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1. • Rob Himself
   • Ho, ho, ho. Merry October!
     
     In the spirit of things of a festive nature, I shall be releasing a download-only Christmas single, with the lofty and frankly ludicrous aim of getting it somewhere inside in the official Christmas download chart. Even a Christmas #33 is highly unlikely given my status in the grand scheme of things, but if the JCB Song can manage #2, then it's clearly worth a giggle.
     
     The song is called 'Lost In New York' and details a cosy Christmas Eve in with Home Alone 2 on the telly.
     
     As is the case with such singles, it'll be a charity affair, with proceeds going to Great Ormond St. Children's Hospital, who kindly put me back together when I was a nipper.
     
     The single will be released around about Monday December 14th via most major download retailers. It'll be up for streaming on Myspace nearer the time, as will a video of some sort and a Facebook campaign group of some kind (if anyone would like to set the latter up for me and save me the embarrassment that'd be nice)
     
     I'm also looking for gigs in the south-east around the release date to celebrate it's release. So far we have:
     
     10th Dec - Cellar Bar, Bracknell
     15th Dec - Joiners Arms, Southampton
     16th Dec - The Europa, East Molesey
     
     Let me know if you can help! www.myspace.com/iamrobhimself
   • [15:29 on 14/10/09]
2. • mamba
   • I'm all for this.
   • [16:55 on 14/10/09]
3. • Hopkins
   • Rob, get yourself on Twitter, Vimeo and Flickr for maximum exosure
   • [17:20 on 14/10/09]
4. • Tim Holehouse
   • Ask frank turner? He he!
   • [07:36 on 15/10/09]
5. • Rob Himself
   • Tim: I reckon if I ignore him he'll go away, haha.
     
     Chris: have been thinking about a Twitter account as I can sync it with Myspace updates and not get dragged into the murk.
   • [12:46 on 15/10/09]
6. • Hopkins
   • Rob, full spectrum warfare, do it
   • [13:33 on 15/10/09]
7. • Jack
   • Go for it, awesome idea
   • [13:38 on 15/10/09]
8. • Rob Himself
   • I have now joined the flagging edge of zeitgeist that is Twitter.
   • [15:38 on 15/10/09]
9. • Tim Holehouse
   • If I got a twitter I would just report my bowel movements... ha ha! I'm so modern... Right I'll be off to listen to my 78's.
   • [12:09 on 16/10/09]
10. • Rob Himself
    • Xmas provincial mini-tour update:
      
      10th Dec - Bracknell Cellar Bar
      15th Dec - Southampton Joiners
      16th Dec - East Molesey (nr. Kingston) The Europa
      17th Dec - Godalming The Star
      
      Single should be up for streaming on Myspace later next month!
      
      
    • [14:22 on 26/10/09]
11. • Tim Holehouse
    • Still nothing back from cecile I'm afraid Rob... shame would be nice to do a wee Christmas show.
    • [14:29 on 26/10/09]
12. • Rob Himself
    • Boooo and so on. 16th Dec is now Guildford, Fahrenheit 55 instead of East Molesey. At least Guildford is a proper place!
    • [18:42 on 27/10/09]
13. • Rob Himself
    • This is now off making it's way through the cogs of the download retailers and will be available via Napster, iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic, Yahoo! and probably some others. Awesome.
      
      Lazy artwork:
      
      
      
      Facebook pressure group:
      
      www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=163788999091
      
      Shooting the video in a couple of weeks!
    • [17:10 on 31/10/09]
14. • Rob Himself
    • BUMP.
      
      If anyone wants to pimp this around that'd be awesome. I'll be designing an ad/flyer soon if anyone fancies printing some off for distribution in their local record shops?
      [Edited by Rob Himself at 14:23 on 09/11/09]
    • [14:23 on 09/11/09]
15. • Donny
    • Let me know when. Just searched itunes and it's not there yet. Will need reminding so I can buy it!
    • [15:04 on 09/11/09]
16. • WickedWesticle
    • Just joined your group.
    • [17:27 on 09/11/09]
17. • Rob Himself
    • Single's not out til 14th Dec! Just trying to make as many people aware of it as poss til then! Making an appropriately festive video for it tomorrow, fingers crossed.
    • [08:39 on 10/11/09]
18. • Rob Himself
    • For those who haven't seen on Facebook, there's a clip of the single up on Myspace now!
      
      I'm more or less done editing the incredibly shitty video (all the production values of a an Eastern Bloc porno), so expect it up fairly soon and you can hear the song in all it's glory.
    • [18:54 on 14/11/09]
19. • Hopkins
    • nice clip
    • [11:06 on 15/11/09]
20. • mike
    • Yeah like it Rob! Have you been sending any of your stuff to labels? I think the right one would snap you up.
    • [12:29 on 15/11/09]

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