Yes folks, CD310 has made it from Oxford, England, all the way to Fukuoka City in Japan. This is seriously exciting; a whole new territory for us!

Thanks so much to Kimi who made the drop in the Morris pub, and to her unnamed boyfriend in Oxford who took the trouble to send her the CD all that way.

I wanted to put a pic of the pub up, but online promotion has eluded the establishment, which is a shame. If anyone has a pic of the pub itself, please drop us a line. In the meantime, a photo of this beautiful city will have to do!

[ Update: We now have a pic of the Morris pub - thanks Kimi! I think we'll keep the photo of Fukuoka City too, though, since it's so nice! ]

This lot are quite fun:

The disposable memory project

Essentially, they’re doing roughly the same as us, but instead of records, they leave cameras to be passed around. I note the guy in charge appears to be an ex DeepEnd design bod. I had an interview with DeepEnd in the late nineties, and they had the *loudest* drum and bass playing in the office and the wing of a Cesna as a conference table. Truly excellent Web 1.0 nutters.

Good luck to them anyway. I wonder if they nicked the idea from Radio 4 too?

In a TWP “Black Op”, one of our Australian undercover agents has dropped a CD in the Degraves Espresso café in Melbourne, Australia. The photo above was taken by our operative moments after the drop!

It’s a CD with no slipcase or number, so if you find it, scrawl an identifying number/code on the back and drop it again (and let us know where!)

Well, sort of.

One of our roving scouts fittingly (or should that be ironically?) left a CD in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland (hello).

Unfortunately, we can’t remember what number CD it was. If you find it, please let us know.

PS. I’ve since been told this was CD151. Thanks Jude.

The Wonderland Project were drafted in to create the music for the 2008 Vicinitee Christmas card. Vicinitee is an online building community system. The idea was to create music to complement the gentle animation created by the lovely Mo MacNeill. It’s a kind of Eno-festive electronic feast!

See it here

Happy Christmas!

Not really. But a copy of the album has made it from London all the way to the University of Oldenburg, Germany. We’ve no idea how it got there, but Harry was kind enough to pick it up and drop it again nearby so we now know that it got there.

If anyone can tell us how it made it to Germany in the first place, we’re all ears!

The latest drop has seen CD 190 travel about 140 miles north from the mighty Rock City in Nottingham to the potentially less rocking environment of Trevelyan College Undercroft at Durham University.

Actually, what are we saying? If it came from Rock City it’s automatically Total Rock (TM)!

Thanks to Chromana for the final drop, and to George for getting it to Durham in the first place!

…well, India of course. One copy of the roving album has made it to the sub-continent thanks to one of our travelling ambassadors, Agent Alex. It was deposited on a sofa in the Residency Tower hotel in Kerala. If you find it, do let us know.

As ever, keep ‘em coming…

Rags Hotel, Bridlington

This is just about the best thing that could have happened to any of our dropped CDs: lucky number 13 has travelled all the way from Covent Garden in London to the Rags Hotel & Bar in Bridlington, courtesy of Big Tim.

The lyric in You Look Prettier When I’m Happy about ‘Bridlington Bay on a bank holiday’ was inspired by holiday trips there as a kid, so we’re dead pleased that the songs have found their way back there through nothing more than serendipity. Oh, and Tim’s keen sense of art.

Keep ‘em coming…

It’s been a good week for The Wonderland Project; a CD making it to Nova Scotia, a great review from Black Plastic, and now, to cap it all we welcome to the world the lovely Avi.

Scott & Kate’s little girl, Avi was born yesterday on the 3rd September. Mum and baby doing well. Dad sounded like bit of a wreck on the phone earlier, but so long as he dropped a CD in maternity, we’re golden.

Happy days indeed.