New Videos from the Sacramento Celtic Midsummer Festival

Posted on June 23, 2009

2009 Pagan Fest Video

Posted on May 11, 2009

The first of hopefully several videos from our fans and friends who were in the audience at the pagan fest

Switching Servers

Posted on May 4, 2009

Well, we’ve finally had enough of GoDaddy and their crappy service, fundraising for Republicans, and exploitive advertising; we’ve switched servers and are getting everything re-configured at our new host.  You might notice the site being a bit glitchy for the next day or so as that transition goes through and it’ll take use a few days to rebuild our online store, but we should be good to go within the next 24 hours.

Speaking of the store, we’ve cut prices on just about everything in order to try to move some merch and pay for the switch.  T-shirts have been dropped to $10,  downloads to $8, and the ‘Big Pack’ that contains physical copies of both albums, a t-shirt, buttons, and 2 bumper stickers has been dropped down to $20.  So basically if you buy both physical cd’s you get the rest of that stuff free.

In other news, we’re looking for shows throughout Northern California for July and are looking at possibilities for other trips as well.  So if you live anywhere between the Bay Area and the Oregan border and want to see us in your town, send an email on over.

think that’s everything, hope ya’ll had a great Beltaine.

lynx

a temporary change to the online store.

Posted on April 2, 2009

This last week I was first surprised to notice a huge number of downloads of our albums on our website, then disappointed to realize that none of them came with a donation, and then pissed off when I realized that there were over 700 of them in a three day period, all of the same file, none including a donation, and coming in bursts of 100 or so spaced about a minute apart.

Someone out there doesn’t like our music or our message and is trying to crash our servers.

It’s a classic denial of service attack, they flood our server with hundreds of requests to download the biggest files on the site, clogging up our bandwidth, and making it impossible for people who actually want to download to get the files.

Fortunately, there’s an easy fix – I just had to change it so instead of letting people name their own price each download costs $8, which was set as the default donation and is what most people paid anyway.  You can still get the albums (Weapon of the Future, both my most recent solo albums and laura’s solo album) for free off jamendo, just hit the “more info” links under each albums description for the link or just go to jamendo.com and search for our name.

it’s a temporary fix and I plan to change it back once whatever idiot is doing this gets bored and goes on to bother someone else.  I just figured I should explain the reasoning behind the change in case ya’l l were wondering,

solidarity,
lynx
for Beltaine’s fire

Live set on Pirate Cat Radio – Free Download

Posted on March 13, 2009

Hey folks,

((Drumroll please)) And here it is!  An mp3 of our  set on Pirate Cat Radio today – all the way live and unedited:  Beltaine’s Fire – Live on Pirate Cat Radio!

Right-click and select ’save link as’ in order to save the mp3 to your computer and listen to it any time or just listen to it in your browser.

You can also download the entire show, including an interview with one of the founders of Food Not Bombs, spoken word from local poets and from Pamtastic, a local writer; and a performance by SF Accapella group “The Conspiracy of Beards”.   To get the entire show go to PirateCatRadio.com, click Podcasts, and scroll down to the 3/12/2009 listing for Diamond Dave.  Or just click here for a link direct to the mp3 file.

and hey, if you enjoy the music pass it on to five friends and help us get the word out!   it’s a free download, so it’s not like it costs anything.

I’ve also got video from the set and from our trip to SLO this week that I’ll post up as soon as I finish processing it, so keep an eye out for that as well…