00:00Hello. Hi. It's May. It's very much spring, it's almost summer and you can tell
00:11that because there's a fly buzzing around the room. I think you might just go out
00:15the kitchen door in a moment, hopefully, and not disturb us too much. For this
00:21month's vlog, several things sort of happening or changing in the world of
00:32Diddy Tiger and YouTube and other things. Let me think what's first. The first
00:40thing I've done, which I've done just now, is for this series of monthly vlogs which
00:50are also available on Dailymotion, which is a bit like saying our records are also
00:57available at a car boot sale on the Faroe Islands. But anyway, I've changed the
01:04setting on YouTube so that they're now listed as a podcast as well as a
01:10playlist or instead of a playlist. I'm not really sure what that means, but the
01:17suggestion came up so I thought I'd do it. It's possible that there's an audio only
01:22version of them can suddenly appear somewhere on YouTube or Google or they
01:26might just still sit there as a video playlist. So I'll try not to, I'll try not
01:31to do anything too, refer to anything too visual in case people are listening in an
01:37audio style. I don't know. I'll find out. It might be that by this time next month
01:40I'll have some development on that to mention, but I really don't know. I don't
01:45know. Actually I was talking yesterday, we were listening to Chattavik's podcast in the car,
01:56Joe Wilkinson, who pops in the shop, and David Earl who used to pop to gigs sometimes we put on.
02:06Anyway, we were listening to that and it, you know, I remember that I've done a
02:11podcast for East Magazine years ago. 2008, 2009, maybe? Yeah, probably 2009. Getting in there early.
02:20So anyway, this is like the second podcast, although actually it's still just video.
02:24It's not making a lot of sense to me yet. We'll see. Another thing I've done which I
02:31don't know is again something else that YouTube suggested that I thought okay I'll
02:36give that a go briefly is promoting a video. Now I think when I saw the
02:48notification yesterday it said why don't you promote and it was the static one
02:58image music video for the alternate B-side version of one of the artificial
03:08intelligence single series, dreamt-up songs I'd done. I thought well I'm not sure
03:14that's massively worth promoting. Seems it's just a still image of probably a brick
03:19wall or something with a bit of AI music. But I had a look at the promotions thing and it's like, yeah you know, maybe I'm a sucker.
03:25I'm a sucker. But they're like, yes you can you can pay an amount you wish for the
03:32timescale you wish and proportionally your video will be promoted a certain number of
03:38times on, I think on the mobile, I think on mobile platforms don't it? It's on PC as well.
03:45So between now, and I have to consult the diary here, between now and Saturday the 24th of May,
03:57just under a fortnight I think, I have paid one pound a day, so 15 pounds,
04:03because I've said it up yesterday. One pound a day to promote the once popular
04:11Santa Claus on the Scarborough firetruck video. Again, a couple of nights back we
04:17were out, we were talking about that and it sat the sort of 94 million and
04:23something views and someone was saying, oh has it got to 100 million yet? I don't know, it's gonna be a very slow crawl to get there.
04:30I thought, well actually, let's do the lowest paid shortest time promo on that and see if it does any kind of bump or hiccup.
04:42And if it does, then obviously further down the line, if we have made, if any of us have made a video that
04:50has commercial potential, imagine if we like made a professional video for one of our songs, for one of our bands, then I would have at least
05:02I've got the kind of system set up that, you know, you can kind of promote it and YouTube will push it and you can see what happens then.
05:12So yeah, it's one of those things. Set it up briefly for now to see what it does on a very popular video and it's a facility that will be there in the future should we decide to use it.
05:24I'd have to be very, very pleased with the video to want to do that. It won't be one of these. It won't be this one.
05:31Yeah, fair enough, isn't it?
05:36But also on Saturday, the 24th of May, which is the day that the promotion of the Fire Truck video closes, in a completely unrelated way, I'll be on stage in the afternoon at Shindig Festival in Wiltshire, somewhere near the town of Malmsbury.
05:57Nowhere I've been before. On one of the stages, and I'll be there with the KLF Reenactment Society.
06:08We've got our own little area, I don't know if it's going to be a marquee or a small tent or a gazebo, you know, we've got our own little thing in one of the fields for the day.
06:19But next to that is a spoken word and DJ stage, one of several stages at the festival.
06:28And various things going on in that stage related to sort of the early 90s, the rave scene, the late 80s rave scene, KLF, things like that.
06:38But yeah, for one hour there, me and a couple of the people from KLF Reenactment Society will be talking about the K-Line, the Ley Line that runs between Transcentral and London and the Manhole Covert in Matthew Street in Liverpool, 180 miles,
07:02which has been uncovered by a team of researchers and archaeologists over the last few years.
07:10And I walked the whole thing last year. I walked from London to Liverpool in a straight line over a period of several weeks, several months.
07:23And I'll be talking about that and they'll be talking about that sort of thing. And that will be followed by Singalong and Chill Out, which will be a audience participation.
07:36Ah, Singalong to the KLF, classic ambient album chill out. Don't say too much about that because it's not really my project.
07:46But that should, that's what's going to follow up the talk that I'm going to be participating in.
07:53So yeah, there's a two week window between you potentially seeing this video and you're going, oh, I'm going to go to that festival window and see what happens.
08:00Still, that's the perils of a monthly vlog.
08:05Other things that happened. The Bank of Hastings and Robber, which was set up last month, has got its first three account holders, which is Paula and one of her sons,
08:19and Michael and Caroline's cat or one of their cats, who've all opened the account.
08:25They've all deposited their pebbles with holes in them into the headquarters of the bank, which is in the other room.
08:36And yes, at some point I've got to write and record songs for each of them and put them on CDRs and put them in the post.
08:46I thought it was going to be very easy to do because I could just like put a few words into Zuno, generate some simple, fun AI music and send that off.
08:55But all of them, Paula and her kid and Michael and Caroline on behalf of their pets said, no, we don't want an AI version.
09:03We want a proper version, you know, recorded analog.
09:06It means I actually have to get the AA batteries out and stick them in the Casio keyboard.
09:11I mean, it would be worse, really.
09:15It would have been better to let the computers do it.
09:18But that's, you know, people don't seem to like that.
09:22Apart from me and one or two other people, I think it's a lot of fun.
09:25But there you go, no one else does.
09:28I'm not sure anyone else likes the analog music we do either.
09:33But there you go, it's a choice between something you don't like or something you really don't like.
09:38So anyway, feel free to also get in contact and open an account with the Bank of Hastings and Rother.
09:46And yeah, let me know.
09:49Do you want a AI or an analog recorded song?
09:53And at some point, probably several months later, because I can't be bothered at the moment, I'll do that for you.
09:58It'd be a lot of fun.
10:00Terms and conditions probably apply, but you have to look at last month's video because I can't really remember what they were.
10:06Now then, I'm just going to check the time.
10:10I'm just going to walk behind the camera.
10:12Wait a minute.
10:14Oh, blimey, apparently I've been talking for 10 minutes already.
10:18In that case, I don't need to say any more apart from opening an account with the Bank.
10:27Come to Shindig in a fortnight if you want to see me literally as comfortable as this on stage in front of people.
10:35That'll be good.
10:37Yeah, enjoy the sunny weather while it holds.
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