Kurt, Chris, Cliff, Mark and Sean

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News!

03/01/09: Nothing major to report at the moment, but we wanted to drop a quick note to say that we will be participating in every weekend of the Oklahoma Renaissance Festival in Muskogee, Oklahoma.  We're working on the rest of our gig schedule, so check our CALENDAR page from time to time for the updates.

10/06/08: The DVD's are here!  At the last minute, we were able to get a couple boxes overnighted to us for Saturday delivery, so we actually had a few out with us on the sixth weekend of the KCRF!  The rest will be here this week in plenty of time for the last weekend, so come on out and get your copy this weekend (Oct. 11-13)!

We'll be running a special deal: if you buy a NO REFUNDS DVD and CD, then you can get a NO REFUNDS T-shirt for just $5!  You have to buy both the CD and DVD together to get the deal, and we'll be running this special for the entire weekend.  We'll see you at the Faire!

 

9/22/08: Ah, the blind optimism of our last update.  We just passed the 4th weekend of the KCRF, and no DVD.  But fear not!  We have finally received a firm completion date from our duplicators, OASIS CD, and we can guarantee that the DVD will be available on the 7th and last weekend of the Kansas City Renaissance Festival (Oct. 11-13).  There is a slight chance that it will be out on the 6th weekend, but don't bet on it - the final weekend of the season is our official release date, and you can count on that.

Thanks to everyone who has been waiting and asking about the DVD - we promise it is on the way and you're going to love it!

 

8/21/08: Just thought we'd crawl out from under the large, heavy object that is the NO REFUNDS DVD project to give you all an update!  The good news: light is definitely being seen at the end of the tunnel - we're nearly done!  The bad news: we're not done as soon as we hoped we'd be.

Post-production has taken a lot longer than any of us had anticipated;  post-production, for any that don't know, includes anything and everything that has to happen to a project between the time you are "wrapped" (filming is completed) and the time the finished product is available.  You've got video and audio editing, color correction, 5.1 surround sound mixing, DVD menu creation, DVD authoring and duplication just to name some of the challenges facing anyone trying to put together a full-on professional project.

We think the end result will be worth the wait because making a full-on professional project is exactly what we aim to provide you.  Shot with three Panasonic Varicams, one mounted on a 30-foot jib, the entire concert was captured in high-definition widescreen.  Full independent digital recording at various microphone placements throughout the theater allowed us to provide 5.1 digital surround.  We hired one of the best Directors of Photography in the area to assemble a hand-picked team of camera, jib and light operators, and engaged the services of a professional editor whose talent and enthusiasm brought the project to a level we didn't think possible.  Digital surround sound mixing was done by Chuck Chapman at Chapman Recording - one of the premiere studios in Kansas City and the first stop for commercial audio work in the Midwest.  Wide Awake Films, producers of documentaries that have taken them across the United States and around the world, stepped in to create the DVD menus and author the project into a finished master.  Finally, Oasis CD will be doing the duplication - we've worked with Oasis for years on our CD projects and they've been fantastic to work with each and every time; we're looking forward to the quality they'll bring to our first DVD.

Of course, the big question has yet to be answered: when will it be released?  As was stated earlier, the post-production has taken longer than we ever thought it would.  We can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but we're not quite there yet.  Right now, it looks like the No Refunds DVD will be available by the 3rd or 4th weekend of the Kansas City Renaissance Festival - that translates to mid-September.  We'll have them at our shows and, of course, here at our website.

Thanks to one and all for your patience while we all wait for this DVD to be completed.  Trust us - its on its way, it'll be worth the wait and you're going to love it! 

 

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