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He's running this years marathon! Whoa! 26th April - I just googled for the date :D Good luck Guy! (and Dan!!)

Hey Lauren - it's a secret group so won't show up in your profile normally - but you can bookmark it with your other groups :D See you there

I've put this is the Apparatjik thread and the Guy thread, but I'm gonna stick it here to reach as many Guy fans as possible :D Spam alert ! haha If anyone is interested in joining a private facebook group to discuss Apparatjik (and their clues) with fans from the Coldplay, a-ha/Magne F & Mew communities, please PM me or romanglass

I've put this is the Apparatjik thread and I've badgered most of you berrygirls via pm or facebook, but I'm gonna stick it here to reach as many Guy fans as possible :D If anyone is interested in joining a private facebook group to discuss Apparatjik (and their clues) with fans from the Coldplay, a-ha/Magne F & Mew communities, please PM me or romanglass

Hi Caterina *waves* I'm Paula ;) Thanks for the background pics..I just had to come here and post some of them...these ones are awesome :D OMG! Guy looks priceless :laugh3: And this one...I wanna see this better!! EDIT: I know I've pm'd/f'booked a bunch of you with this but I'll just just stick something here for anyone else to find... If anyone is interested in joining a private facebook group to discuss Apparatjik (and their clues ;-)) with fans from the Coldplay, a-ha/Magne F/Mew communities, please PM me or romanglass.

And in return I offer - Mykonos (mp3) in the Live Lounge from Radio 1 from a few weeks back http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=59e1fe024a3183ef36df4e8dca141969e04e75f6e8ebb871

^Nice list Lauren :thumbsup: I hadn't seen half of those... This one made me laugh -> the quiet intellectual friend with glasses who lets you finish your lines while nodding - that's me, minus the glasses :D No updates to report this morning, apart from a new top friend on MySpace - the delightful Ms Helen Highwater, who has a bit of a thing for white stockings.... :uhoh: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=457253291

Aw, I've missed this thread....

New blog from Mr 42 Despite blowing my new year's resolution almost immediately, I'm still looking for ways to avoid giving hotels all my money this year. To this end, I visit reception in Melbourne and lie through my teeth. "Hello, I'm a recovering alcoholic and I'd like my mini-bar emptying please - all of it". Then it's off to 7-11 to stock up on all the goodies they'd sting me a fortune for in moments of weakness. (If Jonny Christ is reading this, please rest assured that the Archbishop would not behave in such a way in NYC - oh no siree....) With my precious pennies saved, I head out later to a lounge bar in town for CM's birthday. I bail after a few drinks, but it's enough to give me a drunken grin and a slight stagger when I wander back through reception. Busted... There are many luxurious things about the way we live when touring. Nice flights, wonderful hotels and good food are all great perks. Given the recent time-zone pinball that we've been playing though, the greatest luxury of all is the simplest - time. The schedule on this tour leg is utterly wonderful. Every city has two, three or even four shows. Travel days are followed by complete days off. It's got recovery written all over it. Add to the mix some glorious sunshine and this truly is a payoff. The first day in Brisbane is marked with a soundcheck party. It's all the usual stuff, but notable for a request for Swallowed In The Sea from the assembled competition winners. I've not heard that one since the X&Y tour and it's good to see it getting an outing. Maybe we'll see a few more forgotten tracks coming back over the year. It's a long, long tour this one, so a setlist shake-up is pretty much inevitable. Eric, our head of merchandise is getting some new things together too. Being as the puppets are travelling with us, he's trying to get some shots of them and has asked me to give him a hand. The "out and about" shots of the puppets are all the work of Dan P, the band's personal trainer, so we have him drop them into us in Melbourne and get cracking. As with most creative endeavours, it becomes a good deal more involved than first anticipated. Dave Fav, the band's lighting crew chief lends us a couple of lamps which we stand on cardboard boxes. We're then into the business of trying to make the puppets stand up. We employ fishing line, initially around the necks and then through the jackets. Still, the band's mini-mes are refusing to stand up straight. "RF Stef", who looks after a mountain of radio gear used in the show comes up with the idea of sticking the radio antenna from a walkie talkie up a trouser leg. It's silly enough to try and it works a treat. I find myself continually apologising to the puppets for the discomfort, but they behave themselves well and shortly before showtime, we're done. The next day sees Chris bring in a new song he's been working on with Rik at the Bakery. We're fiddling with sounds and doing some programming ready for the whole band to have a crack at it. Then he flies up the steps to the tiny C-stage at the back of the arena. Keyboard tech Neill Lambert has come up with a wonderfully bonkers invention to replace the Casio keyboard they were using for I'm A Believer. At the top of the steps are two ladies in security jackets. I'm pretty sure that one of them recognises Chris, but the other asks if we're in the band or "just technicians". Chris quickly jumps in and explains that we're just the roadies. The job's ok, he says, but the band are arseholes. Hoppy and I agree before pondering, "Well actually, it's just the singer....." I wonder if they were still working up there a few hours later when the fellas ran up and sang to the screaming arena from close-up? Right, normally I'd have peppered a bunch of photos in amongst all this. They've just called our flight for boarding though, so I'd better finish my cuppa and get going. Promise I'll send you some nice stuff from Brisbane. Oh - this just in... Chris has pulled his iPod earbuds out next to me and asked me to tell you all that the Bat For Lashes album is incredible. Go check it out...! R#42 Bhahahaa :lol:

New blog from Mr 42 Despite blowing my new year's resolution almost immediately, I'm still looking for ways to avoid giving hotels all my money this year. To this end, I visit reception in Melbourne and lie through my teeth. "Hello, I'm a recovering alcoholic and I'd like my mini-bar emptying please - all of it". Then it's off to 7-11 to stock up on all the goodies they'd sting me a fortune for in moments of weakness. (If Jonny Christ is reading this, please rest assured that the Archbishop would not behave in such a way in NYC - oh no siree....) With my precious pennies saved, I head out later to a lounge bar in town for CM's birthday. I bail after a few drinks, but it's enough to give me a drunken grin and a slight stagger when I wander back through reception. Busted... There are many luxurious things about the way we live when touring. Nice flights, wonderful hotels and good food are all great perks. Given the recent time-zone pinball that we've been playing though, the greatest luxury of all is the simplest - time. The schedule on this tour leg is utterly wonderful. Every city has two, three or even four shows. Travel days are followed by complete days off. It's got recovery written all over it. Add to the mix some glorious sunshine and this truly is a payoff. The first day in Brisbane is marked with a soundcheck party. It's all the usual stuff, but notable for a request for Swallowed In The Sea from the assembled competition winners. I've not heard that one since the X&Y tour and it's good to see it getting an outing. Maybe we'll see a few more forgotten tracks coming back over the year. It's a long, long tour this one, so a setlist shake-up is pretty much inevitable. Eric, our head of merchandise is getting some new things together too. Being as the puppets are travelling with us, he's trying to get some shots of them and has asked me to give him a hand. The "out and about" shots of the puppets are all the work of Dan P, the band's personal trainer, so we have him drop them into us in Melbourne and get cracking. As with most creative endeavours, it becomes a good deal more involved than first anticipated. Dave Fav, the band's lighting crew chief lends us a couple of lamps which we stand on cardboard boxes. We're then into the business of trying to make the puppets stand up. We employ fishing line, initially around the necks and then through the jackets. Still, the band's mini-mes are refusing to stand up straight. "RF Stef", who looks after a mountain of radio gear used in the show comes up with the idea of sticking the radio antenna from a walkie talkie up a trouser leg. It's silly enough to try and it works a treat. I find myself continually apologising to the puppets for the discomfort, but they behave themselves well and shortly before showtime, we're done. The next day sees Chris bring in a new song he's been working on with Rik at the Bakery. We're fiddling with sounds and doing some programming ready for the whole band to have a crack at it. Then he flies up the steps to the tiny C-stage at the back of the arena. Keyboard tech Neill Lambert has come up with a wonderfully bonkers invention to replace the Casio keyboard they were using for I'm A Believer. At the top of the steps are two ladies in security jackets. I'm pretty sure that one of them recognises Chris, but the other asks if we're in the band or "just technicians". Chris quickly jumps in and explains that we're just the roadies. The job's ok, he says, but the band are arseholes. Hoppy and I agree before pondering, "Well actually, it's just the singer....." I wonder if they were still working up there a few hours later when the fellas ran up and sang to the screaming arena from close-up? Right, normally I'd have peppered a bunch of photos in amongst all this. They've just called our flight for boarding though, so I'd better finish my cuppa and get going. Promise I'll send you some nice stuff from Brisbane. Oh - this just in... Chris has pulled his iPod earbuds out next to me and asked me to tell you all that the Bat For Lashes album is incredible. Go check it out...! R#42 Bhahahaa :lol:

ooooh is there an album..? She's got the most incredible voice...it's gorgeous and yup, Damien Rice would have been rubbish without her.. ;)

Aw, Lhuna live would be A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. :D

New Tweet.. Apparatjik If you are lost and confused, remember it could be worse; you could be merely lost or just confused. about 1 hour ago from web Coldplay lyrics...? Lost! meets Crests of waves.. ;)

Satriani vs. Coldplay... ...who would win in a fight...? Discuss. :P

Yum - I love his slightly wonky eye ;)

Aw, I seem to remember posting my list of faves for this...nice to see the results...sorry I didn't see it before now :embarassed: Good job though. Well done :thumbsup: And Rush of Blood..a deserved winner.. ;)

Oh yeah, I can't understand them either. :lol: @'keep it a secret' - That's true, hadn't thought about that. Ah well, I'm rubbish with secrets anyway.. ;) I've joined a Mew forum (I see you on the same one !) but they don't seem as excited about the project as we are :dozey: Me too - this was the smallest I could take it without it getting too small to see :) I reckon it's the boys in those horrid ski-jackets, hence the colours.. ;)

Hey Apparatjik - you're not from the band are you..? hehehe just kidding ;) No-one knows anything about any releases or tours..yet...hopefully one day.... Links to all the tracks are here in this thread - hang on I'll find a few.. Flum --> http://www.mediafire.com/?yyznjz2zdwj birthofapparatjik --> http://www.mediafire.com/?lmtmow50tty

Call me Paula btw ;) I got it off their datascroll - I assumed they were laughing at themselves for sitting around thinking up all this random stuff for us to read. I must admit, I didn't even see it the other way round until you pointed it out, but I guess it could be a possiblility. OMG! they're talking about US aren't they.. ;) :P From the way they are doing this; all the little bits dropped here, there and everywhere - My guess is they want to create discussions about it. :\ I'd have thought it was pretty pointless listing out all the datascroll texts cos I got the impression they were adding new ones to it quite often - or maybe I just keep getting old ones I haven't seen before....:dozey: Which other forums are discussing the changes then..? I'd be interested to see if people have found any more of these 'clues'...

Ewwwww!!!! - from the datascroll :lol: ^Got that from the source code of the main website - cheeky buggers! I've saved all the new background images too - I'll upload them later..I really must do some work and stop obsessing about these guys.. ;)

Mew :D

Hey girls. Happy Saturday :D [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZRXd_sYCsY]YouTube - Guy Romance Theme - The Longest Night in Shanghai Soundtrack[/ame] Anyone know how to get the audio off this as an mp3..? EDIT : It's alright - I got it !!! :D

^haha I still love this one like it :D Night chicks :kiss: Keep updating if there are any more changes!

Maybe they take it in turns...:\ Don't we all, hun..;)

hahaha I have Obsessive Compulsive Apparatjik Disorder...I can't stop refreshing...:rolleyes2: