Ampcorp #11 - The Octopus stream

Ok - Everyone

For those that can't wait any longer
The Octopus is now up to be listened to prior to it's release on 31/1/11

http://amplifier.bandcamp.com/



Enjoy

Ampcorp#10 Special Edition Dispatch News

Special Edition Books

Welcome to my nervous breakdown – I mean Special Edition Dispatch News round up...

We couldn’t have picked a worse time to try and get this sorted apart from the day before the apocalypse.

Right – The books have been at manufacturing for over a month now.  We all know that this is the busiest time of the year blah blah blah...

I have been knocking on this door with increasing volume every week for the manufacturing to be done as quickly as possible.  Obviously I can’t make the books be made any more quickly than they are prepared to commit to making them, and I presume that they are much more complicated to make than any normal order, and they are all being bound by hand one by one.

The delivery date has been changed again and again, and I am beginning to get the feeling I am waiting for one of those trains that are forever delayed by ten more minutes just when it should be pulling up to the platform.  I am pulling my hair out.

Here is the summary at the moment.

Firstly I want to say that there is no question about them not arriving – so don’t worry about that.

At this moment the books are not quite completed.  The manufacturers have decided to redo one of the binds on the book because they thought it could be done better.  On the one hand I am glad that they are so thorough and that they want to do a good job, but on the other I was promised that I would receive them all by Weds 8^th Dec.  This now seems to be unlikely because the bad weather has  affected all shipments across the entire distribution system.  

This probably doesn’t mean much to you if you’re in Australia right now, but what it does mean is that I cannot promise that the book will reach you by Christmas if you live in an international destination.

This is because Royal Mail have likewise amended all their last postage dates for Christmas to reflect the delays in posting.

Last posting dates can be found here:

http://www2.royalmail.com/christmas-last-posting-dates

Enter your country

Enter special delivery for UK, or AIRSURE for overseas. If AIRSURE is not available for your country select INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR

This will tell you the last posting date for Christmas.

If you’re not bothered about getting it for Christmas then don’t worry – it will be with you as soon as possible.

Obviously we will attempt to move heaven and hell in order to get them out, but please remember that we cannot even sign or dedicate them until they arrive, and that this is a really big job in itself, so it maybe that depending on your location your book may not arrive until the end of the year.

We are really sorry – but there really isn’t anything we can do to speed up the circumstances.  This is just one of the downsides of us doing everything by hand without a big distribution network to sort all this stuff out.  I totally understand people’s frustration.  Believe me - nobody is more frustrated than I am.  

Now then – trying to be practical about this –

If you would prefer that we kept hold of your book until the new year when everything has settled back down to normal then please email me with ****HOLD**** in the email heading, and I will make sure that your book is put somewhere safe until the first week of January and we can try again.

Otherwise – we’ll just press on with getting everything out as quickly as possible when it arrives.

The best we can do at this point is keep you informed.

Hope everyone is well and either enjoying the bounteous snow, or the lovely sunshine down in the southern half...

Ampcorp#9: Attention All Video And Film Makers

Attention All Video And Film Makers

We are looking to commission a video for "The Wave".

The track is here
http://amplifier.bandcamp.com/



Go here for a very specific brief

http://www.radarmusicvideos.com/brief/9997

or here

http://www.amplifiertheband.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3097


This is only open to people that have experience and a relevant portfolio of work which I will need to see.

There is a reasonable budget but the turnaround is very very fast.


If you've got what it takes then email me

sel@amplifiertheband.com


Good Luck

#8.1 Deutsch

DIe Zeit ist reif!

Digipaks!
Die Digipaks werden noch in dieser Woche rausgehen!
Sie werden in dieser Reihenfolge verschickt:

1) International
2) Europa
3) Großbritannien

Falls du ein Buch bestellt hast - die sind noch nicht zurück vom Binden.
Die werden verschickt, sobald sie zurückkommen.

Aber mach dir keine Sorgen - es ist ALLES Expresspost - sie werden also am nächsten Tag geliefert, bzw. bei Übersee-Lieferungen per Express-Luftpost mit dem nächsten Flieger.

Du kriegst von uns Bescheid, wenn deine Lieferung verschickt worden ist, egal welches Format!

Niemand ist aufgeregter als ich...

Amcorp Comm. #8

The time has come!

Digipaks!

Digipaks are going to be going out starting this week.

They will be dispatched in this order:



1) International

2) Europe

3) UK



If you've ordered a book - they are still not back from being bound.

These will be dispatched when they come back.

Don't worry though! - They are ALL priority mail - so they will be delivered next day, or if they 
are overseas they go as AIRSURE priority on the first flight.



We will notify you when your edition has been dispatched - whatever the format!





No-one's more excited than me....

Amcorp Communication#7 - The Octopus Dispatch Update #2

So far we have taken possession of the digipak versions of The Octopus.
These look AWESOME.  I am very happy. 

In fact they are so great that we are investing in having slipcases manufactured to keep them safe and neat in for you.

This might add on a few days to the dispatch of the digipaks - but is worthwhile because it means they will last much longer when they are sent out to combat.

I have been promised the delivery of the special edition books for monday 29th November.
We will try our hardest to make sure that these are sent out shortly after.

We will keep you up to date here or on our ampcorp blog or on the forum...

More news as it comes...

Ampcorp communication #6 deutsch

Nun.

Das war eine ziemlich verrückte Woche.

Danke an jeden, der The Octopus bestellt hat.

Sich durch die Bestellungen zu arbeiten ist ein ziemlich langsamer und arbeitsreicher Prozess. Jede einzelne Email-Benachrichtigung muss geöffnet werden, mit den Details der Bestellung verglichen werden um sicher zu gehen, dass keine Fehler passieren oder dass irgendjemand vergessen wird.Dann muss jede Adresse einzeln in die Vorlage für die Versandadressen kopiert werden. Danach wird jedem Besteller eine Email geschickt, damit Ihr wisst, dass sich gekümmert wird und damit ihr checken könnt, ob die Versandadresse richtig ist.

Das ist viel Arbeit. Also falls ihr noch keine Email von mir gekriegt habt heißt das nur, dass ich noch nicht soweit gekommen bin.

Im Prinzip bin ich noch bei den ersten zwei Bestelltagen und es ist noch ein weiter Weg, aber macht euch keine Sorgen, alles wird bis zum eigentlichen Verschicken geregelt sein…

Mehr News gibt’s, wenn die Sachen aus der Plastikfabrik zurückkommen. Sollte in den nächsten paar Tagen sein.