Butterfly Polite's Little Bit Of Blog

Facetweet.

Andy — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:51:44 +0000

Just a quickie. We’ve got a new facebook page for you to ‘like’ and you can follow our rampant tweeting at @butterflypolite because social networking is apparently ‘the modern way’ (of wasting time).

If you are so inclined then both our twitter and this site generate RSS feeds you can use in your favourite reader. If you don’t understand this sentence, then do not worry - it just means you may have friends and a social life instead.

Years ago I used to make band newsletters using a typewriter, scissors, glue and trips to a photocopy shop, or use my hand cranked Gestetner mimeograph, that I would post to people on a real mailing list. Happy inky-fingered days.

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Free bag type thing.

Andy — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:07:36 +0000

Right, this is a bit complicated, but if I have understood this correctly then you can get our lovely messenger bag…

… for free, if you spend £40 or more at our merchandise shop.

Use the voucher code ADDONFREE at the checkout (valid until 30th July).

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Conflicted.

Andy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:47:42 +0000

We would like everyone observe a minute of silence as the music review website ‘garageband.com‘ disappears today.

ButterflyPolite had received some lovely (and scathing) reviews on that website, so we are saddened (and delighted) so see it go.

Fear not, our songs that formerly lived on the gb website, can be found here:

Just Tell Me To Stop (Which had a gb rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars)
Laid In Grass (Which, eerily, also had a gb rating 4.3 out of 5 stars)

As gb has gone, feel free to leave your heartfelt-congratulations/personal-attacks in the comments section of this post.

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New Free Single!

Andy — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:49:53 +0000

…which will be available as a for-free-legal download shortly.

For now, you can enjoy it in all its silly playschool glory at

http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com/2010/06/todays-song-is-anonymous.html

As mentioned previously, ButterflyPolite supplied this song as the prize to the My First Dictionary caption competition. Congratulations to Richard Smith who wrote the (slightly sinister) ‘Anonymous’ definition which we then turned into a children’s song heard here.

As you well know, we are usually an utterly po-faced and serious affair with nary a flicker of humour on our collective stoney faces, so this was somewhat of a departure for us. As we grow older this kind of light relief is needed in order to justify our claims that they are ‘laughter lines’ and not ‘wrinkles’

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Happy Feat.

Andy — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:50:05 +0000

If you recall, Andy provided a slightly twisted little song (Happy Families Fade) for the Very Us Artist’s My First Sing-Along Dictionary album in February.

Andy has roped Sarah into his dodgy affairs and together they have giggled a lot and recorded a song ‘Anonymous’ as the prize to a competition based on this amazing caption:

Can you guess how the song might sound?

Find out next week! When the song, feat. Sarah is released/unleashed.

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Gig alert!

Andy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:30:08 +0000

Saturday 19th June.

Fabrika, Humberstone Gate, Leicester.

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ButterTweets are go (2.0).

Andy — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:44:56 +0000

I admit it, someone pointed out that our experiment in ButterflyPolite twittering had been silent for a long time, so I have resurrected it and embedded its content on the side of the ButterflyPolite webpage thus proving what a www.hero I am.

Messing around with php code is just how I like to spend my time.*

*This is a lie.

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Track of the week.

Andy — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:44:38 +0000

…as predicted.

http://www.garageband.com/htdb/index.html?|pe1|X8jTJnjrvP2rZVE

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Ban this filth.

Andy — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:52:29 +0000

Further to Andy’s previous, slightly sick and twisted posting about a song what he had writ, and the project it was for…

Here is a place where you can win your very own copy on CD -

http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com/2010/05/todays-word-is.html

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Art for arts sake; cross my palm with silver.

Andy — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:15:23 +0000

Caravaggio, as we all know, executed two versions of his painting The Fortune Teller :

Fortune Teller (1594)

Fortune Teller (1595)

Without being the ones to compare ourselves to the Italian baroque master painter, the similarities are too obvious to ignore. Firstly there is the fact the we also loosely work in the baroque pop mould. And (as if that were not enough) we also made two versions of a piece of art - our song (Laid In Grass) - both incarnations of which appeared on a recent digital single.

One of these versions is to awarded the Acoustic Track Of The Week all next week from the 31st May on Garageband.com. (Thus featuring in their podcast, and feature pages). How do we know this in advance you ask? Let us just say that Caravaggio is not the only one with a Fortune Teller.

Feel free to pop over there, read some nice reviews, read some scathing reviews, and then come back here for more art history lessons.