Travelogue: Day zero
≈Dublin airport, 9:00GMT
As I spend idle hours at Dublin airport, waiting for my twice-canceled-then-delayed flight to Newark, I browse the magazines on the newsagent’s racks. When I get to HotPress (an Irish music magazine), I check whether they’ve reviewed our album after I had sent them a copy. They have! It’s the third review the [...]
T -20 hours
Packing my stuff; importing CDs to my iTunes; preparing the guitar for the flight; checking, double-checking, triple-checking I’ve got everything – and most likely I will realise I’ve forgotten the most valuable items when already on the plane. Ah, well.
Tomorrow evening I’ll be dining in Chapel Hill. For a month Loz and I will be [...]
Happy birthday!
It’s the first birthday of bittenbyanape.com today.
We went online on 9th February 2009, when we hadn’t even recorded one second of music. We started from scratch – it’s all handmade, you know.
Let’s look back at the past 12 months of internet life:
≈ we’ve had 7243 page views, from 3458 visits
≈ 805 new visitors, from 39 [...]
Calling all…er…Chaps?
You will excuse my lack of knowledge: what’s the name of the inhabitants of Chapel Hill? Chapel Hillians? Chapel Hillers?
For now I’ll go with Chaps, it’s quite friendly; but please let me know the correct answer!
Anyway, seriously: the CD is now also available at CD Alley in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The address is 405C West [...]
Calling all Dubliners
So you don’t like downloading.
And you don’t like internet shopping – you want to see, touch and feel before you buy.
But…you do like Bitten by an ape and you want their CD.
Is that your profile?
Well, if you live in or around Dublin you can now go to Tower Records in Wicklow Street (off Grafton Street) [...]


