Howdy all, and Happy New Year!
Pretty soon the Bing Turkby Ensemble band members will have returned from their various holiday spots, like Mykonos, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan. That means we can finish up the recording of 'Summon Forth The Mangonel' and get it shipped, shopped and straight to the top of the charts.
To use a pretty stupid metaphor, we have completed the base of the cheesecake, and most of the filling, so it's really just the zesty berry-flavoured topping to finish now. We have the design skills of the House of Ash working on a cover, and Jim Keltnenhausen has written 25 pages of liner notes, and that's just his introduction. He likes the sound of his own word-processed voice, that guy.
Once it's ready we'll probably have a stupendous launch party for it. I'm thinking of petitioning the government for a Turkby Day parade, where everyone gets the day off (paid), and we can have floats, merry-go-rounds, public stupidity, etc.
In other related-to-the-band news, the Heavy Blarney album should be on the shelves of the Palmy branch of JB Hifi really soon. Massive ups to Olly for organising that for us!
Plus you might see various Ensemble members slumming it with covers bands throughout the year. There'll be a gig calendar for the Passengers soon over at passengersnz.blogspot.com so you can keep up with what Bing, MacDeth and ex-BTE guy The Hungarian Thunder are up to.
Thanks for making 2010 an awesome year for the BTE, we'll make sure we have some great stuff for you to take part in during 2011!
Tote that bale,
Bing
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