We thought it might be fun to think of some places you could drop off CDs. We’ll be leaving them all around, but we pick fairly public places, and also places where they’ll remain dry if it rains a little. Some ideas might be:

• Bus stops (the type with a roof)
• The pub
• Libraries
• Museums
• Music venues
• Your workplace
• Public transport (drop it off on the commuter run)
• Restaurants
• Anywhere overseas – take it on holiday!

You get the idea; places where people go and will see it.

We want to see some really creative drops, and maybe the most interesting (as backed up by a photo) might win some kind of prize (we’re not sure what that might be yet though). Get thinking, and mail us the results at info-at-thewonderlandproject.org!

CD001 on the 81 bus, top deck, Brighton

On this, the August bank holiday 2008 the first copies of The Wonderland The History of Science and How to Mend a Broken Heart have hit the streets in Brighton and London.

You can check out the locations on the Roving Album Map Page (RAMP).

Over the next month or so we’ll be dropping around 500 of these babies all around the UK and beyond. If you find one, you can leave us the location at the RAMP page above.

It’s a glorious moment in our history, comrades, so get out there and get ‘em while they’re hot.

Thanks to Sweeping the Nation for the write up of the album drop.

Writing about the release of the album, they say: “Someone has to put the fun back into the way music is presented, so it might as well be The Wonderland Project“.

They also wonder how successful our little roving album will be, and they can join the proverbial club!

Read “A journey of discovery” on Sweeping the Nation

So, we decided to make the album available for sale on Amazon.co.uk and sent them all the details, ready with our boxed up shipment. They then asked for one copy to be sent to them because they have no idea what the demand will be like (an avalanche of clamouring customers, duh). So if you’re reading this and would like to support our efforts to the tune of £9.99 – that’s less than £1 per tune – then pre-order ‘em here kids.

You can also write a review, good or bad, we don’t mind.

Thank you, thank you.

Well well well. The day is upon us at last and the album goes into launch mode, albeit by rather unorthodox methods. We’ve got 500 limited edition, numbered CD copies of The History of Science & How to Mend a Broken Heart which we will be placing in strategically chosen public places around the country over the next week or so.

Each copy has a special sleeve printed with instructions directing the lucky finder to take the album home with them, have a listen and copy the music if they like it. All we then ask is that they drop the CD off somewhere else – the train to work will do – for somebody else and let us know where they left it.

In this way, we hope to track our albums as they move around the UK (and, who knows, maybe even beyond) via the roving album map on this site.

It’s not going to get us to number one with Fearne & Reggie, granted, but maybe somebody somewhere will happen across a wandering record that brings them a few minutes’ pleasure, perhaps even for many years to come. And you can’t say fairer than that.

For those unlucky enough not to find a roving CD, the album’s also available for purchase in the iTunes store and via Amazon (physical CD in the UK, download elsewhere). Hope you find one and hope you like it…

The CDs will be back on the 20th August by the look of things. Once they’re back, there’s a bit of jiggery-pokery to do with them (more of which later) and then we can see about a “release”.

The release is going to be something a bit special, which we hope everyone can have a bit of fun with. More as it happens..