The Dunshelm Players: Sidriss The Confused &...

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On November 4th, a new 15-minute sketch will be released, called Sidriss The Confused & The Chamber Of Secrets. Written by Jake Collins, and starring himself and his sister Rosey, it reveals that Hordriss the Confuser has been leading a startling double-life.

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Sidriss The Confused & The Chamber Of Secrets is now available for download from http://www.kmramdram.co.uk/chamberofsecrets.htm. Thanks to Jake and Rosey for writing and performing it.

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It's a couple of hours early, but Sidriss The Confused & The Deathly Hallows is now ready for download from...

http://www.kmramdram.co.uk/thedeathlyhallows.htm

Have a Happy New Year, all of you.

[Eyeshield]

Even though there's going to be a longer, far more professionally produced sketch coming out soon, Rosey and I couldn't resist recording another improvised sketch from the bizarre world of Hordriss-Sidriss/Harry Potter as our own festve vignette. You can download the shamless mucking-about session from here http://www.mediafire.com/?sucluglfht547gk and if anyone feels like linking to it from or uploading it to the Dunshelm Players site, we will, of course, be very pleased.

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If I get a chance, I'll remix it for release on The DunPlay site, hopefully in time for New Year. Meantime, Andy Marshall has finished mixing the other sketch, and that should be released over the next couple of days.

[Eyeshield]

The link to The Philosopher's Sojourn has been up on the Dunshelm Players website for several days now, but it links to The Deathly Hallows. Are we going to get to hear this long-awaited play soon?

[Eyeshield]

Every day I check the link for The Philosopher's Sojourn, and every day it still links to The Deathly Hallows. I know Andy's disappeared off to the Far East for the foreseeable future, but doesn't Martin have a copy of The Philosopher's Sojourn to upload - it has previously been reported as being finished and ready. We're curious to hear this, as we bothered to record a load of lines for it... are we actually going to?

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Sorry about this.

I do have a copy of TPJ (or at least, I have one on my laptop, but that's currently away getting repaired), but unfortunately it's proven to be unusable - a lot of the lines are inaudible, the sound balance is a bit skewed, and there's no stereo on it. I should be able to send you a copy of it if you like, but we certainly can't release it as the final version.

A re-mix is in the pipeline, but I don't have access to the source recordings, so I can't take over the mixing work. We'll have to wait until Andy M gets back, but yes, it will be available eventually.

[Eyeshield]

I would quite like to hear the rough version just to see what it's like, if you can send it to me, thanks. I remember there was an issue with my lines and Rosey's lines being in .wma format, because that's all our new(ish) computer makes, but I've just found out how to convert them to .wavs or .mp3s, so would it help (after Andy gets back) if I re-sent our lines in either of those forms? Or is that completely irrelevant?

[HStorm]

Thanks anyway, but it's not really your lines that are the problem.

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The long-delayed release of Sidriss The Confused & The Philosopher's Sojourn should happen sometime in December.

The Dunshelm Players will also be releasing a new sketch in the Yes, Dungeon Master series at Christmas. More details soon.

[shadow6162]

Hooray!

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If you like/look forward to the audios we make, please send us some feedback. (Or even just post it here.)

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Okay, a little something should be coming out this week, namely one of Jake & Rosey's Sidriss sketches. This is *not* the The Philosopher's Sojourn, that's still pencilled in for December. Instead, this is the untitled one that Jake released in raw form on Mediafire before Christmas last year. I've finally got around to mixing it, including editing out some minor errors, turning the track into stereo, and adding some music and sound effects. Nothing elaborate still, but a bit of polish. Expect to see it available for download before Friday.

[HStorm]

Well, an hour before Friday anyway. Friday's the fifth anniversary of the launch of Famous For Retreating so I guess it's fitting there should be some kind of new material made available.

So if you nip over to http://dunshelmplayers.wordpress.com/co ... f-azkaban/ you can at last download Jake and Rosey's sketch in its completed form. And yes, that includes a long overdue title; Sidriss The Confused & The Merchandising Deal Of Azkaban.