From the ballboy shop:

http://www.ballboymusic.com/mp3shop/process.php?pname=ShopfrontProcess-Start

Cheers

I'll add to the clamour:) And will see anyone else who's going at indietracks

--- In ballboy_music@..., Eccy de Jonge <e_dejonge@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Rachel,
>  
> Do you know if the Ballboy film at the Luminaire is going to made available on
DVD?? I'd love to buy a copy, as I know would others.
>  
> Best,
>  
> Eccy
>
> --- On Wed, 1/7/09, rachel <rachelaqueen@...> wrote:
>
>
> From: rachel <rachelaqueen@...>
> Subject: [ballboy_music] Films, Festivals and Future Releases
> To: ballboy_music@...
> Date: Wednesday, 1 July, 2009, 10:29 PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Hope this email finds everyone well. This is just a quick reminder of the
things coming up in the next month along with some exciting record news...
>
> Next Sunday (July 5th) there will be another screening of the ballboy
documentary "Trying Not To F**k It Up" at the Roxy Bar and Screen, London Bridge
SE1 (www.roxybarandscre en.com). The film was shot last year at The Luminaire
during the band's tour of the UK. It features live performances and gives an
insight into what goes on off stage. Gordon will also be playing an acoustic
show and answering some questions on the night. The evening costs £4
>
> On Sunday 26th July Gordon will play another solo show at the Indietracks
Festival. This is a fantastic festival set at the Midlands Railway Museum in
Derbyshire. There will be loads of great bands playing and you can ride on steam
trains and play in the signal box! For more information and for ticket booking
have a look at the Indietracks website:
>
> http://www.indietra cks.co.uk/
>
> Finally some exciting news about the long awaited Money Can't Buy Music album
"The Universe for Beginners". We are crossing our fingers that it will be back
from the pressing plant this week. The release date for the album is 7th
September and will be released on Pony Proof Records. In case you don't know
what I'm going on about, here is a bit of information about Money Can't Buy
Music:
>
> "++Money Can't Buy Music is a musical project involving Gordon McIntyre from
Edinburgh in Scotland and Maja Mångård from Växjö in Sweden plus anyone else
that they can rope in along the way. They make story-based electronic folk pop
about little things that happen and the deep deep feelings that they cause.
>
> They released their first single "We will all asphyxiate" was released in
2005. "A The Universe for Beginners" will be their debut album and it is very
much a "home-based" project and a labour of love put together over time."
>
> You can have a listen to some songs by Money Can't Buy Music on the Pony Proof
Records website (listed below).
>
> Well that's about all the news I have for you just now so I shall leave you in
peace!
>
> Take Care
> Rachel
>
> www.ballboymusic. com
> www.moneycantbuymus ic.com
> www.ponyproofrecord s.com
>

Hi,

Hope this email finds everyone well. This is just a quick reminder of the things
coming up in the next month along with some exciting record news...

Next Sunday (July 5th) there will be another screening of the ballboy
documentary "Trying Not To F**k It Up" at the Roxy Bar and Screen, London Bridge
SE1 (www.roxybarandscreen.com). The film was shot last year at The Luminaire
during the band's tour of the UK. It features live performances and gives an
insight into what goes on off stage. Gordon will also be playing an acoustic
show and answering some questions on the night. The evening costs  £4

On Sunday 26th July Gordon will play another solo show at the Indietracks
Festival. This is a fantastic festival set at the Midlands Railway Museum in
Derbyshire. There will be loads of great bands playing and you can ride on steam
trains and play in the signal box! For more information and for ticket booking
have a look at the Indietracks website:

http://www.indietracks.co.uk/

Finally some exciting news about the long awaited Money Can't Buy Music album
"The Universe for Beginners". We are crossing our fingers that it will be back
from the pressing plant this week. The release date for the album is 7th
September and will be released on Pony Proof Records. In case you don't know
what I'm going on about, here is a bit of information about Money Can't Buy
Music:

"++Money Can't Buy Music is a musical project involving Gordon McIntyre from
Edinburgh in Scotland and Maja Mångård from Växjö in Sweden plus anyone else
that they can rope in along the way. They make story-based electronic folk pop
about little things that happen and the deep deep feelings that they cause.

They released their first single "We will all asphyxiate" was released in 2005.
"A The Universe for Beginners" will be their debut album and it is very much a
"home-based" project and a labour of love put together over time."

You can have a listen to some songs by Money Can't Buy Music on the Pony Proof
Records website (listed below).

Well that's about all the news I have for you just now so I shall leave you in
peace!

Take Care
Rachel


www.ballboymusic.com
www.moneycantbuymusic.com
www.ponyproofrecords.com

Hi

Just a quick reminder about some ballboy that are coming up.

First on Friday 15th May they will be playing at Tigerfest in Dunfermline along
with audrey sings nico  and Saint Jude's Infirmary.

Gordon will be playing a solo show in Sacremento on Wednesday 20th May at the
Blue Lamp. The rest of the line-up for the night is as follows: Oh No Oh My,
Pelle Carlberg, and Silver Planes.

Finally the whole band will be playing at the San Francisco Popfest at Annie's
Social Club on Friday May 22nd. Also playing that night are The Hot Toddies, The
Tartans,  The Orange Peels, Springfactory   and Bunnygrunt.

While we in San Francisco (14th May - 26th May) the ballboy shop will be closed
I'm afraid. Any orders received during this time will be sent out upon our
return. Apologies in advance for any delays!

See you soon perhaps!

Rachel
xx

Hello,

I was looking at the ballboy lastFM page this evening and it told me ballboy are
tour. It was a little surprising because as far as I know ballboy are not
currently on tour.

However LastFM is right, there are quite a few shows coming up:

April 16th - Gordon will play a solo show at Oran Mor, Glasgow

May 15th - Tigerfest - Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline

May 22nd - San Francisco Popfest - Annie's Social Club (917 Folsom St. @ 5th.
St. San
Francisco, CA 94107)

July 12th - Another screening of the documentary "Trying not to f**k it up" at
the Roxy Bar & Screen London Bridge SE1. Gordon will also play an acoustic show.

26th July - Gordon will play a solo show at the Indietracks Festival in
Derbyshire

When you look it like that maybe ballboy are on a slightly random tour of the UK
with San Francisco in the middle and lots of stops for working and doing normal
things in between.

Hope all is well with you,

Take Care
Rachel
xx


Websites:
Tigerfest - www.myspace.com/dunfermlinetigerfest
San Francisco Popfest - www.sfpopfest.com
Roxy Bar & Screen - www.roxybarandscreen.com
Indietracks - www.indietracks.co.uk/

Hello,

The beginning of March equals the end of my yearly hibernation so I
think it is a about time I updated you with some ballboy news!

First of all the band have a couple of shows coming up:

March 21st Oxjam Gig at the Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh
May 15th Tigerfest - Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline

Also the band's record label "Pony Proof Records" has at long last got
its own website:

http://www.ponyproofrecords.com/

We'll be announcing news regarding the Money Can't Buy Music album and
other releases soon so keep checking back!

Finally any Twitterers out there can now follow the happenings of
ballboy, Money Can't Buy Music and Pony Proof Records (& other
ramblings) on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/ballboy_music

Hope things are good with you wherever you are,

Take Care,

Rachel

xx

As I always like to bring something for the kids when making a post
and haven't been playing the guitar enough recently to bother with a
tab, here's a link to something I made back at uni about 5/6 years
ago when i first got hold of Cool Edit Pro. Basically it's a load of
ballboy songs mixed together with common lyrics e.g. a switch might
go "Drunk on the floor of the pub again and who knows what we are
fighting/for a cause that was spent and I lost all my friends to a
lack of commitment and/you and I will take a grand theatre trip and
we'll get dressed up in our best clothes and try to make some sense
etc." While not demonstrating any hidden musical talent, it does
show the frankly scary amount of free time I had at uni (kids!
study!) and a worrying knowledge of ballboy lyrics. So go here if
you want some barely passable ballboy related entertainment:
www.megaupload.com/?d=4FBF9RJW.htm

What inspired it at the time was a truly superb winner of a
competition for this sort of thing (but with different artists),
which I would genuinely recommend downloading here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LAGV3UT0
This isn't mine, but I can't find where I got it so I can't really
credit whoever did it. Prizes for knowing all the songs.
Embarasssment when you start singing along to a song and do the
lyrics from this e.g. "My name is Prince and I am/funky cold medina"
As I always like to bring something for the kids when making a post
and haven't been playing the guitar enough recently to bother with a
tab, here's a link to something I made back at uni about 5/6 years
ago when i first got hold of Cool Edit Pro. Basically it's a load of
ballboy songs mixed together with common lyrics e.g. a switch might
go "Drunk on the floor of the pub again and who knows what we are
fighting/for a cause that was spent and I lost all my friends to a
lack of commitment and/you and I will take a grand theatre trip and
we'll get dressed up in our best clothes and try to make some sense
etc." While not demonstrating any hidden musical talent, it does
show the frankly scary amount of free time I had at uni (kids!
study!) and a worrying knowledge of ballboy lyrics. So go here if
you want some barely passable ballboy related entertainment:
www.megaupload.com/?d=4FBF9RJW.htm

What inspired it at the time was a truly superb winner of a
competition for this sort of thing (but with different artists),
which I would genuinely recommend downloading here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LAGV3UT0
This isn't mine, but I can't find where I got it so I can't really
credit whoever did it. Prizes for knowing all the songs.
Embarasssment when you start singing along to a song and do the
lyrics from this e.g. "My name is Prince and I am/funky cold medina"

Anyway, that's the user interactive content done, time to start
pestering Gordon:)
i) Podcasts! There's loads of new songs to do acoustically, and
they're all that get me through the day at work.
ii) On the last podcast, lots of exciting things. A possible live
album! A new Money Can't Buy Music album completely finished! Me
being mentioned! A new ballboy album! I went backpacking round the
world for 9 months, got back just in time for indietracks (and two
weddings) and the ballboy album was juuuuuust coming out. We demand
releases! Or at least a download of a full version of "I wrote this
song on garageband".
iii) Thanks Gordon for the CD signings. I was the loon getting 4
signed at indietracks (incidentally, the 2 marrying couples really
appreciated it, my American friend who I originally met through a
shared love of ballboy predictably loved it and so did I - though
still hoping for a release of hangover song and some of the podcasts
songs as single b-sides, or an EP would be nice. Go on you could
stick T-in-the-park out there, steal the orginal version of Palaces
and Prisons, not such a fan of the album version, and Sunday League
say. Done your work for you right there. Wait are we still in that
bracket. Yep. Wow, great bracket.), which was a great festival if
anyone didn't go and is thinking about going next year. Los
Campesinos were ace, as were The Wave Pictures and lots of other
bands who I ended up drinking with in the tent. Genuinely lovely
atmosphere as well.
iv) Did anyone see Midsummer? Really wanted to go, but couldn't make
it up from Oxford. Reviews etc? Any audio/video?
Right, I think that a long enough essay, maybe we can get some
movement on the ballboy boards, which have been far too quiet of
late. Take care everyone.
Steve-0 (like the 70's rocker, not the robot).

Hello,

A couple of ballboy newsy things for you:

First of all a reminder that Gordon will be playing a solo show at The
Caves in Edinburgh this Saturday as part of the Gimme Shelter Festival
which has been organised to raise awareness for the charity ‘Shelter’.
Tickets are £7 and are available from Ripping Records and Ticket
Scotland.

Secondly Christmas is just around the corner (I know because they have
been selling Christmas stuff in the Co-Op for the last 6 months) so it
is time for the ballboy Christmas Party! This year it will be on 21st
December in Cabaret Voltaire in Edinburgh and we are very excited
because The Amazing Bobby McGees
(http://www.myspace.com/thebobbymcgees) will be playing.

Hope things are well in your world wherever that may be.

Take Care
Rachel

* They might tell you that they are just called The Bobby McGees but
that is only because they are too modest!

PS If anyone is interested Gordon features the new album by my band
The Local Heroes/Blackberry Wine called “Museums For Memories�. He
tells the story on the track called “Lucy� and the album can be bought
from Series Two Records here:
http://www.indiepages.com/seriestwo/store.html

Hi,

Just a quick note to tell you about a couple of shows that are coming
up. They are as follows:

Oct 30th Gordon Acoustic Show, The Traverse Theatre Bar 9.30 following
the performance of Midsummer
Oct 31st Fence Collective Halloween Party - Anstruther
Nov 19th The Caves, Edinburgh
Nov 20th Oran Mor Glasgow
Nov 29th Gordon Acoustic show for Gimme Shelter, The Caves, Edinburgh

Any other details will be posted on the ballboy website as and when we
have them.

Bye for now,

Rachel

Hi,

Gordon has co-written the play, Midsummer, with David Greig who is one
of Britain's finest playwrights.  The show features original songs and
music written for the show by Gordon alongside a sneaky appearance
from two ballboy songs - There are only inches between us, but there
might as well be mountains and trees and Above the clouds the sun is
always shining (instrumental version).

The show opens at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh on Friday 24th of
October and runs through to Saturday the 15th of November.

Tickets and more information are available here:

http://www.traverse.co.uk/show_detail.php?id=554

Hope you're well,

Rachel

Hello,
Just a quick email to say that the fifth ballboy album is out today
(25th August). It is called "I worked on the ships" and it is the
first record to be released on the band's own label "Pony Proof Records".
You can buy it directly from the ballboy shop (as either a CD or as
MP3 downloads) or through various digital download stores such as
iTunes and record shops etc etc.
There also are some new t shirt for you to buy from our shop.
And if that wasn't enough new stuff for one email the ballboy website
has been given a new look to make the occasion.
Hope everyone is happy and well,
Take Care
Rachel

http://www.ballboymusic.com

Can we purchase the CD in advance of 8/25? Very excited to hear the
new album, and hope for a New York gig later this year!



On 8/13/08, rachel <rachelaqueen@...> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> We are all back home and wearing clean clothes after a two week world
> tour of the UK (you try telling Gordon that he hasn't toured the
> world). Thanks to everyone who came along to the shows, or organised
> the shows and thanks to all the support bands. It was a great two
> weeks and we met some lovely people.
>
> The count down to the launch of the new album begins now! The album is
> called "I worked on the ships" contains 11 songs and will be released
> on 25th August on "Pony Proof Records" which is the band's newly
> created record label. For those of you who can't wait that long you
> can hear two of the songs on our MySpace page now:
>
> www.myspace.com/ballboymusic
>
> Finally, Gordon will be playing a solo show at the 13th note in
> Glasgow this Saturday (16th August). Door are from 8.30pm and it will
> cost £5 to get in with all proceeds going to charity.
>
> I think that's all for now. Look out for pictures from the tour and
> new merchandise on the website soon (well soonish anyway).
>
> Hope all is well wherever you are,
>
> Take Care
> Rachel
>
> www.ballboymusic.com
>
>
>
>
>

--
Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com

Hello!

We are all back home and wearing clean clothes after a two week world
tour of the UK (you try telling Gordon that he hasn't toured the
world). Thanks to everyone who came along to the shows, or organised
the shows and thanks to all the support bands. It was a great two
weeks and we met some lovely people.

The count down to the launch of the new album begins now! The album is
called "I worked on the ships" contains 11 songs and will be released
on 25th August on "Pony Proof Records" which is the band's newly
created record label. For those of you who can't wait that long you
can hear two of the songs on our MySpace page now:

www.myspace.com/ballboymusic

Finally, Gordon will be playing a solo show at the 13th note in
Glasgow this Saturday (16th August). Door are from 8.30pm and it will
cost £5 to get in with all proceeds going to charity.

I think that's all for now. Look out for pictures from the tour and
new merchandise on the website soon (well soonish anyway).

Hope all is well wherever you are,

Take Care
Rachel

www.ballboymusic.com

--- In ballboy_music@..., carrotgold@... wrote:
>
> Fraid not - but I am going to the luminaire on the 31st - anyone else
going
> to that?
>
im not,but im going the flapper &firkin is anyone going to that?

is anyone else going to indietracks?

________________________________
To: ballboy_music@...
From: songsforpolarbears@...
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:22:58 +0000
Subject: [ballboy_music] Re: New Album, Uk Tour and Single Sale





















Found this on http://www.rhythmonline.co.uk/entry.php?albumid=130137



ballboy I Worked On the Ships (CD, £10.95) due 11-08-2008

Over the last 7 years Edinburgh's BALLBOY have released 4 albums and numerous
singles.

The band's dry wit and imaginative story telling combined with the use of strong
bold images

and a depth of emotion poured into each song, have gained them a devoted fan
following,

not least of whom was the late John Peel, who invited the band to record
sessions for the

show five times. Over the years the band have had 11 tracks featured in his
legendary Festive

Fifty. BALLBOY recorded "I worked on the ships", in a cottage in the Scottish
Borders. The idea

was to move out of a standard studio environment and work on the recording of
the songs in

a new way. In some vague and not very important conceptual way the lyrics and
sounds are

related to boats - hence the album title. The album was produced by Gordon and
enhanced

by the addition of electronic orchestration and other bleeps and blops.
"McIntyre's forte is

mining that particularly Scottish brand of gallows whimsy, depositing lyrical
barbs, half-

spoken, half-sung, in a musical landscape" - The Scotsman
























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ballboy I Worked On the Ships (CD, £10.95) due 11-08-2008
Over the last 7 years Edinburgh's BALLBOY have released 4 albums and numerous
singles.
The band's dry wit and imaginative story telling combined with the use of strong
bold images
and a depth of emotion poured into each song, have gained them a devoted fan
following,
not least of whom was the late John Peel, who invited the band to record
sessions for the
show five times. Over the years the band have had 11 tracks featured in his
legendary Festive
Fifty. BALLBOY recorded "I worked on the ships", in a cottage in the Scottish
Borders. The idea
was to move out of a standard studio environment and work on the recording of
the songs in
a new way. In some vague and not very important conceptual way the lyrics and
sounds are
related to boats - hence the album title. The album was produced by Gordon and
enhanced
by the addition of electronic orchestration and other bleeps and blops.
"McIntyre's forte is
mining that particularly Scottish brand of gallows whimsy, depositing lyrical
barbs, half-
spoken, half-sung, in a musical landscape" - The Scotsman