Category Archives: announcement

Sometimes we need to tell you about what’s happening with the podcast or just our site in general. That’s what you’ll find in “Announcements”.

Help us get to South by Southwest

South by Southwest (SXSW) is the largest interactive media gathering in the world. Last year almost 20,000 people attended.

This year they have chosen Boxcutters to present a live version of our podcast to a room full of people who might never have heard of us before.

This is huge.

We’re really excited to have been invited and we’re looking forward to showing the world how great Australian podcasting can be. Also, the number of interviews we’ll be able to conduct at SXSW to bring you more unique perspectives on television is enormous. Everyone wins.

But we need your help. We have to make our own way over to Austin, Texas and it’s expensive to get 3 people over there.

All we ask is a little bit of help to cover some of our costs. We will deal with accommodation and meals, etcetera, but the airfares alone come to close to $6,000.

We just need $4500 and we can take care of the rest.

We set up a project on Pozible, the Australian crowdfunding site, to help us get there. You can pledge at http://boxcutters.pozible.com.

The great thing about Pozible is that you only spend the money if we reach our target. The other great thing is that there are rewards for donating.

You’ll always be able to come back here and see how we’re doing.

Thanks for your support. This is definitely going to make for a wonderful Boxcutters 2012.

Update: Crumpler Comes On Board

The very generous people at Crumpler have given us some of their high-quality and much sought-after bags to add to our reward schwag.

The Crumpler SoupanSalad (RRP $155) can fit a whole bunch of stuff including sandwiches and puppies. In Boxcutters speak, you could probably fit 2 roast chickens in it easily.

Because of Crumpler’s generosity and the great value of this bag, we’re now able to offer it as a complete bargain $100+ reward.

You can put your Boxcutters iron-on patch or metal badge right there on the bag. There’s a zip-up pocket into which you can put your postcard from Austin.

Q: How much would you love this bag?

A: A lot.

Q: What do you need to do to get one?

A: Pledge to donate $100 or more to our Pozible project.

Dave Lawson’s Chat Show

Our very own Dave Lawson has just completed the first series of his new late night chat show.

It’s called Dave’s Shed Show and it’s the thing that will make him too big for Boxcutters.

In case you missed the first episode, we’ve included it for you here:

See Toby Halligan’s New Comedy Show

Tonight, at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, our very own Toby Halligan presents his brand new stand-up comedy show.

It’s like a whole 55 minutes of Trotters about his life and Australian politics, with heaps of jokes and LIVE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS.

If you missed Toby’s hit debut solo season at MICF earlier this year, don’t miss this for two reasons: 1) It’s potentially 10% cheaper than the Comedy Festival show* and 2) The Baillieu govt might make it retrospectively compulsory so it’s best to be on the safe side.

Two for one offers are available for the 23rd September and 1st October! CHEAP!

Here’s some details:
Venue
Fringe Hub – Son of Loft, Lithuanian Club
44 Errol St
North Melbourne

Time
9.00pm, Sun 8.00pm (55min)

Tickets
Full Price: $ 18.00
Concession: $ 14.00
Tuesday: $ 14.00
Group: $ 14.00 (per person for 4 people)

*compared to Friday and Saturday nights.

Changes to the Schedule

So our little whoopsie last week posed some questions at Boxcutters HQ. We’ve decided to install some extra precautions into our processes.

As a result, the next few episodes of the Boxcutters podcast will be released on Tuesday afternoon after we scan them for gremlins and make it sound even better.

Again, we’re sorry to mess with your Tuesday morning commute, but just think how much more tasty Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning is going to be.

Really, it’s going to be great. You’ll thank us for it.

It’s an Episode 276 Whoopsie

Yes. There were some editing issues with this week’s episode and we’ve had to take it offline so we can bring it up to our usual standard of only some mistakes.

Sorry about that. We’ll republish it soon.

Also, sorry to the people who already downloaded it and now have a less good version. You can download the new version when it’s ready and do a compare and contrast.

Thanks for understanding.

Sorry about the feed for 275

There was a mistake in the RSS feed for Episode 275 and some people got Episode 273 instead. Sorry about that.

We’ve fixed the issue but if you’re stuck at work and just want to listen to the show, you can always download it directly by clicking on the MP3 icon on the post or, for your convenience, we’ve replicated it here.

Once again, sorry. We hope it didn’t anger up your Tuesday morning blood.

Episode 274 is delayed

Sorry to spoil your Tuesday morning commute but we’ve had to postpone Episode 274.

The wonderful 3RRR need all of their studios for their excellent radio training programme. If you want to learn how to make great radio, we can highly recommend this course.

However, it means we have to wait until Wednesday before we can record Ep 274.

We promise it will be worth the wait.

In the mean time, have you seen what we look like?


Family Portrait: 2011

There have been many changes to the Boxcutters line up since the last portrait and it’s been a struggle to get everyone together for a new photo but we managed it over the weekend.

So, if you’ve wondered what we all look like, here is your chance.

Continue reading “Family Portrait: 2011″ »

It’s our new website!

We’re so happy to unveil the new Boxcutters website design. We’ve been working on it for quite a while.

What you’ll see here is part of our new direction with Boxcutters. It’s not really a change in direction but filling out some ideas we’ve had for a long time.

We want to have more reviews that you can read at your leisure. Some of these will be shows we’ve already covered in previous episodes, some will be shows we never quite got around to reviewing in the podcast.

Also, we felt it was important to be able to highlight news stories from time to time and also have a place to announce live events, competitions, and things that relate to what the Boxcutters team is doing and when.

Most importantly, we wanted it to be easier for you to see the latest episode, listen in your browser, know exactly where to click to download or subscribe, and look at the site on your mobile device.

What else? Well, we’re making it easier for you to just go straight to an episode. Instead of all those pesky dates and confusing titles in the URL, you can just go to http://boxcutters.net/epsiode##. For example, if you want to listen to or comment on episode 268 you could just type in boxcutters.net/episode268 and the site will automatically take you there. We haven’t converted all the episode to act like that, but we’re getting there.

None of this would have been possible without the hard work and sheer brilliance of Peter Wilson from Soupgiant (who put in all the hard hours of coding) and Christa Lopez-White from Zepol (who did all of our graphic design).

Please, let us know what you think and if there’s anything else we can improve on the site.

It’s The Muppet Show!

John and Josh will investigate the ins and outs of the Muppet Show live at ACMI on 28 July.

Remember how good the Press Gang and Degrassi show was back in February? Oh, you wanted to get tickets but couldn’t because it sold out? Well, don’t make that same mistake this time.

There will be surprises. There will be laughs. There will be intellectual discussions about pop culture that may change the way you think FOREVER!

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll feel justified in buying this t-shirt.

7pm 28 July
Studio 1 at ACMI
Full $14, Concession $11, ACMI Members $10
Get your tickets now

Everybody sing:
It’s time to something something, it’s time to something la. It’s time to start the music and la la la la la.