Well, if you are one of our website viewers whom have registered as here a user, you might have noticed that you received an email from me (charlie biggs) in the last 2 days. This was in part an attempt to send you an invitation to view a video teaser about our newest video about to come out. A few weeks ago, we filmed a video for the song Sweet Dreams. I took the footage and made a short look at our evening, sort of a “making of” film. And I also wanted to thank all of you for taking such an interest in our music and our site. So I really wanted to give everyone a chance to view this video first, before we made it public on Monday. But oh man, did I have a few things to learn …

First, collect the hundreds of emails from our registered users. Then I wanted to send this mass email to everyone, but my the outgoing server would not do it. Why? Allow me to say at this point that I am a musician. Always have been a musician. I have 7 years of university, 2 degrees, as well as a Masters, but still, I am just a musician … I want to get back to writing music … ok, whats wrong with my outgoing server? Well, an hour later I realise that I can only send one email to 40 recipients at a time. Ok, so lets do that … Then I start get message failure returns on some of them. Again, sever issues. But this time, it is only effecting certain emails. So, is it a server problem, or fake/incorrect emails? I start sending the email individually. Ok, this works on most but not all. Now I start to realise that about 15% of our registered users are either spam/fake emails. While doing all of this, I attempt to keep track of which emails don”t work and delete them from our registry. Eventually, I think (hope) I have gotten the email to everyone. Now it is time to share the private youtube video with everyone (this must be done on the youtube channel, as sending a link will not work with private videos). This means that youtube will send everyone a link to the video, not me. Ah ha, more to learn …

Youtube is Google. You can watch youtube but if you want to work with youtube, you have to become a google person. That means a google account. That doesn’t actually mean a gmail account, but an email account that links you to a google account (google +, if you have heard of this before). You start to realise that google is watching you. Seriously. But we knew that already. Old news. But as I go to share this video with you all, I get the message that youtube will not allow the sharing of private videos with more than 32 non-google account members. Oops. Thanks, google.

Foe those that are still reading this, I am impressed. But allow me to say, I really tried. I really really tried. But sending this private video to everyone did not work. Sending it privately outside of youtube carries copyright problems so that is not really an option. So … After 2 full days of trying  I will now be posting this video tonight and leaving it on the site over the weekend for anyone that wants to see it. We will not announce it publicly until Monday.

If you are a registered user and did not recieve an email from me, then please email me at charlie@dockterandthebiggs.com. I will make sure you are on my list! I promise not to bother you too often. Thats the least I could do after getting you to read this novel.