Musomancical goings-on

Howdy!
Well, we did it!
To celebrate the 20th year of the Bing Turkby Ensemble (1996-2016), we managed to release a new album (Atlantean Night Tourists), recorded by the auditory genius Nigel Mauchline at The Stomach in Palmy (with extra noise added at TurkbyTone Rekkids Studio B for Bing).
Me, MacDeth, McBOOOm and Tyrone T. Blowhard are extremely happy with the results, and also with the great artwork perpetrated by William Bennett.

The website - turkby.co.nz - just got a makeover by web maestro Andrew Tregonning, so now the site is really tidy and uncluttered, and works better on mobile devices too.

On top of that, I wrote a book called The Musomancer, which you can get hold of as either an e-book or a p-book at the Amazon link, or you can buy the physical book at Paper Plus nationwide in Aotearoa, and it's also at Groovylicious on George Street and at Begg's on Albert Street, both of those latter places are in Palmy.

Time for a rest? Well... I think it's time for another Heavy Blarney album actually! And I have a couple thousand words done on the sequel to The Musomancer.

Too much fun!

I hope you're all happy and safe, best wishes from everyone at TurkbyTone Rekkids.

20 years of the Bing Turkby Ensemble!

Crikey that went quick. This Easter it'll be 20 years since Bing bought a Tascam 4-track and wrote the song "Crumbly".
Then it wasn't long till this came along:

(Good ol' Peter King and his lathe-cut vinyl!)

Here's a big thank-you to everyone who has given encouragement and support along the way, especially these past and present band members:
Tyrone T. Blowhard
Nemo Spork
Snatchlock Cutpenny
The Night Frog
Mustachio
The Hungarian Thunder
Slapskins McBOOOm
Ajax MacDeth

And of course, where would we be without the stalwart guidance and extravagant wastefulness of that most magisterial of managers, Jim Keltnenhausen. Jim has been there right from the start, so I guess it's all his fault. If he wasn't imaginary he'd definitely be fired by now.

The current incarnation of the BTE will be doing a couple of gigs as part of Palmy's Sounds of Summer concert series, on Feb 7th and Feb 17th - see more details here:
http://www.accessmanawatu.co.nz/initiatives/Sounds-of-Summer.aspx
And what the heck - we might even do a couple more shows! Jim is strong-arming some venue operators for us now so hopefully there'll be more news on that front soon-ish.

We'll also be recording some more songs this year, we can't believe it's been so long since "Summon Forth the Mangonel"!
To refresh your memory, I've put a playlist selection on the sidebar of this blog.
Happy 2016 everybody! Keep it Turkby-like.