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! ]

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.

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!

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…

The lovely people at Black Plastic have reviewed the album and guess what? They like it!

Sample comments:

“an enchanting record“

“made to drag you through a dreary Monday morning“

About the “dropped” distribution idea:

“It’s a captivating and magical idea and, frankly, the majors should be kicking themselves for not thinking of using this as a method of promotion for a major artist.“

Thanks to Black Plastic for getting it!

Here’s the review

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!

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