of Patron Kimberley Mildenhall, and a bunch of weird ones we found online. Regrettably, the arrival of...
2021-04-27 17:22:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis is it! Our inaugural bonus BYAMPOD. I know a fair few of you on here now are from the podcast, so rest assured we're going to reward your generosity with at least a couple of bonus eps a month (hernia operation recoveries notwithstanding).
It starts here, with a more laid-back, f...
2021-04-27 14:27:04 +0000 UTC View PostNow, this is a real exclusive. Last year, when we put together the first (and until next month, only) run of Digitiser Deluxe, we recorded one more episode at the end of our shoot, which I never put out. In short, it was all a bit rushed - we never really had the time (or the space) to set up pro...
2021-04-27 13:57:44 +0000 UTC View Post
So, some of you know I've an album out on May 7th (it might actually be out a few days before that on iTunes, Spotify and whatnot, but that's the next Bandcamp Friday).
This is the track you'll get if you pre-order the album now. It's called Hubris... which is a sort of in-joke, about...
2021-04-23 15:01:58 +0000 UTC View Post