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The August 2008 edition of Crying to the Future, the Elegant Simplicity newsletter, has been mailed out. It is also available for download!

To celebrate the launch of our brand new sister site toomanygoodbyes.com, we are giving away a free download of the full Palindrome album with every purchase of the new CD, Too Many Goodbyes, from the new site.

This is a limited time offer, so if you have neither of these great albums, now is your chance! Get a real, physical copy of Too Many Goodbyes and a high resolution download of our best sellling Palindrome album.

Launched yesterday was the brand new site dedicated to the promotion of our latest released Too Many Goodbyes.

Featuring all new content, including interview, testimonials, instruments used, full story etc, this is a great way to learn about the CD and the making of it in a focused way.

There is no on-line shop, just a simple Buy Now button for those of you who want to buy the CD.

Please check it out and leave your comments!

Finally, after nearly a year (!) I am pleased to report that a day ago I began the rebuild of the new studio!

The first job was to get some furniture, and to this end I had shipped over from Thomann in Germany a super fabuolus producer workstation. This desk is an absolute beast!  Room for all the toys,computer, monitor keyboards and what-not.

The beast:

It took three hours to build. Given there was only me doing it, I was quite pleased with the progress. According to other sources, it should take 2 people three hours. Anyway , the thing is massive, heavy as chuff and has 8 castors!

The realy beauty ...

Spending as much time in coffee shops as I do, I have managed to build a completely new and fresh website for a little side project / experiment.

The side project will be a special website devoted solely and exclusively to the new CD Too Many Goodbyes.

The site looks fresh, modern, stylish and is very, very focused around doing one job only - promoting the new CD. I have spent much time optimising the code for speedy run time and there is not a bit of wasted copy.

All the content is new, there are downloads and a full press pack.

I am committed to getting the new CD out to as many people as possible and I feel the new 'devotional' website is the way forward.

Anyway, it is built using asp.net technology (what else!) using the open source BlogEngine.NET as the ...

Just a very quick note to let you know that the July edition of Crying to the Future, the Elegant Simplicity newsletter, has been despatched to its recipients. As ever, if you think you should have received it, check your spam folder to make sure it hasn't got caught.

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