Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Pre-Ordering The Album

A morning in Winchester listening to Loudon Wainwright is nothing to be sniffed at. These last few precious days before the tour madness kicks off in earnest are something to be handled carefully, spent well with friends and family. Come next week I'm off until Christmas, basically.

But the schedule never stops. A few things today. First of all, the new album is currently Album Of The Week on the Zane Lowe show on BBC Radio One. Which is very nice. If you tune in (7-9pm) this week, you'll be able to hear tracks from the album before it officially comes out on September 7th.

Speaking of which.. This is the moment in the cycle where I encourage you all to get involved in pre-ordering the album. This is a wonderful idea for you, obviously, because you get the album on the day of release (and often some promotional stuff as well, see below). It's also, in honesty, good for me too, because it's important in this industry to try and maximize first-week sales. So it's a win-win situation, basically.

So. If you're in the UK, you can pre-order from Recordstore and get a signed album, if you're quick. If they're out, you can get signed albums from Xtra Mile as well. Or you could head to my favourite independent record shop, Banquet Records. There are plenty of others too.

In the USA and Europe, you can order from Epitaph themselves, which is probably your best bet. Americans could also have a look here for a free shirt with the album.

There are, of course, plenty of other places to look. But yeah, happy shopping, it's been such a long build up for this album, I actually can't wait until this one is properly in the public domain. Not long now.

8 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You were brilliant at Beautiful Days and thank you for being so patient when I disturbed you and sorry for the sticky maple syrup hands! You are a very lovely man!! x

7:05 PM  
Blogger James said...

Hey dude,

Good luck with the new album I've just preordered my copy, loving the new tracks on myspace so I'm sure it will be just as great as the first two records. Will be catching you at Leeds Fest in a couple of days and then in Manchester and Wolverhampton on the tour so yeah, enjoy the last freedom before it all kicks in!

Jamesie.

11:00 PM  
Anonymous Leigh Ann said...

I pre-ordered. Doing my duty (and excited to hear it). A couple more weeks to wait.

1:01 AM  
Blogger Kit Fletcher said...

Got my copy pre-ordered, and can't wait to get my hands on it... Then I just have to start counting until 28th Oct and Winchester show!

1:09 PM  
Blogger Jen said...

I've pre-ordered mine and really can't wait for it.

9:04 AM  
Anonymous Ed said...

recordstore say the signed cd isn't available to pre-order yet, looking forward to it though!

1:41 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My girlfriend has just bought me tickets to your show at the rock city in Nottingham with some friends. I am awash with titillation at the prospects forthcoming! See you in October!

1:22 PM  
Anonymous akkus said...

Its really great one. I got it a week ago and I'm listening it again and again.

6:06 AM  

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